# Majestic, $399.99 monthly: Backlink API

> This command returns information of the backlinks at domain, subdomain or URL level (see usage in Majestic Site Explorer: Backlinks tab).

Majestic's backlink API on its API plan. It costs $0.02 per 1,000 backlinks. It returns 3 of the 5 key fields we check: Source URL, Anchor text, First and last seen.
Half 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](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/rankparse/199-pack-lifetime-deal-get-v1-backlinks/llms.txt) 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.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/majestic/399-99-monthly
- Get it: https://majestic.com/plans-pricing
- Request: `POST https://developer.majestic.com/api/json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://majestic.com/plans-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developer-support.majestic.com/api/commands/get-back-link-data.shtml
- Sold by: Majestic (https://majestic.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 60%
- Source URL: ✓
- Anchor text: ✓
- First and last seen: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 backlinks: $0.02
- Per: result
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $399.99

## Charges

- Also pays for: GetIndexItemInfo · from the same budget: GetAnchorText · GetRefDomains · GetRefDomainInfo · GetTopPages · GetHostedDomains · GetBackLinksHistory · GetNewLostBackLinks · GetNewLostBackLinkCalendar · GetLinkProfile · GetRelatedSites · GetTopics · GetKeywordInfo · SearchByKeyword

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This command returns information of the backlinks at domain, subdomain or URL level (see usage in Majestic Site Explorer: Backlinks tab).

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: In 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 get: 20,000,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 20,000,000 results a month
- Expires: not carried over to the next month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## The call

- You send: cmd "GetBackLinkData", item. Optional: datasource, Count, From, Mode, ShowDomainInfo, MaxSourceURLsPerRefDomain, MaxSameSourceURLs, RefDomain, FilterTopic, FilterTopicsRefDomainsMode, UsePrefixScan, ConsumeResourcesForAdditionalProcessing, SortBy1, SortDir1, SortBy2, SortDir2, FilteringDepth, Filters
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/json

## About the plan

- Plan: API
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## Majestic's plans (6)

- [Majestic, $399.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/majestic/399-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 60% complete
- [Majestic, $799.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/majestic/799-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 60% complete
- [Majestic, $1,599.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/majestic/1599-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.008 per 1,000, 60% complete
- [Majestic, $3,999.90 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/majestic/3999-90-yearly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 60% complete
- [Majestic, $7,999.90 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/majestic/7999-90-yearly/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 60% complete
- [Majestic, $15,999.90 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/majestic/15999-90-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0067 per 1,000, 60% complete

## Majestic's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/json`: [Majestic, $399.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/majestic/399-99-monthly/llms.txt)

## Majestic's APIs (2)

- [Majestic: backlink API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/majestic/399-99-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Majestic: domain authority API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/majestic/399-99-monthly/llms.txt)

## Majestic: backlink API alternatives

- [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, 60% complete, 1 month
- [Moz, free](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/moz/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 40% complete
- [RankParse, top-up from $1, Credits, any amount from 100 to 500,000, GET /v1/backlinks](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/rankparse/top-up-from-1-credits-any-amount-from-100-to-500000-get-v1-backlinks/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 40% complete, 3 months
- [DataForSEO, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/dataforseo/top-up-from-50/llms.txt): $0.036 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored

## 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.

- https://developer-support.majestic.com/api/commands/
- https://developer-support.majestic.com/api/commands/get-back-link-data.shtml
- https://majestic.com/company/terms
- https://majestic.com/help/subscriptions
- https://majestic.com/plans-pricing
- https://majestic.com/plans-pricing?recommended=MAJESTIC_API_2016