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DataForSEO: backlink API pricing, 3 plans

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100% complete: all 5 key fields we checkSee the 5 fields
$0.00per 1,000 backlinksThe only plan we rank by price is DataForSEO's top-up from $50, at $0.036 per 1,000 backlinks.
Plan: $1 trial credit one of DataForSEO's 3 plans
Call: POST /v3/backlinks/backlinks/live DataForSEO's only call for this API
API: Backlink API one of DataForSEO's 8 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get backlinks from DataForSEO's index. DataForSEO doesn't say how old the data is.
  • All 5 key fields we check. Source URL, Anchor text, Follow or nofollow, Authority, First and last seen.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit once, enough for about 27,777 results. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You send target to POST /v3/backlinks/backlinks/live. You can also send mode, custom_mode, filters, order_by, offset, search_after_token, limit, backlinks_status_type, include_subdomains, exclude_internal_backlinks, rank_scale and tag. The call returns the links that point to the domain you send.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. dataforseo.com/apis/domain-analytics-api
  2. dataforseo.com/help-center/how-does-your-free-unlimited-trial-work
  3. dataforseo.com/pricing
  4. dataforseo.com/pricing/backlinks/backlinks
  5. dataforseo.com/terms-of-service/
  6. docs.dataforseo.com/v3/backlinks/backlinks/live/
  7. docs.dataforseo.com/v3/domain_analytics/technologies/domain_technologies/live/

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$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freenever
Start fee$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: SERP API · AI Optimization API · Backlinks API · Content Analysis API · DataForSEO Labs API · Keywords Data API · OnPage API · Merchant API · App Data API · Business Data API · Reviews API · Domain Analytics API
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$ per 1,000$0.00
Plan
Pay$0
You get$1
Enough forabout 27,777 results, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second166.67
Concurrent30
About the plan
Plan$1 trial credit
Who can get itnew accounts, one each, not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraine
The 51 fields the plan's answer can hold

total backlinks, items count, source domain, source URL, source URL is HTTPS, target domain, target URL, target URL is HTTPS, source TLD, is new, is lost, backlink spam score, backlink rank, source page rank, source domain rank, source platform type, source is IP, source IP, source country, source page external links, source page internal links, source page size, source page encoding, source page language, source page title, source page status code, first seen, previously seen, last seen, link type, link attributes, dofollow, is original, image alt text, image URL, anchor text, text before anchor, text after anchor, link location, identical links count, links from the same domain, is broken, target status code, target spam score, target redirect URL, source page keywords in top 3, source page keywords in top 10, source page keywords in top 100, is indirect link, indirect link path, next page token

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