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IndexChex alternative and IndexChex pricing compared on credits and the real cost of a check plus a submission
IndexChex is one of the cheapest tools in this category per action, and that should be said first. It sells credits that cover two jobs from one balance: checking whether a URL is in Google, and submitting a URL to be crawled. One check costs one credit and one submission costs one credit, at $1.40 to $4.40 per 1,000 depending on how much you buy.
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Every URL gets a plain-English reason when a search engine will not index it, and the rest go out through the official channels.
Paste your sitemap and we count every URL it lists, then check a sample of your pages before we submit through the official Google Indexing API and Bing IndexNow.
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People start looking for an IndexChex alternative for one of two reasons. Some have done the arithmetic on a full cycle, where a URL is checked, submitted and checked again, and realized a URL costs three credits, not one. Others have read the refund policy, which says IndexChex generally does not refund and its terms say all sales are final, and want a vendor that carries some of the risk.
This page covers both. It prices the full cycle against the vendors that refund unindexed URLs, shows the indexing rate at which IndexChex stops being cheaper, and separates the backlink job IndexChex is built for from the owned-site job Indexing is built for. Everything about IndexChex below was read from indexchex.com in October 2026.
In short
IndexChex sells one pool of credits where a URL check and a URL submission each cost one credit, from $19.99 a month or $21.99 a pack. That works out to $1.40 to $4.40 per 1,000 actions, among the lowest rates in this category. A full check, submit and recheck cycle is three credits, and its terms say all sales are final. For sites you own, Indexing submits through the official Google Indexing API and Bing IndexNow and explains every page that stays out.
IndexChex is a low-cost backlink indexer and Google index checker that bills checks and submissions from one non-refundable credit pool. Indexing works on properties you have verified, submits through official Google and Bing channels, and reports why a page is not indexed rather than only whether it is.
Side by side
IndexChex vs Indexing, honestly
A fair look at what each does well. Both are capable tools. Here is where they differ.
| What matters | Indexing | IndexChex |
|---|---|---|
| URLs it works on | Properties you have verified in Google Search Console | Any URL you paste, which is how it indexes backlinks on domains you do not own |
| What one credit buys | Not credit based. Plans are sized by URLs submitted and monitored each month | One check or one submission, drawn from the same pool |
| Published price | Starter $29, Growth $47, Agency $119 a month billed yearly, or $59, $95 and $239 month to month | Subscriptions $19.99, $49.99 and $149.99 a month, or packs from $21.99 to $1,399.99 (checked October 2026) |
| Cost per 1,000 actions | Not sold per action | $1.40 to $4.40, so a full check, submit and recheck cycle is about $4.50 to $13 per 1,000 URLs |
| If a URL never indexes | Diagnosed with a plain-English reason, then resubmitted once it is eligible | The credits are spent. Its FAQ says it generally does not offer refunds |
| Batch size | Whole properties and sitemaps | Up to 10,000 URLs per batch, per its terms |
| Submission method | Official Google Indexing API, Bing IndexNow and XML sitemaps | Not described on the pages we could read. Official submission requires verified ownership, so it cannot be the Indexing API on third-party URLs |
| Trying it first | An interactive coverage console on the home page, no account needed | No automatic credits on signup. Test credits are available on request to support |
| Best suited for | Sites you own, where coverage has to hold up over months | Link builders who check and push large batches of backlinks and want the lowest price per action |
Comparison reflects general, publicly understood positioning. Capabilities change, so check each product for the latest.
Why teams pick Indexing
One place to submit, monitor and fix coverage, the white-hat way
Priced per job, not per click
A per-action price looks small until a URL needs a check, a submission and a recheck. Indexing sells the whole job for the properties you own, so the bill does not grow every time you look.
A reason for every miss
Knowing a URL is not indexed tells you nothing about what to do next. Indexing separates pages Google never crawled from pages it crawled and declined, because only the first kind responds to resubmission.
