Linkee vs Linkody in 2026: AI-powered link building automation vs dedicated backlink monitoring
Linkee automates prospecting-to-outreach for building new links, starting at $80.83/month. Linkody only watches the links you already have, starting at €13.90/month with 24/7 monitoring and white-label reports on every plan.
Linkee
Linkody- Linkee automates the full prospecting-to-outreach workflow with a 5M+ site database, AI relevancy scoring, and scheduled email sequences. Linkody has none of that; it only monitors links you have already acquired.
- Linkody checks every backlink in your profile every 24 hours and alerts you when a link is lost or a dofollow link switches to nofollow. Linkee has no backlink monitoring feature of any kind.
- Linkody includes unlimited competitor backlink tracking on every plan, and those links never count against your quota. Linkee's Ahrefs Metrics Integration pulls authority data into prospect lists but does not track a competitor's link profile over time.
- Linkee starts at $80.83/month (Essential, 10,000 credits) and gates its built-in CRM behind the $164.17/month Pro plan. Linkody starts at €13.90/month and includes white-label PDF reports on every tier, including the cheapest.
- Linkee bills by credits consumed across AI qualifier runs, email finding, and sends (10,000 to 60,000 per month depending on plan). Linkody bills by domains tracked (2 to 100) and monitored links (500 to 50,000) instead.
- Both offer a no-credit-card free trial, but Linkody's 30-day trial disables CSV and PDF export until you subscribe, while Linkee's trial gives access to its core prospecting and outreach features from the start.
- Neither tool publishes a general-purpose API. Linkee pulls Ahrefs data in for prospect enrichment; Linkody restricts CSV export to its Pro plan and above.
Linkee and Linkody get compared often because they sound alike and both live in the link building toolbox, but they solve opposite ends of the problem. Linkee is built for acquisition: it prospects from a 5 million-plus site database, scores relevance with an AI qualifier, finds and verifies contact emails, then runs the outreach sequence, all inside one credit-based platform starting at $80.83 a month. Linkody does not prospect or send a single email. It checks every backlink you already have every 24 hours, tells you the moment one goes missing or switches to nofollow, and hands agencies a white-label PDF report to send clients, starting at €13.90 a month. If you are trying to decide which one to buy, the honest framing is that Linkee finds and builds links while Linkody protects and reports on them, and most active link building programs eventually need a tool from each category.
The tools at a glance
Linkee
AI-powered link building automation from prospecting to outreach
Linkee automates the entire acquisition side of link building: pick a guest post or niche edit campaign, prospect from Linkee's own 5 million-plus site database or import a CSV from Ahrefs or SEMrush, and let the AI relevancy checker score each site against your target keywords. The same pass filters out private blog networks, non-secure domains, and broken pages before a single email goes out.
Once the prospect list is clean, Linkee finds and verifies contact emails directly from the target sites and builds a personalized outreach sequence sent through your own Gmail, Outlook, or SMTP connection, with automated follow-ups and send-window controls included on every plan. Nothing in that pipeline touches monitoring: Linkee has no way to tell you if a link you already built is still live.
The friction point is the credit system. Essential gives you 10,000 credits and a single project for $80.83 a month, which is workable for a solo campaign but tight once qualifier runs, email verification, and sends are all drawing from the same pool. CRM functionality only appears from Pro ($164.17/month), and unlimited seats and projects require the $298.33/month Agency tier, which is a real jump for a small team.
| Feature | Essential $80.83/mo | Pro $164.17/mo | Agency $298.33/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Credits per month | 10,000 | 25,000 | 60,000 |
| Projects | 1 | 1 | Unlimited |
| Linked email accounts | 3 | 5 | Unlimited |
| AI prospecting + relevancy scoring | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Email finder + verification | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CRM | No | Yes | Yes |
| User access control | No | No | Yes |
Linkody
The easiest way to track your link building campaigns
Linkody does one job: it watches the backlinks you already have. Every link in your profile is checked every 24 hours, and Linkody sends a daily or weekly email the moment something changes, a link disappears, a page goes noindex, or a dofollow link quietly switches to nofollow. There is no prospecting screen, no email sender, and no CRM pipeline anywhere in the product.
