What should a backlink actually cost?
Enter a site profile — DR, traffic, country — and get the real market price for one link, computed from 100,000+ priced sites across 35 vendors. Quality-adjusted, so you know a quote is fair before you pay.
Price a link — right here
Enter a site profile and get the market price from 100,000+ real placements. No limits, no login — members get the same calculator inside the app.
What the market really pays
Aggregate reference from the whole catalog — the same numbers the calculator reads. Median price by DR band, by country, and per vendor.
A fair price, from real data
Real market price
The headline number is the median of what similar sites actually cost across 35 vendors — not a made-up formula.
Quality-adjusted
Every Ahrefs metric feeds a quality score — outgoing links count against a site — so the estimate nudges up for strong donors and down for leaky ones.
Sanity-check any quote
See the p10–p90 range and sample size, so you can tell a fair offer from an overpriced one in seconds.
Three inputs, one number
Describe the site
Enter the DR range, traffic range and country you're targeting.
We match the cohort
The tool finds every priced site that fits and reads their real prices.
Get the fair price
A quality-adjusted market price, plus the range and the metric basis behind it.
Built on cleaned market data
100,000+ priced sites
730k real offers across 35 vendors — the calculator reads the same catalog as the finder.
Fakes & junk removed
Bait prices and 200k+ low-value domains are filtered out before anything reaches the model.
Calibrated, not guessed
The quality→price curve is fit to actual median prices and forced monotonic, so higher quality never comes out cheaper.
How the fair price is computed
The number isn't a formula pulled from thin air — it's derived from the real market and adjusted for quality. Here's the pipeline behind each estimate.
Cohort matching
We find every priced site that fits your DR, traffic and country and read their actual prices — the estimate is anchored to what similar sites really cost.
Quality score, 0–100
Every Ahrefs metric feeds a score; outgoing links count against a site, because a donor that leaks link equity is worth less.
Calibrated to real prices
The quality→price curve is fit to actual median prices per score band, then forced monotonic — higher quality never comes out cheaper.
Market-anchored median
The headline is the cohort's real median, nudged ±25% by its quality — so it tracks the market, not an abstract index.
Range, not just a point
The p10–p90 band shows the realistic spread — cheapest and priciest 10% excluded — so you can judge a quote in context.
Same catalog as the finder
100,000+ sites, 730k offers, cleaned of fakes and junk — the calculator and the finder read the exact same data.
Four reasons the estimate holds up
Know what a link should cost
Price any DR / traffic / country profile against 100,000+ real placements. Free, with no limits, for seotools.info members.
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