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How much does a news backlink cost?
The median news backlink costs $125 across 81,813 publishers; half of asks fall between $69 and $298. That is 18% below the median for any placement ($152). The median publisher in this subject claims DR 24.
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 news backlink?
Ten percent ask under $46 and ten percent over $698. Suspect domains, excluded above, ask a median of $158; the cheap tail is not a bargain.
How much does a news backlink cost at each DR?
By the seller’s claimed DR decade, root domains only; rows under 100 publishers are not shown.
Which kind of placement, at what price?
| placement type | publishers | 25th pct | median | 75th pct | suspect median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| guest post | 44,713 | $65 | $138 | $336 | $176 |
| niche edit | 14,229 | $74 | $102 | $187 | $127 |
| link insertion | 17,513 | $56 | $82 | $213 | $104 |
| homepage link | 5,219 | $128 | $257 | $991 | $513 |
What changes the price of news backlinks?
- Whether the authority is real. Domains our tests flag as suspect ask a median of $158 here, against $125 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 news backlinks 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 news 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": "news",
"budget_credits": 37464
}Or say it to an agent with the MCP server connected: “Plan 3 news backlinks on news sites, under $375 total, verified only.”
84 published figures on this page, measured 2026-09-09. Dotted numbers carry their sample size on hover. Methods: pricing methodology, data sources, quality methodology.