Affilimate tells you which content earns. LinkRescue makes sure the links inside that content still pay. Here's how to decide which job you need done - and why many publishers eventually want both.
| Feature | LinkRescue | Affilimate |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled link integrity scans | ||
| Broken link + soft-404 detection | ||
| Tracking-parameter verification | ||
| Cross-network revenue attribution | ||
| Page-level earnings analytics | ||
| Revenue impact estimates for broken links | ||
| Email alerts on link breakage | ||
| White-label client reports | Agency plan | |
| API access | Agency plan | |
| Free tier | 1 site, weekly scans | |
| Starting price | Free / $29/mo | ~$49-99/mo |
Affilimate is a commerce analytics platform: it aggregates earnings across networks, attributes revenue to specific pages and links, and powers content optimization for large publishing operations - it is trusted by major media publishers. LinkRescue is an integrity monitor: it crawls your content on a schedule, finds the links that are broken, redirecting wrong, or silently dropping your tracking parameters, and tells you what each issue is likely costing.
Put simply: Affilimate answers 'what is earning?' LinkRescue answers 'what is leaking?' Analytics cannot see the commission you never received because the link 404'd or the SubID got stripped - that revenue simply never appears in any dashboard.
Industry research has found link-rot issues in roughly 40% of affiliate URLs, and affiliate links break at roughly 23% per year. Analytics platforms measure the revenue that arrives - an integrity monitor protects the revenue that never gets the chance.
As of mid-2026, Affilimate's published plans start around $49-99/month with higher tiers into the hundreds, aimed at established publishers. LinkRescue is free for one site, $29/month for Pro, and $79/month for Agency. They are priced for different buyers because they do different jobs.
No - they solve different problems. Affilimate is revenue analytics and attribution. LinkRescue is link integrity monitoring. A large publisher might run both: Affilimate to optimize earning content, LinkRescue to make sure those earnings never silently leak.
Affilimate's focus is revenue tracking and attribution analytics, not scheduled link-integrity crawling. LinkRescue's entire job is finding broken links, redirect drift, stripped parameters, and soft 404s before they cost you commissions.
LinkRescue, in most cases. At that revenue level, plugging leaks usually pays back faster than attribution analytics, and the price difference is significant. As you scale, adding analytics makes sense.
LinkRescue Agency includes white-label link-health reports your clients can read in one glance, plus API, webhooks, and Slack alerts at $79/month. Affilimate is aimed at publishers optimizing their own portfolios.
GA shows traffic and outbound clicks, but it cannot tell you a link 404'd, redirected to a homepage, or dropped your affiliate tag - and it certainly cannot estimate the commission impact. That is the integrity gap both of these tools exist to fill, in different ways.
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