# Monitolink review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Backlink monitor with daily checks and lost-link recovery emails

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

Monitolink watches a site's backlinks and alerts by email when one is lost, broken, redirected or switched to nofollow. When a link drops, it can look up the site owner's address and send a recovery email from your own Gmail, by hand or automatically. It also finds sites that link to competitors but not to you, and makes white-label PDF reports.

- **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building
- **Made by:** Linkee, Inc.
- **Website:** https://backlinkmonitoring.ai
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free, with weekly checks, a monthly crawl, watermarked reports and 7 days of history.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Monitolink has a free plan, and paid plans start at $24 per month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 1 project with a few hundred backlinks (200 or 300; the page gives both), checked weekly, a monthly discovery crawl and watermarked reports. Trials end on it.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of any paid plan, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 1 project, 1 seat, weekly status checks, a monthly crawl for new links, watermarked reports and 7 days of history. |
| Starter | $24 per month for 2,500 backlinks, billed annually ($29 billed monthly) | 3 projects and 3 competitors, daily status checks, weekly discovery, recovery outreach, 100 contact lookups and 10 reports a month. |
| Pro | $66 per month for 10,000 backlinks, billed annually ($79 billed monthly) | 5 projects, 10 competitors, 3 seats, weekly AI insights, 400 contact lookups a month, Slack and Gmail integration and unlimited reports. |
| Agency | $124 per month for 50,000 backlinks, billed annually ($149 billed monthly) | 20 projects, 60 competitors, 10 seats, discovery every 3 days, white-label reports and client dashboards. The comparison table says 75,000 links. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited projects and seats, up to 1 million backlinks, daily AI insights, API access, SSO and a dedicated manager. Through sales. |

Read from https://backlinkmonitoring.ai/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Monitolink before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **17% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): Monitolink's pricing page lists annual billing at 17% off every paid plan: Starter is $24 a month billed annually instead of $29 monthly. Source: https://backlinkmonitoring.ai/pricing
- **Reduced rate for nonprofits and education** (Nonprofit): The pricing FAQ says nonprofits and educational buyers who get in touch are offered a reduced rate on the Pro or Agency plan. Source: https://backlinkmonitoring.ai/pricing

## Key features

- **Daily link checks:** Every paid plan re-checks each known backlink every 24 hours and emails when it is lost, broken, redirected, or its anchor or follow status changes.
- **Link recovery outreach:** Looks up the linking site's contact through Snov.io and sends a recovery email from your connected Gmail, in one click or automatically when a link drops.
- **Backlink gap analysis:** Compares your links with competitors' and lists sites that link to them but not to you, sorted by Domain Authority, with CSV export.
- **AI profile insights:** From Pro, a weekly set of cards flags urgent issues, opportunities and trends such as anchor text over-optimization and toxic domains.
- **Import and tagging:** Finds a domain's backlinks itself or takes a CSV from Ahrefs, Semrush, Search Console or Majestic, then groups links by client, campaign or custom tag.
- **Client reports:** PDF and CSV reports of live, lost and recovered links; reports carry your own logo and colors on the Agency plan and above.

## Good for

- Link builders who want to know the day a paid or earned link disappears
- Agencies reporting backlink status to several clients
- Teams that want lost-link outreach in the same tool as monitoring

## Worth knowing

- The free plan checks links only weekly; daily checks and recovery outreach start at Starter.
- Recovery emails go out through your own Gmail account, and contact lookups are capped monthly; 500 more cost $15 a month.
- White-label reports start at Agency; API access and SSO come only with custom-priced Enterprise.
- The pricing page's plan cards and comparison table give different limits for some plans, so confirm the numbers before buying.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Monitolink checks backlinks daily on paid plans, emails you when one drops, and can send a recovery email to the site owner from your own Gmail, from $24 a month on yearly billing. The free plan checks only weekly, white-label reports start at Agency, the API is Enterprise only, and the pricing page gives different limits in different places.

- **Value for money: C.** Starter is $24 a month billed yearly ($29 monthly) for 2,500 backlinks, 3 projects and daily checks, a little above this category's cheaper quarter. White-label reports wait on Agency at $124.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with 1 project, a few hundred links checked weekly, a monthly crawl and watermarked reports, plus a 14-day trial of any paid plan with no card. Weekly checks and 7 days of history are a cap you'll feel.
- **Features: C.** Daily checks, alerts, recovery emails to the site owner, gap analysis against competitors, AI insights from Pro and client reports. It does monitoring fully and a bit more, but it's still a smaller job, and the API is Enterprise only.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You add projects and competitors, import links if you have them, and connect Gmail before recovery emails can go out.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no desktop or phone app. It connects to Gmail, Slack and Snov.io and takes link exports from Ahrefs, Semrush, Search Console, Moz and Majestic.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Monitolink'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

- Monitolink'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 $24 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 13 of the 41 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 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 Monitolink 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 $288 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, Gmail, Slack and Snov.io among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

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

## Works with

Gmail, Slack, Snov.io, Ahrefs, Semrush, Google Search Console, Moz, Majestic

**Tags:** Backlink analysis, Link outreach, Reports, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Linkody](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkody): Backlink monitor that alerts you when links are gained or lost. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkody-vs-monitolink)
- [LinkChecker.pro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkchecker-pro): Backlink tracker that checks placed links daily and their indexing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkchecker-pro-vs-monitolink)
- [Backlyzer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/backlyzer): Monitor for bought backlinks, with index checks and cost per link. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backlyzer-vs-monitolink)
- [Majestic](https://toolgpa.com/tools/majestic): Backlink index with Trust Flow, Citation Flow and link history. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/majestic-vs-monitolink)
- [Ahrefs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ahrefs): SEO toolset for backlinks, keyword research, audits and rank tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ahrefs-vs-monitolink)

## Sources

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

- https://backlinkmonitoring.ai/pricing
- https://backlinkmonitoring.ai/
- https://backlinkmonitoring.ai/about
- https://backlinkmonitoring.ai/terms

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/monitolink
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