Dr. Link Check vs Siteliner (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Dr. Link Check if

• Fits if you want broken links found and emailed to you on a schedule
• Works for checking outbound links against malware and phishing lists

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if your site builds links with JavaScript, which the crawler doesn't run
• Tight if you stay free, at 1,500 links on 2 sites, run by hand with no export
• Watch out: CSV or PDF export and soft-error checks start on Professional at $49, as do login checks, set up on request
• Pricey if your site has lots of resources, as prices rise per 10,000 links and every unique file counts
• Tight if you check several sites, as only one check runs at a time per account

Pick Siteliner if

• Fits if your site is small and you want to find text repeated across its own pages
• Works for occasional bigger scans paid by the page rather than by the month

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you stay free, at 250 pages once every 30 days per site
• Too light for checking copies on other websites, which is Copyscape's job
• Pricey if you scan big sites often, at 1¢ a page, so $300 for a 30,000-page scan
• Watch out: summary reports are kept for 185 days and page reports for 60

Dr. Link Check

• The crawler does not run JavaScript, so links created by scripts are missed unless you start from the XML sitemap.
• Prices rise with the link limit, billed per 10,000 links; each website counts unique resources, not just pages.
• Export to CSV or PDF and soft error checks start at Professional; checking behind a login is set up by request on Professional and up.
• Only one check runs at a time per account, and payment is by card or PayPal only.

Siteliner

• Siteliner Premium has no subscription: each page scanned costs 1¢, paid from credits bought in advance by card or PayPal.
• The free scan stops at 250 pages and can be run on a site only once every 30 days.
• It checks internal duplicate content only; copies on other websites are the job of Copyscape, a separate service.
• Summary reports are kept for 185 days and highlighted page reports for 60 days.

Dr. Link Check

Whole-site link crawl

Starts from one URL and checks internal links, outbound links, images, style sheets and other resources found in the HTML and CSS.

Several checks per link

Looks at URL format, server response time, error codes such as 404 and 500, and, on paid plans, SSL certificate validity.

Malware and phishing blacklists

Paid plans check outbound links against Google Safe Browsing, Professional adds PhishTank, and Premium two more lists.

Soft error detection

From Professional, flags pages that answer 200 OK but whose content shows an error or placeholder message.

Scheduled checks and reports

Runs checks monthly, biweekly, weekly or daily depending on plan, and emails a status report to chosen recipients.

URL lists and rules

Accepts up to 10,000 URLs to check in bulk, and lets you include or exclude URLs and limit crawl speed.

Siteliner

Internal duplicate content

Shows how much of each page's text also appears on other pages, highlights the matching passages, and leaves out menus and other common content.

Broken link check

Checks every internal link and highlights the broken ones on the page where they appear.

Page Power

Scores each page from 0 to 100 by how prominently it is linked from other well-linked pages on the site.

Reports and XML sitemap

Gives a summary of every scanned page, a list of skipped pages with the reason, and a standard XML sitemap of the site.

Premium API

Premium accounts can query results in JSON; each request that returns results costs 1¢ and returns up to 100 rows.

Dr. Link Check

• Lite$0

  2 websites and 1,500 links each, broken link checks only, run one at a time by hand.

• Standard$13

  per month for 10,000 links, billed monthly

  5 websites, Google Safe Browsing blacklist checks, SSL checks, include and exclude rules, and monthly or biweekly scheduled checks.

• Professional$49

  per month for 50,000 links, billed monthly

  10 websites, soft error checks, PhishTank, weekly checks and CSV or PDF export. Can be set from 20,000 links; the price follows the limit.

• Premium$159

  per month for 200,000 links, billed monthly

  15 websites, two more blacklists and daily checks. Can be set from 30,000 links; the price follows the limit.

Siteliner

• Siteliner Free$0

  Scans up to 250 pages of a site once every 30 days for duplicate content, broken links and Page Power.

Dr. Link Check

• Annual discount

  One month free with yearly billing

  Dr. Link Check's pricing page offers yearly billing with one month free compared with paying monthly.

Siteliner

No public discounts listed.