DataForSEO Backlinks API · Backlinks Data
$1 in Free Credits · No Credit Card · No Subscription · Credits Never Expire
The problem
The big SEO suites have backlink data. Getting it out of their dashboards and into your product or reports is where it gets expensive.
You need link data in your app or automation — not another dashboard login. Paying $100+ per month per seat for export caps hurts twice.
→ Pay $0.06 per 1,000 rows. No seats, no export limits.
Several major providers only sell API access on their most expensive subscriptions — a steep ticket just to test an integration.
→ Register, get $1 in credits, and call the API today.
New links matter most when they’re new — for outreach follow-ups, risk flags, and client wins you can report this week.
→ Billions of links crawled daily, queried in real time.
See it work
Post a domain and get the complete picture back in about two seconds: totals, referring domains, spam score, and first-seen history.
POST https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/backlinks/summary/live
[{
"target": "semrush.com",
"include_subdomains": true
}]// live response, trimmed
{
"items": [{
"target": "semrush.com",
"rank": 616,
"backlinks": 19523922,
"referring_domains": 136873,
"referring_main_domains": 125400,
"referring_ips": 67020,
"broken_backlinks": 71023,
"backlinks_spam_score": 9,
"first_seen": "2019-01-15 22:56:54 +00:00"
}]
}What's inside
20+ endpoints covering profiles, links, anchors, competitors, and history — all real-time, all filterable.
Instant overview of any domain, subdomain, or page: totals, referring domains, spam score, and DataForSEO’s PageRank-based rank metric.
Up to 1,000 rows per request of individual backlinks with anchors, attributes, placement, and platform types — with advanced filtering and sorting.
Compare up to 1,000 domains per request, find link gaps, and run competitor intersections without leaving the API.
New and lost links over time, historical snapshots, and timeseries summaries — the trendline behind every link-building report.
Who it's for
SEO software
Ship link audits, gap analysis, and monitoring inside your product with white-label data — at per-row costs that scale with revenue.
Agencies
Automate link reporting across every client from one balance — no per-user fees, no export caps, no copy-paste.
Link builders & consultants
Qualify prospects, check live links, and flag toxic patterns in seconds — even live on a call.
Enterprise
Feed internal dashboards, risk monitoring, and ML models from a continuously crawled index of ~2 trillion links.
Pricing
No subscription. No per-seat fees. Top up from $50 and spend it on any DataForSEO API — this one or the other twelve.
| Endpoint | Price | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|
| Any backlinks endpoint (Live) | $0.024 per request + $0.000036 per row | ~2 s average |
| 1,000 rows in one request | $0.06 total | ~2 s average |
| Bulk endpoints | up to 1,000 domains per request | ~2 s average |
| History & timeseries | same per-row pricing, data since 2019 | ~2 s average |
Social proof
"I always recommend DataForSEO. No worries about server capacity, no need for maintenance, and splendid possibilities for rapid development."
"We found DataForSEO online while planning our beta. We were impressed by the responsive team and comprehensive APIs."
"DataForSEO has always been in our toolkit. When exploring an API, you see what it's truly capable of. Documentation is awesome."
Implementation
Every endpoint, parameter, and response field documented with live examples.
Read the docs →
Prototype against the Sandbox for free and fire test calls from the browser before you write a line of code.
Open the Sandbox →
Ask it anything about the API — it answers from the docs and drafts integration scripts for you.
Ask the AI assistant →
Real engineers on the other end — during evaluation, integration, and every day after.
Talk to us →Over 1.9 trillion live backlinks, with billions more crawled every 24 hours. Historical data reaches back to 2019.
Live requests cost $0.024 each plus $0.000036 per row — a full 1,000-row pull costs $0.06. You start with $1 in free credits, top up from $50, and credits never expire.
The index is crawled continuously — billions of links every day — and every endpoint runs in Live mode with results in about two seconds.
Summary, backlinks, referring domains, anchors, competitors, domain intersections, bulk metrics (up to 1,000 domains per request), plus new/lost timeseries and historical snapshots.
Yes — every listing endpoint supports advanced filtering and sorting server-side, so you pay only for the rows you actually need.
Yes. The data is raw and white-label: reshape it into your own UI, scores, and deliverables.
No. Your balance never expires, and it works across all DataForSEO APIs — backlinks today, SERPs or keywords tomorrow.
Register, grab your free credits, and pull your first link profile right now.
$1 in Free Credits · No Credit Card · Pay as You Go from $50
