Speed Indexing vs IndexBolt

IndexBolt makes a good first impression, and it earns most of it. A hundred free credits at sign up with no card, which is the most generous trial of any service in this comparison set. Credits bought once, with no subscription, no monthly fee and no expiry. A stated target of hours rather than weeks to get a link crawled, and an instant mode for the ones that cannot wait.

Speed Indexing sells credits the same way, at a lower unit price from 500 URLs upward, and settles a different question. IndexBolt promises speed and refunds credits you did not spend. Speed Indexing promises a verdict on the seventh day and refunds credits spent on URLs Google did not take. The IndexBolt figures below were read on its own pricing page on September 13, 2026.

The two in one sentence

IndexBolt gives 100 free credits, sells packs from $25 to $1,000 that never expire, aims to get links crawled in under six hours, offers a 10 credit instant mode, and refunds unused credits within thirty days of purchase.

Speed Indexing gives 10 free credits, sells packs from $9 to $330 that never expire, sends every URL to Google and to Bing on one credit, checks both on day 7, and returns the credit when Google has not indexed the URL.

Side by side

Price, pack by pack

Read the first row before the rest. A hundred free credits is more than our smallest paid pack, and it costs nothing. If your whole need is a few dozen URLs a month, IndexBolt is free and we are not, and no unit price argument changes that.

Past the trial the order reverses and holds. The same 500 credits cost $23 here and $25 there. At 1,200 credits we charge $0.040 per URL where 2,000 credits at IndexBolt work out at $0.045, and our best rate, $0.033 on a $330 pack, sits below their best rate of $0.040 on a $1,000 pack. Their largest single purchase is bigger than ours, which matters if you want one invoice for 25,000 URLs. The five packs here are listed with their price per URL.

The guarantee

Both services use the word, and they mean different things by it.

IndexBolt refunds credits you have not spent, within thirty days of the purchase. That protects you against buying too much, or against deciding the tool is not for you. It does not protect you against a URL that never makes it into the index: those credits are spent, and the pages do not describe a per URL check that would tell you either way.

Speed Indexing refunds credits you have spent. Seven days after a URL is submitted, its address is looked up in the Google index. If it is not there, the credit returns in full, dated, on its own, and the URL can go straight back into a new batch. Bing is read in the same pass, its answer is stored beside the Google one, and it never changes the refund. The other side of that coin: unused credits here are not bought back. They do not expire, so they wait, but they stay credits.

One more step runs before billing. A URL carrying a noindex in the page or in the HTTP header, returning a 404, a 403 or a server error, redirecting elsewhere, blocked in robots.txt, or pointing its canonical at another page, is rejected and never charged. Neither is a URL your own account already sent in the last thirty days.

What IndexBolt does better

The free trial. A hundred credits against ten. That is not a detail: a hundred URLs is a real test on a real list, and it costs nothing.

An instant mode. Ten credits for a URL that cannot wait. There is no equivalent here, at any price.

A published speed target. Under six hours to get a link crawled. We publish no crawl target, only the date of the verdict.

Money back on unused credits. Thirty days from purchase. We do not buy credits back at all.

A bigger single pack, 25,000 credits on one invoice, and free guides written for specific platforms, from WordPress to Shopify to Next.js, which are useful even if you never buy.

What Speed Indexing does better

The guarantee is about indexing. The credit comes back when Google does not have the URL on day 7, not when you bought too many credits.

You are told what happened. Every submitted URL carries a dated result for Google and for Bing in your account, exportable as CSV, with a button that resubmits the ones that did not land.

Bing is named and covered. Same credit, both engines. The IndexBolt pricing page does not state which engines it works with.

Cheaper from 500 URLs up, and its best rate comes on a $330 pack rather than a $1,000 one.

Doomed URLs are not billed, and a batch can be spread over up to sixty days. IndexBolt offers no drip feed.

Who each one is for

• You have a handful of URLs and no budget: IndexBolt, on the hundred free credits.
• You occasionally need a URL pushed within hours: IndexBolt, instant mode.
• You want to be able to return an order you regret: IndexBolt.
• You want to pay only for URLs that reached the index: Speed Indexing.
• You want a dated record per URL, on Google and on Bing: Speed Indexing.
• You buy between 500 and 10,000 URLs at a time: Speed Indexing, on price.
• You are feeding links from a new site and want them spread over weeks: Speed Indexing, drip up to sixty days.

If you are looking for a replacement rather than a head to head, the IndexBolt alternative page covers the rest of the market.

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Frequently asked questions

Is IndexBolt free?

It has the largest free trial in this comparison set: 100 credits at sign up, with no card. Speed Indexing gives 10. After the trial, the smallest IndexBolt pack is 500 credits for $25, against $9 for 100 credits here. Prices read on September 13, 2026.

Does IndexBolt refund URLs that do not get indexed?

No. Its guarantee covers unused credits, refundable within 30 days of purchase, which is a refund on the shopping rather than on the result. Speed Indexing returns the credit for any URL Google has not indexed on day 7, automatically and in credits.

Which one is cheaper?

Speed Indexing, from 500 URLs upward. 500 credits cost $23 here and $25 there. 1,200 credits cost $48 here, or $0.040 per URL, against $90 for 2,000 there, or $0.045. 10,000 credits cost $330 here, or $0.033, while IndexBolt reaches $0.040 on its 25,000 credit pack at $1,000. Below that, the 100 free credits at IndexBolt beat any paid pack.

Does IndexBolt verify that a URL was indexed?

Its pages sell speed of crawl, with a stated target of under six hours, and they do not describe a per URL index verification. Speed Indexing looks every submitted URL up in the Google index and in the Bing index on day 7, writes both answers into your account with their date, and settles the credit on the Google one.

What is IndexBolt instant mode?

A faster path that costs 10 credits per URL instead of 1. Speed Indexing has no paid express mode: every URL costs one credit and follows the same route, with its verdict on day 7.

Do you refund unused credits?

No. Credits bought here do not expire, so an unused balance stays in the account for as long as you want, but we do not buy it back. IndexBolt does, within 30 days of purchase. If you want the option of changing your mind about an order, that point goes to them.

Can I move from IndexBolt to Speed Indexing?

Yes. Credits do not transfer, and IndexBolt credits do not expire, so use them. Then paste your URLs into a batch here, up to 1,000 at a time, or upload a txt or csv file. The batch can be spread over up to sixty days.