Semrush pricing: backlink API, GET /analytics/v1/

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80% complete: 4 of the 5 key fields we checkSee the 5 fields

Contact us, Advanced, 2,000,000 API units, GET /analytics/v1/We haven't run Semrush through our backlink API benchmark yet.Semrush gives this plan's price on request. We rank 84 plans for backlink APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.40 per 1,000 backlinks or less.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.DataForSEO, SE Ranking and RankParse are the best backlink API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Advanced, 2,000,000 API units one of Semrush's 4 plans

Call: GET /analytics/v1/ one of Semrush's 2 calls for this API

API: Backlink API one of Semrush's 5 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
4 of the 5 key fields we check. Source URL, Anchor text, Follow or nofollow, First and last seen.
No public price. You ask Semrush for one.
One call. You send target and target_type to GET /analytics/v1/. You set type to "backlinks". You can also send export_columns, display_sort, display_limit, display_offset and display_filter. The call returns the links that point to the domain you send.
Who can get it: anyone on the Advanced SEO plan, which is bought by requesting a demo. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Semrush: backlink API alternatives

Semrush alternatives: every backlink API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans with no public price. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields.

	This planSemrush, contact us, Advanced, 2,000,000 API units, GET /analytics/v1/	DataForSEO, contact us	RankParse, contact us, 1M credits or more, GET /v1/backlinks, Backlinks	UnifAPI, contact us	VebAPI, contact us, Enterprise & High Volume, GET /api/backlinks/live
Completeness	80%	100%	80%	80%	80%
Billing	contact	contact	contact	contact	contact
Enough for	50,000 results	not published	not published	not published	not published
Freshness	unknown	stored	3 months	unknown	24 hours
Who can get it	anyone on the Advanced SEO plan, which is bought by requesting a demo	anyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraine	anyone with a valid email address	teams with volume, SLA, procurement, or compliance requirements	anyone at least 18 years old with the legal authority to accept the terms

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

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, not in the answer
First and last seen

Price
Per	result
Billing	contact

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Domain Organic Search Keywords · Keyword Overview (one database) · Batch Keyword Overview (one database) · Get Keyword Metrics · Related Keywords · Broad Match Keyword · Phrase questions · Backlinks (v4) · Backlinks overview (v4) · Backlinks overview (v3)

Overage
Units cap	hard

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	This report lists backlinks for a domain, root domain, or URL.

Data
Keep data	not to cache the information received from the Services for more than one (1) month without the express written consent of Semrush
Use data	You may also access and use the Semrush API solely for your internal business purposes in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the limitations of your Subscription Plan. [...] Restrictions. You may not, directly or indirectly, (a) sublicense, resell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, time share or otherwise commercially exploit or make the Services or any portion thereof available to any third party, (b) use the Services for any purpose or in any manner that is unlawful (including without limitation in violation of any data, privacy, anti-bribery or export control laws) or is prohibited by this Agreement, (c) permit any person or entity who is not an Authorized User to use or access any Services, (d) read or attempt to read or derive the source code of the Services or the software underlying the Services (except as permitted by law), (e) work around any technical limitations in the Services, (f) interfere or attempt to interfere with or disrupt the integrity, security, functionality or performance of the Services or its components, (g) load or penetration test the Services, or use the Services in any manner that is, or could reasonably be expected to be, detrimental to our ability to provide Services to any other customer or in any manner that interferes with any other party’s use of the Services, (h) modify, translate, adapt, create, or attempt to create any derivative works of the Services, (i) access the Services if you are a competitor of ours or use the Services to build a similar or competitive work, (j) hack or otherwise attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services or its related systems or networks, (k) use or launch any automated system, including, “robots,” “spiders,” or “offline readers,” that sends more request messages to our servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional browser, (l) frame or mirror any content forming part of the Services, (m) knowingly take any action that would cause any portion of the Services to be placed in the public domain, (n) remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notices of Semrush, its licensors, or its suppliers included in the Services, (o) use the Services to create, send, or store infringing, obscene, threatening, libelous, or otherwise unlawful or tortious material, including material that is harmful to children, and including spam, unsolicited commercial, or other harmful emails, or otherwise harass, threaten, demean, embarrass, bully, or harm any individual, (p) harvest or scrape any content of the Services or any related system or service, (q) perform any fraudulent activity including impersonating any person or entity, claiming a false affiliation or identity, or accessing any other Account without permission, or (r) use, access, copy, or process any Semrush intellectual property (including insights, analyses, suggestions, graphs and other outputs from the Services, including generative AI outputs) or Semrush Confidential Information as inputs/prompts into, or for the purposes of developing, training, improving, fine-tuning, testing, or otherwise enhancing, any artificial intelligence, machine learning, or similar technologies (including but not limited to large language models, generative AI systems, predictive analytics, or algorithmic models), including by means of combining or commingling the foregoing with other datasets for such purpose (except for Semrush’s official integrations embedded into an AI system). You also agree to comply with the Semrush Content Policy, located at https://www.semrush.com/company/legal/content-policy/ (the “Content Policy”) and other policies that apply to your use of the Services that you are notified of from time to time. You will promptly notify Semrush if you learn of any breach of the restrictions in this section. If you subscribe to the Semrush API, in addition to the restrictions set forth above, you agree (i) not to forward more than ten (10) inquiries per one (1) second from one unique IP address or more than ten (10) simultaneous inquiries from one (1) Authorized User, and (ii) not to cache the information received from the Services for more than one (1) month without the express written consent of Semrush.

Plan
You get	2,000,000 credits
Enough for	50,000 results
Expires	at renewal

Rate limit
Per second	10
Concurrent	10
Batch	1

The call
You send	type "backlinks", target, target_type. Optional: export_columns, display_sort, display_limit, display_offset, display_filter
Method	GET
Path	/analytics/v1/

About the plan
Plan	Advanced, 2,000,000 API units
Who can get it	anyone on the Advanced SEO plan, which is bought by requesting a demo

The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

page score, source page title, source URL, target URL, anchor text, external links count, internal links count, first seen, last seen, response code, source size, redirect URL, image URL, target title, image alt, is nofollow, is form, is frame, is image, is sitewide, is new, is lost