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Ahrefs pricing and alternatives: domain authority API, GET /v3/site-explorer/backlinks-stats

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$32.25per 1,000 domainsHalf of the 48 plans we rank by price cost $5.005 per 1,000 domains or less. This plan is the most expensive of the 48 plans.DataForSEO's top-up from $50 costs the least per 1,000 domains: $0.036.
Plan: Lite one of Ahrefs's 7 plans
Call: GET /v3/site-explorer/backlinks-stats one of Ahrefs's 4 calls for this API
API: Domain authority API one of Ahrefs's 6 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 1 of the 5 key fields we check. Referring domains.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $129 a month for 200,000 credits, enough for 4,000 calls.
  • One call. You send target and date to GET /v3/site-explorer/backlinks-stats. You can also send mode, portfolio_id and protocol. The call returns the domain's authority score.
  • Who can get it: anyone with an Ahrefs account, only workspace owners and admins create API keys. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Ahrefs: domain authority API alternatives

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

This planAhrefs, $129 monthly, Lite, GET /v3/site-explorer/backlinks-statsSE Ranking, top-up from $50, Wallet, GET /v1/backlinks/summaryRankParse, $10 pack, Starter, GET /v1/domain-rankDataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/backlinks/summary/liveAnyAPI, top-up from $10, Manual top-up, POST /v1/run/seo.backlinks_summary
$ per 1,000 domains$32.25$20.00$20.00$24.036$28.85
Completeness20%60%20%100%100%
Billingmonthlypay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$129$50$10$50$10
Enough for4,000 calls a month2,500 results500 callsabout 2,080 callsabout 346 calls
Freshnessunknown1 month3 monthsstoredunknown
Who can get itanyone with an Ahrefs account, only workspace owners and admins create API keysanyone who isn't a direct competitor of SE Rankinganyone with a valid email addressanyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraineanyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list

Domain authority 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 2026-10-30.

  1. ahrefs.com/legal/terms
  2. ahrefs.com/pricing
  3. ahrefs.com/seo-api
  4. docs.ahrefs.com/
  5. docs.ahrefs.com/en/api/docs/introduction
  6. docs.ahrefs.com/en/api/docs/limits-consumption
  7. docs.ahrefs.com/en/api/reference/site-explorer/get-backlinks-stats

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Authority score, not in the answer
  • Spam score, not in the answer
  • Backlinks, not in the answer
  • Referring domains
  • Referring pages, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 domains$32.25
Percall
Billingmonthly
$ a month$129
Charges
Start fee$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Domain rating · Batch analysis · Backlinks · Organic keywords · Overview · Related terms · Matching terms · SERP Overview
Overage
$ per 1,000 domains$2.50
Not found
$ per 1,000$32.25
In their words
Their pitchBacklinks, referring domains, DR/UR, organic & paid traffic reports, historical charts.
Data
Keep dataUpon termination of your use of Ahrefs Services, any license rights granted to you under the Terms will terminate with immediate effect.
Use dataAhrefs grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to access and use Ahrefs Services solely for the purposes of your internal business operations. [...] you shall not engage in any use of Ahrefs Services, Content or User Content in violation of intellectual property rights, including but not limited to: a) reproducing, duplicating, copying, selling, trading, transferring, assigning, publishing, or exploiting for any commercial purposes, any portion of Ahrefs Services, or use or access to Ahrefs Services or the computer code that powers Ahrefs Services, without our express written consent, [...] You agree that you will not [...] i) except through the software or search agents provided by Ahrefs Services, search, crawl, scrape or harvest data or information from Ahrefs Services through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism, [...] l) use Ahrefs Services to develop a product or service which competes with us or any of our products and services
Plan
Pay$129
You get200,000 credits a month
Enough for4,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
The call
You sendtarget, date. Optional: mode, portfolio_id, protocol
MethodGET
Path/v3/site-explorer/backlinks-stats
About the plan
PlanLite
Who can get itanyone with an Ahrefs account, only workspace owners and admins create API keys
The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

live backlinks, all-time backlinks, live referring domains, all-time referring domains

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