Broken Link Scan
Crawls your whole site, then keeps watching·brokenlinkscan.com
Broken Link Scan is a cloud-based tool that crawls an entire website to find broken links, missing images, and redirect loops. It uses breadth-first search crawling of up to 500 pages on the free tier (more on paid plans), verifying every link, image, and media resource with real HTTP requests. It also checks SSL certificate expiry, detects sitemaps, and can run an on-page SEO audit. Paid plans add daily automated monitoring, more pages/websites, history, CSV/JSON export, and a REST API.
What it's for
Features 20
- Automatic sitemap.xml detection
- Breadth-first-search crawling up to 500/5,000/unlimited pages depending on plan
- Broken #anchor link validation
- Bulk URL checker (up to 100/1,000/5,000 URLs depending on plan)
- Crawl pattern include/exclude filtering
- CSV and JSON export of scan results
- Email, Slack/Discord, and webhook alerts
- Ignore false positives (mark known-good links as ignored)
- Internal vs external broken link reporting
- Link and image verification via real HTTP requests
- Newly-broken-link alerts
- On-page SEO audit (titles, descriptions, canonical tags, hreflang, Open Graph, schema.org types)
- Pause & resume scheduled scans
- Redirect loop detection
- Respects robots.txt during crawling
- REST API access
- Scan comparison to see what changed since the last check
- SSL certificate expiry checking
- Top broken pages & domains reporting
- WordPress plugin integration for real-time monitoring inside the CMS
At a glance
Integrations
Pricing
The pricing page lists Pro at $10/month ($120/year billed annually) and Agency at $32/month ($384/year billed annually), with annual billing described as saving up to 17%. The About page separately states pricing 'From $6/mo', which does not match the pricing page figures. New accounts get a 14-day Pro trial with no credit card required, then revert to the Free plan.
New accounts automatically receive 14 days of Pro features; the account then reverts to Free with no charge.
500 pages per scan (~1,000 links); without an account, 500 pages once per day per IP with results kept 24 hours; with a free account, 3 manual scans per day, 1 website, weekly automated scan, results kept 1 hour except the latest scan of saved sites
Annual billing is $120/year, described as saving $24/year versus monthly billing.
5,000 pages per scan (~20,000 links); 3 websites; 90-day scan history
Annual billing is $384/year, described as saving $84/year versus monthly billing. REST API access is only on this plan.
Unlimited pages per scan; unlimited websites; 365-day history
Save up to 17% with annual billing (Pro $120/year, Agency $384/year).