# DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/backlinks/summary/live: Domain authority API

> This endpoint will provide you with an overview of backlinks data available for a given domain, subdomain, or webpage.

DataForSEO's domain authority API on its $1 trial credit plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 domains. It returns all 5 key fields we check: Authority score, Spam score, Backlinks, Referring domains, Referring pages.
We rank 27 plans by price. [DataForSEO's top-up from $50 (/v3/backlinks/bulk_ranks/live)](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/dataforseo/top-up-from-50-pay-as-you-go-post-v3-backlinks-bulk-ranks-live/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 domains: $0.036.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-backlinks-summary-live
- Get it: https://dataforseo.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/backlinks/summary/live`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dataforseo.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/backlinks/summary/live/
- Sold by: DataForSEO (https://dataforseo.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Authority score: ✓
- Spam score: ✓
- Backlinks: ✓
- Referring domains: ✓
- Referring pages: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 domains: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Also pays for: from the same budget: SERP API · AI Optimization API · Backlinks API · Content Analysis API · DataForSEO Labs API · Keywords Data API · OnPage API · Merchant API · App Data API · Business Data API · Reviews API · Domain Analytics API

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This endpoint will provide you with an overview of backlinks data available for a given domain, subdomain, or webpage.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: any search engine results page (SERP) data or content obtained through the Service, including but not limited to data from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engine providers, shall not be used to compete with or adversely affect the business interests of the search engine providers from which such data originates

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $1
- Enough for: about 41 calls, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 166.67
- Concurrent: 30
- Batch: 1

## The call

- You send: target (a domain). Optional: include_subdomains, include_indirect_links, exclude_internal_backlinks, internal_list_limit, backlinks_status_type, backlinks_filters, rank_scale, tag
- Method: POST
- Path: /v3/backlinks/summary/live

## About the plan

- Plan: $1 trial credit
- Who can get it: new accounts, one each, not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraine

## The 32 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, first seen, lost at, domain rank, backlinks, backlinks spam score, crawled pages, server, CMS, platform type, IP address, country, is IP, spam score, internal links count, external links count, broken backlinks, broken pages, referring domains, referring domains nofollow, referring main domains, referring main domains nofollow, referring IPs, referring subnets, referring pages, referring pages nofollow, referring links TLD, referring links types, referring links attributes, referring links platform types, referring links semantic locations, referring links countries

## DataForSEO's plans (3)

- [DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/backlinks/summary/live](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-backlinks-summary-live/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/backlinks/summary/live](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/dataforseo/top-up-from-50-pay-as-you-go-post-v3-backlinks-summary-live/llms.txt): $24.036 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [DataForSEO, contact us, Custom pricing quote, POST /v3/backlinks/summary/live](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/dataforseo/contact-us-custom-pricing-quote-post-v3-backlinks-summary-live/llms.txt): 100% complete, stored

## DataForSEO's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v3/backlinks/summary/live`: [DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/backlinks/summary/live](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-backlinks-summary-live/llms.txt)
- `POST /v3/backlinks/bulk_ranks/live`: [DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/backlinks/bulk_ranks/live](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-backlinks-bulk-ranks-live/llms.txt)

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## DataForSEO: domain authority API alternatives

- [AnyAPI, free trial key, POST /v1/run/seo.backlinks_summary](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key-post-v1-run-seo-backlinks-summary/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [SE Ranking, free trial, GET /v1/backlinks/summary](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/se-ranking/free-trial-get-v1-backlinks-summary/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 40% complete, 1 month
- [Keywords Everywhere, free](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/keywords-everywhere/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 20% complete
- [RankParse, free](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/rankparse/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 20% complete, 3 months

## 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://dataforseo.com/apis/domain-analytics-api
- https://dataforseo.com/help-center/how-does-your-free-unlimited-trial-work
- https://dataforseo.com/pricing
- https://dataforseo.com/pricing/backlinks/backlinks
- https://dataforseo.com/terms-of-service/
- https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/backlinks/summary/live/
- https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/domain_analytics/technologies/domain_technologies/live/