LinkIntel vs Pitchbox (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 Pitchbox if

• Fits if you're an agency running link building for many clients and can commit for a year
• Works for in-house SEO teams that pitch publishers directly instead of hiring out

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you're one person, as every plan is a year's commitment and Pro alone is $2,520 a year
• Tight if more than 2 people pitch, as Pro has 2 users and 2 mailboxes
• Watch out: recurring campaigns, email rotation, Slack and the API start at Advanced for $420 a month
• Not for you if you want to try it yourself, as trials only come after a demo with a product specialist
• Pricey if you pay monthly, as expert onboarding then costs $2,000 to $4,000

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.

Pitchbox

• Every plan needs a one-year commitment, whether billed monthly or annually; cancelling keeps access until the term ends.
• Pro has 2 users and 2 mailboxes; recurring campaigns, email rotation, Slack and the API start at Advanced for $420 a month.
• There is no self-serve trial: trials are arranged after a demo with a product specialist.
• Expert-led onboarding costs $2,000 to $4,000 by plan on monthly billing and is included with annual billing.

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.

Pitchbox

Prospecting

Search by topic, keywords, competitor sites or advanced search operators, filter by SEO metrics, and get sites back with contact details found and verified.

AI personalization and replies

AI reads each prospect's site to draft a personal pitch, and an AI Reply Agent can answer and negotiate replies. Both are on every plan.

Email sequences

Multi-step follow-ups with conditional templates, holiday scheduling and one-click unsubscribe. Rotating sends across mailboxes starts at Advanced.

Deliverability monitoring

From Advanced, a built-in MXRight service scores each mailbox daily and watches more than 80 blacklists.

Link partner CRM and inbox

One inbox for every mailbox and client, with follow-up reminders, out-of-office detection that snoozes a thread, tasks and pipeline stages.

Link monitoring and reports

Checks won links are live, indexed by Google and pointing at a healthy page: 1,000 to 10,000 links by plan, with white-label client 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.

Pitchbox

• Pro$210

  per month, billed annually ($300 billed monthly)

  2 users, 2 email accounts, 2,000 outreach emails and 25 campaigns a month, 1 workspace and 1,000 links monitored.

• Advanced$420

  per month, billed annually ($600 billed monthly)

  Unlimited users, 6 email accounts, 5,000 emails a month, 25 workspaces, email rotation, deliverability monitoring, Slack and the API.

• Scale$825

  per month, billed annually ($1,200 billed monthly)

  Unlimited users, 20 email accounts, 25,000 emails a month, unlimited workspaces and campaigns, approval workflow and Looker Studio.

• Enterprise PlatformCustom

  For large companies: single sign-on, a service level agreement, vendor security review, private training and dedicated support.

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.

Pitchbox

• Annual discount

  Save 30% with annual billing

  Pitchbox's pricing page says annual billing saves 30% against monthly payments: Pro is $210 a month instead of $300.