BacklinkDog vs Linkody (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 Linkody if

• Fits if you've paid for links and want an email the day one goes missing
• Works for agencies sending clients a monthly report of new and lost links

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you track competitors, as each one uses one of your plan's site slots, from 2 on Webmaster
• Not for you if a team needs logins on a small plan, as Webmaster and Advanced have one user
• Skip it if you need links checked more often than once every 24 hours
• Watch out: CSV and PDF exports are off during the trial, and the free plan you drop to after cancelling has no published limits

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.

Linkody

• The website quota covers your own sites and every competitor you track; each competitor uses one slot.
• Links are rechecked once every 24 hours rather than continuously.
• Webmaster and Advanced have a single user; Pro, at $49.90 a month, is the first plan with more than one.
• After cancelling, the account drops to a free plan whose limits the pricing page does not give; Linkody keeps your links.

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.

Linkody

Daily backlink checks

Every monitored link is rechecked every 24 hours for status, follow or nofollow, meta robots and HTTP status, and pages it points to are checked for 404s.

Email alerts and reports

Daily or weekly emails about lost, changed and newly discovered links, for your sites and for competitors you track.

Link Intersect

Lists pages that link to several of your competitors but not to you, along with the competitors' most linked pages.

Link metrics

Each link shows Ahrefs Domain Rating, Moz DA and PA, Spam Score, Trust Flow and Citation Flow, and whether Google has indexed it.

Disavow tool

Filter out likely harmful links by Spam Score and other metrics, keep disavow rules in Linkody and export a file for Google.

Team access and client reports

Add team members or clients with roles and per-domain access, and send white-label PDF reports with your own logo.

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.

Linkody

• Webmaster$11.20

  per month for 500 links, billed annually ($14.90 billed monthly)

  2 websites, counting your own and competitors', and 1 user.

• Advanced$18.70

  per month for 2,000 links, billed annually ($24.90 billed monthly)

  5 websites, counting your own and competitors', and 1 user.

• Pro$37.40

  per month for 5,000 links, billed annually ($49.90 billed monthly)

  20 websites, counting your own and competitors', and 3 users.

• Agency$74.90

  per month for 20,000 links, billed annually ($99.90 billed monthly)

  50 websites, counting your own and competitors', and 5 users.

• Agency XL$115.40

  per month for 50,000 links, billed annually ($153.90 monthly)

  100 websites, counting your own and competitors', and 10 users.

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.

Linkody

• Annual discount

  3 months free with yearly billing

  Linkody's pricing page says every annual plan comes with 3 months free: Webmaster is $11.20 a month billed yearly instead of $14.90.