pricing · Legal

How much does a legal backlink cost?

The median legal backlink costs $158 across 6,374 publishers; half of asks fall between $70 and $306. That is 5% above the median for any placement ($150). The median publisher in this subject claims DR 22.

Buyer prices through Placement API, cheapest seller per domain, suspect domains excluded. Refreshed hourly; measured 2026-10-24.

How these prices are measured ↗
Median placement priceUSD
$158

Cheapest seller per domain. Suspect domains excluded.

$70–$306middle 50% of prices
6,374publishers in the sample

What is the full range for legal backlink?

$34
10th pct
$70
25th pct
$158
median
$306
75th pct
$628
90th pct

Ten percent ask under $34 and ten percent over $628. Suspect domains, excluded above, ask a median of $191; the cheap tail is not a bargain.

How much does a legal backlink 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 20–291,049$71$160$281$182
DR 30–39933$91$181$340$192
DR 40–49520$112$190$436$190
DR 50–59414$141$269$571$241
DR 60–69210$227$371$809—
DR 70–79241$164$505$1,013—

Which kind of placement, at what price?

placement typepublishers25th pctmedian75th pctsuspect median
guest post4,158$65$163$319$237
niche edit1,041$74$125$192$127
link insertion743$56$98$214$143
homepage link410$170$340$836—

What changes the price of legal backlinks?

  • Whether the authority is real. Domains our tests flag as suspect ask a median of $191 here, against $158 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 legal backlinks is 5 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 legal backlinks 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,
  "topic": "legal",
  "budget_credits": 47250
}

Or say it to an agent with the MCP server connected: “Plan 3 legal backlinks on legal sites, under $473 total, verified only.”

75 published figures on this page, measured 2026-10-24. Dotted numbers carry their sample size on hover. Methods: pricing methodology, data sources, quality methodology.