# LinkResearchTools review (2026): is it worth $599 a month? > Backlink audits, disavow files and link risk checks from 25+ sources Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. LinkResearchTools (LRT) is web-based backlink software built around link audits. It combines link data from more than 25 sources, recrawls every link and scores it for risk, which feeds its Link Detox audits and disavow files. It also has tools for competitor link research, link prospecting, monitoring and repairing broken links with redirects. - **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building - **Made by:** LinkResearchTools GmbH (since 2009) - **Website:** https://www.linkresearchtools.com - **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you're one person, at $599 a month or $5,799 a year with no smaller plan. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, LinkResearchTools is a paid product, starting at $599 per month, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Superhero Small | $599 per month, billed monthly | 1 million links crawled a month, Link Detox, Link Simulator, link monitoring and prospecting and the 25 classic tools. Email support. | | Superhero Standard | $999 per month, billed monthly | 6 million links crawled a month and larger tool quotas, with live chat and email support. | | Superhero Plus | $2,499 per month, billed monthly | 18 million links crawled a month and the largest standard quotas, with live chat and email support. | | Enterprise | Custom | Phone support, purchase orders and invoices, custom contracts and development, team training, SEO consulting and SSO. | Read from https://www.linkresearchtools.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with LinkResearchTools before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **About 19% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): LRT's pricing page sells Superhero Small at $5,799 a year against $599 a month, and Standard at $9,499 a year against $999 a month. Source: https://www.linkresearchtools.com/pricing/ - **7-day trial of Superhero Small for $17** (Other savings): The pricing page offers a limited 7-day trial for $17, after which the plan continues at $599 a month. Source: https://www.linkresearchtools.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Link Detox audits:** Rates the risk of every backlink to a site and helps build and manage disavow files for Google's Disavow Tool. - **Combined, recrawled link data:** Pulls links from more than 25 data sources, recrawls each one to check it is still live and adds over 150 SEO metrics per link. - **Competitor research:** Compares domains, finds backlinks that several competitors share and tracks how fast rivals gain links. - **Link building methods:** Tools for SERP research, missing links, broken link building and finding sites that link to competitors' strongest pages. - **Link Simulator:** Estimates a planned link's likely effect and risk before it is built, using LRT's own risk scoring. - **Monitoring and link repair:** Link Alerts flags new links, the link checker verifies existing ones, and Link Recover finds broken inbound links to fix with redirects. ## Good for - SEOs cleaning up a backlink profile after a Google penalty - Agencies auditing link risk across many client domains - Checking a planned link for risk before paying for or building it ## Worth knowing - There is no free plan or free trial: a 7-day trial of Superhero Small costs $17, cannot export data and leaves out Link Detox Boost. - Domains and users are listed as unlimited, but each report uses the plan's link crawl budget, and large profiles need extra budget. - Phone support comes only with Enterprise; Superhero Small has email support only. - Plans can also be paid quarterly, every six months or yearly, and are priced at the same figures in euros. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. LinkResearchTools merges links from more than 25 sources, recrawls each one and scores its risk, which feeds its audits and disavow files. It starts at $599 a month with no smaller plan, the only trial costs $17 and can't export, and every report draws on a monthly crawl budget. - **Value for money: D.** Superhero Small is $599 a month, or $5,799 a year, by far the dearest way into this category. Users and domains are unlimited, so a team of five works out near $120 a head, but there's no smaller plan for one person. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free. The only way in is a 7-day trial that costs $17, can't export data and leaves out Link Detox Boost, and then rolls on at $599 a month. - **Features: B.** Risk audits with disavow files, link data merged from 25+ sources and recrawled, competitor research, prospecting methods, a Link Simulator, monitoring and broken-link recovery. Short of sending the emails, it covers the job. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. There are dozens of tools, a monthly link crawl budget that every report draws on, and its own risk scores to learn. This is a specialist's tool. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus Chrome and Firefox extensions, pulling data from Ahrefs, Semrush, SISTRIX, Search Console and Google Analytics, and working with Pitchbox. No desktop or phone app, and no API on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from LinkResearchTools' 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 - LinkResearchTools's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 2 of the 50 other link building tools we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on features (B, above 39 of 50) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $599 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 41 of the 41 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/link-building ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace LinkResearchTools 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: 38 of the 50 other link building tools grade higher. It costs $7,188 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. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Ahrefs, Semrush and SISTRIX among them. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Ahrefs, Semrush, SISTRIX, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Pitchbox, Chrome, Firefox **Tags:** Backlink analysis, Reports ## Alternatives - [Majestic](https://toolgpa.com/tools/majestic): Backlink index with Trust Flow, Citation Flow and link history. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkresearchtools-vs-majestic) - [Ahrefs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ahrefs): SEO toolset for backlinks, keyword research, audits and rank tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ahrefs-vs-linkresearchtools) - [Semrush](https://toolgpa.com/tools/semrush): SEO suite for keyword research, rank tracking and AI search visibility. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkresearchtools-vs-semrush) - [Linkody](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkody): Backlink monitor that alerts you when links are gained or lost. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkody-vs-linkresearchtools) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.linkresearchtools.com/pricing/ - https://www.linkresearchtools.com/ - https://www.linkresearchtools.com/about/ - https://www.linkresearchtools.com/legal/imprint - https://smart.linkresearchtools.com/seo-tools/link-redirect-trace-extension Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkresearchtools Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).