# CrawlGraph, $19 monthly: Backlink API

> Synchronous backlink lookup for a single domain. Counts against the backlinks quota.

CrawlGraph's Monthly plan for the backlink API costs $0.0019 per 1,000 backlinks. We check each provider's docs for 5 fields. CrawlGraph's docs list 2: Source URL, Authority.
In [our backlink API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-backlink-api.txt), this plan scores 32.1 out of 100. CrawlGraph ranks 5th of 7 providers.
We rank 123 plans for backlink APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.242 or less per 1,000 backlinks. This plan costs less per 1,000 backlinks than 91% of the 123 plans.
[Keys.so's ₽34,900 (about $417) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/keys-so/34900-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 backlinks. Keys.so's ₽34,900 (about $417) monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many backlinks as Keys.so's rate limit allows. [AnyAPI's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/anyapi/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-with-x402-and-mpp-post-v1-run-seo-backlinks/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 backlinks a month: $0.50.
[BacklinkMCP's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/backlinkmcp/19-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of backlinks. BacklinkMCP's $19 monthly plan costs less up front than Keys.so's ₽34,900 (about $417) monthly plan.
[DataForSEO](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/dataforseo/top-up-from-50/llms.txt), [BacklinkMCP](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/backlinkmcp/19-monthly/llms.txt) and [SE Ranking](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/se-ranking/29-monthly-add-on-monthly-billing-get-v1-backlinks-raw/llms.txt) are the best backlink API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/crawlgraph/19-monthly
- [Backlinks API: the 6 best of 50+ SEO data providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-backlink-api.txt)
- Get it: https://crawlgraph.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=backlink-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `POST https://crawlgraph.com/api/v1/backlinks`
- API key: with the plan, on https://crawlgraph.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=backlink-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://crawlgraph.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=backlink-api-pricing#endpoint-backlinks
- Sold by: CrawlGraph (https://crawlgraph.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=backlink-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 40%
- Source URL: ✓
- Authority: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 32.1
- Price score: 46
- Accuracy score: 2
- Cost to get started score: 85
- Bundle score: 75
- Performance score: 2

## Price

- $ per 1,000 backlinks: $0.0019
- Per: page of 10,000
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $19

## Charges

- Also pays for: POST /api/v1/gap-analysis: 50 gap-analysis jobs a month · GET /api/v1/releases: unlimited · from the same budget: GET /api/v1/changes

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $19.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Synchronous backlink lookup for a single domain. Counts against the backlinks quota.

## Data

- Freshness: 3 months
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to: (a) scrape or bulk-download results in a way that circumvents rate limits, (b) resell or redistribute raw query output as a competing product, (c) use the service for illegal purposes, or (d) attempt to compromise the security of our systems. [...] The public API has fair-use limits that we may change at our discretion.

## Plan

- Pay: $19
- You get: 1,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 1,000 pages a month
- Expires: end of the month (UTC), no rollover

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 6.36 s

## The call

- You send: domain. Optional: release_id, limit, sort
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/backlinks

## About the plan

- Plan: Monthly
- Who can get it: eligible visitors in the current pricing experiment

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

target domain, target domain authority, target domain rank, release ID, release label, total results, results returned, source domain, source hosts, source TLD, source domain authority, source domain rank

## CrawlGraph's plans (3)

- [CrawlGraph, free](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/crawlgraph/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 40% complete, 3 months
- [CrawlGraph, $99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/crawlgraph/99-pack/llms.txt): $0.00041 per 1,000, 40% complete, 3 months
- [CrawlGraph, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/crawlgraph/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0019 per 1,000, 40% complete, 3 months

## CrawlGraph's calls (1)

- `POST /api/v1/backlinks`: [CrawlGraph, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/crawlgraph/19-monthly/llms.txt)

## CrawlGraph's APIs (2)

- [CrawlGraph: backlink API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/crawlgraph/free/llms.txt)
- [CrawlGraph: domain authority API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/crawlgraph/free/llms.txt)

## CrawlGraph: backlink API alternatives

- [BacklinkMCP, free](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/backlinkmcp/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 40% complete, 7 days
- [SE Ranking, free trial, GET /v1/backlinks/all](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/se-ranking/free-trial-get-v1-backlinks-all/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 month
- [RankParse, free, GET /v1/backlinks, Backlinks, full](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/rankparse/free-get-v1-backlinks-backlinks-full/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 months
- [host.io, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/host-io/contact-us/llms.txt): $0.002 per 1,000, 20% complete, 1 month

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://crawlgraph.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=backlink-api-pricing
- https://crawlgraph.com/api/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=backlink-api-pricing
- https://crawlgraph.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=backlink-api-pricing
- https://crawlgraph.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=backlink-api-pricing