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LinkDaddy® alternative — the apibacklinks backlink API

A developer-first, 10× cheaper LinkDaddy® alternative: backlinks, referring domains, anchors and Domain Rating as one JSON API. $100 free, DR & counts keyless.

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LinkDaddy® earned its reputation the hard way. The problem isn't the data; it's getting that data out, cheaply, as JSON. Backlinks, Cloud Sites & SEO Infrastructure for 2030 | LinkDaddy®

Dashboards are built for humans clicking around, not for a service that needs a referring-domain list for ten thousand URLs by Tuesday.

apibacklinks hands you the same signals as one authenticated GET, returning clean JSON from our own crawl of the public web: 2.7 billion links across 181 million domains. Domain Rating and link counts are free and keyless; the heavy backlink and referring-domain lists cost about a tenth of what LinkDaddy® and the incumbents charge.

The numbers for linkdaddy.com above come straight from that index — proof it works on the brand you’re comparing. Grab a key, pass ?key=, and you're migrated — with $100 of credit and no monthly minimum waiting on you.

apibacklinks vs LinkDaddy®

 apibacklinksLinkDaddy®
AccessJSON APIDashboard-first
Pricefrom $0.10 per 1,000 callsSubscription / higher
Free sign-up credit$100Limited / trial
DR & link countsFree, keylessPaid / limited

From LinkDaddy® to apibacklinks in one call

curl "https://apibacklinks.com/api.php?action=refdomains&q=linkdaddy.com&key=YOUR_KEY"

LinkDaddy® alternative — FAQ

Is there a free LinkDaddy® alternative?
Yes — apibacklinks gives Domain Rating, backlink and referring-domain counts for free with no API key, plus $100 of credit (~1,000,000 calls) for full backlink, anchor and referring-domain lists.
How is apibacklinks cheaper than LinkDaddy®?
Pay-as-you-go at $0.10 per 1,000 calls (about a tenth of the typical $1.00/1,000 rows), with no $500/month minimum — you only pay for calls you make.
Where does the data come from?
Our own backlink index built on the Common Crawl hyperlink graph: 181,132,097 domains and 2,774,625,913 links, refreshed every crawl.

Backlink data for the price of a rounding error

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