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Majestic pricing and alternatives: backlink API

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60% complete: 3 of the 5 key fields we checkSee the 5 fields
$0.02per 1,000 backlinksHalf of the 37 plans we rank by price cost $0.20 per 1,000 backlinks or less. This plan is cheaper than 81% of the 37 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.
Plan: API one of Majestic's 6 plans
Call: POST /api/json Majestic's only call for this API
API: Backlink API one of Majestic's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 5 key fields we check. Source URL, Anchor text, First and last seen.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $399.99 for 20,000,000 credits, enough for 20,000,000 results. Unused credits expire: not carried over to the next month.
  • One call. You send item to POST /api/json. You set cmd to "GetBackLinkData". The call returns the links that point to the domain you send.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Majestic: backlink API alternatives

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

This planMajestic, $399.99 monthlySE Ranking, free trial, GET /v1/backlinks/allMoz, freeRankParse, top-up from $1, Credits, any amount from 100 to 500,000, GET /v1/backlinksDataForSEO, top-up from $50
$ per 1,000 backlinks$0.02$0.00$0.00$0.02$0.036
Completeness60%60%40%40%100%
Billingmonthlyfreefreepay firstpay first
Pay$399.99$0$0$1$50
Enough for20,000,000 results a month100,000 results, once50 results a month50 pagesabout 1,388,888 results
Freshnessunknown1 monthunknown3 monthsstored
Who can get itanyoneanyone who confirms an email address, a direct competitor of SE Ranking exceptedanyone with a valid, non-expired credit cardanyone with a valid email addressanyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraine

Backlink API pricing: plans compared

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. developer-support.majestic.com/api/commands/
  2. developer-support.majestic.com/api/commands/get-back-link-data.shtml
  3. majestic.com/company/terms
  4. majestic.com/help/subscriptions
  5. majestic.com/plans-pricing
  6. majestic.com/plans-pricing?recommended=MAJESTIC_API_2016

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, not in the answer
  • Authority, not in the answer
  • First and last seen
Price
$ per 1,000 backlinks$0.02
Perresult
Billingmonthly
$ a month$399.99
Charges
Also pays forGetIndexItemInfo · from the same budget: GetAnchorText · GetRefDomains · GetRefDomainInfo · GetTopPages · GetHostedDomains · GetBackLinksHistory · GetNewLostBackLinks · GetNewLostBackLinkCalendar · GetLinkProfile · GetRelatedSites · GetTopics · GetKeywordInfo · SearchByKeyword
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThis command returns information of the backlinks at domain, subdomain or URL level (see usage in Majestic Site Explorer: Backlinks tab).
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataIn utilising any Subscription, you undertake to us that you: (a) shall comply with the provisions of our terms of website use at all times, and (b) shall comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy, and (c) shall only use the information and materials provided by us to you for the purpose of research, including but not limited to the investigation of techniques and data to understand how to optimise your or your clients' websites, and (d) shall only access and obtain the information and materials provided by us to you via the authorised methods set out on our site or otherwise notified by us to you, and (e) shall not attempt to bypass any functionality or access features on our site by using custom http (or other) calls, or attempt to manipulate our site or access it in any manner which would not reasonably be viewed as a normal permitted use of the site, and (f) shall not query our database or servers using any automated tools without getting our prior permission to do so, save where such query is carried out by a search engine which is obeying robots.txt demands, and (g) shall not create, save where we have provided our express written consent, any derivative works of, or resell, the information and materials provided by us to you, and (h) shall not act in such a way as to damage the reputation or commercial prospects of us.
Plan
Pay$399.99
You get20,000,000 credits a month
Enough for20,000,000 results a month
Expiresnot carried over to the next month
Rate limit
Batch1
The call
You sendcmd "GetBackLinkData", item. Optional: datasource, Count, From, Mode, ShowDomainInfo, MaxSourceURLsPerRefDomain, MaxSameSourceURLs, RefDomain, FilterTopic, FilterTopicsRefDomainsMode, UsePrefixScan, ConsumeResourcesForAdditionalProcessing, SortBy1, SortDir1, SortBy2, SortDir2, FilteringDepth, Filters
MethodPOST
Path/api/json
About the plan
PlanAPI
Who can get itanyone
The 43 fields the plan's answer can hold

total backlinks, total matches, source URL, anchor text, last crawled, source page title, source external linked domains, source external links, source internal links, source language, source language name, source language confidence, redirect, frame, nofollow, image link, deleted, alt text link, target URL, indirect target URL, indirect target type, target page title, target language, target language name, target language confidence, links available for referring domain, domain ID, first seen, last seen, date lost, reason lost, link type, link subtype, target Citation Flow, target Trust Flow, target topical Trust Flow topic, target topical Trust Flow value, source Citation Flow, source Trust Flow, source topical Trust Flow topic, source topical Trust Flow value, duplicate link matching string, duplicate link status code

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