Linkody vs Pitchbox in 2026: dedicated backlink monitoring vs full-lifecycle outreach platform
Linkody watches the links you already have from €13.90/month, with white-label reports on every plan. Pitchbox runs the whole campaign, AI-personalized outreach, automated follow-ups, and its own white-label reporting, starting at $210/month.
Linkody
Pitchbox- Pitchbox runs the full outreach lifecycle, AI-personalized prospecting, automated follow-ups, and a built-in CRM inbox, starting at $210/month. Linkody has none of that; it only monitors links you have already acquired.
- Linkody checks your entire backlink profile every 24 hours and alerts you the moment a link is lost or a dofollow link switches to nofollow. Pitchbox has no backlink monitoring feature of any kind.
- Both tools ship white-label reporting, but the depth differs. Pitchbox's white-label management, client, and team reports cover outreach volume, response rates, and link acquisition across every paid plan. Linkody's white-label PDF reports focus on backlink profile health, metrics, and competitor comparison.
- Pitchbox's AI Personalization drafts a custom outreach email for every prospect and its automated follow-ups reportedly lift response rates by roughly 62%. Linkody has no outreach, email, or AI personalization feature; it has never sent a prospecting email.
- Linkody starts at €13.90/month and includes unlimited competitor backlink monitoring on every tier. Pitchbox starts at $210/month (Pro, billed annually) and caps Pro at 2 users and 2,000 outreach emails a month.
- Pitchbox connects to Moz, Majestic, SEMrush, Ahrefs, LRT, Zapier, Slack, and Looker Studio on every paid plan. Linkody has no third-party integrations beyond its own Moz-sourced metrics enrichment and CSV export from Pro upward.
- Pitchbox is voted the top outreach software in its category for five consecutive years and is built for agencies running multiple client workspaces. Linkody is a solo-friendly monitoring tool with no workspace concept, just domains and links tracked.
Linkody and Pitchbox both send you a white-label report at the end of the month, but almost everything that happens before that report is different. Pitchbox is a full-lifecycle outreach platform: it prospects with SEO-data filtering from Moz, Majestic, SEMrush, Ahrefs, and LRT, drafts an AI-personalized email for every target, runs automated follow-ups that reportedly lift response rates by around 62%, and manages the whole thing through a built-in inbox and CRM, starting at $210 a month. Linkody does none of that. It checks every backlink you already have every 24 hours, flags the ones that break or go nofollow, and includes white-label PDF reporting from its cheapest plan at €13.90 a month. Pitchbox builds new links; Linkody protects the ones you already built. The comparison only really makes sense once you decide which side of that line your budget needs to cover.
The tools at a glance
Linkody
The easiest way to track your link building campaigns
Linkody's entire job is watching the backlinks you already have. It checks every link in your profile every 24 hours and sends a daily or weekly email the moment something changes, a link removed, a page gone noindex, or a dofollow link quietly switched to nofollow. There is no prospecting screen, no email sender, and no CRM pipeline anywhere in the product.
Competitor monitoring runs alongside your own links at no extra cost to your quota, so you can spot domains linking to a rival but not to you yet. Every backlink is enriched with Moz Domain Authority and Page Authority, Trust Flow, Citation Flow, and Spam Score, and the disavow tool filters on those same risk signals to generate a file ready for Google Search Console.
White-label PDF reporting ships from the cheapest plan, €13.90 a month for Webmaster, rather than sitting behind a premium tier the way a lot of larger platforms gate it. The obvious tradeoff against a tool like Pitchbox is that Linkody cannot build a single new link for you, it only tells you what is happening to the ones you already have.
| 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 |
Pitchbox
All-in-one link building software with AI-powered prospecting, personalized outreach, automated follow-ups, and white-label reporting
Pitchbox covers the entire outreach lifecycle in one platform. Prospecting is keyword-based, but every result is automatically filtered and ranked using live data pulled from your connected Moz, Majestic, SEMrush, Ahrefs, or LRT accounts, so you are not exporting a raw list and manually checking authority the way a standalone prospecting tool requires. It has been voted the top outreach software in its category for five consecutive years.
The AI layer does real work here. AI Personalization reads a prospect's site content and drafts a custom outreach email while simultaneously qualifying the opportunity, and automated follow-up sequences stop the moment someone replies, a combination Pitchbox reports lifts response rates by roughly 62% versus a single email with no follow-up. AI Reply then helps draft the back-and-forth once a conversation starts, all inside a purpose-built inbox tied directly to the CRM.
