DomCop has renamed its plans and now sells them by the month as well as by the year. Most reviews still quote the old yearly-only tiers, and the change decides whether it is a good buy for you. Here are the plans as the pricing page stated them when we checked in October 2026, what each one opens, and the lines that never make it onto the invoice.
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DomCop costs $98 a month on Starter, $148 a month on Pro and $246 a month on Team with three seats, or $816, $1,152 and $1,916 a year if you pay annually. There is no free trial, but new customers get a 14-day money-back guarantee on the first purchase. Starter only searches domains that are expiring or at auction. Pro is the cheapest plan that searches domains that have already dropped, which is what most SEO buyers want. The personal crawler is now a paid add-on to Pro or Team, from $50 a month for 10 slots. None of the plans include a domain: you still buy each name at the auction house or registrar, plus registration and renewal.
Three plans, each sold monthly or annually, plus a crawler add-on for Pro and Team. DomCop advertises savings of up to 40% for annual billing. The table shows both prices and which section of the database each plan opens.
| Plan | Price | What it unlocks | Who it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $98/mo monthly, or $816/yr ($68/mo) annually | The Expiring section: domains in auctions or about to be released, with export and use inside Claude and ChatGPT. No Expired or Archived section, no crawler, one person. | Auction bidders who never hand register dropped names. A narrow plan for the money. |
| Pro | $148/mo monthly, or $1,152/yr ($96/mo) annually | Expiring plus the Expired and Archived sections: millions of names that already dropped and can be registered outright. Crawler available as an add-on. One person. | Most SEO buyers. DomCop marks it most popular, and it is the plan people mean when they say DomCop. |
| Team | $246/mo or $1,916/yr for 3 seats | Everything in Pro with named seats for 3 to 50 people on the company e-mail domain. Each seat beyond the first adds $49 a month or $382 a year. | Agencies and in-house teams where more than one person searches. |
| Crawler, 10 slots | +$50/mo or +$390/yr | A personal expired domain crawler added to Pro or Team. | Portfolio builders who want domains nobody has listed yet. |
| Crawler, 30 slots | +$250/mo or +$1,950/yr | Three times the crawl capacity on the same plan. | Agencies running crawls for several clients. |
| Crawler, 50 slots | +$450/mo or +$3,510/yr | The largest crawler option DomCop sells. | Full-time domain investors. |
No free trial. New customers get a 14-day money-back guarantee on the first purchase, void if data was pulled through exports or the account was shared first, and renewals are not refunded. Payment by card or PayPal through FastSpring, which adds VAT or sales tax in some countries. Upgrade or downgrade at any time. One person per Starter or Pro account; shared accounts are closed.
The fee buys reach. DomCop's front page counts about 3.3 million expiring names from 10 marketplaces and drop lists across 228 extensions, pulled from GoDaddy, Dynadot, NameJet, SnapNames and Namecheap auctions, closeouts, buy-now listings and pending-delete backorders, plus an archive of older drops that is re-checked weekly. It attaches more than ninety metrics from Majestic, Moz, Ahrefs, Semrush, Open PageRank, Estibot and the Wayback Machine, and it checks whether Google has dropped the name from its index. For someone screening fifty candidates a day, that is a real saving in open tabs.
What the fee does not buy is a domain. Every name you shortlist is still bought at the source. A dropped name in the Expired section costs a registration fee, which is the cheap outcome. A name still in auction with real links goes for whatever the last bidder pays, and the other bidders are working from the same DomCop metrics you are. Then there is the transfer or registration fee, and the renewal every year after.
The third cost is the one no plan page mentions. Ninety metrics narrow a list; they do not read it. Trust Flow says nothing about whether the linking sites are real publications or a seller's network, and the Google ban check catches only the names that were caught. Someone still has to open the Wayback snapshots, read the anchor text and decide. Buyers who do this well spend several hours a week on it. Buyers who skip it register names that were burned years ago, and a burned domain costs exactly the same to buy as a clean one.
