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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.