Official channels only
Submission runs through the Google Indexing API, Bing IndexNow and XML sitemaps on properties you have verified. That covers your own site properly. It does not cover backlinks, and we say so.
What IndexChex costs, and what 1,000 actions cost on each option
IndexChex sells credits two ways. Subscriptions give you a monthly allotment at about 10 percent below the matching one-time pack, and the credits roll over while you stay subscribed, up to twice your monthly allotment. Pay-as-you-go packs cost a little more but never expire. Every figure below was read from indexchex.com/pricing in October 2026.
The pool is shared. Its pricing FAQ puts it plainly: each URL check or submission costs one credit, and you have a single pool of credits you can use for any combination of indexing and index checking. That flexibility is useful, because a month of checking and a month of pushing draw on the same balance. It also means the price per action is only half the story.
| IndexChex option | Price | Credits | Cost per 1,000 actions | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter subscription | $19.99 a month | 5,000 a month | $4.00 | Rolls over while subscribed, capped at 2x |
| Growth subscription | $49.99 a month | 25,000 a month | $2.00 | Rolls over while subscribed, capped at 2x |
| Scale subscription | $149.99 a month | 100,000 a month | $1.50 | Rolls over while subscribed, capped at 2x |
| Starter Pack | $21.99 once | 5,000 | $4.40 | Never expires |
| Growth Pack | $54.99 once | 25,000 | $2.20 | Never expires |
| Scale Pack | $164.99 once | 100,000 | $1.65 | Never expires |
| Enterprise Pack | $1,399.99 once | 1,000,000 | $1.40 | Never expires |
Read from indexchex.com/pricing in October 2026. Unused subscription credits are forfeited when a subscription ends; pack credits remain. Prices in USD and they move, so re-check before buying.
The three-credit cycle, what one URL really costs
Most people price IndexChex by the credit. The useful unit is the URL, because a URL rarely needs just one action. The normal cycle is to check whether it is already indexed, submit the ones that are not, then check again a week or two later to see what landed. That is three credits for every URL that goes all the way through, and more if you recheck again later.
Worked through at 1,000 backlinks: 1,000 checks, then say 700 submissions for the ones not already indexed, then 700 rechecks. That is 2,400 credits. At the $49.99 Growth rate of $2.00 per 1,000 it costs about $4.80, and at the $19.99 Starter rate about $9.60. Still very cheap, and a fair comparison with the rest of this category needs that full-cycle figure, not the headline price per credit.
Now set it against the vendors that only charge for success. Rapid URL Indexer lists $0.04 to $0.05 per credit and returns credits for URLs that stay unindexed in its Standard Mode, per its own site, so it costs roughly $40 to $50 per 1,000 URLs that actually index. IndexMeNow charges $0.47 to $0.98 per indexed URL, excluding VAT. On IndexChex you pay for every attempt whether it works or not.
That gives a break-even you can compute. At the Growth rate a submit and recheck costs about $0.004 per URL, and it is still cheaper per indexed URL than Rapid URL Indexer as long as roughly one submitted URL in ten actually indexes. At the Starter rate the line sits nearer one in five. Below that rate, a refund model is both cheaper and lower risk. Above it, IndexChex wins on price and keeps winning.
Reading the speed claim before you buy
IndexChex publishes a list of the ten best backlink indexers on its own site, and ranks itself first. On that page it states that it averages under 2 minutes to first crawl and indexes 95%+ of instant-mode URLs within 5 to 10 minutes. We could not find a published methodology, sample size or date range behind that figure on the pages we were able to read, so treat it as a vendor claim rather than a test result.
For scale, the most candid disclosure in this category comes from One Hour Indexing, which publishes four test batches of 5,000 links each. By its own measurement, 12 to 23 percent were indexed at one hour, 37 to 74 percent at one day and 52 to 85 percent at three days. IndexMeNow publishes 60 percent in 24 hours and an average of 80 percent in 72 hours. A 95 percent figure in ten minutes would be far ahead of anything else anyone has published.
