LinkChecker.pro vs Monitolink (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Monitolink grades higher than LinkChecker.pro: 2.2 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Monitolink 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
Monitolink
Backlink monitor with daily checks and lost-link recovery emails
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 Monitolink if
- Fits if you want to know within a day when a paid or earned link disappears
- Works for agencies reporting backlink status to several clients
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free, with weekly checks, a monthly crawl, watermarked reports and 7 days of history
- Watch out: recovery emails only go out through your own Gmail, and 500 more contact lookups cost $15 a month
- Pricey if you need white-label reports, which start at Agency for $124 a month on yearly billing
- Not for you if you need an API or SSO, which come only with custom-priced Enterprise
- Watch out: the pricing page's plan cards and comparison table disagree on some limits, so check before buying
How we grade them
| 2.0GPALinkChecker.proFair | 2.2GPAMonitolinkFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CStarter is $24 a month billed yearly ($29 monthly) for 2,500 backlinks, 3 projects and daily checks, a little above this category's cheaper quarter. White-label reports wait on Agency at $124. |
| 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 plan with 1 project, a few hundred links checked weekly, a monthly crawl and watermarked reports, plus a 14-day trial of any paid plan with no card. Weekly checks and 7 days of history are a cap you'll feel. |
| 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, alerts, recovery emails to the site owner, gap analysis against competitors, AI insights from Pro and client reports. It does monitoring fully and a bit more, but it's still a smaller job, and the API is Enterprise only. |
| 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. You add projects and competitors, import links if you have them, and connect Gmail before recovery emails can go out. |
| 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 connects to Gmail, Slack and Snov.io and takes link exports from Ahrefs, Semrush, Search Console, Moz and Majestic. |
| Best for | keeping bought links live and indexed | backlink alerts with lost-link recovery |
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 Monitolink. 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. Monitolink starts at $24 a month and scores 2.3.
They score the same, and LinkChecker.pro starts $3.20 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 Monitolink 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
- Monitolink also covers link outreach.
At a glance
| LinkChecker.pro | Monitolink | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free plan |
| Starts at | $20.8 per month for 400 backlinks, billed yearly ($25 billed monthly) | $24 per month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | 1 project with a few hundred backlinks (200 or 300; the page gives both), checked weekly, a monthly discovery crawl and watermarked reports. Trials end on it. |
| Free trial | None listed | 14-day free trial of any paid plan, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Local Profy LLC | Linkee, Inc. |
| Price read from | linkchecker.pro | backlinkmonitoring.ai |
| 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.
Monitolink
- The free plan checks links only weekly; daily checks and recovery outreach start at Starter.
- Recovery emails go out through your own Gmail account, and contact lookups are capped monthly; 500 more cost $15 a month.
- White-label reports start at Agency; API access and SSO come only with custom-priced Enterprise.
- The pricing page's plan cards and comparison table give different limits for some plans, so confirm the numbers before buying.
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.
Monitolink
- Daily link checks
- Every paid plan re-checks each known backlink every 24 hours and emails when it is lost, broken, redirected, or its anchor or follow status changes.
- Link recovery outreach
- Looks up the linking site's contact through Snov.io and sends a recovery email from your connected Gmail, in one click or automatically when a link drops.
- Backlink gap analysis
- Compares your links with competitors' and lists sites that link to them but not to you, sorted by Domain Authority, with CSV export.
- AI profile insights
- From Pro, a weekly set of cards flags urgent issues, opportunities and trends such as anchor text over-optimization and toxic domains.
- Import and tagging
- Finds a domain's backlinks itself or takes a CSV from Ahrefs, Semrush, Search Console or Majestic, then groups links by client, campaign or custom tag.
- Client reports
- PDF and CSV reports of live, lost and recovered links; reports carry your own logo and colors on the Agency plan and above.
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.
Monitolink
Free$0
1 project, 1 seat, weekly status checks, a monthly crawl for new links, watermarked reports and 7 days of history.
Starter$24
per month for 2,500 backlinks, billed annually ($29 billed monthly)
3 projects and 3 competitors, daily status checks, weekly discovery, recovery outreach, 100 contact lookups and 10 reports a month.
Pro$66
per month for 10,000 backlinks, billed annually ($79 billed monthly)
5 projects, 10 competitors, 3 seats, weekly AI insights, 400 contact lookups a month, Slack and Gmail integration and unlimited reports.
Agency$124
per month for 50,000 backlinks, billed annually ($149 billed monthly)
20 projects, 60 competitors, 10 seats, discovery every 3 days, white-label reports and client dashboards. The comparison table says 75,000 links.
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited projects and seats, up to 1 million backlinks, daily AI insights, API access, SSO and a dedicated manager. Through sales.
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.
Monitolink
- Annual discount
17% off with annual billing
Monitolink's pricing page lists annual billing at 17% off every paid plan: Starter is $24 a month billed annually instead of $29 monthly.
- Nonprofit
Reduced rate for nonprofits and education
The pricing FAQ says nonprofits and educational buyers who get in touch are offered a reduced rate on the Pro or Agency plan.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, LinkChecker.pro or Monitolink?
As of Oct 23, 2026, LinkChecker.pro is cheaper to start with: $20.80 a month, against $24 a month for Monitolink. LinkChecker.pro starts at $20.8 per month for 400 backlinks, billed yearly ($25 billed monthly), and Monitolink starts at $24 per month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, LinkChecker.pro or Monitolink?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Monitolink has a free plan. LinkChecker.pro does not.
Which platforms do LinkChecker.pro and Monitolink 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.