LinkChecker.pro vs Majestic (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Majestic grades higher than LinkChecker.pro: 2.2 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Majestic grades higher on the free plan. They get the same grade on value for money, 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
Majestic
Backlink index with Trust Flow, Citation Flow and link history
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 Majestic if
- Fits if you want to check a site's links before buying the domain or pitching it
- Works for developers who need raw link data and can pay for the API plan
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay on Lite, which only sees links from the last 120 days
- Pricey if you need the API or a second user, as both start on the API plan at $399.99 a month
- Not for you if you want a proper look first: the free account gets a few lookups a day and there's no trial
- Watch out: the homepage dates the Historic Index to March 2024, so newer links sit only in the Fresh Index
- Skip it if you want outreach or alerts for lost links, as it only does research, and prices exclude VAT
How we grade them
| 2.0GPALinkChecker.proFair | 2.2GPAMajesticFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CLite is $41.67 a month billed yearly ($49.99 monthly), close to this category's middle of $49. Link history and competitor comparisons sit on Pro at $83.33, and the API plan is $399.99 a month ($333.33 yearly). |
| 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. | CA free account gets a few Site Explorer lookups a day, a weekly showcase site and basic scores in the browser extension. That's enough for a look, not for real work. There's no trial, just a 7-day money-back guarantee on your first plan. |
| 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. | CBacklinks, referring domains, anchor text, new and lost links and Trust Flow across 800+ topics, for any site. It does link research fully, but that's one part of link building: no outreach, no link alerts, and Lite only sees 120 days. |
| 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. Looking up a site is simple, but analysis units, report units, two indexes and its own scores take a while to make sense of. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb plus a Chrome extension, with Ahrefs, Majestic and Moz integrations. No desktop or phone app. | BWeb, plus a free Chrome and Firefox extension, Google Sheets and Search Console. The API comes only with the API plan. No desktop or phone app. |
| Best for | keeping bought links live and indexed | a dedicated backlink index with link history |
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 Majestic. 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. Majestic starts at $41.67 a month and scores 2.3.
They score the same, and LinkChecker.pro starts $20.87 a month lower. Of the other link building tools on the chart, none scores higher than LinkChecker.pro for less, and 1 scores higher than Majestic 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 | Majestic | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free plan |
| Starts at | $20.8 per month for 400 backlinks, billed yearly ($25 billed monthly) | $41.67 per month, billed annually ($49.99 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | Free account: a few Site Explorer clicks a day through the free backlink checker, a weekly showcase site with near-Lite access, the Majestic Million list and basic metrics in the browser extension. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Local Profy LLC | Majestic-12 Ltd |
| Price read from | linkchecker.pro | majestic.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.
Majestic
- Lite searches only the Fresh Index of the last 120 days; history and the comparison tools need Pro.
- API access, extra users and creating OpenApps start with the API plan at $399.99 a month billed monthly.
- There is no free trial; Lite and Pro have a 7-day money-back guarantee for first-time customers, and prices exclude VAT.
- The homepage gives the Historic Index a date range ending in March 2024; newer links sit in the Fresh Index.
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.
Majestic
- Site Explorer
- Backlinks, referring domains, anchor text, new and lost links and the text around each link for any domain or URL.
- Trust Flow and Citation Flow
- Scores from 0 to 100 for the quality and the quantity of links, with Topical Trust Flow placing a site in over 800 topic categories.
- Fresh and Historic indexes
- The Fresh Index covers links seen in the last 120 days. Pro adds the Historic Index, whose records start in 2006.
- Competitor link prospecting
- Pro tools such as Compare, Clique Hunter and Link Profile Fight show sites that link to competitors but not to you.
- Author Explorer
- A beta tool on Pro that looks up web authors: what they have written, its backlinks and a timeline of their X posts.
- Browser extension and Google Sheets
- A Chrome and Firefox extension shows link counts and flow scores for any page for free; subscribers can also pull data into Google Sheets.
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.
Majestic
Free$0
A few Site Explorer clicks each day, plus the free browser extension, for trying the data.
Lite$41.67
per month, billed annually ($49.99 billed monthly)
1 user, Fresh Index only, 1 million analysis units and 60 report units a month, 5,000 rows per search.
Pro$83.33
per month, billed annually ($99.99 billed monthly)
1 user, Historic Index, comparison tools, raw exports, Author Explorer, 20 million analysis units and 300 report units.
API$333.33
per month for 100 million units, billed annually ($399.99 monthly)
5 users and the full API. 300 million units cost $799.99 a month and 1,000 million $1,599.99, billed monthly.
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.
Majestic
- Annual discount
About 17% off with annual billing
Majestic's pricing page sells Lite at $499.99 for 12 months against $49.99 a month, and Pro at $999.99 against $99.99 a month.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, LinkChecker.pro or Majestic?
As of Oct 23, 2026, LinkChecker.pro is cheaper to start with: $20.80 a month, against $41.67 a month for Majestic. LinkChecker.pro starts at $20.8 per month for 400 backlinks, billed yearly ($25 billed monthly), and Majestic starts at $41.67 per month, billed annually ($49.99 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, LinkChecker.pro or Majestic?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Majestic has a free plan. LinkChecker.pro does not.
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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.