Best Backlink Services in 2026: 7 With Published Prices

Straight up: SaasyLaunch is one of the seven services below, so we are not a neutral reviewer. We have put our own entry last, listed what we are bad at, and every price here comes from the provider's own page rather than from us. Check them yourself, the links are in each section.

How We Judged These Services

Dozens of companies will sell you a backlink. Very few will tell you what it costs before you book a call. We started with services that publish their prices, because a provider that hides its rate card usually has a reason, and ended with seven that a real buyer could compare in an afternoon.

Each one had to meet four tests:

• A published price. On their own site, not in a sales deck.
• A clear model. Per link, per package or monthly, with what you get for it.
• Something in writing. A replacement window, a refund, or a delivery promise.
• Editorial placements. Real sites with real readers, not link networks.

What we did not use: star ratings pulled from review sites, "top rated" badges, or claims about results we cannot verify. Where a service publishes a review score on its own page, we say so and leave it at that.

The 7 Services Compared

Everything in this table came from each provider's own page on 5 October 2026.

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1. Rhino Rank

Model: Per link, ordered one by one  ·  Published price: Curated links from $60, guest posts from $75  ·  Best for: Agencies and site owners who want published per link prices and a refund in writing

• Curated links, which are links added to articles that already exist, are priced by the referring domains of the site: $60 per link for RD 20 to 100, $85 for RD 100 to 250, $100 for RD 250 to 500, $132.50 for RD 500 plus, and $210 for RD 1,000 plus.
• Guest posts start at $75 per placement and are tiered by Moz Domain Authority, rising to $400 for DA 60 plus sites. The price includes a 750 word article.
• Target turnaround on curated links is 14 to 21 days.
• Every delivered link carries 12 month replacement cover, and they publish a no questions asked refund of up to $550.
• Reports are white label, so agencies can forward them.

Worth knowing: Domain Authority and referring domain counts are third party metrics, not a measure of whether real people read the site. Check traffic and relevance before you order a tier. Prices above are taken from their pricing page on 5 October 2026.

2. Outreach Monks

Model: Per placement, ordered one by one  ·  Published price: $99 to $399 per placement  ·  Best for: Buyers who want a simple price ladder by Domain Rating

• Guest post placements are priced by Domain Rating: $99 for DR 20 plus, $119 for DR 30 plus, $179 for DR 40 plus, $249 for DR 50 plus, $319 for DR 60 plus and $399 for DR 70 plus.
• They state that you approve every site before they pitch it, and that outreach is done manually.
• Placements come with 6 month replacement cover.
• Their page shows Clutch and G2 ratings of 4.9.

Worth knowing: A DR tier tells you the score of the site, not how many people visit it. Ask for traffic numbers on the exact pages they are pitching. Prices above are taken from their pricing page on 5 October 2026.

3. Editorial.Link

Model: Packages, with a published base rate  ·  Published price: $300 to $375 per link inside packages  ·  Best for: Brands that want a package rather than single orders

• The published base rate is $375 per backlink, and packages lower it.
• The Startup package is $1,750 for 5 permanent dofollow editorial links, which works out at $350 per link.
• The Growth package is $6,000 for 20 links, which works out at $300 per link.
• Packages list average DR 50 to 90, sites with 5,000 plus traffic, pre approval of sites and a personal account manager.

Worth knowing: Packages are cheaper per link but lock in volume. If you only need five good placements, the base rate may still be the better buy. Prices above are taken from their pricing page on 5 October 2026.

4. Contentellect

Model: Per link, with published turnaround times  ·  Published price: From $450 per link  ·  Best for: Agencies reselling under their own brand

• Link insertions and guest posts both start at $450 per link.
• Turnaround is published as a table: 12 business days for 1 to 4 links, 15 for 5 links, 20 to 25 for 10 links and 30 to 35 for 15 links.
• Links are described as dofollow and permanent, guaranteed for one year.
• Guest posts come with a 750 word article, and they list a publisher database of over 10,000 sites.
• Their page shows a Trustpilot rating of 4.6.

Worth knowing: A large publisher database is only useful if the sites are relevant to you. Ask to see the shortlist for your niche before you commit. Prices above are taken from their pricing page on 5 October 2026.

5. Jeenam

Model: Monthly retainer  ·  Published price: $1,250 to $5,100 a month  ·  Best for: SaaS companies that want a monthly retainer with a clear per link rate

• The starter plan is $1,250 a month for 5 plus links, which they publish as $250 per backlink.
• The larger plan is $5,100 a month for 30 plus links, which works out at $170 per backlink.
• Both plans state that you pay only for delivered links.
• They list placements from DR 50 to 90 and a 15 step link quality checklist.

Worth knowing: Retainers assume a steady flow of work. If your content calendar stalls, you can end up paying for links pointing at pages that are not ready. Prices above are taken from their pricing page on 5 October 2026.

6. Above Apex

Model: Monthly retainer or per link  ·  Published price: $3,500 a month, or $400 to $520 per link  ·  Best for: B2B SaaS teams that want links aimed at revenue pages

• The fixed plan is $3,500 a month for 8 backlinks on DR 55 to 85 plus sites.
• Pay per link pricing is $400 for sites up to DR 69, $450 for DR 70 plus and $520 for DR 80 plus, with a monthly minimum of $1,500 to $2,000.
• They state first links go live by day 10 to 15, and the agreement is month to month with 20 working days notice.
• They work only with B2B SaaS, and they report AI citations in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews alongside links.

