# Dead Link Checker review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Free online broken link checker with scheduled scans by subscription

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Dead Link Checker is a web-based tool that crawls a website from a starting URL and reports dead links with their status codes and the link text that points to them. Checking one site or a list of sites by hand is free up to 2,000 links. The Auto Checker subscriptions scan up to 200 sites on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule and email the reports.

- **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits
- **Made by:** DLC Websites
- **Website:** https://www.deadlinkchecker.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free, with 2,000 links a scan and no schedule.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Dead Link Checker has a free plan, and paid plans start at $9.95 per month for up to 5 sites, billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Site Checker and Multi Check are free, up to 2,000 links per scan; Multi Check needs a free account and emails the report.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Site Checker and Multi Check | $0 | Manual scans of one site, or of a list of sites with an emailed report after a free sign-up, up to 2,000 links. |
| Auto Checker Standard | $9.95 per month for up to 5 sites, billed monthly | Scheduled daily, weekly or monthly scans of up to 5 websites and 50,000 links a month, with emailed reports. Or $110 a year. |
| Auto Checker Premium | $39.95 per month for up to 100 sites, billed monthly | Scheduled scans of up to 100 websites and 500,000 links a month. Or $440 a year. |
| Auto Checker Professional | $79.90 per month for up to 200 sites, billed monthly | Scheduled scans of up to 200 websites and 1,000,000 links a month. Or $880 a year. |

Read from https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/automatic-broken-link-check.asp on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Dead Link Checker before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save up to 8% with annual payment** (Annual discount): The subscription page lists a single yearly payment of $110 for Standard (7.5% off), and $440 and $880 for Premium and Professional (8% off). Source: https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/automatic-broken-link-check.asp

## Key features

- **Site Checker:** Scans a whole website or a single page from your browser and lists each broken link with its status and source link text.
- **Multi Check:** With a free account, scans a list of websites in one go and emails the report when it finishes.
- **Auto Check scheduling:** Paid plans scan chosen sites daily, weekly or monthly at a set depth and email a report after each run, also kept online.
- **Competitor link checks:** Any site can be scanned, so the vendor suggests it for finding broken links on competitors' sites for link building.

## Good for

- Quick free checks of small sites without installing anything
- Agencies monitoring broken links across many client sites on a schedule
- Finding broken links on other sites as link-building leads

## Worth knowing

- Free scans stop at 2,000 links; larger scans need an Auto Checker subscription.
- The crawler does not run JavaScript and follows links at most 10 steps deep, so pages with no incoming links are missed.
- Subdomains count as separate websites, so their pages are not crawled as part of the main site.
- Paid plans bill through PayPal; a card can be used without a PayPal account.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Dead Link Checker scans a site from your browser and lists every dead link with its status code and link text, free up to 2,000 links. It doesn't run JavaScript and follows links only 10 steps deep, so pages nothing links to get missed. Scheduled scans need an Auto Checker plan from $9.95 a month.

- **Value for money: B.** Auto Checker Standard is $9.95 a month for scheduled scans of up to 5 sites and 50,000 links, inside this category's cheapest quarter of $13. Paying $110 a year saves 7.5%.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Site Checker and Multi Check are free, but each scan stops at 2,000 links and nothing runs on a schedule. A mid-sized site goes past that.
- **Features: C.** Manual scans of one site or a list of sites, and scheduled daily, weekly or monthly scans with emailed reports. It does that job fully, but it's a smaller job, with no JavaScript and a 10-step depth limit.
- **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. The Site Checker runs in your browser with no install and no sign-up; only Multi Check needs a free account.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no app, API or integrations on record.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Dead Link Checker's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among technical SEO tools

- Dead Link Checker's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 41 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 14.
- It stands best on ease of use (B, above 62 of 83) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 3).
- Its paid plans start at $9.95 a month, against a middle price of $22.41 for the category: 8 of the 52 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 5 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/technical-seo

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Your call.** You could make the core of Dead Link Checker for yourself: reports. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $119.40 a year.

- You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well.
- You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
- You could not: A crawler that checks every page of a site.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

**Tags:** Site audit, Reports

## Alternatives

- [Dr. Link Check](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dr-link-check): Online broken link checker with blacklist and scheduled checks. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dead-link-checker-vs-dr-link-check)
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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/automatic-broken-link-check.asp
- https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/
- https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/website-link-checker-options.asp
- https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/website-dead-link-checker.asp
- https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/faq.asp
- https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/about.asp

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