Access reflects the scope. Pricing starts at $210 a month billed annually for Pro, which covers 2 users and 2,000 outreach emails, and climbs to $825 a month for Scale at 25,000 emails. White-label reports, Looker Studio, Zapier, and Slack integrations ship on every paid tier, which makes Pitchbox a genuinely different budget category from a monitoring-only tool, but one built for agencies and teams running real outreach volume, not for tracking links after the fact.
| Feature | Pro $210/mo (annual) | Advanced $420/mo (annual) | Scale $825/mo (annual) | Enterprise Contact for pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outreach emails / month | 2,000 | 5,000 | 25,000 | Custom |
| Users | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| AI Personalization + AI Reply | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SEO metric filtering (Moz, Majestic, SEMrush, Ahrefs, LRT) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| White-label reports | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Head-to-head feature comparison
| Feature | Linkody | Pitchbox |
|---|---|---|
| Core focus | 24/7 backlink health monitoring and competitor tracking | Full-lifecycle link building: prospecting, outreach, follow-up, reporting |
| Prospecting | None, no prospecting feature | Yes, keyword-based, filtered by live SEO data |
| AI email personalization | No | Yes |
| Outreach automation | No | Yes, AI Personalization + automated follow-ups (~62% response lift) |
| Backlink monitoring frequency | Every 24 hours, daily or weekly email alerts | None, not a monitoring tool |
| Competitor backlink tracking | Yes, unlimited, does not count against quota | No |
| White-label reports | Yes, on every plan | Yes, on every paid plan |
| Built-in CRM | No | Yes, workspaces + customizable pipeline stages |
| Workflow integrations (Zapier, Slack, Looker Studio) | No | Yes, all included on every plan |
| Free trial | Yes, 30 days, no credit card (CSV/PDF export disabled during trial) | Yes, Pro plan trial with Expert-Led Implementation |
| Starting price | €13.90/mo | $210/mo (annual, Pro) |
Which should you choose?
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Bottom line
Start the Pitchbox trial if your bottleneck is building new links at volume and you want AI-personalized outreach, automated follow-ups, and white-label reporting in one $210/month platform. Start the Linkody trial if you already have an outreach process and just need daily confirmation that your existing links are still live, especially if €13.90 a month against Pitchbox's $210 matters for your budget. Most agencies running a serious link building program end up paying for both, Pitchbox for acquisition, Linkody as the far cheaper insurance policy on what Pitchbox already built.
Frequently asked questions
Is Linkody or Pitchbox better for a small agency just starting link building?
Pitchbox is the stronger starting point if you have no prospecting or outreach process yet, since it covers finding, contacting, and following up with prospects from $210/month. Linkody is not a substitute for that; it only becomes relevant once you have links placed and want to confirm they stay live, at a much lower €13.90/month entry point.
Can I use Linkody and Pitchbox together in the same workflow?
Yes, and this is how most agencies running both tools end up using them. Pitchbox handles prospecting, AI-personalized outreach, and follow-ups to acquire new links, while Linkody tracks whether those links stay live after Pitchbox's job is done, since neither tool overlaps the other's core function.
Does Pitchbox include backlink monitoring after a link is placed?
No, Pitchbox has no backlink monitoring feature. Its reporting covers outreach volume, response rates, and link acquisition during an active campaign, but it does not check whether a placed link is still live, still dofollow, or still on an indexed page months later. That is Linkody's job.
How much does Pitchbox cost compared to Linkody per month?
Pitchbox starts at $210/month billed annually for the Pro plan, covering 2 users and 2,000 outreach emails. Linkody starts at €13.90/month for Webmaster, tracking 2 domains and 500 links. The price gap reflects scope, not just tiering, Pitchbox is a full outreach platform while Linkody is a narrower monitoring tool.
Do both Linkody and Pitchbox offer white-label reporting?
Yes, both do, but they cover different content. Pitchbox's white-label management, client, and team reports focus on outreach activity, response rates, and link acquisition, included on every paid plan starting at $210/month. Linkody's white-label PDF reports focus on backlink profile health and metrics, included on every plan starting at €13.90/month.
Which tool sends outreach emails, Linkody or Pitchbox?
Pitchbox is the one that sends outreach emails, with AI-personalized drafting and automated follow-up sequences built into every plan. Linkody has no email-sending or outreach capability at all; it only sends you alert emails about the status of links already in your profile.