Comparison

SpeedyIndex Alternative: $12.50 Lifetime, No Loopholes

SpeedyIndex went dark in late 2025 after a Google change broke the undisclosed method it relied on. It relaunched in early 2026 as pay-per-result only, at a noticeably higher effective price per link.
IndexMachine runs on Google's own Request Indexing and IndexNow (the methods that do not depend on a loophole) for $12.50 lifetime. Autopilot, ChatGPT, and 404 alerts included.

FeatureIndexMachineSpeedyIndex
Pricing model$12.50 lifetimePay-per-result tokens
Indexing methodGSC Request Indexing + IndexNowUndisclosed (not official API)
Search Console requiredYes (your own OAuth)No
Bing indexingYesIndex check only
ChatGPT / LLM indexingYesNot offered
Autopilot + sitemap monitoringDaily, automaticManual URL uploads
404 alerts + re-indexYesNo
Approach100% white-hatSold on BlackHatWorld

What Happened to SpeedyIndex?

Through most of 2025, SpeedyIndex ran normally. Its own benchmark page was still being updated in September 2025. Then in November 2025 it announced a suspension of operations, pointing at changes on Google's side. It came back for a few hours, went dark again, and turned off its Telegram support channels.

By January 2026, the BlackHatWorld thread asking "Will SpeedyIndex Ever Return?" had mostly concluded it was done for good. The common explanation was that Google had closed the indexing loophole the service depended on. At least one user reported losing a deposit they made right before the shutdown announcement.

It did relaunch in early 2026. But this time it dropped its pay-per-submit mode (in March 2026, per a May 2026 competitor roundup) and now runs pay-per-result only, at a higher effective price than before. That is the whole problem with building on an undisclosed method: when it breaks, you find out the hard way.

Nobody Knows How SpeedyIndex Actually Works

SpeedyIndex describes its method as sending signals to the real Google infrastructure so a mobile Googlebot crawls your URLs. It explicitly positions itself against the official Indexing API (it says it works for any URL on any site, with no Search Console access needed). The exact technical trigger is not disclosed anywhere.

That undisclosed mechanism is also its single point of failure. When Google changed something in late 2025, the method stopped working and the service went offline. You cannot audit it, and you cannot predict the next outage.

IndexMachine takes the opposite bet. It submits to Google through Search Console's own Request Indexing on your own property (it connects over OAuth, only reads your data and never changes your settings), and to Bing through IndexNow. No shared accounts, no black-hat tricks, nothing hidden. Google and Bing built these tools for exactly this purpose.

Who Each Tool Is For

SpeedyIndex is for

  • Link builders and SEO agencies indexing large batches of backlinks they do not own.
  • People who need to force third-party pages into Google without Search Console access.
  • The aggressive link-building crowd. Its primary sales channel has been BlackHatWorld.
  • Anyone fine with an undisclosed method and pay-per-result token billing.

IndexMachine is for

  • Indie hackers, SaaS builders, and solopreneurs indexing their own sites.
  • People who want a method that will not vanish when Google ships an update.
  • Anyone who wants Google, Bing, and ChatGPT covered from one dashboard.
  • Founders who want to pay once and let autopilot handle the rest.

If your job is bulk-indexing backlinks you do not control, SpeedyIndex is the tool that category was built for. If you run your own sites and want indexing that is safe, automated, and predictable, that is what IndexMachine does.

The Pricing Got Worse After the Relaunch

SpeedyIndex now sells tokens with no subscription (it says tokens never expire). One indexed link costs 100 tokens, and unindexed URLs get their tokens refunded after 7 days. Packages run from $5 for 5,000 tokens up to $500 for 1,500,000 tokens, which works out to roughly $0.03 to $0.10 per indexed link depending on the package.

For context, its own September 2025 benchmark page advertised $30 per 5,000 links (about $0.006 each) before the shutdown. The current effective price is several times higher. The free tier shrank too: it is now 100 free tokens (around one indexed link), down from an older offer of 100 free links.

IndexMachine does not meter per link at all. One payment covers a plan, with no token math and nothing to top up.

IndexMachine lifetime plans:

  • SaaS Builder: $12.50 once (1 domain, 1,000 pages)
  • 5 Projects in 5 Months: $50 once (5 domains, 1,000 pages each)
  • Solopreneur: $84.50 once (10 domains, 10,000 pages each)
  • Or subscribe: $9.50/month or $95/year, unlimited sites and pages

What You Get With IndexMachine

Indexing

  • ✓Google Search Console's own Request Indexing
  • ✓IndexNow for Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver
  • ✓LLM indexing for ChatGPT and Perplexity
  • ✓Daily sitemap monitoring

Automation

  • ✓Full autopilot, runs daily
  • ✓Auto re-submit of deindexed pages
  • ✓404 alerts and daily reports
  • ✓Multi-domain dashboard

Pick A Method That Will Not Disappear

SpeedyIndex already went dark once. IndexMachine runs on the tools Google and Bing give every site owner (Request Indexing and IndexNow), for $12.50 once.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What happened to SpeedyIndex?

SpeedyIndex announced a suspension of operations in November 2025, blaming changes on Google's side. It briefly came back for a few hours, then went dark again and disabled its Telegram support channels. By January 2026 the BlackHatWorld community had largely written it off as permanently shut down. It later relaunched in early 2026, but in a different shape: pay-per-result only, with higher effective prices than before.

Is IndexMachine a safer SpeedyIndex replacement?

It is built on a different foundation. SpeedyIndex describes its method as sending signals to Google's infrastructure so Googlebot crawls your URLs, and explicitly says it does not use the official Indexing API and needs no Search Console access. That undisclosed mechanism is what stopped working in late 2025. IndexMachine submits through Google's own Request Indexing in your Search Console and IndexNow for Bing, using your own verified credentials. It is 100% white-hat, with no loophole to lose.

Is SpeedyIndex worth it in 2026?

It depends on your risk tolerance. On paper it is a cheap way to index backlinks: token packs start at $5, one indexed link costs 100 tokens, tokens never expire, and tokens for unindexed links come back after 7 days. But its undisclosed method already broke once: SpeedyIndex went dark in November 2025 and relaunched in early 2026 at higher effective prices than the $30 per 5,000 links it advertised before. For your own site there is no loophole to bet on: IndexMachine uses Google's own Request Indexing in your Search Console, from $12.50 lifetime.

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