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Backlink API

SE Ranking, $29 monthly, Add-on, monthly billing, GET /v1/backlinks/raw

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100% complete: all 5 key fields we checkSee the 5 fields
$0.193per 1,000 backlinksIn our backlink API benchmark, this plan scores 44.0 out of 100. SE Ranking ranks 3rd of 5 providers.Half of the 105 plans we rank by price cost $0.225 per 1,000 backlinks or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 backlinks than 56% of the 105 plans.Keys.so's ₽34,900 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 backlinks. Keys.so's ₽34,900 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many backlinks as Keys.so's rate limit allows.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 monthly plan.DataForSEO, BacklinkMCP and SE Ranking are the best backlink API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest SE Ranking plan for that many backlinks. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Add-on, monthly billing one of SE Ranking's 6 plans
Call: GET /v1/backlinks/raw one of SE Ranking's 2 calls for this API
API: Backlink API one of SE Ranking's 5 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 month old. You get backlinks from SE Ranking's index.
  • All 5 key fields we check. Source URL, Anchor text, Follow or nofollow, Authority, First and last seen.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $29 a month for 150,000 credits, enough for 150,000 results. Unused credits expire at the end of the billing cycle.
  • One call. You send a domain or a page's URL as target to GET /v1/backlinks/raw. You can also send mode, limit, next and per_domain. The call returns the links that point to the domain or page you send.
  • Who can get it: customers with an SE Ranking Core, Growth or Enterprise subscription. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SE Ranking: backlink API alternatives

SE Ranking 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 planSE Ranking, $29 monthly, Add-on, monthly billing, GET /v1/backlinks/rawBacklinkMCP, freeVebAPI, free trial, GET /api/backlinks/newOmkar Cloud, freehost.io, $99 monthly
$ per 1,000 backlinks$0.193$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.198
Completeness100%40%80%80%20%
Billingmonthlyfreefreefreemonthly
Pay$29$0$0$0$99
Enough for150,000 results a month10 pages a daynot published1,000 pages a month10,000 pages a month
Freshness1 month7 days24 hourslive1 month
Who can get itcustomers with an SE Ranking Core, Growth or Enterprise subscriptionanyoneanyone at least 18 years old with the legal authority to accept the termsanyone 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 partiesanyone over 13 years of age

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. seranking.com/api-pricing.html
  2. seranking.com/api/api-credits-system
  3. seranking.com/api/data/backlinks/
  4. seranking.com/api/rate-limits
  5. seranking.com/api/usage-guidelines-for-commercial-purposes
  6. seranking.com/legal/api-terms-of-service.html

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
Score
Overall score44.0
Price score58
Accuracy score19
Cost to get started score82
Bundle score86
Performance score8
Price
$ per 1,000 backlinks$0.193
Perresult
Billingmonthly
$ a month$29
Charges
Also pays forProject Management API · from the same budget: Backlinks API · Domain Research API · Keyword Research API · Website Audit API · AI Search API
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns all backlinks pointing to a target using cursor-based pagination. Backlinks are delivered in sequential batches.
Data
Freshness1 month
Keep datano limit
Use dataCustomer may use the data obtained through the Provider API for commercial purposes, including internal analytics, client SEO audits, or reporting, provided such use complies with this Agreement and does not fall under the restricted use cases outlined below. [...] Any access to or use of the Provider API by a direct competitor of SE Ranking requires Provider’s explicit written consent. [...] The following use cases require Provider’s prior written consent: (1) Embedding raw or substantially similar API metrics inside a paid SaaS product, including white-label dashboards, API-based widgets, or multi-tenant products, (2) Reselling, sublicensing, or bulk redistribution of API data, including data-as-a-service offerings, data feeds, or mirroring Provider’s datasets or databases, (3) Use of API data to train public machine learning or language models.
Plan
Pay$29
You get150,000 credits a month
Enough for150,000 results a month
Expiresat the end of the billing cycle
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median1.22 s
The call
You sendtarget (a domain or a page's URL). Optional: mode, limit, next, per_domain
MethodGET
Path/v1/backlinks/raw
About the plan
PlanAdd-on, monthly billing
Who can get itcustomers with an SE Ranking Core, Growth or Enterprise subscription
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

source URL, target URL, source page title, anchor text, nofollow, has image, image URL, source page authority, source domain authority, first seen, last visited, next page cursor

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