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What does Majestic cost for backlink data, and which plan includes the API?
Summary
Majestic sells three paid plans: Lite at $49.99 a month, Pro at $99.99 and the full API plan at $399.99, excluding VAT. Billed yearly, they cost $499.99, $999.99 and $3,999.90 for twelve months. Lite and Pro include one user each, and the API plan includes five. Analysis units, Site Explorer rows and monthly report units rise at every tier.
How the Lite, Pro and API plans are priced
Majestic offers monthly billing or an annual payment for each plan. Each has a monthly price and a lower monthly equivalent when billed yearly.
- Lite: $49.99 a month, or $41.67 a month equivalent when billed yearly.
- Pro: $99.99 a month, or $83.33 a month equivalent billed yearly.
- API: $399.99 a month, or $333.33 a month equivalent billed yearly.
Going from Pro to API multiplies the price by about four. For that, the API plan lists five users instead of one, 50,000 Site Explorer rows instead of 30,000 and 100 million analysis units instead of 20 million.
For one person whose work fits its limits, Lite at $499.99 a year has the lowest listed plan charge. Pro at $999.99 a year raises Site Explorer's per-search row limit from 5,000 to 30,000 and monthly report units from 60 to 300.
What a year on each plan costs
Yearly billing is one payment for twelve months. Paying monthly spreads the cost, but over the same year it adds up to more:
| Plan | 12 monthly payments | Billed yearly | Yearly saves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lite | $599.88 | $499.99 | $99.89 |
| Pro | $1,199.88 | $999.99 | $199.89 |
| API | $4,799.88 | $3,999.90 | $799.98 |
On Lite, twelve payments of $49.99 come to $599.88, about $100 more than the yearly price. On the API plan the gap is $4,799.88 minus $3,999.90, or $799.98 a year. Majestic lists a 7-day money-back guarantee for new customers on Lite and Pro.
What the limits cap
The API plan includes full API access. Lite and Pro support third-party OpenApps, which is different from direct API access. Majestic also meters analysis usage and report units and limits the rows returned by each Site Explorer search.
- Analysis units: 1 million on Lite, 20 million on Pro, 100 million on API.
- Site Explorer rows: 5,000 on Lite, 30,000 on Pro, 50,000 on API.
- Monthly report units: 60 on Lite, 300 on Pro, 950 on API.
- Users: one on Lite and Pro, five on API.
Lite and Pro each include one user, so a team of five weighs one API plan at $3,999.90 a year against five separate yearly subscriptions to a smaller plan. Five Lite plans would be 5 × $499.99, or $2,499.95, and five Pro plans 5 × $999.99, or $4,999.95. Those totals assume separate subscriptions, and they don't include the API plan's higher data allowances.
For four people, four annual Pro subscriptions total $3,999.96, just six cents more than the API plan's $3,999.90 with five users. These are price comparisons, not interchangeable account setups: confirm how users share the API plan's resources before choosing it for a team.
Above 100 million analysis units, Majestic offers a Custom Monthly Data option. It lists 300 million and 1,000 million as choices. Get those prices from Majestic before budgeting.
Include that quote in the annual budget; the hidden SEO tool costs guide explains other extras. You can compare the total in /seo-tools-cost-calculator/.
Majestic's free tools sit outside the paid plans
Majestic's pricing page lists a set of free SEO tools separately from the paid plans: a Backlink Checker, Majestic Million, browser plugins, a Google Sheets tool, Post Popularity and Social Explorer. To price Majestic against other link data providers, use the backlink analysis tools guide or the Ahrefs alternatives guide.
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