IndexaGoogle indexing tools: an honest comparison
Indexing tools fall into three groups: subscription web apps that submit on your behalf using their infrastructure, free CMS plugins that submit from your site when you publish, and local tools that submit from your own machine using your own API credentials. They all push URLs into the same two or three endpoints — the real differences are the billing model, whose API quota gets spent, and whether your credentials leave your computer.
Every comparison below states where the competitor wins, because for a lot of readers the honest answer is that a free plugin or Search Console is enough. Prices are quoted only where they are published on the vendor’s own pricing page and were checked on the date shown on each page; where a vendor does not publish a price, this site says “subscription” rather than inventing a number.
Indexa itself is $19 once with no subscription and a 7-day free trial, runs on macOS, and submits using your own Google Cloud project and your own IndexNow key. Submitting a URL is not a guarantee that it will be indexed — that decision always rests with each search engine. What a submission tool controls is the notification half: making sure every engine knows about every page the day it is published or changed.
Indexa vs getIndexed
getIndexed is a web app billed per project per year; Indexa is a one-time desktop app using your own Google credentials. What each costs and where getIndexed wins.
Read the guide →TagParrot alternative: what happened, and what to use now
TagParrot shut down in 2024 after Google tightened enforcement of the Indexing API. Why that happened, and how to pick a replacement that will not follow it.
Read the guide →Indexa vs Rank Math Instant Indexing
Rank Math Instant Indexing is a free WordPress plugin that submits on publish. Indexa is a desktop app for sites that are not on WordPress. Compared honestly.
Read the guide →Indexa vs Search Console’s "Request Indexing"
Search Console lets you request indexing free, one URL at a time, capped near 10-12 a day. Where that ceiling bites, and when the free option is genuinely enough.
Read the guide →Indexa as an IndexMeNow alternative
IndexMeNow sells indexing in credits, one per indexed URL, refunded if a URL is not indexed in ten days. Indexa submits through your own Google and Bing accounts.
Read the guide →Indexa as a Cromojo alternative
urlmonitor.com now redirects to Cromojo, a subscription platform bundling analytics, uptime and indexing. Indexa does the indexing half only, for one payment.
Read the guide →Frequently asked questions
Is there a Google indexing tool without a subscription?
Yes. Indexa is a one-time purchase ($19, no subscription) rather than a recurring plan, because it submits through your own Google Cloud project and your own IndexNow key — there is no per-URL cost for a vendor to recover. Rank Math’s Instant Indexing plugin is also free, if your site runs on WordPress.
Do indexing tools use up my Google quota or theirs?
It depends on the architecture. Tools built around your own Google Cloud OAuth client — including Indexa and the WordPress plugins — spend your project’s Indexing API quota, which is 200 publish requests per day by default. Hosted services that submit from their own infrastructure meter you in plan limits or credits instead.
Why did some indexing tools shut down?
Google documents the Indexing API for JobPosting and BroadcastEvent pages only, and tightened enforcement against general-purpose use. Tools built entirely on that endpoint for ordinary web pages were exposed to that change — TagParrot is the widely reported example. See what the Indexing API actually covers.
Stop hand-submitting URLs
Indexa reads your sitemaps every day and submits what changed — to Google’s Indexing API with your own Google Cloud project, and to Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver and Yep over IndexNow. It runs on your own computer; your credentials never leave it.
Submitting a URL is not a guarantee that it will be indexed — that decision always rests with each search engine. What a submission tool controls is the notification half: making sure every engine knows about every page the day it is published or changed.