# Backlyzer review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Monitor for bought backlinks, with index checks and cost per link Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Backlyzer watches backlinks you have already bought or earned and emails you when one changes: a switch from dofollow to nofollow, sponsored or UGC, an edited anchor or an article that returns a 404. Higher plans check whether the linking articles are indexed in Google and follow brand mentions that carry no link. It also works out the cost and survival rate of links by provider. Prices are in euros. - **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building - **Made by:** Backlyzer - **Website:** https://www.backlyzer.com/en - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you have many links, as Starter stops at 100 and the free plan at 10. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Backlyzer has a free plan, and paid plans start at €24 per month for 100 links, billed annually (€29 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 10 monitored links in 1 project, checked every 7 days, with email alerts, CSV import and a basic analytics panel. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of every paid plan, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | €0 | 10 links, 1 project, a check every 7 days and email alerts. No Google index check or brand mentions. | | Starter | €24 per month for 100 links, billed annually (€29 billed monthly) | 3 projects, bulk CSV import, Domain Rating per article, and cost and ROI per active link. No index check. | | Pro | €66 per month for 500 links, billed annually (€79 billed monthly) | 15 projects, Google index checks, unlinked brand mentions and anchor diversity analysis. | | Agency | €166 per month for 2,000 links, billed annually (€199 billed monthly) | Unlimited projects, a check every 24 hours and priority support. More than 2,000 links is a custom plan. | Read from https://www.backlyzer.com/en/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Backlyzer before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Lower monthly price with annual billing** (Annual discount): Billed annually, Starter is €24 a month instead of €29, Pro €66 instead of €79 and Agency €166 instead of €199. Source: https://www.backlyzer.com/en/pricing ## Key features - **Link change detection:** Revisits each article holding your link and checks the link's status, rel attribute, anchor text and the page's HTTP status code. - **Email alerts:** Sends an email when a change is found, such as a dofollow link turned nofollow or an article that now returns a 404. - **Google index check:** On Pro and Agency, checks whether the articles that carry your backlinks are indexed in Google. - **Cost and ROI per link:** Record what each link cost and see its survival rate and return by link, by provider and by project, from the Starter plan up. - **Unlinked brand mentions:** Pro and Agency follow articles that name your brand without linking, which Backlyzer ties to how AI tools such as ChatGPT and Perplexity see a brand. - **Projects and CSV import:** Organize links into projects by client or domain and bring them in from a CSV file, which is crawled in a staggered queue. ## Good for - SEO consultants and agencies that buy links from publishers - Tracking which link sellers' placements last and what they cost - Spanish and other European agencies paying in euros ## Worth knowing - Prices are in euros only; the pricing pages show no dollar prices. - It monitors links you add; it does not discover a site's backlinks the way Ahrefs or Semrush do. - Google index checks and brand mentions start at Pro; the Free and Starter plans lack both. - Check frequencies differ between pages (Starter every 72 hours or every 7 days), so confirm before relying on them. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Backlyzer watches backlinks you've bought or earned, emails you when one changes, and tracks each link's cost and survival by seller, from €24 a month on yearly billing. That buys only 100 links, it won't discover links, Google index checks wait on Pro at €66, and its pages disagree on how often Starter checks. - **Value for money: C.** Starter is €24 a month billed yearly (€29 monthly) for 100 links and 3 projects, in the middle band of this category once converted. 100 links is thin for the money, and Google index checks need Pro at €66. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan for 10 links in 1 project, checked every 7 days, plus a 14-day trial of every paid plan with no card. 10 links is a sample, not a site. - **Features: C.** Change alerts for status, rel, anchor and 404s, cost and return per link and per seller, and on Pro, index checks and unlinked brand mentions. It does monitoring fully, but it won't discover links: you add them. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You set up projects and import links by CSV, and its own pages give different check frequencies for the same plan. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no apps, integrations or API on record. Prices are in euros only. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Backlyzer'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 - Backlyzer's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 13 of the 50 other link building tools we grade, and level with 12. - Its paid plans start at about $26.89 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 14 of the 41 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 8 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 Backlyzer 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. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 25 of the 50 other link building tools grade higher. It costs $322.73 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 - [LinkChecker.pro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkchecker-pro): Backlink tracker that checks placed links daily and their indexing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backlyzer-vs-linkchecker-pro) - [Monitolink](https://toolgpa.com/tools/monitolink): Backlink monitor with daily checks and lost-link recovery emails. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backlyzer-vs-monitolink) - [BacklinkDog](https://toolgpa.com/tools/backlinkdog): Backlink checker that emails you when a link you placed changes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backlinkdog-vs-backlyzer) - [Linkody](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkody): Backlink monitor that alerts you when links are gained or lost. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backlyzer-vs-linkody) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.backlyzer.com/en/pricing - https://www.backlyzer.com/en - https://www.backlyzer.com/en/features - https://www.backlyzer.com/en/faq - https://www.backlyzer.com/en/about Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/backlyzer Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).