BacklinkDog vs LinkChecker.pro (2026): which should you pick?

Pick BacklinkDog if

• Fits if you bought guest posts or placements and want to know if the links vanish
• Works for small sites that prefer a one-time payment to a subscription

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want backlinks found for you, as you add each page where a link should be
• Not for you if you want to try first, as there's no free plan or trial, only a 30-day money-back guarantee
• Tight if weekly checks are too slow, as daily checks need the $49-a-month Agency plan
• Too light for teams that want alerts outside email, as no Slack or webhooks are named

Pick LinkChecker.pro if

• Fits if your agency has thousands of placed links to keep live and indexed
• Works for teams comparing output across individual link builders

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want to try the monitoring free, as there's no free plan or trial and refunds run 7 days
• Tight if you're on Lite, with one user and 400 backlinks
• Watch out: every plan caps monitored backlinks, redirects and monthly rescans
• Watch out: the monthly and yearly cards give different backlink and user limits for some Pro tiers
• Skip it if you want competitor data of its own, as that comes through Ahrefs, Majestic and Moz

BacklinkDog

• It does not find backlinks on its own: you add each page where a link should be.
• There is no free plan or free trial; every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee instead.
• Lifetime and Basic check links only once a week; daily checks need the $49-a-month Agency plan.
• Alerts arrive by email; the pages name no Slack, webhook or other alert channels.

LinkChecker.pro

• There is no free plan or free trial for monitoring; refunds can be requested within 7 days of subscribing.
• Only the Lite plan is single-user; every plan caps monitored backlinks, redirects and monthly rescans.
• The pricing page shows different backlink and user limits for some Pro tiers on the monthly and yearly cards.
• Its own data comes from checking your links; competitor metrics come through the Ahrefs, Majestic and Moz integrations.

BacklinkDog

Link change alerts

Emails you when a monitored link is removed, the page returns a 404 or redirects, or the anchor text or target URL changes.

Attribute checks

Notices when a link is switched between dofollow and nofollow, sponsored or UGC, and when a dofollow link comes back.

Pages you choose

You enter the pages where a link should be and the site it should point to; the www and non-www versions of a domain are both tracked.

Check frequency by plan

Links are checked weekly on Lifetime and Basic, every other day on Pro and daily on Agency.

Mass import

Pro and Agency can bring in many backlink pages at once instead of adding them one at a time.

Notes per link

Each monitored link can carry a note, such as the guest post or partner deal it came from.

LinkChecker.pro

Daily backlink checks

Each tracked link is checked every day for removal, broken pages, attribute changes and redirects, with alerts and reports when one goes wrong.

Google index checks

Scans Google's index every 5 days to confirm the pages holding your links are indexed, since an unindexed page passes little value.

Team and budget tracking

Shows statistics for each link builder on a team and how much of the link budget went to links that were later deleted or went inactive.

Batch analysis

Checks thousands of URLs or domains at once for status, IP, Whois, Wayback Machine history and indexing, within the plan's monthly quota.

Brand, insertion and DMCA alerts

Finds unlinked brand mentions, warns when someone adds a link to your article without approval and alerts you to DMCA notices against it.

Free Chrome extension

Checks the links, anchors, redirects and index status of any page in Chrome, with no account needed.

BacklinkDog

• Basic$12

  per month for 500 backlinks, billed monthly

  Weekly checks, email alerts and tracking of active, lost and broken links with their dofollow or nofollow status.

• Pro$29

  per month for 1,500 backlinks, billed monthly

  Checks every other day and adds mass import of backlinks.

• Agency$49

  per month for 5,000 backlinks, billed monthly

  Daily checks and mass import, aimed at agencies and teams.

• Lifetime$49

  one-time payment for 50 backlinks

  Pay once for weekly checks of up to 50 backlinks, email alerts and lifetime updates, with no recurring fee.

LinkChecker.pro

• Lite$20.8

  per month for 400 backlinks, billed yearly ($25 billed monthly)

  1 user, 100 monitored redirects, 200 rescans a month, 4,000 batch URL checks and 800 batch index checks. $250 a year.

• Standard$41.7

  per month for 1,000 backlinks, billed yearly ($50 billed monthly)

  5 users, 300 redirects, 300 rescans a month, 10,000 batch URL checks and 2,000 batch index checks. $500 a year.

• Pro$83.3

  per month for 2,500 backlinks, billed yearly ($100 billed monthly)

  15 users, 600 redirects, 500 rescans a month, 25,000 batch URL checks and 5,000 batch index checks. $1,000 a year.

• Pro 4K$127.5

  per month for 4,500 backlinks, billed yearly ($153 billed monthly)

  About 20 users and 1,000 redirects. Pro 6K ($183.3) and Pro 8K ($213.3 a month, billed yearly) sit between this and Pro 12K.

• Pro 12K$300

  per month, billed yearly ($360 billed monthly)

  12,000 backlinks on the monthly card but 22,000 on the yearly one, with 40 to 50 users. $3,600 a year.

• Custom planCustom

  Limits set to the customer's needs, with priority support, for agencies and larger teams.

BacklinkDog

• Annual discount

  Yearly billing at $120, $290 or $490

  The pricing section's Yearly option lists Basic at $120, Pro at $290 and Agency at $490 a year, against $144, $348 and $588 paid monthly.

• Lifetime license

  Lifetime plan for a one-time $49

  BacklinkDog sells lifetime access for one payment of $49, covering up to 50 backlinks checked weekly, with lifetime updates.

LinkChecker.pro

• Annual discount

  Lower monthly rate with yearly billing

  The pricing page labels yearly billing "-20%"; Lite works out at $20.8 a month ($250 a year) against $25 paid monthly.