Moz pricing and alternatives: backlink API

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40% complete: 2 of the 5 key fields we checkSee the 5 fields

$0.00per 1,000 backlinksWe rank 37 plans by price. 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: Free one of Moz's 7 plans

Call: POST /links Moz's only call for this API

POST /linksFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Backlink API one of Moz's 5 APIs

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Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
2 of the 5 key fields we check. Source URL, Anchor text.
Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a month, enough for 50 results. Calls stop once your credits run out.
One call. You send target to POST /links. The call returns the links that point to the domain you send.
Who can get it: anyone with a valid, non-expired credit card. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Moz: backlink API alternatives

The table starts with Moz's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 backlinks closest to Moz's.

	Moz, $500 monthly	AnyAPI, top-up from $10, Manual top-up, POST /v1/run/seo.backlinks	SE Ranking, top-up from $50, Wallet, GET /v1/backlinks/all	RankParse, $10 pack, Starter, POST /v1/batch	Keywords Everywhere, $1,300 pack, 6,000,000 credits, POST /v1/get_unique_domain_backlinks
$ per 1,000 backlinks	$1.00	$0.05	$0.20	$0.20	$1.083
Completeness	40%	100%	60%	40%	40%
Billing	monthly	pay first	pay first	pay first	pay first
Pay	$500	$10	$50	$10	$1,300
Enough for	500,000 results a month	200,000 results	250,000 results	500 pages	1,200,000 results
Freshness	unknown	unknown	1 month	3 months	unknown
Who can get it	anyone	anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list	anyone who isn't a direct competitor of SE Ranking	anyone with a valid email address	anyone 13 or over with a Keywords Everywhere account

Backlink API pricing: plans compared

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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.

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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, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 backlinks	$0.00
Per	result
Billing	free

Charges
Start fee	$0.00
Also pays for	from the same budget: URL Metrics · Brand Authority · Link Intersect · Linking Root Domains · Link Status · Anchor Text · Final Redirect · Top Pages · Global Top Pages · Global Top Root Domains · Index Metadata · Usage Data · Keyword Metrics · Keyword Suggestions · Search Intent · Ranking Keywords

Overage
Units cap	hard

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Through the Moz API, you can harness the power of our link index to see all the pages or domains linking to a site you’re interested in

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	use the Service to access the Data for Subscriber’s internal business purpose requiring analyzing URLs, (ii) display Data internally within its business, and (iii) display Data externally provided such display is done in accordance with Our attribution policy [...] Subscriber will not (nor will permit anyone else to) : (a) sell or otherwise charge anyone specifically or solely for the access or use of the Service except as permitted under the Agreement, (b) create any derivative works of the Service, (c) combine Data with constant factors [...], (d) copy, store, archive or extract Data in a manner not explicitly permitted herein, [...] (f) permit third parties to use the API key, [...] When displaying Moz API data (links, metrics, and anchor text), use our approved logo and link it to https://moz.com/. [...] You may not white-label our metrics. When you display data from Moz API, you must label it as originating from the Moz API.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	50 credits a month
Enough for	50 results a month

Rate limit
Per second	0.1
Batch	1

The call
You send	target. Optional: target_scope, sort, filter, anchor_text, source_root_domain, source_scope, subdomains_limited_to_one, limit, next_token
Method	POST
Path	/links

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone with a valid, non-expired credit card

The 114 fields the plan's answer can hold

source URL, source subdomain, source root domain, source title, source last crawled, source HTTP code, source pages to page, source nofollow pages to page, source redirect pages to page, source external pages to page, source external nofollow pages to page, source external redirect pages to page, source deleted pages to page, source root domains to page, source indirect root domains to page, source deleted root domains to page, source nofollow root domains to page, source pages to subdomain, source nofollow pages to subdomain, source redirect pages to subdomain, source external pages to subdomain, source external nofollow pages to subdomain, source external redirect pages to subdomain, source deleted pages to subdomain, source root domains to subdomain, source deleted root domains to subdomain, source nofollow root domains to subdomain, source pages to root domain, source nofollow pages to root domain, source redirect pages to root domain, source external pages to root domain, source external indirect pages to root domain, source external nofollow pages to root domain, source external redirect pages to root domain, source deleted pages to root domain, source root domains to root domain, source indirect root domains to root domain, source deleted root domains to root domain, source nofollow root domains to root domain, source page authority, source domain authority, source link propensity, source spam score, source root domains from page, source nofollow root domains from page, source pages from page, source nofollow pages from page, source root domains from root domain, source nofollow root domains from root domain, source pages from root domain, source nofollow pages from root domain, source pages crawled from root domain, target URL, target subdomain, target root domain, target title, target last crawled, target HTTP code, target pages to page, target nofollow pages to page, target redirect pages to page, target external pages to page, target external nofollow pages to page, target external redirect pages to page, target deleted pages to page, target root domains to page, target indirect root domains to page, target deleted root domains to page, target nofollow root domains to page, target pages to subdomain, target nofollow pages to subdomain, target redirect pages to subdomain, target external pages to subdomain, target external nofollow pages to subdomain, target external redirect pages to subdomain, target deleted pages to subdomain, target root domains to subdomain, target deleted root domains to subdomain, target nofollow root domains to subdomain, target pages to root domain, target nofollow pages to root domain, target redirect pages to root domain, target external pages to root domain, target external indirect pages to root domain, target external nofollow pages to root domain, target external redirect pages to root domain, target deleted pages to root domain, target root domains to root domain, target indirect root domains to root domain, target deleted root domains to root domain, target nofollow root domains to root domain, target page authority, target domain authority, target link propensity, target spam score, target root domains from page, target nofollow root domains from page, target pages from page, target nofollow pages from page, target root domains from root domain, target nofollow root domains from root domain, target pages from root domain, target nofollow pages from root domain, target pages crawled from root domain, anchor text, date first seen, date last seen, date disappeared, nofollow, redirect, rel canonical, via redirect, via rel canonical, next token

Moz pricing and alternatives: backlink API

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