Linkody vs LinkResearchTools (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Linkody grades higher than LinkResearchTools: 2.6 against 1.8 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. LinkResearchTools grades higher on features. They get the same grade on ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Linkody
Backlink monitor that alerts you when links are gained or lost
LinkResearchTools
Backlink audits, disavow files and link risk checks from 25+ sources
Which one is for you
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
Pick LinkResearchTools if
- Fits if a site has a Google penalty and you need to find the links behind it
- Works for agencies auditing link risk across many client domains
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you're one person, at $599 a month or $5,799 a year with no smaller plan
- Not for you if you want a free look, as the 7-day trial costs $17, can't export and leaves out Link Detox Boost
- Tight if you audit big link profiles, as each report uses the plan's crawl budget and large ones need extra
- Skip it if you need phone support, which only comes with Enterprise; Superhero Small gets email only
- Too light for link builders who pitch, as there's no outreach and pitches go out from another tool
How we grade them
| 2.6GPALinkodyGood | 1.8GPALinkResearchToolsWeak | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | 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. | DSuperhero Small is $599 a month, or $5,799 a year, by far the dearest way into this category. Users and domains are unlimited, so a team of five works out near $120 a head, but there's no smaller plan for one person. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan, but a 30-day trial with no card. CSV and PDF exports are switched off until you pay. | FNothing free. The only way in is a 7-day trial that costs $17, can't export data and leaves out Link Detox Boost, and then rolls on at $599 a month. |
| Features | 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. | BRisk audits with disavow files, link data merged from 25+ sources and recrawled, competitor research, prospecting methods, a Link Simulator, monitoring and broken-link recovery. Short of sending the emails, it covers the job. |
| Ease of use | 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. | CNo rating on record. There are dozens of tools, a monthly link crawl budget that every report draws on, and its own risk scores to learn. This is a specialist's tool. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It pulls link metrics from Ahrefs, Moz and Majestic and has an API. | BWeb plus Chrome and Firefox extensions, pulling data from Ahrefs, Semrush, SISTRIX, Search Console and Google Analytics, and working with Pitchbox. No desktop or phone app, and no API on record. |
| Best for | daily backlink checks and alerts | backlink audits and cleaning up risky links |
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: Linkody and LinkResearchTools. How we grade
Price against what you get
Linkody starts at $11.20 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. LinkResearchTools starts at $599 a month and scores 2.7.
LinkResearchTools scores higher, and starts $587.80 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other link building tools on the chart, none scores higher than Linkody for less, and none scores higher than LinkResearchTools 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
| Linkody | LinkResearchTools | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Paid |
| Starts at | $11.20 per month for 500 links, billed annually ($14.90 billed monthly) | $599 per month, billed monthly |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 30-day free trial, no credit card required; CSV and PDF exports are off during the trial | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Linkody | LinkResearchTools GmbH |
| Price read from | linkody.com | linkresearchtools.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
LinkResearchTools
- There is no free plan or free trial: a 7-day trial of Superhero Small costs $17, cannot export data and leaves out Link Detox Boost.
- Domains and users are listed as unlimited, but each report uses the plan's link crawl budget, and large profiles need extra budget.
- Phone support comes only with Enterprise; Superhero Small has email support only.
- Plans can also be paid quarterly, every six months or yearly, and are priced at the same figures in euros.
Key features
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.
LinkResearchTools
- Link Detox audits
- Rates the risk of every backlink to a site and helps build and manage disavow files for Google's Disavow Tool.
- Combined, recrawled link data
- Pulls links from more than 25 data sources, recrawls each one to check it is still live and adds over 150 SEO metrics per link.
- Competitor research
- Compares domains, finds backlinks that several competitors share and tracks how fast rivals gain links.
- Link building methods
- Tools for SERP research, missing links, broken link building and finding sites that link to competitors' strongest pages.
- Link Simulator
- Estimates a planned link's likely effect and risk before it is built, using LRT's own risk scoring.
- Monitoring and link repair
- Link Alerts flags new links, the link checker verifies existing ones, and Link Recover finds broken inbound links to fix with redirects.
Plans
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.
LinkResearchTools
Superhero Small$599
per month, billed monthly
1 million links crawled a month, Link Detox, Link Simulator, link monitoring and prospecting and the 25 classic tools. Email support.
Superhero Standard$999
per month, billed monthly
6 million links crawled a month and larger tool quotas, with live chat and email support.
Superhero Plus$2,499
per month, billed monthly
18 million links crawled a month and the largest standard quotas, with live chat and email support.
EnterpriseCustom
Phone support, purchase orders and invoices, custom contracts and development, team training, SEO consulting and SSO.
Ways to pay less
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.
LinkResearchTools
- Annual discount
About 19% off with yearly billing
LRT's pricing page sells Superhero Small at $5,799 a year against $599 a month, and Standard at $9,499 a year against $999 a month.
- Other savings
7-day trial of Superhero Small for $17
The pricing page offers a limited 7-day trial for $17, after which the plan continues at $599 a month.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Linkody or LinkResearchTools?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Linkody is cheaper to start with: $11.20 a month, against $599 a month for LinkResearchTools. Linkody starts at $11.20 per month for 500 links, billed annually ($14.90 billed monthly), and LinkResearchTools starts at $599 per month, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, Linkody or LinkResearchTools?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Linkody nor LinkResearchTools has a free plan. Linkody has a free trial.
Which platforms do Linkody and LinkResearchTools run on?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only LinkResearchTools 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.