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Ahrefs pricing and alternatives: backlink API, GET /v3/site-explorer/all-backlinks, Backlinks, full

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100% complete: all 5 key fields we checkSee the 5 fields
$74.82per 1,000 backlinksHalf of the 43 plans we rank by price cost $0.25 per 1,000 backlinks or less. This plan is the most expensive of the 43 plans.RankParse's $199 pack costs the least per 1,000 backlinks: $0.004. RankParse charges for each page of results. We count 1,000 backlinks on each page to get the $0.004 price.DataForSEO, SE Ranking and RankParse are the best backlink API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Lite one of Ahrefs's 7 plans
Call: GET /v3/site-explorer/all-backlinks, Backlinks, full one of Ahrefs's 2 calls for this API
API: Backlink API one of Ahrefs's 6 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 5 key fields we check. Source URL, Anchor text, Follow or nofollow, Authority, First and last seen.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $129 a month for 200,000 credits, enough for about 1,724 results.
  • One call. You call GET /v3/site-explorer/all-backlinks with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the links that point to the domain you send.
  • Who can get it: anyone with an Ahrefs account, only workspace owners and admins create API keys. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Ahrefs: backlink API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 backlinks.

This planAhrefs, $129 monthly, Lite, GET /v3/site-explorer/all-backlinks, Backlinks, fullSE Ranking, top-up from $50, Wallet, GET /v1/backlinks/allRankParse, $10 pack, Starter, POST /v1/batchKeywords Everywhere, $84 yearly, Bronze, POST /v1/get_unique_page_backlinksMoz, $20 monthly
$ per 1,000 backlinks$74.82$0.20$0.20$4.20$6.667
Completeness100%100%80%40%100%
Billingmonthlypay firstpay firstyearlymonthly
Pay$129$50$10$84$20
Enough forabout 1,724 results a month250,000 results500 pages20,000 results a year3,000 results a month
Freshnessunknown1 month3 monthsunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone with an Ahrefs account, only workspace owners and admins create API keysanyone who isn't a direct competitor of SE Rankinganyone with a valid email addressanyone 13 or over with a Keywords Everywhere accountanyone

Every backlink API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

  1. ahrefs.com/legal/terms
  2. ahrefs.com/pricing
  3. ahrefs.com/seo-api
  4. docs.ahrefs.com/
  5. docs.ahrefs.com/en/api/docs/introduction
  6. docs.ahrefs.com/en/api/docs/limits-consumption
  7. docs.ahrefs.com/en/api/reference/site-explorer/get-all-backlinks

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source URL
  • Anchor text
  • Follow or nofollow
  • Authority
  • First and last seen
Price
$ per 1,000 backlinks$74.82
Perresult
Billingmonthly
$ a month$129
Charges
Start fee$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Domain rating · Backlinks stats · Batch analysis · Organic keywords · Overview · Related terms · Matching terms · SERP Overview
Overage
$ per 1,000 backlinks$5.80
Not found
$ per 1,000$32.25
In their words
Their pitchBacklinks, referring domains, DR/UR, organic & paid traffic reports, historical charts.
Data
Keep dataUpon termination of your use of Ahrefs Services, any license rights granted to you under the Terms will terminate with immediate effect.
Use dataAhrefs grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to access and use Ahrefs Services solely for the purposes of your internal business operations. [...] you shall not engage in any use of Ahrefs Services, Content or User Content in violation of intellectual property rights, including but not limited to: a) reproducing, duplicating, copying, selling, trading, transferring, assigning, publishing, or exploiting for any commercial purposes, any portion of Ahrefs Services, or use or access to Ahrefs Services or the computer code that powers Ahrefs Services, without our express written consent, [...] You agree that you will not [...] i) except through the software or search agents provided by Ahrefs Services, search, crawl, scrape or harvest data or information from Ahrefs Services through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism, [...] l) use Ahrefs Services to develop a product or service which competes with us or any of our products and services
Plan
Pay$129
You get200,000 credits a month
Enough forabout 1,724 results a month
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
The call
You sendtarget, select "url_from,ahrefs_rank_source,ahrefs_rank_target,alt,anchor,broken_redirect_new_target,broken_redirect_reason,broken_redirect_source,class_c,discovered_status,domain_rating_source,domain_rating_target,drop_reason,encoding,first_seen,first_seen_link,http_code,http_crawl,ip_source,is_alternate,is_canonical,is_content,is_dofollow,is_form,is_frame,is_image,is_lost,is_new,is_nofollow,is_redirect,is_redirect_lost,is_root_source,is_root_target,is_rss,is_spam,is_sponsored,is_text,is_ugc,js_crawl,languages,last_seen,last_visited,link_group_count,link_type,linked_domains_source_domain,linked_domains_source_page,linked_domains_target_domain,links_external,links_internal,lost_reason,name_source,name_target,noindex,page_category_source,page_size,page_type_source,port_source,port_target,positions,powered_by,redirect_code,redirect_kind,refdomains_source,refdomains_source_domain,refdomains_target_domain,root_name_source,root_name_target,snippet_left,snippet_right,source_page_author,source_page_publish_date,title,tld_class_source,tld_class_target,traffic,traffic_domain,url_from_plain,url_rating_source,url_redirect,url_redirect_with_target,url_to,url_to_plain". Optional: where, order_by, limit, timeout, aggregation, history, mode, portfolio_id, protocol
MethodGET
Path/v3/site-explorer/all-backlinks
About the plan
PlanLite
Who can get itanyone with an Ahrefs account, only workspace owners and admins create API keys
The 82 fields the plan's answer can hold

source URL, Ahrefs rank source, Ahrefs rank target, alt, anchor text, broken redirect new target, broken redirect reason, broken redirect source, class c, discovered status, source domain rating, domain rating target, drop reason, encoding, first seen, first seen link, HTTP code, HTTP crawl, IP source, is alternate, is canonical, is content, is dofollow, is form, is frame, is image, is lost, is new, is nofollow, is redirect, is redirect lost, is root source, is root target, is RSS, is spam, is sponsored, is text, is UGC, JS crawl, languages, last seen, last visited, link group count, link type, linked domains source domain, linked domains source page, linked domains target domain, links external, links internal, lost reason, name source, name target, noindex, page category source, page size, page type source, port source, port target, positions, powered by, redirect code, redirect kind, referring domains source, referring domains source domain, referring domains target domain, root name source, root name target, text before anchor, text after anchor, source page author, source page publish date, source page title, TLD class source, TLD class target, traffic, traffic domain, URL from plain, URL rating source, URL redirect, URL redirect with target, target URL, URL to plain

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