We are Datacircle, at datacircle.dev. We gave the same tests to 1,176 providers of 141 kinds of API.
DataForSEO scores best overall in our benchmark: 61.2 out of 100. DataForSEO scores 83 out of 100 for accuracy. DataForSEO's plan "top-up from $50" costs $0.036 per 1,000 backlinks. We rank 7 providers. We last tested them on 2026-11-08.
Every plan below is on our ranking page, Backlinks API: best providers in 2026.
| Rank | Provider | Plan | Overall score | Accuracy | Price | Last tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DataForSEO | top-up from $50 | 61.2 | 83 | $0.036 per 1,000 backlinks | 2026-10-30 |
| 2 | BacklinkMCP | $19 monthly | 53.6 | 2 | $0 extra per 1,000. The $19 monthly price covers any number of backlinks | 2026-11-06 |
| 3 | SE Ranking | $29 monthly, Add-on, monthly billing | 43.8 | 17 | $0.19 per 1,000 backlinks | 2026-10-30 |
| 4 | RankParse | $15 monthly, Pro (monthly) | 33.7 | 3 | $0.01 per 1,000 backlinks | 2026-10-30 |
| 5 | CrawlGraph | $19 monthly | 32.1 | 2 | $0.0019 per 1,000 backlinks | 2026-11-08 |
| 6 | Ranxplorer | €60 pack, Avec abonnement 150 k | 26 | 15 | $4.50 per 1,000 backlinks | 2026-11-06 |
| 7 | host.io | $99 monthly | 0 | 0 | $0.20 per 1,000 backlinks | 2026-11-06 |
A script scores each answer, with no model and no person judging, the same way for every provider of this API. We score each plan on five parts and scale the total to 100: price 40, accuracy 40, cost to get started 10, bundled calls 10 and performance 10.
These rows are in results.csv, and with every other API's in waynehamadi/gtm-api-benchmarks. Free to use under CC BY 4.0: please link to datacircle.dev when you quote them.