Linkee vs Majestic in 2026: outreach automation vs backlink intelligence
Linkee prospects, finds contacts, and sends outreach for $80.83/month. Majestic analyzes the backlinks that already exist with Trust Flow and Citation Flow, starting free.
Linkee
Majestic- Linkee automates prospecting, contact finding, and outreach sequencing in one credit-based platform. Majestic has none of that; it is a backlink analysis tool with no outreach or prospecting feature.
- Majestic's Historic Index covers over 4.5 trillion crawled URLs back to 2006, making it useful for auditing a domain's link history before you decide whether to pursue outreach to it. Linkee has no historical link data of its own.
- Majestic has a free tier for basic site lookups with no credit card required. Linkee's cheapest plan is $80.83/month with no permanent free option.
- Linkee's AI relevancy checker filters prospects by topical alignment with your target keywords before outreach begins. Majestic's Trust Flow and Citation Flow instead score the quality and volume of links already pointing at a domain.
- Majestic's Author Explorer identifies which editorial contributors have written for which domains, useful for digital PR targeting. Linkee has no equivalent author-level research feature.
- Linkee sends outreach through Gmail, Outlook, or SMTP with automated follow-ups on every plan. Majestic has no email sending capability at all; it is read-only backlink data.
- Majestic prices in Euros, from free up to €94.99/month for the Pro plan with Historic Index access. Linkee prices in US dollars, from $80.83 to $298.33/month depending on credits and seats.
Linkee and Majestic show up in the same "link building tools" lists, but they answer different questions. Linkee is built to get you new links: it prospects from a 5 million-plus site database, scores each prospect for topical relevance, finds and verifies contact emails, and runs the outreach sequence, all for $80.83 a month on the entry plan. Majestic does not prospect or send a single email. It analyzes backlink profiles, yours or a competitor's, using its own Trust Flow and Citation Flow metrics and a Historic Index that goes back to 2006, and it has a free tier for basic lookups. If you're choosing one, the real question is whether you need to build links or evaluate the ones already in play, and most serious link building programs eventually run both.
The tools at a glance
Linkee
AI-powered link building automation from prospecting to outreach
Linkee handles the acquisition side of link building end to end. 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 prospect against your target keywords while filtering out private blog networks, non-secure domains, and broken pages.
Once the list is clean, Linkee finds and verifies contact emails directly from the prospect sites and builds a personalized outreach sequence sent through your own Gmail, Outlook, or SMTP connection, with automated follow-ups and custom send windows included on every plan. There is no link-monitoring or backlink-analysis layer anywhere in the product; Linkee assumes you are building new links, not evaluating existing ones.
The Essential plan gives 10,000 credits and a single project for $80.83 a month, which covers a solo campaign but tightens up 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.
| 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 |
Majestic
Backlink intelligence specialists since 2004 with the largest historic index and proprietary Trust Flow and Citation Flow metrics
Majestic is a specialist backlink analysis platform, not a prospecting or outreach tool. It runs a Fresh Index of recent crawl data and a Historic Index stretching back to 2006 with over 4.5 trillion crawled URLs, the deepest retrospective backlink dataset available commercially. Its two headline metrics, Trust Flow and Citation Flow, score the quality and volume of links pointing at any domain or URL.
Topical Trust Flow extends that scoring across more than 800 topic categories, and Author Explorer traces editorial contributors across the web, useful for identifying journalists and bloggers with a track record of authoritative placements. None of this touches outreach: Majestic does not find contact emails, does not send campaigns, and has no CRM.
The free tier covers basic lookups with no credit card required, Lite is €46.99 a month for higher-volume Fresh Index access, and Pro is €94.99 a month for Historic Index access, Raw Data Exports, and Compare Sites. API access is not included until you either buy separate credits or use Pro, and the interface itself has not been modernized to the degree Ahrefs or SEMrush have.
| Feature | Free Free | Lite €46.99/mo | Pro €94.99/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh Index access | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Historic Index access | No | No | Yes |
| Site Explorer data rows per search | Limited | 5,000 | 30,000 |
| Author Explorer | No | Yes | Yes |
| Raw Data Exports | No | No | Yes |
| API access | No | No | Separate credits |
Head-to-head feature comparison
| Feature | Linkee | Majestic |
|---|---|---|
| Core focus | Prospecting, contact finding, and outreach automation (link acquisition) | Backlink analysis and link quality intelligence |
| 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 quality metrics | None natively; pulls Ahrefs metrics into prospect lists | Trust Flow and Citation Flow on every plan |
| Historic backlink data | No | Yes, to 2006, Pro plan only |
| Author-level research | No | Yes, Author Explorer from Lite |
| CRM | No on Essential, Yes from Pro ($164.17/mo) | No |
| Free tier | No, trial only | Yes, basic lookups |
| Starting price | $80.83/mo | Free (paid from €46.99/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 with Majestic's free tier if you need to vet a domain's link quality or research a competitor's backlink history before you spend outreach budget on it, and upgrade to Pro at €94.99/month once Historic Index data or Raw Data Exports become a recurring need. Neither tool replaces the other; Majestic's free tier makes it the easier one to add on top of an existing Linkee subscription.
Frequently asked questions
Is Linkee or Majestic better for a small agency just starting a link building program?
Linkee is the better starting point if you have no prospecting or outreach workflow yet, since it handles finding sites, verifying contacts, and sending campaigns for $80.83/month. Majestic is worth adding once you need to vet those prospects' link quality or check a competitor's backlink profile, and its free tier means there's no cost barrier to trying it first.
Can I use Linkee and Majestic together in the same workflow?
Yes, and this is a common setup. Majestic can vet a prospect list or a competitor's backlink profile using Trust Flow and Citation Flow before you commit outreach budget, then Linkee handles the actual prospecting, contact finding, and email sequencing for the sites you decide to pursue.
Does Majestic replace the need for a prospecting tool like Linkee?
No. Majestic has no prospecting, contact-finding, or outreach feature of any kind; it is exclusively a backlink and link-quality analysis tool. You would still need Linkee, or a similar outreach platform, to actually find new sites and contact them.
What is Trust Flow and does Linkee have anything similar?
Trust Flow is Majestic's proprietary metric for backlink quality, calculated by tracing link paths back to a curated set of trusted seed domains. Linkee has no equivalent authority-scoring metric of its own; its AI relevancy checker scores topical alignment between a prospect site and your target keywords instead, which is a different kind of signal.
How much does Linkee cost compared to Majestic per month?
Linkee starts at $80.83/month for the Essential plan with 10,000 credits. Majestic has a free tier for basic lookups, then €46.99/month for Lite and €94.99/month for Pro. The two aren't directly comparable on price because they cover different jobs: Linkee's cost reflects prospecting and outreach volume, Majestic's reflects backlink data depth and Historic Index access.
Which tool has the longer historical backlink data, Linkee or Majestic?
Majestic, by a wide margin. Its Historic Index covers backlink data from 2006 to the present across more than 4.5 trillion crawled URLs. Linkee has no historical backlink dataset at all; it is focused entirely on prospecting and outreach for new links going forward.