Most SpamZilla vs DomCop comparisons still quote DomCop by the month. It no longer sells months. That one change decides the question for a lot of buyers, so here are both tools with the prices their own sites showed in September 2026, what each one finds, and which fits how many domains you actually plan to buy.
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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 Ahrefs reports.
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SpamZilla costs $37 a month and can be cancelled any month; DomCop costs $816, $1,152 or $1,416 a year, paid up front, with no monthly plan and no free trial. Pick SpamZilla if you buy a few expired domains a year and want a spam score on each one. Pick DomCop's Power or Guru plan if you buy domains every week, because its dropped-domain database and personal crawler find more names. Neither tool includes a domain: every name is bought separately at auction or from a registrar.
Prices from domcop.com/pricing and DomCop's own pricing guide, and for SpamZilla from its pricing page, cross-checked against the Search Logistics review updated in May 2026. Both were checked in September 2026.
| SpamZilla | DomCop | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $37/mo (Standard) | $816/yr Newbie, $1,152/yr Power, $1,416/yr Guru; Guru II $2,832/yr, Guru III $4,272/yr |
| Billing | Monthly, cancel any time. No published annual discount. | Yearly only, paid up front. |
| Try before paying | Free tier limited to 25 domain reviews. | No free trial. Full refund if you e-mail within 2 days, first-time customers only. |
| What it searches | Expired and expiring domains, including auction lists from GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch and similar sources. | Newbie: expiring and auction names only. Power and up: also about 12.8 million expired and 19.8 million dropped names across 46 extensions. |
| Metrics and filters | Backlink metrics and more than 70 filters. | More than 90 metrics, including Moz, Majestic, Semrush traffic and the Estibot valuation. |
| Spam checking | Automated spam check on every name; it is the tool's main selling point. | Flags names Google has dropped from its index. The rest of the vetting is yours. |
| Finding unlisted names | 1,850 credits a month to run checks over lists you bring yourself. | Guru plans include a personal crawler (10, 30 or 50 active crawlers) that finds dead-linked domains nobody has listed. |
| Sharing the account | One subscriber. Group-buy logins sold by resellers are a risk to you, not a discount. | Up to 2 people per account. A third user or a group-buy login gets the account banned. |
| Domain included | No. Bought at the source, plus registration. | No. Bought at the source, plus registration. |
Price the tool against how long you will actually need it. A buyer hunting for one domain for a client project rarely needs more than a quarter; a portfolio builder needs it all year.
| Length of search | SpamZilla Standard | DomCop Power | SEODomain membership |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | $37 | $1,152 | $49 |
| 3 months | $111 | $1,152 | $147 |
| 12 months | $444 | $1,152 | $294 billed yearly |
| Hours spent vetting | Yours, helped by the spam score. | Yours, on a larger list. | Done before listing; you read one report. |
| Price of the domain | Auction result or registration fee. | Auction result or registration fee. | Asking price on the listing, or your offer. |
DomCop Power is used in the table because Newbie does not search dropped names, which is where most SEO buyers look. On subscription alone SpamZilla is cheaper at every length: a full year of it costs $444, well under half of one year of Power. DomCop earns its price back only through volume: dozens of domains a year spread the $1,152, and the Guru crawler turns up names that neither SpamZilla nor any marketplace will show you.
Full breakdown: SpamZilla pricing and what $37 buys.
Full breakdown: DomCop pricing, plan by plan.
Both tools sell the search. For a buyer who needs one clean domain for one site, the search is the small cost. The big ones come after: evenings spent reading anchor text and Wayback snapshots, auctions lost to bidders using the same metrics, and the occasional name that looked clean in the filters and turns out to have spent two years as a casino redirect. A burned domain costs exactly as much to register as a good one.
That is the case for a curated marketplace. SEODomain lists a short run of expired domains that were read before they were listed, with DR, backlinks, referring domains, first registration year and the asking price public on each one. You pay a fixed price or send an offer instead of bidding, and the Ahrefs report comes with the name. The trade-off is choice: a short list, not millions of names, so if nothing in it fits your topic, a finder is still the right tool.
If you already run a site and want the domain's links pointed at it, the expired domains for 301 redirects page covers what to check first. If you plan to build on it, start from the expired domains with backlinks list. Whichever route finds the name, it only earns once the site on it ranks, so track how its pages rank from the first week rather than waiting to see what the inherited links did.
For most buyers who need a few domains a year, SpamZilla is the better value: $37 a month, cancel when you are done, and a spam score on every name. DomCop is the better tool for volume buyers because its Power and Guru plans search far more dropped domains and Guru adds a crawler that finds names nobody has listed. The answer depends on how many domains you buy.
SpamZilla, by a wide margin. SpamZilla Standard is $37 a month, so a three month search costs $111 and a full year $444. DomCop sells only yearly plans: $816 for Newbie, $1,152 for Power and $1,416 for Guru, paid up front. Even a full year of SpamZilla costs less than DomCop's cheapest plan.
Not any more. DomCop's pricing page lists Newbie, Power and Guru as yearly prices only, and there is no free trial, just a two day refund for first-time customers. Reviews that quote DomCop at $64 to $198 a month are describing older pricing that no longer appears on its site.
Yes, a limited one. The free tier lets you review 25 domains, which is enough to see the interface and the spam score but not enough to find a domain worth buying. Real use needs the $37 Standard plan, which adds 1,850 credits a month for checking your own lists and more than 70 filters.
Some volume buyers do: DomCop to find candidates with its crawler and wider database, SpamZilla to run its spam check over the shortlist. For anyone buying fewer than one domain a month, paying for both is hard to justify, because either tool alone plus a careful manual read of the backlinks and archive does the job.
No. Both are research databases. They show you names that are expiring, at auction or already dropped, with metrics attached. You still buy each domain at the source, such as GoDaddy Auctions, NameJet, DropCatch or a registrar, at whatever the auction settles for, plus registration and yearly renewal.
Every listing 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.
Comparing more options? Read the SpamZilla alternative and DomCop alternative comparisons, or where to buy expired domains.