pricing · guest posts

How much does a guest post cost?

The median guest post costs $170 across 161,294 publishers; half of asks fall between $71 and $373. That is 12% above the median for any placement ($152).

Buyer prices through Placement API, cheapest seller per domain, suspect domains excluded. Refreshed hourly; measured 2026-09-09. Method.

What is the full range for guest post?

$46
10th pct
$71
25th pct
$170
median
$373
75th pct
$753
90th pct

Ten percent ask under $46 and ten percent over $753. Suspect domains, excluded above, ask a median of $208; the cheap tail is not a bargain.

How much does a guest post cost at each DR?

By the seller’s claimed DR decade, root domains only; rows under 100 publishers are not shown.

claimed DRpublishers25th pctmedian75th pctsuspect median
DR 202928,660$77$174$333$220
DR 303923,679$79$176$371$233
DR 404911,418$113$236$489$246
DR 50598,074$113$279$663$263
DR 60693,901$225$528$1,103$348
DR 70793,570$338$849$1,878$345
DR 8089617$570$1,485$4,173

What changes the price of guest posts?

  • Whether the authority is real. Domains our tests flag as suspect ask a median of $208 here, against $170 on the rest. The cheap end of any band is where bought authority lives; see the five tests.
  • Which seller you buy through. The same placement on the same domain is often sold by several marketplaces at different prices; the median gap is on the market report. These figures use the cheapest.
  • Saturation. Publishers that link out to far more domains than link in charge more, not less, in almost every topic; see finding 07.
  • Turnaround. The median promised turnaround for guest posts is 7 days; faster sellers of the same domain usually ask more.
  • Who writes the article. Guest-post prices usually include the publisher writing; supplying your own copy rarely lowers the price, and some publishers charge to review it.

How do I buy guest posts at these prices?

These are the prices the API quotes. The same brief returns held offers, named domains each with its verification, survival record and score, for four hours:

POST https://api.placementapi.com/v1/quote
Authorization: Bearer pk_live_…

{
  "links": 3,
  "strategy": "safest",
  "verified_only": true,
  "placement_type": "guest_post",
  "budget_credits": 50964
}

Or say it to an agent with the MCP server connected: Plan 3 guest posts, under $510 total, verified only.

56 published figures on this page, measured 2026-09-09. Dotted numbers carry their sample size on hover. Methods: pricing methodology, data sources, quality methodology.