# Backlink Pilot review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Monitor for placed backlinks, organized by client and partner Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Backlink Pilot is a web app for agencies that keeps checking the backlinks they have already placed. You import or add each link with the destination, anchor text and follow status you agreed on, and it flags any page where the link has gone, changed or turned nofollow. It also records which partner gave which link, including reciprocal and three-way exchanges. - **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building - **Made by:** Client Solutions Ltd - **Website:** https://backlinkpilot.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want backlinks discovered, as it only watches links you add or import. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Backlink Pilot has a free plan, and paid plans start at $15 per month for up to 500 links. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Up to 100 links checked monthly, with unlimited clients and partners. No credit card and no time limit. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Up to 100 links checked once a month, with unlimited clients and partners. | | Starter | $15 per month for up to 500 links | Weekly link checks for up to 500 links. | | Agency | $29 per month for up to 2,000 links | Weekly link checks for up to 2,000 links. | | Scale | $59 per month for up to 5,000 links | Weekly link checks for up to 5,000 links. | Read from https://backlinkpilot.com/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Backlink Pilot before buying. ## Key features - **Link checks:** Revisits each linking page to confirm the destination URL is still there, the anchor text matches and the follow status is what was agreed. - **Check frequency:** Links are checked monthly on the free plan and weekly on paid plans, and each placement shows when it was last checked. - **CSV import:** Upload an existing link sheet with its partners by CSV, or add new placements one at a time as they go live. - **Clients and partners:** Sort placements by client and by partner, and track links received alongside links given in return. - **Exchange ledger:** Groups the partners and placements in each reciprocal or ABC exchange, so the whole deal stays attached to the links it produced. - **Health queue and monthly report:** One list shows every placement with its crawl result, including missing, nofollow and forbidden links, plus a monthly health report. ## Good for - SEO agencies keeping placed links in a spreadsheet today - Teams running link exchanges with many partners - Small link portfolios that fit within the free 100 links ## Worth knowing - It only monitors links you add or import; finding new backlinks is outside the product. - The free plan checks links once a month; weekly checks need a paid plan. - The largest published plan stops at 5,000 links. - Every account starts on the free plan, and paid plans are bought from inside the app. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Backlink Pilot rechecks links you've placed for the right page, anchor and follow status, and keeps each partner and link exchange attached to the links it produced. It won't find a single new backlink, the free plan only checks once a month, and the biggest published plan stops at 5,000 links. - **Value for money: B.** Starter is $15 a month for up to 500 links, right at the start of this category's cheaper quarter. Agency is $29 for 2,000 and Scale $59 for 5,000, all with weekly checks. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free with no card and no time limit, for up to 100 links with unlimited clients and partners. But those links are checked once a month, and an agency, the user it's built for, will pass 100 links quickly. - **Features: C.** Checks of destination, anchor and follow status, CSV import, sorting by client and partner, a ledger for reciprocal and three-way exchanges, and a monthly health report. It does placed-link monitoring fully, but that's a smaller job: it watches only the links you add and finds none itself. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You import your link sheet by CSV and record the destination, anchor and follow status agreed for each link before the checks mean much. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no apps, integrations or API on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Backlink Pilot's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among link building tools - Backlink Pilot's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 26 of the 50 other link building tools we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 35 of 50) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $15 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 9 of the 41 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/link-building ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Backlink Pilot you would be making an index of the links between billions of web pages. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $180 a year. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: An index of the links between billions of web pages. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Backlink analysis, Reports ## Alternatives - [Linkody](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkody): Backlink monitor that alerts you when links are gained or lost. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backlink-pilot-vs-linkody) - [LinkChecker.pro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkchecker-pro): Backlink tracker that checks placed links daily and their indexing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backlink-pilot-vs-linkchecker-pro) - [Monitolink](https://toolgpa.com/tools/monitolink): Backlink monitor with daily checks and lost-link recovery emails. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backlink-pilot-vs-monitolink) - [BacklinkOS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/backlinkos): Backlink CRM for finding link partners and tracking link exchanges. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backlink-pilot-vs-backlinkos) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://backlinkpilot.com/ - https://backlinkpilot.com/terms Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/backlink-pilot Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).