Linkody vs LinkSwapy (2026): which should you pick?

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 LinkSwapy if

• Fits if you exchange links with many partners and need to see who owes what
• Works for agencies that report links added, lost and recovered to clients

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you need daily checks or white-label reports, which start at Agency at $299 a month
• Watch out: site metrics cost credits ($29 for 500 checks) unless you bring your own Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz or DataForSEO key
• Pricey if your team grows, as extra seats are $19 a month each
• Not for you if you need the API or single sign-on, which come only with the sales-priced Scale plan
• Skip it if you want a free plan, as there's only a 14-day trial

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.

LinkSwapy

• Domain rating, traffic and referring-domain lookups use credits ($29 for 500 checks) unless you connect your own Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz or DataForSEO key.
• Starter checks links only weekly and allows 2 projects; daily checks and white-label reports start at Agency, $299 a month.
• Extra seats cost $19 a month each, and API access and single sign-on come only with the sales-priced Scale plan.
• There is no free plan; the vendor points very small accounts to its free templates and calculators instead.

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.

LinkSwapy

Supplier domain CRM

One record per supplier site with SEO metrics, niche, contacts, a quality score and the team's notes. CSV imports merge with existing records instead of duplicating them.

Link deals and return links

Log each deal by type, such as reciprocal, three-way, link insertion, guest post or paid, and see per partner who has given and who still owes a link.

Backlink monitoring

Checks each placement for status, presence, anchor, rel attribute, noindex, canonical and redirects: weekly on Starter, every 3 days on Growth, daily on Agency.

Lost link recovery

Removed or nofollowed links drop into a recovery queue with the supplier's contact attached and a pre-filled outreach email.

Bulk domain checker

Qualify up to 10,000 prospect domains in one upload with a composite score, listed with the Agency plan.

Client reports

PDF reports of added, lost and recovered links built from monitoring data, plus CSV exports. White-label reports come with Agency and Scale.

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.

LinkSwapy

• Starter$49

  per month for 300 monitored links, billed monthly

  1 user, 2 projects, 500 supplier domains, weekly backlink checks, CSV import, basic reports and manual outreach tracking.

• Growth$149

  per month for 2,000 monitored links, billed monthly

  5 users, 10 projects, 2,000 supplier domains, checks every 3 days, return-link tracking and balance dashboard, email templates and Slack alerts.

• Agency$299

  per month for 8,000 monitored links, billed monthly

  10 users, unlimited projects, daily checks, the bulk domain checker, client reporting, white-label reports and team activity logs.

• Scale$599

  per month and up

  Custom users, projects, links and check frequency, plus API access, SSO and SCIM, your own SEO API keys and dedicated onboarding. Through sales.

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.

LinkSwapy

• Annual discount

  Discount for annual billing

  LinkSwapy's pricing FAQ says annual billing is discounted, without stating the amount, and that annual plans get a prorated refund on the unused part.