LinkChecker.pro vs Linkody (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Linkody grades higher than LinkChecker.pro: 2.6 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Linkody grades higher on value for money and the free plan. They get the same grade on features, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
LinkChecker.pro
Backlink tracker that checks placed links daily and their indexing
Linkody
Backlink monitor that alerts you when links are gained or lost
Which one is for you
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
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
How we grade them
| 2.0GPALinkChecker.proFair | 2.6GPALinkodyGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CLite is $20.80 a month billed yearly ($25 monthly) for 400 links and 1 user, just above this category's cheaper quarter. Standard, at $41.70, is the first plan for a team, with 5 users. | AWebmaster is $11.20 a month billed yearly ($14.90 monthly) for 500 links on 2 sites. That's under 60% of this category's cheaper quarter, and yearly billing includes 3 months free. |
| Free plan and trial | DNo free plan or trial for the monitoring, and refunds only run for 7 days. The free Chrome extension does check links and index status on any page, with no account needed. | CNo free plan, but a 30-day trial with no card. CSV and PDF exports are switched off until you pay. |
| Features | CDaily checks, Google index checks every 5 days, per-person stats, a budget view of money lost to removed links, batch URL and Whois checks and DMCA alerts. It does monitoring fully, but competitor data comes from Ahrefs, Majestic and Moz. | CDaily checks on every link, alerts for lost and changed links, Link Intersect for links your rivals have, metrics from Ahrefs, Moz and Majestic, and a disavow tool. It does monitoring fully, but that's a smaller job. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. You add the links you've built, set up users and quotas, and learn a handful of batch tools before it pays off. | CNo rating on record. Add your site and it finds the links, but you'll also add competitors and set up alerts and reports, and each competitor takes a site slot. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb plus a Chrome extension, with Ahrefs, Majestic and Moz integrations. No desktop or phone app. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It pulls link metrics from Ahrefs, Moz and Majestic and has an API. |
| Best for | keeping bought links live and indexed | daily backlink checks and alerts |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: LinkChecker.pro and Linkody. How we grade
Price against what you get
LinkChecker.pro starts at $20.80 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Linkody starts at $11.20 a month and scores 2.3.
They score the same, and Linkody starts $9.60 a month lower. Of the other link building tools on the chart, none scores higher than LinkChecker.pro for less, and none scores higher than Linkody for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
At a glance
| LinkChecker.pro | Linkody | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free trial |
| Starts at | $20.8 per month for 400 backlinks, billed yearly ($25 billed monthly) | $11.20 per month for 500 links, billed annually ($14.90 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | 30-day free trial, no credit card required; CSV and PDF exports are off during the trial |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Local Profy LLC | Linkody |
| Price read from | linkchecker.pro | linkody.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
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.
Key features
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.
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.
Plans
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.
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.
Ways to pay less
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.
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.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, LinkChecker.pro or Linkody?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Linkody is cheaper to start with: $11.20 a month, against $20.80 a month for LinkChecker.pro. LinkChecker.pro starts at $20.8 per month for 400 backlinks, billed yearly ($25 billed monthly), and Linkody starts at $11.20 per month for 500 links, billed annually ($14.90 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, LinkChecker.pro or Linkody?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither LinkChecker.pro nor Linkody has a free plan. Linkody has a free trial.
Which platforms do LinkChecker.pro and Linkody run on?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only LinkChecker.pro lists a browser extension. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.