LinkIntel vs Outlink AI (2026): which should you pick?

Pick LinkIntel if

• Fits if you don't want cold email sent from your own domain
• Works for buyers who negotiate placement fees but want to pay publishers directly

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want to try before paying, as there's no free plan or trial
• Watch out: publisher fees come on top of the plan, paid by you, and outreach goes from lookalike-domain mailboxes
• Tight if you score lots of prospects: 5 credits each from Solo's 2,000 a month, with top-ups from $59 for 1,000
• Pricey if you need white-label reports or the API, which come only with Agency at $799 a month
• Skip it if you run more than one site on a small budget, as Solo covers 1 website project and Growth is $299

Pick Outlink AI if

• Fits if you want link outreach to run with little of your time each week
• Works for agencies that need client approval of outreach copy and white-label reports

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you won't give a card for a trial: the 7-day trial needs one and covers only the first workspace
• Pricey if you run many clients, as each workspace is billed as its own subscription
• Tight if placements cost money, as Starter caps autopilot spend at $25 a month and Growth at $100
• Watch out: Qwoted pitches are drafted for you, but you still submit each one yourself
• Skip it if you want to send anything for free, as sending needs a paid plan

LinkIntel

• Publisher fees come on top of the plan and are paid by you directly; LinkIntel says it adds no markup or per-link fee.
• Credits: 5 per prospect scored, 5 per outreach conversation, 100 per competitor analysis; they reset monthly, and top-ups start at $59 for 1,000.
• There is no free plan or free trial; white-label reports and the API come only with Agency at $799 a month.
• Outreach is sent from lookalike-domain mailboxes LinkIntel provides, not from your own inbox.

Outlink AI

• There is no free plan: you can preview prospects and sample pitches free, but sending needs a paid plan after the 7-day card-backed trial.
• Each workspace is billed as its own subscription, and the trial covers only the first one.
• Plans cap what the autopilot spends for you each month on prospect data and placements ($25 on Starter, $100 on Growth), apart from the subscription.
• Outlink drafts Qwoted pitches but does not submit them; you approve and send each one yourself.

LinkIntel

Prospect discovery and scoring

Mines competitors' backlinks, search results and journalist requests, then scores each site on authority, traffic, spam signals and relevance against floors you set.

Verified contacts

Finds the person who edits the target page and verifies the address by crawling, pattern matching, SMTP checks and AI search; sites it cannot verify are skipped.

Managed sending mailboxes

Outreach goes from mailboxes on separate lookalike domains that LinkIntel sets up, warms, rotates and caps; sending pauses if bounces pass 2%.

Negotiation with approval

The agent answers replies and counters prices within budget caps and walk-away rules, remembering what each domain charged. Every final deal waits for your approval.

Content and fulfillment

Writes the guest post or the exact link insertion and chooses the anchor once a deal is accepted.

Link verification

Checks every placed link at 30, 60 and 90 days; if one disappears within 90 days, the agent works on a replacement without charging for its labor.

Outlink AI

Prospect discovery and screening

Finds candidate sites each cycle, scores them on relevance and authority, and filters out spam sites and private blog networks before any outreach.

Pitches sent from your inbox

Writes each email around a detail from the prospect's own page and sends it from Gmail or Outlook connected over OAuth, rotating inboxes within warm-up and daily limits.

Follow-ups and reply handling

Sends capped, timed follow-ups, sorts and negotiates replies, and passes the ones that need a decision to you.

Placement checks

Crawls each page where a link was placed, re-checks it on a schedule and confirms index status through Google Search Console.

Qwoted auto-apply

Watches your Qwoted alerts, matches journalist requests to your topics and drafts a pitch you submit on Qwoted in one click.

Agency workspaces and reports

One workspace per client with an agency overview, client approval of outreach copy through a link, and scheduled white-label proof reports.

LinkIntel

• Solo$99

  per month for 2,000 credits, billed monthly

  1 website project, 3 managed outreach inboxes, 1 seat and up to 100 scored domains per analysis.

• Growth$299

  per month for 7,500 credits, billed monthly

  3 website projects, 10 managed outreach inboxes, 3 seats and up to 200 scored domains per analysis.

• Agency$799

  per month for 25,000 credits, billed monthly

  15 website projects, 30 managed inboxes, 10 seats, up to 500 scored domains per analysis, white-label reports, API access and organization roles.

Outlink AI

• Starter$70

  per month for 150 sends a day, billed annually ($88 billed monthly)

  3 connected inboxes, 10 concurrent campaigns, a $25 monthly spend cap, all 5 tactics, Qwoted auto-apply and link monitoring with a weekly digest.

• Growth$156

  per month for 500 sends a day, billed annually ($195 billed monthly)

  Everything in Starter with 10 inboxes, 25 concurrent campaigns and a $100 monthly spend cap.

• Scale$500

  per month for unlimited sends, billed annually ($625 billed monthly)

  Everything in Growth with unlimited sending, inboxes and concurrent campaigns, and no monthly spend ceiling.

LinkIntel

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with yearly billing

  LinkIntel's pricing page lists yearly billing at 20% off the monthly prices; annual plans still receive their credits month by month.

Outlink AI

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with annual billing

  Outlink AI's pricing page lists annual billing at 20% off: Starter is $70 a month ($840 a year) instead of $88 billed monthly.