A SenderPub alternative, if you only trust what you can look up

The H1 says it plainly: "The cheapest guest post & backlink marketplace." The claim is about the platform, not about each listing.

Prices are set by publishers. The public sample on the marketplace page shows 60 rows, each at the cheapest active offer for that site. I counted the table on 2026-10-09:

• Lowest: $2.00 (medium.com, wordpress.com, blogger.com, diigo.com).
• Median of the 60 rows: $23.50.
• 25 rows under $10, 33 under $50.
• Highest: forbes.com at $10,000.00, then nypost.com at $4,485.00.

Fact: the range is wide. A $2 row and a $10,000 row sit in one table. "Cheapest" tells you the fee structure is thin. It does not tell you what a given $23.50 buys.

The badge reads "0% buyer fees · 0% seller commission — forever." Both halves are true as written. The money still has a route.

A system fee of 5% is deducted from each publisher withdrawal request.

That is Terms section 7. The Refund Policy adds the detail: weekly payouts, a $50 minimum, USDT on TRC20, and a worked example where a $100.00 withdrawal pays out $95.00. Terms also say fees may change "prospectively with notice".

For a buyer, three other lines matter more:

• Top-ups are final and non-refundable. The balance does not expire.
• A declined or cancelled order is refunded to your wallet, not your card.
• A chargeback on a top-up can lead to suspension and loss of the remaining balance.

Fact: you pay no markup on an order. You also commit cash to a wallet you can only spend inside the platform. Top up what you will order this month. A minimum top-up amount is not published.

Every listing carries DR (Ahrefs) and AS (Semrush). The site says sellers never type them in: they are "fetched automatically for every domain." That removes seller-entered numbers from the picture.

It does not remove the gap between a domain and a page. The terms are candid: metrics "are sourced from third parties and shown for reference", and the company does not guarantee "the accuracy of third-party metrics". How the figures are obtained, and how often they refresh, is not published.

The sample table shows the other gap. Reddit (DR 95), adobe.com (DR 96) and github.com (DR 97) are listed Nofollow. msn.com and binance.com are listed Dofollow. Of the 60 public rows, 34 are Dofollow and 26 Nofollow. What a listing like reddit.com delivers, and who sells it, is not stated on the public pages.

Fact: the number on the listing describes the domain. The link's value depends on the page, the rel attribute and whether it is still there next month. Those are things you can check yourself. Note too that our DR is a different metric. It is comparable in spirit to the Ahrefs number, not the same, so expect the figures to differ.

On 2026-10-09 the homepage showed 6,216+ websites, 138+ publishers and 4,499+ orders delivered. The sell page showed $998.50 paid to publishers. These counters move, so date them if you quote them.

The leaderboard is the interesting part. It is ranked by completed deals and on-time rate. The first row, kingpublisher, shows 4,441 deals, which is 4,441 of the 4,499+ orders delivered. The second row shows 27 deals. The site does not define "deal" or "orders delivered", and I could not verify either counter.

The same kind of counter appears as a popularity badge on listings: usatoday.com "2,890 deals", msn.com "1,822 deals". Treat them as a label, not as a review.

Fact: there are no third-party reviews, ratings or press coverage of SenderPub that I could find. The company is new. Nothing here is a flaw, but there is no history to lean on.

The homepage sells escrow well: payment is "locked" at order time and released after you approve the live post. If the publisher declines, you are refunded in full. That is a real protection against paying and getting nothing.

Read the edges:

• Funds release when you approve or when the order auto-approves after a review window. The length of that window is not published.
• Orders are not cancelled automatically when the turnaround passes. Late delivery means contacting support.
• Completed orders are not refundable once the post is live and approved.
• There is a buyer-side "Check results" step. Ongoing monitoring after approval is not described.

Fact: escrow answers "did a post appear?". It does not answer "is the link still there in three months?" Terms say publishers should keep links live. No duration or replacement guarantee is published.

It leaves traces. That is the useful half of this page.

Take SenderPub's own profile. The two text links in our index are one press release, copied to times-online.com and minyanville.com. The media-contact footer on the Times Online copy lists the company name, the editorial team and the URL. Nofollow, naked URL, July 2026. A distribution credit, not an endorsement.

The image row is better. A parenting blog embeds a picture stored on SenderPub's upload path, seen 2026-09-10. That suggests an article passed through the order flow was published as submitted. I could not open the source page to confirm, so read it as a hint.

The workflow it implies, for any placement you buy:

1. Before: run the donor through domain or overview (both free). Check its referring domains, dofollow share and DR distribution.
2. After: query backlinks for your target filtered by that source domain. Look for the URL, the anchor and the rel value.
3. Later: repeat. Our index refreshes roughly monthly, so a new link can take weeks to appear. Absence in week one means nothing.

You can browse any domain in the free explorer, no sign-in. The full action list is in the API docs.

We do not sell links. If you need one, we are the wrong tool, and SenderPub is a reasonable place to start.

• You want to buy. A wallet, a brief, a target URL and an anchor, one click. We have no marketplace and no ordering.
• You want low entry prices. Placements from $2.00, no buyer markup, no subscription.
• You want filters. DR, DA, AS, traffic, price, niche and country, on every listing. Our API has no niche or traffic filter and no traffic estimates at all.
• You want chat and a ticket desk. Per-order messaging is built in. We have an API and JSON responses, and no chat.
• You are also a seller. One account works as buyer and publisher.

Also fair to say: the company is registered in the UK, publishes its terms, and states its own limits, including the disclaimer on third-party metrics. Judge it by orders, not by age.

Our index holds 181,132,097 domains and 2,774,625,913 domain-to-domain links, built from 13 crawl releases. It is a broad sample of the public web, so it is less fresh and less complete than the crawlers behind Ahrefs and Semrush. Say so up front.

For a buyer on a marketplace like this one, that still covers the questions that matter before checkout: who links to this donor, with what anchors, how many are dofollow, what DR the referrers carry. Shared referrers across several candidate sites come from intersect. Lists of up to 2,000 domains go through bulk_dr in one request. Pricing is per call: lookups cost 1 credit, which is $0.0001, and a new sign-in with Google gets $100 of credit. No card.

We have no new-or-lost-links report, no alerts and no toxicity score. For monitoring, you run the query again.

A worked example, hypothetical

Say you shortlist three sites at $20, $35 and $60. Pull all three through bulk_dr. Drop any whose referring domains look thin or whose links are nearly all nofollow. For the survivors, ask refdomains who links to them. If the same dozen domains appear under all three, you are buying one neighbourhood three times. Now compare cost per distinct, useful donor, not cost per post. A $2 placement on a site with ten referring domains can be worse value than a $60 one on a site with ten thousand. The reverse also happens. The numbers decide, not the price tag.

After delivery, the same loop runs backwards. If the link is absent after two monthly refreshes, you have a documented reason to open a ticket. If it is present and nofollow when you paid for dofollow, you have the row to show. Evidence turns a vague complaint into a short, specific message. That is all this data is for.

If you want other views of the same market, see the link-building tools hub.