Worth knowing: The minimum spend rules out early stage startups. If you launched last month, this is not the right tier yet. Prices above are taken from their pricing page on 5 October 2026.

7. SaasyLaunch

Model: One time launch packages, or monthly priced per delivered link  ·  Published price: $99, $249 and $549 one time  ·  Best for: Founders who just launched, and SaaS brands that want to start small

• Launch Kickstart is $99 and includes a founder interview on a DR 60 plus publication and 40 hand picked directory listings, with a report of live links by day 7.
• Launch Momentum is $249 and Launch Authority is $549, adding more published articles, 100 plus listings and AI visibility testing.
• Monthly link building is priced per delivered link, agreed before anything is billed.
• If listings are not live within 7 days, or an article is not published and indexed within 14 days, that part of the payment is refunded.
• You approve every publisher, anchor and target page before outreach starts.

Worth knowing: We are the smallest provider on this list and we say no to work that needs tactics we will not use. If you want hundreds of cheap links, we are the wrong choice. Prices above are taken from pricing page on 5 October 2026.

Services That Do Not Publish Prices

Two well known agencies are missing from the table on purpose. uSERP and Page One Power both run serious campaigns for large brands, but neither publishes a standard rate on the pages we checked. Everything starts with a call and a custom quote.

That is not a criticism. Custom scoping genuinely suits enterprise work, where the brief changes every quarter. It just means you cannot compare them in a table, and you should expect their quotes to sit above the per link prices listed here.

What Backlinks Should Cost in 2026

Across the services we checked on 5 October 2026, published per link prices ran from $60 to $400, and monthly retainers ran from $1,250 to $5,100. One time launch packages for new products start at $99.

Four things move a price inside that range:

• Authority and traffic of the publisher. Every provider here tiers by DR, DA or referring domains, which is why the same service can cost $99 or $399.
• Relevance. A tightly relevant site in a narrow niche takes more outreach to land than a general blog.
• Who writes the article. Guest posts include content, link insertions do not, which is why insertions are usually cheaper.
• Volume and commitment. Packages and retainers lower the per link price, and they lock you in.

If a quote sits far below that range, the money is not buying outreach. It is buying a slot on a site that sells to everyone, and that is the one thing Google explicitly warns about in its link spam policies.

Red Flags to Walk Away From

• A guaranteed DR or a guaranteed ranking. Nobody controls Google, and DR belongs to Ahrefs.
• No site approval before placement. You find out what you bought after it is live.
• Hundreds of links for a flat fee. Real outreach does not scale that cheaply.
• The same site list for every client. That is a network, not outreach.
• No written replacement or refund. Every service in the table above commits to something. If a provider will not, ask why.
• Vague answers about private blog networks. If they will not say no clearly, assume the answer is yes.

Which Service Fits Your Situation

• You launched in the last few months and have no budget for a retainer. Start with listings and a first published article rather than expensive single links. Our launch packages are built for this, and so is our guide to SaaS listing websites if you would rather do it yourself.
• You want to buy five or ten links and see what happens. Rhino Rank and Outreach Monks publish per link ladders, so you can test a tier without a contract.
• You are a SaaS company competing for commercial keywords. A retainer makes sense once you have pages worth linking to. See how we approach SaaS link building.
• You are an agency buying for clients. Look for white label reporting and an agreed cost per link, which is what our white label service and a few of the others provide.
• You are an enterprise with a custom brief. The agencies that quote custom will fit better than any price ladder.

Best Backlink Services FAQs

What is the best backlink service?

There is no single best backlink service, because the right one depends on what you are buying. If you want published per link prices and small orders, Rhino Rank and Outreach Monks publish full price ladders. If you want packages, Editorial.Link publishes its rates. If you are a SaaS company that wants a retainer, Jeenam and Above Apex publish theirs. If you just launched and cannot spend thousands a month, our launch packages start at $99.

How much do backlinks services cost?

Among the services we checked on 5 October 2026, published per link prices ran from $60 to $400, and monthly retainers ran from $1,250 to $5,100. Price is driven by the authority and real traffic of the site, how relevant it is to your niche, and whether the article is written for you.

Are cheap backlink services safe?

Links that are editorially placed on real sites are safe at any price. Links sold in bulk from networks that exist only to sell links are not, and they can breach Google's link spam policies. The question is not the price, it is where the link comes from and whether you can see the site before it goes live.

What should a backlink service include for the price?

At a minimum: prospecting, vetting of each site, the outreach itself, any content the placement needs, anchor text planning, and a report with the live URL so you can check the work. Anything that arrives as a spreadsheet of links you were never shown is worth less than it cost.

Do I need a DR 70 link or will a DR 30 link do?

Domain Rating is a third party score from Ahrefs, not a Google ranking factor, and it can be inflated. A DR 30 site with real readers in your niche is usually worth more than a DR 70 site nobody visits. Judge placements on organic traffic, topical relevance and whether the page looks like something a person would read.

Can agencies resell these backlink services?

Several of them are built for it. Rhino Rank and Contentellect publish white label reporting, and we run a white label link building service with unbranded reports and an agreed cost per link.

How long before backlinks affect rankings?

Most campaigns show measurable movement in three to six months. Turnaround to get a link live is much faster: the services here publish anything from 7 days to 35 business days depending on the link type and volume.

Do backlinks still matter now that people use AI search?

They do, and mentions matter alongside them. In an Ahrefs study of 75,000 brands, branded web mentions correlated 0.664 with visibility in Google AI Overviews, against 0.218 for backlinks. Earning placements on sites that AI tools cite helps with both.