SpamZilla has one paid plan and one price. That part is simple. What the price does not include is where the real cost of an expired domain sits, so here is the full bill, plan by plan and line by line, checked against the pricing page in September 2026.
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DR, backlinks, referring domains, first registration year and the asking price are public on every domain in the catalogue. Membership $24.50/mo billed yearly, or $49/mo, reveals the names and the full Ahrefs reports.
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SpamZilla costs $37 a month on its Standard plan, billed monthly, with no published annual discount. That buys full access to a database of millions of expired and expiring domains, automated spam checking, backlink metrics, more than 70 filters, 1,850 monthly credits for checking your own domain lists, and a daily e-mail of new additions. A Free plan exists but stops after 25 domain reviews. The subscription does not include any domain: you still buy each name at auction or from a drop-catcher, plus registration.
Taken from the SpamZilla pricing page as it stood in September 2026. The company behind it is Maximus Media Pty Ltd in Victoria, Australia, and it bills in US dollars.
| Plan | Price | What you get | Who it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, never billed | Review only 25 domains. Enough to see the interface, the spam score and the filter layout. | A look before you pay. Not a working plan for finding a domain. |
| Standard | $37/mo, billed monthly | Full access to millions of expired domains, automated spam checking, backlink data, more than 70 database filters, 1,850 credits a month for custom domain lists, newly added domains e-mailed daily. | Anyone actually shopping. Everything SpamZilla does lives on this plan. |
No annual plan, agency tier or API price was listed. If you need more than 1,850 credits a month, there was no published way to buy more.
The $37 buys research. SpamZilla pulls in domains that are expiring, dropping or sitting in auctions at GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch and similar sources, attaches metrics from the big backlink indexes, runs its own spam check on the history, and lets you filter the whole pile seventy ways. For a person who buys domains every week, that is a genuine time saver, and the people who like it tend to like it a lot.
What it does not buy is a domain. Every name you find still has to be won at the source. A GoDaddy closeout nobody wanted is a few dollars. A contested auction for a name with real links settles in the hundreds or low thousands, and you find out the price only when the bidding ends. Then there is the registration or transfer fee to actually take the name, and the annual renewal after that.
The third cost has no line on any invoice. It is the hours. SpamZilla narrows millions of domains to a shortlist, but the shortlist still needs a human to open the archive history, read the anchor text and decide whether the spam score missed something. Buyers who do this well spend several hours a week on it. Buyers who do it badly win auctions on names that turn out to be burned, which is the most expensive outcome of all, because a bad domain costs the same to buy as a good one.
Two ways to end up owning one clean expired domain with real referring domains. The SpamZilla column is a worked example with the assumptions stated, not a quote; your auction prices and your hours will differ. The SEODomain column is what the pricing page says.
| Cost line | SpamZilla route | SEODomain route |
|---|---|---|
| Access to the list | $37 a month for as many months as the search takes. Two months of looking is $74. | $49 for a month, or $24.50 a month billed yearly. One listing unlocked free before paying anything. |
| Who reads the history | You do, for every candidate on the shortlist. The spam score is a filter, not a verdict. | Done before listing. The Ahrefs report comes with the name so you can check the same data. |
| Price of the domain | Unknown until the auction ends. Closeouts from a few dollars, contested names in the hundreds to low thousands. | 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 as any route. |
| Domains bought that turn out bad | Your risk. Every burned name you win is money and a renewal spent on nothing. | Screened out before listing. A small catalogue is the visible side effect of that. |
| Your hours | Several a week while the search runs. This is the largest line for anyone whose time has a price. | Reading a short list and one report. |
Neither column is free and neither is always cheaper. If you buy in volume and enjoy the hunt, the SpamZilla route wins, because the marginal cost of the next domain is just the auction. If you need one good name and your hours are billable, a checked domain with its backlink report attached is usually the cheaper total, even when its asking price is higher than a typical auction result. And on either route the domain is only the start: you still have to get a site built on it before those links pass anything to pages that exist.
The SpamZilla alternative comparison puts the two side by side with Karma.Domains and ExpiredDomains.net, and the expired domain price benchmark shows what the auction column actually settles at on each buying route.
SpamZilla has two plans. The Free plan costs nothing and lets you review 25 domains. The Standard plan costs $37 a month, billed monthly, and gives full access to the database of expired and expiring domains, automated spam checking, backlink data, more than 70 filters, 1,850 credits for custom domain lists and a daily e-mail of newly added domains. There is no published annual discount.
Yes, but it is a preview rather than a working tool. The Free plan lets you review 25 domains and then stops. It is enough to see the interface and the spam score, not enough to find a domain. Anyone actually shopping for an expired domain ends up on the $37 Standard plan within the first session.
Credits are what the Standard plan uses to run its checks on domains you bring yourself, such as an auction list you export from GoDaddy. Standard includes 1,850 credits a month. Browsing the SpamZilla database itself does not spend credits. If you process large custom lists every week, the credit ceiling is the number to watch.
No. SpamZilla is a research database. It shows you domains that are expiring, dropping or sitting at auction on GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch and similar sources, with metrics and a spam score. You still buy the domain at that source, at whatever the auction settles for, and you still pay the registration or transfer fee.
For someone buying several domains a month who enjoys the filtering, yes: one good find pays for a year of it. For someone who needs one clean domain this quarter, the subscription is the smallest part of the cost. The bigger costs are the hours spent vetting candidates and the auctions you win on names that turn out to be burned. A curated marketplace charges for the vetting instead.
Resellers advertise shared SpamZilla logins for a few dollars a month. You are sharing one account with strangers, the login can be revoked at any moment, and your search history and exported lists are visible to everyone else on it. For a tool whose whole value is finding a domain before other buyers do, sharing the account with other buyers defeats the point.
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 the Odys Global alternative comparison.