Outlink AI vs Uprankly (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 Uprankly if

• Fits if you run link outreach for several clients from one tool
• Works for teams that want an agent to keep campaigns going while a person approves each placement

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you're one person with one site, at $169 a month billed annually or $199 monthly
• Not for you if you want to try it free, as the way in is a $37 Test Drive pack
• Tight if you're on Starter: 1 team member, 3 active campaigns and 25 monitored links
• Watch out: credits pay for every email, search and lookup, and monthly credits don't roll over
• Skip it if you need white-label client reports, which come only with Agency at $649 a month

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.

Uprankly

• Everything runs on credits: 1 per email sent or keyword search, 3 per SEO or contact enrichment, 5 per gap analysis; monthly credits do not roll over.
• Starter allows 1 team member and 3 active campaigns; white-label client reporting comes only with Agency, $649 a month billed annually.
• Link Builder plans monitor 25 to 500 links; the separate Link Monitor product covers 300 links for a one-time $19 fee.
• There is no free plan or free trial; the cheapest way in is the $37 Test Drive pack.

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.

Uprankly

Prospect discovery

Search by keyword or niche, mine competitors' backlink gaps, watch for new competitor links, find lookalike sites or browse a directory of 50,000+ vetted sites.

AI qualification and enrichment

AI judges each prospect for editorial fit and risk, then adds Domain Rating, traffic estimates, referring domains, spam score and a verified contact.

Outreach sequences

Multi-step sequences sent from your own Gmail, Outlook or SMTP accounts, with inbox rotation, per-account limits, time-zone scheduling and automatic follow-ups.

AI unified inbox

Replies from every connected account in one inbox, where AI sorts them by intent, routes out-of-office and referral replies, and drafts answers.

AI Link Agent

An agent that keeps a campaign going: it finds and qualifies new prospects daily and sends outreach and follow-ups, while you approve every placement.

Link monitoring and recovery

Placed links are re-checked for presence, anchor and follow status, and a recovery email can go to the original contact from the alert.

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.

Uprankly

• Test Drive$37

  one-time, for 1,500 credits that never expire

  1 user, 1 campaign, 3 prospect lists, 50 inventory sites and 5 monitored links, with every feature, for trying a real campaign.

• Starter$169

  per month for 8,400 credits, billed annually ($199 billed monthly)

  1 team member, 3 active campaigns, 10 prospect lists, 500 inventory sites, 25 monitored links and unlimited sending inboxes.

• Pro$329

  per month for 17,600 credits, billed annually ($399 billed monthly)

  5 team members, unlimited campaigns, 2,500 inventory sites, 100 monitored links, a client portal and priority support.

• Agency$649

  per month for 40,100 credits, billed annually ($799 billed monthly)

  Unlimited team members and client workspaces, 10,000 inventory sites, 500 monitored links, white-label reports and a dedicated CSM.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Custom quotas and enterprise governance, priced on request.

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.

Uprankly

• Annual discount

  Save 17% with annual billing

  Uprankly's pricing page lists annual billing at 17% off: Starter is $169 a month billed annually instead of $199 billed monthly.