Marketplace comparison

medialister.com vs paper.club: Site Database Overlap & Price Comparison

Data comparison of the medialister.com and paper.club link marketplaces: 32,539 shared domains (19% 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 medialister.com and paper.club, 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.

88,933
medialister.com domains
112,252
paper.club domains
32,539
on both
168,646
combined unique

The overlap

56,394 only medialister.com 79,713 only paper.club 32,539 on both medialister.com · 88,933 paper.club · 112,252

The two databases share 32,539 domains — 37% of medialister.com and 29% of paper.club. As a Jaccard index (shared ÷ combined) the catalogs are 19% identical, so about 81% of the combined pool is exclusive to one side.

Running both marketplaces lifts your reachable inventory from 88,933 (medialister.com alone) to 168,646 domains (+90%) — but 32,539 domains sit in both, so dedupe with a shared suppression list.

Unique inventory

  • 56,394 domains on medialister.com only (63% of its catalog).
  • 79,713 domains on paper.club only (71% of its catalog).

Where they overlap, who's cheaper?

For the 32,539 shared domains priced on both platforms, comparing the cheapest listing on each:

75%
cheaper on medialister.com
25%
cheaper on paper.club
$190 vs $283
median price (same sites)
$312
avg price gap / domain

On identical inventory, medialister.com is the cheaper source 75% of the time (median $190 vs $283 for the same sites). The average absolute price gap per shared domain is $312 — always price-check a placement across platforms before buying.

Quality (Domain Rating)

DR bandOn bothmedialister.com onlypaper.club only
DR 80–1001%2%0%
DR 60–799%7%2%
DR 40–5922%17%8%
DR 20–3935%32%20%
DR 0–1934%42%69%

Median DR: 29 shared, 26 medialister.com-exclusive, 8 paper.club-exclusive.

Geography

#medialister.comdomainspaper.clubdomains
1United States9,496France19,142
2Poland7,286Germany9,847
3France6,249United States6,326
4Germany4,160Italy5,267
5Italy3,205Netherlands4,654
6Netherlands3,141DK3,784
See how medialister.com and paper.club 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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