The practical point is that the refund policy decides how much the claim matters to you. With a refund model, an optimistic speed claim costs you nothing if it turns out wrong, because unindexed URLs come back. IndexChex says it generally does not offer refunds, and its terms say all sales are final unless the law requires otherwise. So the cheap way to test the claim is its own offer of test credits on request, before you buy a pack, not after.
Two limits are worth knowing either way. Its terms cap a batch at 10,000 URLs. They also describe the service as checking whether URLs are indexed by Google and state that one credit equals one URL check. The pricing page is newer and adds submission, so the terms read as if they were written before the submission product and have not caught up.
Where IndexChex is genuinely stronger than we are
Three things. The first is backlinks. IndexChex works on any URL you paste, including guest posts, citations and profile links on domains you will never own. Indexing works only on properties you have verified in Search Console. If the URLs you care about sit on other people's sites, we are the wrong tool, and IndexChex is one of the cheapest right ones.
The second is price per action at volume. $1.40 per 1,000 on its largest pack is close to the floor of anything we have recorded in this category; only IndexCheckr's million-credit tier at $1.30 comes in lower, and that one checks without submitting. For an operator checking hundreds of thousands of backlinks a month, the gap is real money.
The third is flexibility. One balance covering both checking and submission means a quiet month of monitoring and a busy month of link building draw on the same credits, and pack credits never expire. Most competitors make you buy those two jobs from two vendors on two bills.
What we would add against all three is the question that decides most purchases here: are the missing pages yours? If they are, cheap submission through unofficial routes is the wrong tool at any price, because the official channels exist for you and a page Google crawled and declined will not be fixed by pushing it again.
Sites you own need a different tool, not a cheaper one
Google tied URL submission to verified ownership when it retired the public Add URL form. For a property you have verified, three official channels exist: XML sitemaps, the Google Indexing API, and IndexNow for Bing and the engines that share it. Request Indexing in Search Console covers the rest by hand, at roughly ten to twelve URLs a day per property.
Indexing runs those official channels for you. It connects to your Search Console property, submits through the Google Indexing API and Bing IndexNow, keeps your sitemaps clean, and monitors coverage on both engines. When a page stays out, it tells you in plain English whether Google never crawled it or crawled it and decided against it, because those two need opposite fixes.
That second case is where cheap resubmission gets expensive. A URL marked "Crawled - currently not indexed" has already been read. Resubmitting it changes nothing Google evaluated, so a tool whose only move is another push will charge you for the same URL every cycle. On a per-credit tool that shows up on the bill. On any tool it shows up as a queue that never drains.
Plans start at $29 a month billed yearly, or $59 month to month, for about 2,000 submitted URLs a month with daily monitoring and alerts. Growth at $47 adds hourly monitoring, auto-resubmit, de-index alerts and time-to-index tracking. Agency at $119 adds multi-site management, API access and white-label reports.
How to choose in an afternoon
Sort your URLs by owner first. Everything on a domain you have verified goes in one list, everything else in another. For most agencies this split alone decides the purchase, because the two lists need different tools and nobody sells one that handles both through official channels.
For the backlink list, request IndexChex test credits and run a real batch of 200 or so links you would have pushed anyway. Recheck after three days and again after ten. Your own indexed rate, divided into the full-cycle cost, gives your real price per indexed link, and you can set that against Rapid URL Indexer's refund model directly.
For the owned list, find out how many URLs are genuinely missing today and why. If most were never crawled, submission through official channels will move the number. If most were crawled and declined, fix the pages first and buy nothing until you have.
Then apply the two tests we apply to ourselves. Treat any guarantee of indexing as a promise about a decision the vendor does not make. And treat any claim to push a URL on a domain you do not own through official Google channels as impossible, because those channels are gated on ownership.
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One place to bulk-submit your URLs through the official Google and Bing channels, monitor coverage, and resubmit anything that drops out. White hat only, so we speed discovery without ever guaranteeing what Google chooses to index.
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