LinkSwapy review (2026): is it worth $49 a month?
Link partnership CRM with return-link tracking and backlink checks
LinkSwapy report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for managing link partners and who owes a link
LinkSwapy keeps supplier sites, contacts and link deals in one CRM, shows who still owes a link and checks placed links on a schedule. But Starter at $49 a month only checks weekly and allows 2 projects, metrics lookups cost extra credits, and there's no free plan.
Who LinkSwapy is for
- Fits if you exchange links with many partners and need to see who owes what
- Works for agencies that report links added, lost and recovered to clients
Who LinkSwapy is not for
- Tight if you need daily checks or white-label reports, which start at Agency at $299 a month
- Watch out: site metrics cost credits ($29 for 500 checks) unless you bring your own Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz or DataForSEO key
- Pricey if your team grows, as extra seats are $19 a month each
- Not for you if you need the API or single sign-on, which come only with the sales-priced Scale plan
- Skip it if you want a free plan, as there's only a 14-day trial
Why LinkSwapy gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyStarter is $49 a month for 300 monitored links, the middle of what link building tools charge. Site metrics cost extra credits ($29 for 500 checks) unless you bring your own Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz or DataForSEO key.
- CFree plan and trialNo free plan, but a 14-day trial with Growth features and no card. The vendor points very small accounts to its free templates and calculators instead.
- CFeaturesA supplier CRM, deal types from reciprocal to paid, a who-owes-what balance, checks of status, anchor, rel and redirects, a recovery queue and client reports. It does the partnership job fully, but that's a smaller job, with no prospect search of its own.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. You import supplier lists, log deals and maybe connect an SEO data key before it all adds up, so there's setup before it pays off.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, but it connects to Slack, Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz and DataForSEO. API access, SSO and SCIM come only with the sales-priced Scale plan.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from LinkSwapy's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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LinkSwapy's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 26 of the 50 other link building tools we grade, and level with 10.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 28 of 50) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $49 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 19 of the 41 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 51 link building tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. LinkSwapy’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 8 of 50, level with 26
- CFree plan and trialAbove 20 of 50, level with 22
- CFeaturesAbove 4 of 50, level with 34
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 50, level with 43
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 28 of 50, level with 22
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 45 link building tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep LinkSwapy, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace LinkSwapy 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 costs $588 a year.
What you could make
- Link outreach and reports: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- An index of the links between billions of web pages.
- It plugs into other products, Slack, Ahrefs and Semrush among them.
What this rests on. LinkSwapy’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is LinkSwapy?
LinkSwapy is a web app for running link partnerships: it keeps a CRM of supplier domains and contacts, records each link deal and which side still owes a link, and checks placed backlinks on a schedule. Removed or changed links land in a recovery queue with the partner's contact attached, and the results roll up into client reports. Plans are sized by users, projects, monitored links and how often links are checked.
Worth knowing
- Domain rating, traffic and referring-domain lookups use credits ($29 for 500 checks) unless you connect your own Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz or DataForSEO key.
- Starter checks links only weekly and allows 2 projects; daily checks and white-label reports start at Agency, $299 a month.
- Extra seats cost $19 a month each, and API access and single sign-on come only with the sales-priced Scale plan.
- There is no free plan; the vendor points very small accounts to its free templates and calculators instead.
Key features
- Supplier domain CRM
- One record per supplier site with SEO metrics, niche, contacts, a quality score and the team's notes. CSV imports merge with existing records instead of duplicating them.
- Link deals and return links
- Log each deal by type, such as reciprocal, three-way, link insertion, guest post or paid, and see per partner who has given and who still owes a link.
- Backlink monitoring
- Checks each placement for status, presence, anchor, rel attribute, noindex, canonical and redirects: weekly on Starter, every 3 days on Growth, daily on Agency.
- Lost link recovery
- Removed or nofollowed links drop into a recovery queue with the supplier's contact attached and a pre-filled outreach email.
- Bulk domain checker
- Qualify up to 10,000 prospect domains in one upload with a composite score, listed with the Agency plan.
- Client reports
- PDF reports of added, lost and recovered links built from monitoring data, plus CSV exports. White-label reports come with Agency and Scale.
LinkSwapy pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, LinkSwapy is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $49 per month for 300 monitored links, billed monthly.
- Starts at
- $49 per month for 300 monitored links, billed monthly
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial with Growth plan features, no credit card required
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $49per month for 300 monitored links, billed monthly | 1 user, 2 projects, 500 supplier domains, weekly backlink checks, CSV import, basic reports and manual outreach tracking. |
| Growth | $149per month for 2,000 monitored links, billed monthly | 5 users, 10 projects, 2,000 supplier domains, checks every 3 days, return-link tracking and balance dashboard, email templates and Slack alerts. |
| Agency | $299per month for 8,000 monitored links, billed monthly | 10 users, unlimited projects, daily checks, the bulk domain checker, client reporting, white-label reports and team activity logs. |
| Scale | $599per month and up | Custom users, projects, links and check frequency, plus API access, SSO and SCIM, your own SEO API keys and dedicated onboarding. Through sales. |
Read from linkswapy.com on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with LinkSwapy before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountDiscount for annual billing
LinkSwapy's pricing FAQ says annual billing is discounted, without stating the amount, and that annual plans get a prorated refund on the unused part.
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Common questions
Does LinkSwapy have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. LinkSwapy is listed for Web.
Does LinkSwapy have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. LinkSwapy is listed for Web.
Is LinkSwapy open source?
LinkSwapy is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026.