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Buyers usually pick a link marketplace out of habit. But when you actually line the platforms up side by side — same domains, same metric, real prices — the differences are hard to ignore. So we did exactly that: we took the seven marketplaces most people in this market use, matched their catalogs against ours, and compared the lowest listing price for every shared site.
Two things stood out. Links.me has the biggest catalog on the market — 227,317 domains — and on the sites both platforms share, it's cheaper 73% of the time, by a median of 42%.
A much bigger catalog
More sites means more choice at the same price point. Links.me lists 2.5 to 6.7 times more unique domains than any other marketplace in the comparison.
Unique domains per marketplace
The most high-authority sites
It's not just volume. Links.me also has the deepest bench of strong donors — roughly twice as many high-DR sites as the next platform. (That said, Domain Rating barely predicts how often a site actually sells — so treat it as a floor to clear, not a number to chase.)
| Marketplace | DR 60+ | DR 70+ |
|---|---|---|
| Links.me | 18,462 | 10,899 |
| links-stream.pro | 9,269 | 5,091 |
| prnews.io | 8,371 | 5,040 |
| medialister.com | 8,336 | 5,014 |
| needmylink.com | 5,947 | 2,615 |
| collaborator.pro | 4,642 | 2,453 |
| prposting.com | 2,726 | 1,609 |
| pr-x.net | 1,204 | 543 |
The most budget-friendly sites
Cheap placements are where the gap is widest. Links.me has about four times more sites under $50 than the nearest competitor.
| Marketplace | Under $50 | Under $100 |
|---|---|---|
| Links.me | 86,690 | 114,974 |
| prnews.io | 22,483 | 36,501 |
| medialister.com | 21,387 | 35,134 |
| pr-x.net | 9,484 | 22,537 |
| prposting.com | 10,814 | 18,019 |
| collaborator.pro | 9,151 | 16,545 |
| needmylink.com | 2,581 | 14,842 |
| links-stream.pro | 989 | 11,287 |
Strong and cheap at the same time
The real sweet spot is a site that's both authoritative and affordable — DR 50+ for under $100. Links.me has three times more of these than anyone else.
Sites with DR 50+ priced under $100
The most high-traffic sites
If you need big, high-traffic platforms, the choice is widest here too — Links.me lists the most donors with 100k+ monthly organic visits.
Sites with 100k+ monthly organic traffic
Same sites, lower prices
This is the core of it. For the domains both platforms carry, we compared the median placement price. Links.me is cheaper in every single pairing — sometimes by a little, sometimes by more than half.
| Competitor | Shared sites | Links.me median | Their median |
|---|---|---|---|
| collaborator.pro | 38,204 | $140 | $167 |
| prposting.com | 30,907 | $98 | $114 |
| prnews.io | 66,038 | $130 | $168 |
| medialister.com | 65,938 | $131 | $187 |
| links-stream.pro | 66,719 | $210 | $348 |
| needmylink.com | 62,575 | $120 | $190 |
| pr-x.net | 27,367 | $25 | $60 |
How much you'd save
Add up the price difference across every shared site where the competitor is more expensive, and you get the total you'd save by buying the same basket on Links.me. Against all seven platforms combined, that comes to $54.6M.
Average saving per site (and total across the shared basket)
On casino sites, the gap gets bigger
For domains that accept casino content, the price difference grows even wider — and Links.me comes out cheaper on up to 96% of the shared sites.
| Competitor | Shared casino sites | Links.me median | Their median |
|---|---|---|---|
| collaborator.pro | 30,551 | $145 | $176 |
| prnews.io | 47,573 | $129 | $173 |
| medialister.com | 47,484 | $130 | $192 |
| needmylink.com | 52,556 | $111 | $186 |
| links-stream.pro | 50,559 | $180 | $305 |
| prposting.com | 21,346 | $100 | $118 |
| pr-x.net | 20,596 | $30 | $75 |
Same budget, more links
Flip it around: take the money you'd spend on a basket of shared sites at a competitor, and spend it on Links.me instead. Here's how many extra placements you get for every 100. With pr-x.net, a budget that buys 100 links there buys 200 on Links.me. If you're mapping out volume, it helps to first work out how many backlinks you actually need to rank.
Extra placements per 100, on the same budget
- The biggest catalog. 227,317 sites — 2.5–6.7× more than any competitor here, so more choice at the same price.
- The most strong donors. 18,462 sites at DR 60+ and 10,899 at DR 70+ — about double the next platform.
- The most affordable inventory. 86,690 sites under $50 (roughly 4× the nearest) and 8,656 strong-and-cheap DR 50+ sites under $100.
- The lowest price, every time. On shared sites, Links.me's median placement is cheaper than every competitor's — by 14% to 58% depending on the platform (a median of 42% overall), and the gap is even wider on casino domains.
One caveat worth stating: price isn't the only thing that matters. A cheaper link still has to be relevant to your topic to be worth buying. But when two sites are an equally good fit, paying less for the same placement is simply money back in your budget — and that's where the numbers above add up.
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