The 5 best Linkody alternatives in 2026

Most lists of Linkody alternatives hand you Ahrefs, Semrush and Moz. Those are SEO suites that cost several times more and do a different job: they crawl the web and report the links they find. Linkody's core job is narrower. You give it links, it fetches the pages every day and tells you when one changes. If that is the part you want to replace, a suite is the wrong comparison. This list sticks to tools that check a list of links.

Why people look for a Linkody alternative

Linkody is a solid product, and for many teams there is no reason to leave. The common reasons to look around are these:

• You pay for things you do not use. Linkody bundles backlink discovery, competitor tracking, a disavow file generator and a spam score with other link metrics. If you only watch the links you bought, that is a lot of dashboard for one question.
• Monthly tiers by links and websites. The entry plan covers 500 links but only 2 websites. A freelancer with five small clients is on the next tier before the links run out.
• No money number. Linkody stores what you paid per link. Its documentation does not describe a total of what the broken links cost you today, which is the figure a budget owner asks for.
• You want something simpler, or free. Several newer tools do one thing and price it accordingly.

Linkody and the alternatives at a glance

Prices and limits as shown on each vendor's own site on November 6, 2026. Linkody showed euros to our visit from the EU. "Not mentioned" means the vendor's pages do not describe the feature, not that we proved it is missing.

1. LinkRot.io: best for links you paid for

Best for: people who buy placements and want to know which ones broke and what that costs.

This is our tool, so read this section with that in mind. LinkRot.io does not discover anything. You paste or import the pages you paid for, with the landing page and the price, in whatever currency you paid. It fetches every page each day and reports one number: how much of your link budget is rotting right now.

What it checks on each page: whether the page still loads, whether your link is still in the HTML, whether it picked up a nofollow, sponsored or ugc, whether the whole page is set to nofollow or noindex, whether the canonical points to another address, and whether the anchor is still the one it first saw. Once a month it also looks the page up in Google. If you enter the date you paid until, it tells you two weeks before the term ends.

Two design choices matter in daily use. A link is only called dead after a second miss an hour later, and a page that answers with a bot wall or a server error is marked unreachable, not dead. And every problem comes with the next step, such as "ask the vendor to remove the nofollow", sorted by what you paid.

Price: Starter is $9 a month or $79 a year for 300 links, Pro is $22 a month or $199 a year for 2,000 links, with a 14-day refund. There is no free plan, but the free check tests five links without an account.

Where it falls short: no backlink discovery, no competitor tracking, no disavow file, no authority metrics, no client access and no team seats. Alerts go out by email only.

Head to head: Linkody and LinkRot.io

2. LinkCheck.App: best free allowance

Best for: large lists and no budget.

LinkCheck.App monitors up to 5,000 backlinks across up to 25 domains on a free account, with no trial deadline and no card. You bring the list: it imports Ahrefs and Semrush exports or a CSV with the linking page and the target. It reports removed links, missing or blocked pages, redirects, changed destinations, nofollow and other attribute changes, and anchor changes, and keeps notes and contact details next to each link.

The trade-offs: you have to verify each target domain, which is awkward when the sites belong to clients. There is no fixed check interval: each link gets its own schedule. The vendor's pages do not mention noindex, canonical or a Google lookup, and there is no field for what you paid. The paid part of the business is a marketplace for link placements.

3. SE Ranking Backlink Monitor: best inside a full suite

Best for: teams that also need rank tracking and site audits.

SE Ranking's backlink monitor lets you add links by hand, from Search Console or from its own backlink checker. It tracks whether the link is found, follow, nofollow, ugc and sponsored, anchor and target, and whether the page drops out of Google. You can set a price and a responsible manager per link, and it builds a disavow file.

The trade-offs: it is one module of a suite that starts at $129 a month, or $103.20 a month billed yearly. That is a sensible price for rank tracking, audits and a backlink index together, and a high one if monitoring is all you need. The pricing page does not show how many monitored backlinks each plan includes.

4. BacklinkDog: best for a handful of links, paid once

Best for: a small site with a few dozen links.

BacklinkDog is the simplest tool here: enter your site and the page where the link should be, and it reports active, lost or broken, dofollow or nofollow, and anchor changes by email. Its lifetime plan covers 50 links for $49 once. Monthly plans run from $12 for 500 links to $49 for 5,000.

The trade-offs: the two cheapest plans check weekly, the middle plan every other day, and only the $49 a month plan checks daily. A link can be gone for six days before you hear about it. The site does not mention noindex, canonical, a Google lookup or a price field, and mass import starts at the $29 plan.

5. PageCrawl: best for proof and fast checks

Best for: a few expensive placements where you want evidence.

PageCrawl is a general page-change monitor, not a backlink tool. You create a monitor for the linking page and, to catch attribute changes, point it at the link element with a CSS or XPath selector. In return you get checks as often as every 15 minutes on the Standard plan, screenshots, a visual diff of what changed, and alerts by email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Teams or webhook.

The trade-offs: setup is manual and per page, it knows nothing about landing pages, prices or vendors, and it does not read noindex or canonical for you unless you build monitors for them. Standard is $160 a year for 200 pages. A free plan covers 6 pages.

Three more you will see mentioned

• Ahrefs. Its backlink alerts email you when a domain, a folder or a URL of yours gains or loses links in Ahrefs' index. That is discovery: the alert watches your target, not a list of pages you paid for, and it depends on when Ahrefs recrawls the linking page. Worth using if you already pay for Ahrefs. We wrote more about it in how to find and recover lost backlinks.
• Monitor Backlinks. It is no longer a product of its own: the site now forwards to SEOptimer, which bought it in 2023. See Monitor Backlinks alternatives.
• BacklinkCRM. A CRM for link exchanges: who gave, who received, who owes. It has a free plan for 100 partnerships and paid plans from $9 a month. Good for swaps, less so for bought placements.

Where Linkody still wins

If any of these is on your list, stay with Linkody or pick a suite:

• Discovery. It searches for new links to your sites every week. None of the single-purpose monitors does.
• Competitors. Competitor links are free on every plan and feed a link intersect report.
• Disavow and metrics. It generates a disavow file and shows a spam score and other metrics per link.
• Teams. You can add team members and clients to an account, and the larger plans include several users.
• Volume. Plans go up to 50,000 monitored links.

Which one should you pick?

• You buy links and report on the budget: LinkRot.io.
• You have thousands of links and no budget for a tool: LinkCheck.App.
• You want rank tracking, audits and backlinks in one bill: SE Ranking.
• You have 30 links and dislike subscriptions: BacklinkDog.
• You have five placements that cost four figures each: PageCrawl, or add them to any tool above.
• You need discovery, competitors and client access: stay with Linkody.

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