Marketplace comparison

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

Data comparison of the medialister.com and paper.club link marketplaces: 13,580 shared domains (28% overlap), unique inventory, DR, geography, and price on identical sites.

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Nazar D.
CEO seotools.info · Jul 22, 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.

32,162
medialister.com domains
30,016
paper.club domains
13,580
on both
48,598
combined unique

The overlap

18,582 only medialister.com 16,436 only paper.club 13,580 on both medialister.com · 32,162 paper.club · 30,016

The two databases share 13,580 domains — 42% of medialister.com and 45% of paper.club. As a Jaccard index (shared ÷ combined) the catalogs are 28% identical, so about 72% of the combined pool is exclusive to one side.

Running both marketplaces lifts your reachable inventory from 32,162 (medialister.com alone) to 48,598 domains (+51%) — but 13,580 domains sit in both, so dedupe with a shared suppression list.

Unique inventory

  • 18,582 domains on medialister.com only (58% of its catalog).
  • 16,436 domains on paper.club only (55% of its catalog).

Where they overlap, who's cheaper?

For the 13,580 shared domains priced on both platforms, comparing the cheapest listing on each:

67%
cheaper on medialister.com
33%
cheaper on paper.club
$376 vs $488
median price (same sites)
$457
avg price gap / domain

On identical inventory, medialister.com is the cheaper source 67% of the time (median $376 vs $488 for the same sites). The average absolute price gap per shared domain is $457 — always price-check a placement across platforms before buying.

Quality (Domain Rating)

DR bandOn bothmedialister.com onlypaper.club only
DR 80–1001%5%1%
DR 60–7914%14%10%
DR 40–5931%25%24%
DR 20–3941%38%43%
DR 0–1912%18%22%

Median DR: 38 shared, 36 medialister.com-exclusive, 32 paper.club-exclusive.

Geography

#medialister.comdomainspaper.clubdomains
1United States4,224France7,340
2France3,029Germany4,479
3Poland2,657United States3,811
4Germany2,091Netherlands3,008
5Italy1,731Italy2,697
6Spain1,647Spain2,087
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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