LinkResearchTools vs Linkwake

LinkResearchTools combines backlink data and analysis tools for audits, link building, monitoring, and competitor research. Its listed tools include Link Detox, Link Detox Smart, Link Monitoring, Link Prospecting, Link Simulator, and 25 LRT Classic tools. The company says it draws on more than 25 link sources, recrawls links, and verifies data for reports. Its crawlers add more than 150 SEO metrics, including LRT Risk and LRT Power*Trust. Documented integrations include Semrush, Sistrix, Majestic, Ahrefs, Google Search Console, and Google Analytics; connecting Search Console can import backlink data into supported reports and tools. Paid reports can be exported as XLS, CSV, or PDF, but raw source data exports are unavailable. A browser extension displays SEO metrics while browsing. The product is available on web and as an extension, with a 7-day trial and no free plan. Trial use excludes data export and Link Detox Boost, and analysis is subject to the plan’s link crawl budget. Monthly plans listed are 599.00 USD, 999.00 USD, and 2499.00 USD. Rank tracking is not included.

Linkwake tracks changes in referring domains across agency client portfolios. It compares Common Crawl releases to show domains gained, lost or retained, and identifies domains linking to competitors but not to a tracked site as possible outreach gaps. Users can organize domains into portfolios, follow movement on dashboards, and receive scheduled weekly or monthly CSVs or shareable client report links. Its source is Common Crawl’s web graph, which Linkwake says covers more than 100 million domains; data changes when releases arrive, roughly every 2–3 months. The focus is domain-level links, not keywords, page-level links or anchor text. The free plan costs nothing and includes five tracked domains, release-change comparisons, email digests and manual reports. Paid plans start at $24/mo. Starter lists 100 domains and three releases of history; higher plans offer more tracked domains, longer history, reports and API access. Common Crawl is not a complete web index, so missing relationships should be checked before outreach.