What SaaS Link Building Actually Costs in 2026
Every published price from 26 link building agencies, in one place, with the blanks left visible. 13 of them publish nothing at all — which is the first finding, not a gap in the research.
- $91 median published entry price per link
- $247 median published ceiling
- 13/26 publish any price
- $697–$19,999 monthly retainer range
The spread
12 agencies can be placed on a per-link axis
Solid bars are prices the agency prints. Hatched bars are derived — a monthly package divided by the links it includes, which is a comparison figure and not a price anyone advertises. One agency is missing entirely: Rock the Rankings bundles strategy and content into its retainer, so dividing it would not produce a link price at all.
There is no trend line here on purpose. Across all 12 plottable agencies the correlation between price and Domain Rating is −0.11; across the 8 with genuinely published prices it is +0.47. Those two numbers disagree because twelve points is not a sample, and drawing a line through them would manufacture a finding this data cannot support.
By authority band
Published prices only · the interesting column is the last one
| Band | Agencies | Publish a price | Median | What they publish | Publish nothing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DR 40–49 | 5 | 1 | n too small | $60 (+2 derived) | 2 |
| DR 50–59 | 5 | 0 | n too small | — | 5 |
| DR 60–69 | 7 | 1 | n too small | $50 (+2 derived) | 4 |
| DR 70–79 | 9 | 6 | $99 | $37, $83, $99, $99, $175, $250 | 3 |
Derived figures are excluded from these medians. An earlier cut of this table included them and produced the tidy-looking result that higher-authority agencies charge less — an artefact of retainers dividing out higher than per-link products, not a fact about authority. A median is only shown where at least three agencies in the band publish a price, which here means only one band qualifies. The honest summary of this table is not a price curve: it is that the entire DR 50–59 band publishes nothing at all.
By pricing model
How the field splits, and what each model costs to enter
$37–$175 · median $83
$227 derived figures
$212–$375 · median $281 published + derived
No price to compute
If you are buying a programme
6 agencies publish a monthly figure
| Agency | From | To | Minimum commitment |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinksThatRank | $697 | $19,997 | None published |
| Outreach Labs | $850 | $6,999 | None published |
| Stellar SEO | $2,500 | $5,000 | None published |
| LinkBuilder | $2,999 | $19,999 | 6 months |
| Rock the Rankings | $4,500 | $14,000 | 120 days |
| uSERP | $5,500 | $15,000 | 3 months |
What nobody publishes
The absences, counted
- 13 of 26 publish no pricing at all
- 12 publish no minimum quality floor
- 19 do not say what year they were founded
- 17 lost organic search traffic over the last twelve months
- 1 publishes an explicit no guarantee, which is more than most say either way
What your budget actually buys
The arithmetic is shown, so you can check it
Floors are quoted in whichever metric the agency chose — mostly Ahrefs DR, sometimes Moz DA. They are not interchangeable, so this filter treats them as one scale only to narrow the list.
Worked example at $3,000 a month
- Stan Ventures81 links/mo
$3,000 ÷ $37 per link = 81 links ($2,997 spent, $3 left over)
- Vazoola60 links/mo
$3,000 ÷ $50 per link = 60 links ($3,000 spent, $0 left over)
- RhinoRank50 links/mo
$3,000 ÷ $60 per link = 50 links ($3,000 spent, $0 left over)
- Fatjoe36 links/mo
$3,000 ÷ $83 per link = 36 links ($2,988 spent, $12 left over)
- Loganix30 links/mo
$3,000 ÷ $99 per link = 30 links ($2,970 spent, $30 left over)
- Outreach Monks30 links/mo
$3,000 ÷ $99 per link = 30 links ($2,970 spent, $30 left over)
- The HOTH17 links/mo
$3,000 ÷ $175 per link = 17 links ($2,975 spent, $25 left over)
- Outreach Labs14 links/mo
$3,000 ÷ $212 per link = 14 links ($2,968 spent, $32 left over) · per-link figure derived by us, not published
- LinksThatRank13 links/mo
$3,000 ÷ $227 per link = 13 links ($2,951 spent, $49 left over) · per-link figure derived by us, not published
- Stellar SEO9 links/mo
$3,000 ÷ $312 per link = 9 links ($2,808 spent, $192 left over) · per-link figure derived by us, not published
- LinkBuilder8 links/mo
$3,000 ÷ $375 per link = 8 links ($3,000 spent, $0 left over) · per-link figure derived by us, not published
1 priced above this budget
- uSERP — Its cheapest published package is $5,500/mo, which is $2,500 above this budget.
1 sold as a bundled programme
- Rock the Rankings — $4,500/mo covers strategy, content and links together — there is no per-link figure to divide out.
13 publish no pricing at all
NO PUBLISHED PRICING
These are not estimated. An agency that will not print a price cannot be modelled without inventing one, and inventing one is the thing this site exists not to do.
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The data is free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0). If it saves you a week of manually opening pricing pages, a link back is the whole business model.
SaaS Link Building Experts (2026). "What SaaS Link Building Actually Costs." saaslinkbuildingexperts.com/data/pricing-index/. Data checked 26 Aug 2026.
Figures change when the source pages change. Every row carries the date it was checked, both here and in the CSV, and the methodology page explains how the numbers are collected and what the known caveats are.