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Speed Links alternative — the apibacklinks backlink API

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

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Speed Links homepage, speed-links.net

Picture your product calling Speed Links for every domain it touches. Now picture the invoice. That's why this page exists. Speed Links - indexing service

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

apibacklinks turns all of that into a single JSON call over a 2.7-billion-edge map of the web — no dashboard, no scraping, no SDK. Domain Rating and link counts are free and keyless; the heavy backlink and referring-domain lists cost about a tenth of what Speed Links and the incumbents charge.

The numbers for speed-links.net 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 Speed Links

 apibacklinksSpeed Links
AccessJSON APIAPI
Pricefrom $0.10 per 1,000 callsSubscription / higher
Free sign-up credit$100Limited / trial
DR & link countsFree, keylessPaid / limited

From Speed Links to apibacklinks in one call

curl "https://apibacklinks.com/api.php?action=toppages&q=speed-links.net&key=YOUR_KEY"

Speed Links alternative — FAQ

Is there a free Speed Links 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 Speed Links?
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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