Comparison

Channel Workbench vs YouTube Link Scanner

YouTube Link Scanner (youtubelinkscanner.com) does one thing: you pay once and get a report of the broken links in your video descriptions. Channel Workbench is a recurring audit that also looks at Amazon tags and products and ranks what it finds. The choice is mostly about whether you want a single snapshot or a standing check. (Comparison based on each product's public materials as of October 2026 — always verify current features and prices on their site.)

	Channel Workbench	YouTube Link Scanner
Model	Recurring audit: weekly scans on Creator, daily on Pro, with a weekly digest email	One-time scan, pay per scan, no subscription. Ongoing monitoring is not listed in their public materials
What's reported	Broken links, short links that now land on a homepage, missing or foreign Amazon tags, stale redirect chains, unavailable and low-rated Amazon products	Broken links in video descriptions, plus videos with a missing description
YouTube access	Read-only OAuth by design — you sign in with Google; we cannot edit, upload, or post	You paste a URL. Their terms say the service uses YouTube API Services; whether a Google sign-in is involved is not stated in public materials
Amazon product data	Checks run through Amazon's official Creators API with your own Associates API credentials — never scraping. Amazon limits API access to eligible accounts (currently at least 10 qualifying sales in the past 30 days)	Not stated in public materials
Prioritization	Findings ranked by estimated revenue at risk, tunable to your own click and conversion assumptions	A report with direct links to the affected videos, exportable
Fix workflow	Per-finding suggested fix, a link straight to the video in YouTube Studio, mark fixed, and the next scan re-checks it. Available for Chrome (Edge coming soon): Fix Assist, a free browser extension that surfaces findings inside Studio and preps the exact edit for your review — you still click Save, still zero write access	You fix links yourself from the report
Free tier	Free Starter plan: full-channel audit, top 3 findings shown, one scan a month	Free scan of a single video, no credit card
Paid entry	Creator from $5/mo billed yearly ($7 month to month), 1 channel, up to 500 videos	Complete channel scan listed at $3 per scan, unlimited videos, with a 30-day money-back guarantee (as of Oct 2026)

Choose YouTube Link Scanner if…

You want a quick, cheap answer to one question — which links in my descriptions are dead right now? — and you don't want a subscription. A few dollars for a whole-channel report is hard to beat on price, and if you only plan to clean up once or twice a year, paying per scan is the sensible way to buy it. It is the better fit for a small channel that doesn't rely on Amazon links.

Choose Channel Workbench if…

Links keep breaking after the day you scan. Products get delisted, sponsors retire landing pages, and a link that still loads can be earning nothing because its Amazon tag is missing or belongs to someone else. Channel Workbench re-scans on a schedule, checks those cases as well as plain dead links, and sorts the results by what each one is likely costing you, so you start with the videos that matter. Access is read-only by design, and Amazon availability and rating checks run only through Amazon's official Creators API with your own Associates API credentials. The free Starter plan audits the whole channel once a month and shows the top 3 findings, so you can compare the two reports before paying for either.

Check your whole channel in one scan

Channel Workbench connects to YouTube with read-only access — we can't edit, upload, or post anything — scans every description in your back catalog, and hands you a prioritized fix queue with an estimate of the revenue at risk. The Starter plan is free forever: one scan a month, top findings included, no credit card.

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