# LinkSwapy review (2026): is it worth $49 a month? > Link partnership CRM with return-link tracking and backlink checks Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building - **Made by:** LinkSwapy - **Website:** https://linkswapy.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you need daily checks or white-label reports, which start at Agency at $299 a month. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## 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. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial with Growth plan features, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $49 per 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 | $149 per 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 | $299 per 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 | $599 per 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 https://linkswapy.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with LinkSwapy before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Discount for annual billing** (Annual discount): 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. Source: https://linkswapy.com/pricing ## 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. ## Good for - SEO teams that exchange links with partners and need to track who owes what - Agencies checking that placed or exchanged links stay live - Link builders moving deal records out of spreadsheets ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** Starter 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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No 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. - **Features: C.** A 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No 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. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but it connects to Slack, Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz and DataForSEO. API access, SSO and SCIM come only with the sales-priced Scale plan. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among link building tools - 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/link-building ## Keep it, 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. - You could make: Link outreach and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: An index of the links between billions of web pages. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Slack, Ahrefs and Semrush among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Slack, Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, DataForSEO **Tags:** Link outreach, Backlink analysis, Reports ## Alternatives - [Monitolink](https://toolgpa.com/tools/monitolink): Backlink monitor with daily checks and lost-link recovery emails. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkswapy-vs-monitolink) - [Linkody](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkody): Backlink monitor that alerts you when links are gained or lost. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkody-vs-linkswapy) - [BuzzStream](https://toolgpa.com/tools/buzzstream): Outreach CRM for link building and digital PR. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buzzstream-vs-linkswapy) - [GuestPostCRM](https://toolgpa.com/tools/guestpostcrm): CRM for guest post sellers and buyers that runs from your Gmail inbox. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/guestpostcrm-vs-linkswapy) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://linkswapy.com/pricing - https://linkswapy.com/ - https://linkswapy.com/features - https://linkswapy.com/contact Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkswapy Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).