Backlink API

host.io, $99 monthly

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$0.198per 1,000 backlinksIn our backlink API benchmark, this plan scores 0.0 out of 100. host.io ranks 7th 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 56% of the 123 plans.Keys.so's ₽34,900 (about $417) monthly plan 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 costs the least for 10,000 backlinks a month: $0.50.BacklinkMCP's $19 monthly plan 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, BacklinkMCP and SE Ranking are the best backlink API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Basic one of host.io's 4 plans

Call: GET /api/domains/backlinks/{value} host.io's only call for this API

GET /api/domains/backlinks/{value}$99 monthly$0.198 per 1,000

API: Backlink API one of host.io's 2 APIs

About this item

A copy at most 1 month old. You get backlinks from host.io's index.
1 of the 5 fields on our checklist. Source URL.
A monthly subscription. You pay $99 a month for 10,000 requests, enough for 10,000 pages. Calls keep working once your requests run out.
One call. You send value to GET /api/domains/backlinks/{value}. You can also send limit and page. The call returns the links that point to the domain you send.
Who can get it: anyone over 13 years of age. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

host.io: backlink API alternatives

host.io alternatives: every backlink API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 backlinks. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

	This planhost.io, $99 monthly	BacklinkMCP, free	Omkar Cloud, free	VebAPI, free trial, GET /api/backlinks/new	SE Ranking, top-up from $50, Wallet, GET /v1/backlinks/raw
$ per 1,000 backlinks	$0.198	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.20
Completeness	20%	40%	80%	80%	100%
Billing	monthly	free	free	free	pay first
Pay	$99	$0	$0	$0	$50
Enough for	10,000 pages a month	10 pages a day	1,000 pages a month	not published	250,000 results
Freshness	1 month	7 days	live	24 hours	1 month
Who can get it	anyone over 13 years of age	anyone	anyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted parties	anyone at least 18 years old with the legal authority to accept the terms	anyone who isn't a direct competitor of SE Ranking

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

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, not in the answer
Follow or nofollow, not in the answer
Authority, not in the answer
First and last seen, not in the answer

Score
Overall score	0.0. We give it 0 overall because its Accuracy score is 0.
Price score	29
Accuracy score	0
Cost to get started score	73
Bundle score	83
Performance score	100

Price
$ per 1,000 backlinks	$0.198
Per	page of 50
Billing	monthly
$ a month	$99

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: /api/web/:domain · /api/dns/:domain · /api/related/:domain · /api/full/:domain · /api/domains/:field/:value

Overage
$ per 1,000 backlinks	$0.20
Units cap	soft

In their words
Their pitch	Domains that include a link to the domain on their homepage

Data
Freshness	1 month
Keep data	no limit
Use data	"When using a paid version for the Services, this license is extended to include your commercial use, subject to these Terms." "You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to): (i) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Services or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Host.io, in writing (e.g., through an open source software license), or (ii) attempt to disable or circumvent any security mechanisms used by the Services or any applications running on the Services." "You may not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Services (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Services)." "You may not access the Services in a manner intended to avoid incurring fees or exceeding usage limits or quotas." "You may not access the Services for the purpose of bringing an intellectual property infringement claim against Host.io or for the purpose of creating a product or service competitive with the Services. You may not use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic program or device to retrieve, index, “scrape,” “data mine” or in any way gather Content from the Services. You may not use the Services to assemble email lists for the purposes of sending out mass emails or “spam.” You may not access the Services for the purpose of collecting Content for sale or resale without the express written consent of Host.io." (Terms of Service, host.io/terms)

Plan
Pay	$99
You get	10,000 requests a month
Enough for	10,000 pages a month

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call
Median	0.01 s

The call
You send	value. Optional: limit, page
Method	GET
Path	/api/domains/backlinks/{value}

About the plan
Plan	Basic
Who can get it	anyone over 13 years of age

The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

target, total results, page, source domain