IndexMachine vs IndexGuru Pricing for TagParrot Users

IndexMachine is the cheaper buy and IndexGuru is the faster one. IndexMachine sells lifetime plans from $12.50 for one domain and a $9.50 monthly plan for unlimited sites, but every plan states a limit of 20 URLs a day for Google. IndexGuru charges $9 to $149 a month and allows 200 URLs per site per day on every paid tier. If your sites publish a few pages a week, IndexMachine wins on cost. If one site has thousands of pages waiting, IndexGuru clears the queue ten times faster.

Most people comparing these two used to pay for Tag Parrot, which closed and refunded its customers, and both vendors are now the obvious landing spots. We read both pricing pages on 23 October 2026. We do not resell either and neither pays us. We sell an indexing and index monitoring tool for sites you own, which overlaps with both, and we say below when neither is the right purchase. What happened to Tag Parrot, and what it used to cost, is on our TagParrot alternative page.

IndexMachine vs IndexGuru at a glance

How much does IndexMachine cost?

IndexMachine sells three lifetime plans and two subscriptions. With the BETA50 code applied at checkout, the lifetime plans are $12.50 for one domain and 1,000 pages, $50 for five domains at 1,000 pages each, and $84.50 for ten domains at 10,000 pages each. Without the code they list at $25, $100 and $169. The subscriptions, listed in the page's structured data, are $9.50 a month or $95 a year for unlimited sites and pages.

Every plan, cheap or not, carries the same two lines: "Up to 20 URLs/day for Google" and "200 URLs/day for other search engines". The pricing page itself puts the trade-off plainly: lifetime access is cheaper if you have a couple of sites, and the subscription is cheaper if you have more than ten sites with only dozens of unindexed pages each. That is a fair summary and we would not change it.

How much does IndexGuru cost?

IndexGuru has a free Hobby tier that indexes one URL a day, then four paid tiers. Growth is $9 a month for 3 domains, Large $29 for 10, Scale $59 for 20 and Agency $149 for 100, with extra domains at $1 a month each. Each paid tier lists a headline daily number, 600, 2,000, 4,000 and 20,000 pages, followed by "200 per site". Divide the headline by 200 and you get the domain count every time.

So the price ladder buys domains, not speed. One site gets 200 URLs a day on the $9 plan and 200 on the $149 plan. URL monitoring starts at $29, priority support at $59, and Slack or Zoom support on Agency. Our longer IndexGuru review goes through each tier, and the IndexGuru alternative page covers who it suits.

Two different products are called IndexMachine

Search for IndexMachine and you will meet two of them. The one compared here lives at indexmachine.co and connects to your Search Console. A separate WordPress plugin called "IndexMachine Auto Indexer" connects to indexmachine.net, which sells prepaid credits at 1, 1.5 or 2 credits per URL depending on the tier, with 50 free credits and no subscription. Different domain, different billing, different method. Check which site you are on before you pay, because reviews and plugin ratings for one do not describe the other.

Which is cheaper over two years?

Lifetime pricing only means something against a time frame, so here is what each costs over 24 months at the plan sizes former Tag Parrot customers usually had. We used IndexMachine's lifetime plan where it covers the site count and its yearly subscription where it does not.

On price alone this is not close. IndexMachine is cheaper at every size, by a factor of about seven to seventeen. If price were the only thing that mattered, you could stop reading here.

Daily volume is where IndexGuru earns its price

The gap reverses the moment you look at throughput. Take one site with 2,000 new pages waiting. At 200 a day, IndexGuru can send all of them to Google in ten days. At IndexMachine's stated 20 a day, the same backlog takes a hundred days, about three months. IndexMachine's pricing page does not say whether the 20 is per domain or per account, so ask before you put several large sites on one plan.

For a site that publishes a handful of posts a week, 20 a day is far more than enough and the slower rate costs you nothing. Plenty of blogs, including ones fed by autoblogging software that publishes on a schedule, never produce more than a few URLs a day. Then the cheap lifetime plan is simply the right call. Programmatic pages, a site migration or a big catalog launch are the cases where 200 a day pays for itself.

How each one says it reaches Google

This matters more after Tag Parrot, which said it closed "due to recent changes by Google". IndexGuru's FAQ says it uses the Google Indexing API for Google and IndexNow for the other engines, and notes that Google recommends the Indexing API mainly for job postings and news. That is candid. Google's documentation limits the API to pages with JobPosting or BroadcastEvent markup, and on 16 October 2026 Google rewrote the API's quota page, keeping the 200-a-day default and dropping the form for requesting more.

IndexMachine says it uses the official Search Console and Bing Webmaster APIs and asks for read-only Search Console access. We could not match that to a method in Google's published reference. The Search Console API has four resources, Search Analytics, Sitemaps, Sites and URL Inspection, and none of them requests indexing for a single URL. That does not mean IndexMachine does not work. It means the question "which Google endpoint sends my URLs?" deserves a direct answer from the vendor before you rely on it. The same question applies to us, and our answer is on the Google Indexing API page.

Which one should a former Tag Parrot customer buy?

Buy IndexMachine if you have one to ten small sites that each publish steadily, and you would rather pay once than add another subscription. At $12.50 to $84.50 there is very little to lose by trying it on one site first.

Buy IndexGuru if any single site regularly has hundreds of new pages a day, or you run dozens of sites and want one dashboard with monitoring. It was the closer match to how Tag Parrot priced, by sites and daily volume.

Buy neither yet if a lot of your missing pages show "Crawled - currently not indexed" in Search Console. Google has already read those pages and turned them down. Sending them again, at 20 a day or 200, changes nothing. What helps is finding out why each one was declined, which is what Indexing reports in plain English for every URL, alongside submission through Google, Bing IndexNow and your sitemap.

IndexMachine and IndexGuru questions buyers ask

Which is cheaper, IndexMachine or IndexGuru?

IndexMachine, at every site count. One site costs $12.50 once on IndexMachine against $9 a month on IndexGuru, and twenty sites cost $95 a year against $59 a month. The catch is volume: IndexMachine states 20 Google URLs a day on every plan, while IndexGuru allows 200 per site per day.

Is IndexMachine a lifetime deal?

Partly. It sells three one-time lifetime plans at $12.50, $50 and $84.50 with the BETA50 code, covering one, five and ten domains. It also sells a $9.50 monthly or $95 yearly subscription for unlimited sites. The lifetime prices are labeled as beta pricing, so they may rise.

How many URLs a day can IndexGuru index?

200 per site per day on every paid tier. The headline figures on the pricing page, 600 to 20,000 a day, are that 200 multiplied by the number of domains the tier allows. A single site gets the same 200 a day on the $9 plan as on the $149 plan.

Are IndexMachine and IndexGuru good TagParrot alternatives?

Both work the way Tag Parrot did, by connecting to Search Console for sites you own and submitting on a schedule. IndexGuru is closer in pricing shape and volume. IndexMachine is much cheaper but slower. Neither explains why a page Google already crawled stays out of the index.