# Dr. Link Check review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Online broken link checker with blacklist and scheduled checks Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Dr. Link Check is a web-based service from Germany that crawls the HTML and CSS of a site and checks every internal link, outbound link, image and other resource for errors. Paid plans also check links against malware and phishing blacklists, look for soft errors and invalid SSL certificates, and run checks on a schedule with email reports. Subscriptions are billed by the number of links per website. - **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits - **Made by:** Wulfsoft - **Website:** https://www.drlinkcheck.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if your site builds links with JavaScript, which the crawler doesn't run. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Dr. Link Check has a free plan, and paid plans start at $13 per month for 10,000 links, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Lite plan: one-time checks of up to 1,500 links on each of 2 websites, broken link checks only, with no scheduling, rules or export. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Lite | $0 | 2 websites and 1,500 links each, broken link checks only, run one at a time by hand. | | Standard | $13 per month for 10,000 links, billed monthly | 5 websites, Google Safe Browsing blacklist checks, SSL checks, include and exclude rules, and monthly or biweekly scheduled checks. | | Professional | $49 per month for 50,000 links, billed monthly | 10 websites, soft error checks, PhishTank, weekly checks and CSV or PDF export. Can be set from 20,000 links; the price follows the limit. | | Premium | $159 per month for 200,000 links, billed monthly | 15 websites, two more blacklists and daily checks. Can be set from 30,000 links; the price follows the limit. | Read from https://www.drlinkcheck.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Dr. Link Check before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **One month free with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Dr. Link Check's pricing page offers yearly billing with one month free compared with paying monthly. Source: https://www.drlinkcheck.com/pricing ## Key features - **Whole-site link crawl:** Starts from one URL and checks internal links, outbound links, images, style sheets and other resources found in the HTML and CSS. - **Several checks per link:** Looks at URL format, server response time, error codes such as 404 and 500, and, on paid plans, SSL certificate validity. - **Malware and phishing blacklists:** Paid plans check outbound links against Google Safe Browsing, Professional adds PhishTank, and Premium two more lists. - **Soft error detection:** From Professional, flags pages that answer 200 OK but whose content shows an error or placeholder message. - **Scheduled checks and reports:** Runs checks monthly, biweekly, weekly or daily depending on plan, and emails a status report to chosen recipients. - **URL lists and rules:** Accepts up to 10,000 URLs to check in bulk, and lets you include or exclude URLs and limit crawl speed. ## Good for - Site owners who want broken links found and reported on a schedule - Checking outbound links for malware and phishing sites - Small sites whose links fit within the free 1,500 ## Worth knowing - The crawler does not run JavaScript, so links created by scripts are missed unless you start from the XML sitemap. - Prices rise with the link limit, billed per 10,000 links; each website counts unique resources, not just pages. - Export to CSV or PDF and soft error checks start at Professional; checking behind a login is set up by request on Professional and up. - Only one check runs at a time per account, and payment is by card or PayPal only. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Dr. Link Check crawls a site's HTML and CSS and checks every link, image and resource, with malware and phishing blacklists and scheduled email reports on paid plans. It doesn't run JavaScript, so links built by scripts are missed. And export and soft-error checks wait for Professional at $49 a month. - **Value for money: B.** Standard is $13 a month for 10,000 links on 5 websites, right at the top of this category's cheapest quarter, $13. Prices rise with the link limit, and Premium is $159 for 200,000. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The free Lite plan checks up to 1,500 links on each of 2 websites, by hand, broken links only, with no scheduling, rules or export. Every image and file counts toward the 1,500. - **Features: C.** Checks links, images and other resources for errors, slow responses and bad SSL, against Google Safe Browsing and PhishTank, on a schedule. It does link checking fully, but that's a smaller job, and the crawler doesn't run JavaScript. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You add each website to an account and set rules and schedules, and only one check runs at a time. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with email reports and no API on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Dr. Link Check'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 - Dr. Link Check's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 20 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 20. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 43 of 83) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 3). - Its paid plans start at $13 a month, against a middle price of $22.41 for the category: 13 of the 52 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 18 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 Dr. Link Check for yourself: reports. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $156 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. ## Works with Google Safe Browsing, PhishTank **Tags:** Site audit, Reports ## Alternatives - [Dead Link Checker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dead-link-checker): Free online broken link checker with scheduled scans by subscription. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dead-link-checker-vs-dr-link-check) - [Integrity](https://toolgpa.com/tools/integrity): Mac link checker, free for personal use, with paid SEO editions. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dr-link-check-vs-integrity) - [Xenu's Link Sleuth](https://toolgpa.com/tools/xenu-s-link-sleuth): Free Windows program that checks a website for broken links. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dr-link-check-vs-xenu-s-link-sleuth) - [Screaming Frog SEO Spider](https://toolgpa.com/tools/screaming-frog): Desktop website crawler for technical SEO audits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dr-link-check-vs-screaming-frog) - [Siteliner](https://toolgpa.com/tools/siteliner): Free site scan for internal duplicate content and broken links. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dr-link-check-vs-siteliner) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.drlinkcheck.com/pricing - https://www.drlinkcheck.com/ - https://www.drlinkcheck.com/support/faq - https://www.drlinkcheck.com/support/legal-notice Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/dr-link-check Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).