Two ways to end up owning one clean expired domain with real referring domains. The DomCop column is a worked example with the assumptions stated, not a quote; your auction results and your hours will differ. The SEODomain column is what our pricing page says.
| Cost line | DomCop route | SEODomain route |
|---|---|---|
| Access to the list | $148 a month for the Pro plan, or $1,152 up front for a year. Monthly wins for a search under eight months. | $49 for a month, or $294 for the year. One listing unlocked free before paying anything. |
| Who reads the history | You do, for every candidate. Ninety metrics are a filter, not a verdict. | Done before listing. The full Ahrefs report comes with the name so you can check the same data. |
| Price of the domain | A registration fee for a hand-registered drop, or an auction result you learn when bidding ends. Names with real links rarely drop unnoticed. | The asking price printed on the listing, or your own offer. No bidding. |
| Registration and renewal | Paid to the registrar on top of the winning bid, then yearly. | Paid to the registrar or broker holding the name, then yearly. Same on any route. |
| Domains that turn out bad | Your risk. Every burned name you register is money and a renewal spent on nothing. | Screened out before listing. A short catalogue is the visible side effect. |
| Your hours | Several a week while the search runs. The largest line for anyone whose time is billable. | Reading a short list and one report. |
Neither column is free and neither is always cheaper. Buy in volume and the DomCop route wins, because the annual fee spreads across dozens of purchases and the crawler add-on finds names no marketplace will ever list. Need one good name this quarter and a checked domain with its backlink report attached is usually the cheaper total even at a higher asking price, because $148 to $296 for one or two months of Pro, plus the evenings spent vetting, still has to be added to the domain. On either route, the name only starts paying once it has pages again, so plan to publish articles on it the week it lands rather than letting the inherited links point at an empty site.
The DomCop alternative comparison puts DomCop beside SpamZilla, CatchDoms, ExpiredDomains.net and SEODomain in one table. If the monthly price is what you are after, the SpamZilla pricing breakdown covers the $37 a month finder, and the expired domain price benchmark shows what the auction column settles at on each route. For the two finders head to head, read SpamZilla vs DomCop. Whether the database earns its fee at all is a separate question, and the DomCop review answers it against what the tool leaves you to do by hand.
DomCop now sells every plan monthly or annually. Paid month to month, Starter is $98, Pro is $148 and Team starts at $246 for three seats. Paid annually, Starter is $816 a year ($68 a month), Pro is $1,152 a year ($96 a month) and Team is $1,916 a year for three seats. The personal crawler is an add-on from $50 a month on Pro and Team.
No. The pricing page says plainly that there is no free trial. New customers get a 14-day money-back guarantee on their first purchase only, and DomCop refuses it if the account was used to pull data through exports or was shared before the refund request. Renewals are not refundable. Fourteen days is enough to run a real search, as long as you do not lean on exports.
Starter opens the Expiring section only: domains in auctions or about to be released, with exports. Pro adds the Expired section, which is names that have already dropped and can be hand registered, and the Archived section of older drops. Team is everything in Pro with named seats for 3 to 50 people on one company e-mail domain. The expired domain crawler is no longer a plan of its own; it is a paid add-on to Pro or Team with 10, 30 or 50 slots.
Pro is the cheapest plan that opens the Expired section, so it is the entry point for anyone who wants names that have already dropped. One month of Pro costs $148, against $1,152 for a year paid annually. Twelve monthly payments would come to $1,776, so annual billing only pays off if you keep searching for eight months or more. For a short search, one or two months of Pro and a cancellation is the cheaper route.
For a buyer who purchases expired domains every week, yes: the annual fee is small against the auction spend and the crawler add-on finds names nobody has listed. For a buyer who needs one domain for one project, a month or two of Pro at $148 is now a reasonable test, though the domain, the registration and the vetting hours still come on top.
Resellers advertise shared DomCop logins for $6 to $15 a month. DomCop allows one person per Starter or Pro account and closes shared accounts, and a team has to buy the Team plan. You would be paying a stranger for a login that can vanish the same day, with your searches visible to everyone else on it.
No. DomCop is a research database, so the subscription buys the search and the metrics, and the crawler add-on if you pay for it. Every domain you find is bought separately at GoDaddy Auctions, NameJet, Dynadot or a registrar, at whatever the auction settles for, plus the registration or transfer fee and the yearly renewal after that. Payment goes through FastSpring, which adds VAT or sales tax in some countries.
Every listing in the catalogue carries its DR, backlinks, referring domains, age and asking price in the open. Open an account and you can unlock one of them, report included, without paying.
Still comparing routes? Read where to buy expired domains and browse high DA domains for sale.