# BacklinkScan review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Low-cost backlink monitor with spam scoring and disavow files Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. BacklinkScan is a web app that checks a site's backlinks every day, emails alerts on new and lost links, and uses AI to score each link for quality and spam risk. Links that fall outside your rules can go into a disavow file it keeps up to date. It also reads Google Search Console data, checks internal links and tracks how AI chatbots mention your brand. - **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building - **Made by:** BacklinkScan - **Website:** https://backlinkscan.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want to try monitoring free, as the free plan has no daily checks, alerts or exports. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, BacklinkScan has a free plan, and paid plans start at $6 per month for 50,000 backlinks, billed annually ($8 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1 project, 1,000 backlinks and 6 months of history, with no daily monitoring, alerts, reports or disavow file export. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 1 project, 1,000 backlinks and 6 months of history, without daily monitoring, alerts, exports or link research. | | Lite | $6 per month for 50,000 backlinks, billed annually ($8 billed monthly) | 5 projects, 1 year of history, daily monitoring, new and lost link alerts, 10 link searches a day, bulk outreach, CSV and disavow exports. | | Pro | $18 per month for 250,000 backlinks, billed annually ($24 billed monthly) | 20 projects, 5 years of history, 100 link searches a day and competitor analysis, plus everything in Lite. | | Lifetime Deal | $99 one-time payment | Unlimited projects and tracked links, daily monitoring, lost link alerts and AI analysis, paid once. Shown as a limited-time offer. | Read from https://backlinkscan.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with BacklinkScan before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 25% with annual billing** (Annual discount): BacklinkScan's pricing page lists Lite at $6 a month billed annually instead of $8 monthly, and Pro at $18 instead of $24. Source: https://backlinkscan.com/pricing - **Lifetime deal for a one-time $99** (Lifetime license): The pricing page shows a $99 one-time lifetime deal with unlimited projects and links, under a countdown; the FAQ says it may not always be offered. Source: https://backlinkscan.com/pricing ## Key features - **New and lost link alerts:** Backlinks are checked daily, with email alerts when links are gained or lost and a weekly summary, on the paid plans. - **AI link scoring:** Each backlink gets an AI rating for quality, relevance and risk, alongside link type, DR and referring domain details. - **Disavow automation:** Set rules by authority or spam score and links that match are added to a disavow file that is regenerated on a schedule. - **Search Console keywords:** Connect Google Search Console to see clicks, impressions, CTR and rankings for your pages and keywords, with history. - **Internal link checker:** Finds broken internal links and shows anchors, attributes and status codes across your own pages. - **AI brand visibility:** Asks AI models questions like a user would and records whether your brand appears, its rank, sentiment and competitors. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are named. ## Good for - Small sites and freelancers who want backlink alerts on a small budget - Cleaning up spammy links with a disavow file that stays current - Agencies watching links for up to 20 client sites on Pro ## Worth knowing - The pricing FAQ says refunds are not given once a plan is upgraded; the free plan is the way to try it. - The free plan has no daily monitoring, alerts, CSV reports or disavow export, and gets community support only. - Competitor analysis needs Pro, and PDF reports are listed as coming soon. - The pricing table does not say which plans include the AI brand visibility checker. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. BacklinkScan checks a site's backlinks daily, emails you about new and lost ones, scores each link for spam risk and keeps a disavow file up to date, from $6 a month on yearly billing. The free plan has no monitoring or alerts at all, refunds stop once you upgrade, and PDF reports are still listed as coming soon. - **Value for money: A.** Lite is $6 a month billed annually ($8 monthly) for 50,000 backlinks and 5 projects, under 60% of this category's cheaper quarter. Pro is $18 for 250,000, and a $99 one-time lifetime deal is shown for a limited time. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan for 1 project and 1,000 backlinks with 6 months of history, but no daily monitoring, alerts, CSV reports or disavow export, which are the reasons to use it. Support is community only. - **Features: C.** Daily checks with new and lost link alerts, AI scoring for quality and spam risk, rule-based disavow files, Search Console keywords, an internal link checker and an AI brand visibility checker. The gaps: competitor analysis waits on Pro and PDF reports are listed as coming soon. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You add projects, connect Search Console and set your disavow rules before it runs on its own. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with Google Search Console as the one connection on record. No API, desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from BacklinkScan'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 - BacklinkScan's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 37 of the 50 other link building tools we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 40 of 50) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $6 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 3 of the 41 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 2 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 BacklinkScan 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 is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 37 of the 50 other link building tools we grade. It costs $72 a year. - You could make: Link outreach and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: An index of the links between billions of web pages. - You could not: The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Search Console **Tags:** Backlink analysis, AI search visibility, Link outreach, Reports, AI features ## Alternatives - [Linkody](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkody): Backlink monitor that alerts you when links are gained or lost. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backlinkscan-vs-linkody) - [Monitolink](https://toolgpa.com/tools/monitolink): Backlink monitor with daily checks and lost-link recovery emails. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backlinkscan-vs-monitolink) - [LinkChecker.pro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkchecker-pro): Backlink tracker that checks placed links daily and their indexing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backlinkscan-vs-linkchecker-pro) - [Backlyzer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/backlyzer): Monitor for bought backlinks, with index checks and cost per link. 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