Competitor monitoring runs in parallel at no extra cost to your link quota, so you can see which domains are linking to a rival but not to you. Every backlink is enriched with Moz Domain Authority and Page Authority, Trust Flow, Citation Flow, and Spam Score, and the disavow tool filters by those same risk signals to generate a file ready for Google Search Console.
What makes Linkody an easy sell for agencies is that white-label PDF reporting is included from the cheapest plan, €13.90 a month for the Webmaster tier, rather than gated behind a premium tier the way Linkee gates its CRM. The tradeoff is that Linkody genuinely cannot replace a prospecting tool: if you need to find new sites to target, you're looking somewhere else entirely.
| Feature | Webmaster €13.90/mo | Advanced €22.90/mo | Pro €45.90/mo | Agency €90.90/mo | Agency XL €138.90/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domains tracked | 2 | 5 | 20 | 50 | 100 |
| Monitored links | 500 | 2,000 | 5,000 | 20,000 | 50,000 |
| Competitor monitoring | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| White-label PDF reports | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CSV export | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Users | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
Head-to-head feature comparison
| Feature | Linkee | Linkody |
|---|---|---|
| Core focus | Prospecting, contact finding, and outreach automation (link acquisition) | 24/7 backlink health monitoring and competitor tracking |
| Prospect / contact database | 5M+ site database, plus CSV import from Ahrefs/SEMrush | None, no prospecting feature |
| AI relevancy scoring | Yes | No |
| Outreach automation | Yes (Gmail/Outlook/SMTP, automated follow-ups) | No |
| Backlink monitoring frequency | None, not a monitoring tool | Every 24 hours, daily or weekly email alerts |
| Competitor backlink tracking | No | Yes, unlimited, doesn't count against quota |
| White-label reports | No | Yes, on every plan |
| Built-in CRM | No on Essential, Yes from Pro ($164.17/mo) | No |
| Disavow tool | No | Yes, with Spam Score filtering |
| Free trial | Yes, no credit card required | Yes, 30 days, no credit card (CSV/PDF export disabled during trial) |
| Starting price | $80.83/mo | €13.90/mo |
Which should you choose?
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Bottom line
Start the Linkee trial if your bottleneck is finding and contacting new link prospects, and budget for the Pro tier once you need CRM tracking for ongoing relationships. Start the Linkody trial if you already have a prospecting workflow and just need to know the moment a backlink breaks, especially if you need white-label reports to send clients without paying for a premium tier. If you need both acquisition and monitoring under real budget pressure, Linkody's entry price makes it the easier one to add on top of an existing Linkee or Ahrefs setup.
Frequently asked questions
Is Linkee or Linkody better for a small agency just starting a link building program?
Linkee is the better starting point if you have no existing prospect pipeline, since it handles prospecting, contact finding, and outreach in one $80.83/month plan. Once you have links placed and want to protect that investment, Linkody's €13.90/month Webmaster plan is worth adding for daily monitoring and client-ready reports.
Can I use Linkee and Linkody together in the same workflow?
Yes, and this is how most agencies end up using them. Linkee handles the acquisition side, prospecting new sites and running outreach, while Linkody tracks the resulting links after they go live, since neither tool duplicates the other's core function.
Does Linkody replace the need for a prospecting tool like Linkee?
No. Linkody has no prospecting, email finding, or outreach feature of any kind; it is exclusively a monitoring and reporting tool for links you have already acquired. You would still need Linkee, or a similar prospecting platform, to find and contact new sites.
How much does Linkee cost compared to Linkody per month?
Linkee starts at $80.83/month for the Essential plan with 10,000 credits. Linkody starts at €13.90/month for the Webmaster plan tracking 2 domains and 500 links. The two aren't directly comparable on price because they cover different jobs: Linkee's cost reflects prospecting and outreach volume, Linkody's reflects monitoring scale.
Which tool tells me when I've lost a backlink, Linkee or Linkody?
Linkody is the one built for this. It checks your full backlink profile every 24 hours and sends an email alert when a link disappears, changes to nofollow, or the linking page returns an error. Linkee has no monitoring capability and won't tell you if a link it helped you acquire later goes down.
Does Linkee include backlink monitoring or just outreach?
Linkee covers prospecting, contact finding, and outreach only; it has no monitoring feature. If you need to track whether links stay live after a Linkee campaign places them, you would need a separate tool such as Linkody running alongside it.