Marketplace comparison

insert.link vs pr-x.net: Site Database Overlap & Price Comparison

Data comparison of the insert.link and pr-x.net link marketplaces: 5,144 shared domains (9% overlap), unique inventory, DR, geography, and price on identical sites.

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Nazar D.
CEO seotools.info · Sep 9, 2026

If you source links from both insert.link and pr-x.net, one number decides how much you overwrite yourself: how much do their site databases overlap? We matched both catalogs on the normalized domain (lowercased, no scheme or www) inside our Backlink Pricing dataset.

30,815
insert.link domains
33,915
pr-x.net domains
5,144
on both
59,586
combined unique

The overlap

25,671 only insert.link 28,771 only pr-x.net 5,144 on both insert.link · 30,815 pr-x.net · 33,915

The two databases share 5,144 domains — 17% of insert.link and 15% of pr-x.net. As a Jaccard index (shared ÷ combined) the catalogs are 9% identical, so about 91% of the combined pool is exclusive to one side.

Running both marketplaces lifts your reachable inventory from 30,815 (insert.link alone) to 59,586 domains (+93%) — but 5,144 domains sit in both, so dedupe with a shared suppression list.

Unique inventory

  • 25,671 domains on insert.link only (83% of its catalog).
  • 28,771 domains on pr-x.net only (85% of its catalog).

Where they overlap, who's cheaper?

For the 5,144 shared domains priced on both platforms, comparing the cheapest listing on each:

68%
cheaper on insert.link
31%
cheaper on pr-x.net
$110 vs $128
median price (same sites)
$64
avg price gap / domain

On identical inventory, insert.link is the cheaper source 68% of the time (median $110 vs $128 for the same sites). The average absolute price gap per shared domain is $64 — always price-check a placement across platforms before buying.

Quality (Domain Rating)

DR bandOn bothinsert.link onlypr-x.net only
DR 80–1001%1%0%
DR 60–7912%7%2%
DR 40–5932%25%12%
DR 20–3928%38%21%
DR 0–1927%29%65%

Median DR: 36 shared, 31 insert.link-exclusive, 11 pr-x.net-exclusive.

Geography

#insert.linkdomainspr-x.netdomains
1United States4,899United States4,235
2India3,348India1,854
3France1,815United Kingdom685
4Poland1,713France680
5Netherlands1,536DK423
6Germany1,031Ukraine411
See how insert.link and pr-x.net sit against all other marketplaces in the link-marketplace overlap matrix, or run your own overlap and price checks in Backlink Pricing.

FAQ

Does "on both" mean the same seller?

Not necessarily — a domain can be listed on both marketplaces by the same publisher or different resellers. What's shared is the placement opportunity, which is what you dedupe before buying.

Is a bigger database always better?

No. Overlap, price spread, DR/traffic quality and geography decide value for a specific campaign. Comparing databases is how you buy the same link for less and find inventory a single platform can't offer.

Methodology: catalogs matched on normalized domain; prices are the cheapest listing per platform per domain; DR and country from Ahrefs metrics on the same key. Figures reflect the current snapshot and shift as catalogs update.
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