Many SpamZilla vs DomCop comparisons still describe DomCop as a yearly-only tool. It now bills by the month too, at $98 or $148, against $37 for SpamZilla. Here are both tools with the prices from their own pricing pages (DomCop checked again in October 2026), what each one finds, and which fits how many domains you actually plan to buy. If SpamZilla is the only tool on your list, the SpamZilla review covers the spam score, the full cost of one domain and who should skip it. This page sticks to the head to head.
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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 (the full SpamZilla pricing breakdown covers what that buys); DomCop costs $98 a month for Starter or $148 for Pro, or $816 and $1,152 a year paid annually, with no free trial. Starter leaves out the Expired section, so already-dropped names start at Pro. Pick SpamZilla if you buy a few expired domains a year and want a spam score on each one. Pick DomCop Pro if you buy domains every week, because its dropped-domain database and optional crawler find more names. Neither tool includes a domain: every name is bought separately at auction or from a registrar.
Our verdict on SpamZilla in this matchup: worth $37 for a month or two of active hunting if you will read backlink profiles yourself, poor value if you need one domain and let the plan run while you look. The spam score is a fast first filter, not a final answer. If you only want one domain, a SpamZilla alternative that sells already vetted names, or a DomCop alternative without a $98 to $148 monthly bill, skips the subscription altogether.
SpamZilla spam score
It is a useful first filter and a poor final answer. The score reads patterns that correlate with manipulated link profiles: commercial anchor text repeated far too often, links clustered on sites that exist only to link, and an archive history showing the domain was flipped to a different language or business. On a list of thousands it removes the obvious junk in seconds.
It fails in two directions. It clears domains that are technically clean but useless to you, because no score knows your site is about commercial insurance and the domain's links all come from cycling blogs. And it sometimes flags a genuine old business whose links aged into dead sites and scraper copies, which looks like decay to an algorithm and like a bargain to a person who reads the profile.
The working method is the same on every finder: filter hard, then open the survivors by hand. Count referring domains rather than links, read what the site published in the Wayback Machine, and search the name for complaints.
The subscription is the number everyone quotes and the smallest one in the total. This is the whole bill for a buyer who wants one clean domain in a specific niche.
| Line | Typical figure | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription while hunting | $37 to $111 | One to three months, because a niche-specific name rarely appears in week one. |
| The domain at auction | $12 to several hundred | A closeout can be a few dollars. Anything with a visible link profile attracts bidders. |
| Your time vetting | 10 to 40 hours | Reading profiles and archives on dozens of candidates. |
| Renewal, then the site | $12 a year, plus build | A parked domain earns nothing until pages go up on it. |
You buy expired domains more than once or twice a year, you read backlink profiles comfortably and you have time to hunt. There is no cheaper way to search the daily feeds with metrics attached.
You need one domain, in one niche, soon. The plan bills while you look and you still have to win an auction. A curated expired domains marketplace with the metrics and asking price already public is the shorter route.
DomCop prices from domcop.com/pricing, monthly and annual views, checked in October 2026. SpamZilla prices from its pricing page, cross-checked against the Search Logistics review updated in May 2026 and checked in September 2026.
| SpamZilla | DomCop | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $37/mo (Standard) | $98/mo Starter, $148/mo Pro; or $816/yr Starter, $1,152/yr Pro billed annually; Team from $246/mo for 3 seats |
| Billing | Monthly, cancel any time. No published annual discount. | Monthly or annual, with up to 40% off for annual. Paid through FastSpring, which adds VAT or sales tax in some countries. |
| Try before paying | Free tier limited to 25 domain reviews. | No free trial. 14 day money-back guarantee on a new customer's first purchase, void if data was exported or the account shared. Renewals are not refunded. |
| What it searches | Expired and expiring domains, including auction lists from GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch and similar sources. | About 3.3 million expiring names from 10 marketplaces and drop lists, across 228 extensions. Starter stops there; Pro and Team add the Expired (already dropped) and Archived sections. |
| Metrics and filters | Backlink metrics and more than 70 filters. | More than 90 metrics, including Moz, Majestic, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Open PageRank, the Estibot valuation and Wayback Machine history. |
| 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. | Expired Domain Crawler is a paid add-on to Pro or Team (10 slots for $50/mo, 30 for $250/mo, 50 for $450/mo) that finds dead-linked domains nobody has listed. Not on Starter. |
| Sharing the account | One subscriber. Group-buy logins sold by resellers are a risk to you, not a discount. | One person per Starter or Pro account, and shared accounts are closed. Teams buy the Team plan, 3 to 50 named seats. |
| 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 Pro | SEODomain membership |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | $37 | $148 | $49 |
| 3 months | $111 | $444 | $147 |
| 12 months | $444 | $1,152 billed yearly | $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 Pro is used in the table because Starter does not search dropped names, which is where most SEO buyers look. On subscription alone SpamZilla is cheaper at every length: three months cost $111 against $444 for Pro billed monthly, and a full year costs $444, well under half of Pro's $1,152 annual price. DomCop earns its price back only through volume: dozens of domains a year spread the cost, and the crawler add-on, from $50 a month, turns up names that neither SpamZilla nor any marketplace will show you.
Full breakdown: SpamZilla pricing and what $37 buys, and our SpamZilla review of the SZ Score.
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 Pro plan, at $148 a month, searches already-dropped domains as well as expiring ones and can take a paid crawler add-on that finds names nobody has listed. The answer depends on how many domains you buy.
It is worth $37 a month if you are actively hunting domains that month and will read backlink profiles yourself. The subscription pays for itself the first time it stops you buying a name whose links turn out to be a dead blog network. It is poor value if you need one domain and let the subscription run for months while you look.
For volume buyers it is DomCop, which searches a far larger dropped-domain database but costs $98 to $148 a month, or $816 to $1,152 a year paid annually. For someone who needs one or two domains and does not want to vet hundreds, a curated marketplace that checks names before listing them, with the price on each listing, is usually the shorter route.
No. Shared accounts break the terms of service, so the account can be closed with your shortlists inside it, and everyone in the group sees the domains you found, which means bidding against each other at auction. DomCop closes shared accounts outright and sells a separate Team plan for more than one user. The saving is not worth losing a domain you researched for a week.
SpamZilla, by a wide margin. SpamZilla Standard is $37 a month, so a three month search costs $111 and a full year $444. DomCop Starter is $98 a month and Pro is $148, or $816 and $1,152 a year paid annually. Starter skips already-dropped domains, so the fair match is Pro, and a full year of SpamZilla costs the same $444 as three months of Pro billed monthly.
Yes. DomCop bills Starter at $98 a month and Pro at $148 a month, or $816 and $1,152 a year if you pay annually, which works out to $68 and $96 a month. There is no free trial. New customers get a 14 day money-back guarantee on the first purchase, and renewals are not refunded. Comparisons that call DomCop yearly-only are out of date.
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 wider database and the crawler add-on, 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.