AIndexify vs IndexPlease
IndexPlease and AIndexify both take a list of URLs, hand them to a pipeline, and ask Google to look. Neither one can make Google keep what it finds, so anyone weighing an IndexPlease alternative is not really choosing between two indexing rates. The choice is over three things you can check before paying: what you have to connect before the first URL moves, what the bill does in a quarter when you publish almost nothing, and what the green status on the screen actually means.
This post is written by one of the two, so weigh it accordingly. The IndexPlease details below come from their own public positioning, stated plainly and without editorial. The AIndexify details are ours and sit on the pricing page.
What IndexPlease sells
Its published positioning is a subscription, roughly $7 to $33 a month billed annually depending on plan. Before it runs, you connect Google Search Console through a service account and supply a Bing API key. Once connected, it works on a cadence: daily automatic indexing, sitemap sync so new URLs are picked up without you maintaining a list, and a daily progress email.
Read that as a coherent design rather than a list of features. It is built for one site that you own, verify, and keep publishing on. Sitemap sync means the queue maintains itself, which is genuinely useful if your CMS produces URLs faster than anyone remembers to log them, and Google’s own guidance on building a sitemap is the same file doing double duty. The daily email means you are never more than a day from noticing that something stopped. For a steady publisher on a single verified property, that is a sensible shape for a tool to have.
What an IndexPlease alternative has to replace
If you are switching, it helps to be precise about which of the three jobs you were actually buying.
The connection. Search Console access plus a service account plus a Bing key is a one-off setup, and on a site you control it is fifteen minutes of your life. It also draws a line: pages you cannot verify sit on the wrong side of it. Guest posts, a link on a partner’s site, a client property before handover, a profile page on somebody else’s domain. If most of the URLs you care about live on domains you do not own, verification is not a small hurdle but the whole problem. It is also worth asking any tool that requests a service account which endpoint that credential is used against, because Google’s Indexing API quickstart states the API is intended for job posting and livestream pages.
The automation. Daily auto-indexing is submission on a timer. It is convenient, and it is worth knowing what it does not buy: Google’s guidance on asking for a recrawl is explicit that a request is a request, and that submitting the same URL repeatedly does not move it up any queue. A daily cadence is insurance against forgetting, not leverage over Google.
The reporting. A daily progress email is only as good as the noun in it. Progress on what: URLs delivered to the pipeline, or URLs now returned by Google? Those are two different events, and most tools report the first while readers assume the second.
What AIndexify does instead
You paste URLs or upload a CSV, up to 10,000 per submission, and pick a mode. Fast costs 1 credit per URL and checks at 24 hours, 48 hours, 96 hours, and 7 days. Instant costs 10 credits per URL and checks at 1, 4, 12, 24, and 72 hours and 7 days.
Each check queries live Google results and reports what it found: Indexed with the date it was found, or Not indexed as of that date. When a preflight finds a noindex tag, a robots block, or a 404, the status is Couldn’t check, the credit is refunded, and no check is billed against a page whose own markup is telling crawlers to stay out. Nothing gets connected: no Search Console property, no ownership proof, no tag on the site. Pricing is one-time credit packs, $19 for 1,000 credits through to $899 for 100,000, and credits never expire.
The differences worth pricing out
What starts a submission. A cadence, or you. Automation suits a site that publishes something most days. Credits suit work that arrives in bursts: a migration, a batch of 4,000 programmatic pages, a month of link placements.
What the meter counts. One model meters the calendar, the other meters URLs. A subscription billed annually is a year committed in advance, which is cheap per month and unhelpful in a quarter when nothing ships. Credits sit unspent until there is work, and at $19 per 1,000 a Fast submission is under two cents a URL. Count the URLs you genuinely published last quarter and price both against that number rather than against a monthly figure.
What you can submit at all. Verification-based tools are scoped to properties you hold. AIndexify has no such boundary, which is the practical reason people use it for links and pages on domains they will never own.
What a status means. This is the difference that survives every price change. AIndexify reports submitted and indexed as two separate events on a fixed schedule, and says not indexed as of a date when that is the truth of it, because Google decides what stays in the index and no tool sits inside that decision. The longer argument is in submitted is not indexed, and it is the right question to put to any vendor, this one included.
Which one fits
Choose IndexPlease if you run one verified site, publish steadily, want the queue to maintain itself from a sitemap, are content to connect a service account and a Bing key, and prefer a small recurring line on the card to an occasional purchase.
Choose AIndexify if your publishing is lumpy rather than daily, if a meaningful share of your URLs live on domains you cannot verify, if you would rather not connect anything, or if you want a dated per-URL answer instead of a daily digest.
Neither choice moves the largest lever. A page that Google declines to index usually has a reason on the page, and the six reasons it happens to pages that look fine is a better first read than any product comparison. The wider picture sits in the Ultimate Guide to Google Indexing.
If the standalone side is the better fit, the credit packs are one-time purchases with no renewal date attached, so a first batch costs only the URLs you were going to submit anyway.