MonkeyIndexer vs. IndexerNow: budget link indexing or your own quota
MonkeyIndexer competes on price in a category that mostly competes on price, and for indexing backlinks cheaply that's a reasonable thing to optimise for. IndexerNow isn't in that race, because it isn't doing the same job: it submits through Google's official Indexing API, which only accepts pages on a Search Console property you've verified. If your URLs are third-party links, cost per submission is the right axis and this comparison won't help much. If they're your own pages, what the submission returns matters more than what it cost.
| MonkeyIndexer | IndexerNow | |
|---|---|---|
| Works on URLs you don't own | Yes | No — Search Console verification required |
| Indexing method | Proprietary network | Google's official Indexing API |
| Runs on your own Google account & quota | No | Yes |
| Free daily allowance | — | 2 credits / day, spend on anything |
| Result reported by | Own index check | Google's URL Inspection API verdict |
| On-page audit explaining why a page won't index | Not advertised | Yes |
| Push to Bing / IndexNow too | Not advertised | Yes |
| Free SEO tools, no sign-in | Not advertised | Yes |
Frequently asked
Is IndexerNow cheaper than a budget link indexer?
Per submission, usually not — budget indexers in this category price well below $0.060 a URL. What that comparison leaves out is that IndexerNow includes 2 free credits a day free, one credit covers Google, Bing and IndexNow together rather than one engine, and the same credits pay for status checks and audits. For pages you own, that's a different purchase.
Can I use IndexerNow for free?
Yes, indefinitely. Every account gets 2 free credits a day, spendable on pushes, status checks, audits or AI citation checks as you choose, with no card and no trial clock. Several of the tools — the index checker, the crawler access checker, the llms.txt validator — need no account at all.