pricing · Science

How much does a science backlink cost?

The median science backlink costs $175 across 7,762 publishers; half of asks fall between $86 and $337. That is 17% above the median for any placement ($150). The median publisher in this subject claims DR 21.

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
$175

Cheapest seller per domain. Suspect domains excluded.

$86–$337middle 50% of prices
7,762publishers in the sample

What is the full range for science backlink?

$46
10th pct
$86
25th pct
$175
median
$337
75th pct
$673
90th pct

Ten percent ask under $46 and ten percent over $673. Suspect domains, excluded above, ask a median of $216; the cheap tail is not a bargain.

How much does a science 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 20–291,370$93$195$339$233
DR 30–391,080$102$204$378$234
DR 40–49700$118$202$429$250
DR 50–59462$144$285$533$304
DR 60–69163$233$451$903—
DR 70–79162$414$705$1,582—

Which kind of placement, at what price?

placement typepublishers25th pctmedian75th pctsuspect median
guest post4,645$81$185$358$240
niche edit1,294$70$108$192$133
link insertion872$79$175$332$207
homepage link938$128$227$513$340

What changes the price of science backlinks?

  • Whether the authority is real. Domains our tests flag as suspect ask a median of $216 here, against $175 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 science 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 science 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": "science",
  "budget_credits": 52590
}

Or say it to an agent with the MCP server connected: “Plan 3 science backlinks on science sites, under $526 total, verified only.”

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