Free buyer tool
Know what a guest post should actually cost before you pay for it. Enter a site's Domain Rating and real organic traffic, and get a fair price range grounded in market benchmarks, not a publisher's wishlist.
Enter a site's Domain Rating and monthly organic traffic for an instant fair-price range you can sanity-check any quote against.
Estimated fair price
$605
typical range $485 to $755
That is about 3.3K monthly visitors of authority per $100 spent.
See sites at this priceAn estimate, not a quote. Real prices also reflect niche relevance, traffic geography, link permanence, and editorial standards. Every listing in our marketplace shows the live price and a value-per-dollar score.
Guest post pricing is a fog. Two sites with the same Domain Rating can be quoted $120 and $700, and a founder with no benchmark has no way to tell which one is fair. Publishers know this. The quote you get often reflects how much they think you'll pay, not what the placement is worth.
The two numbers that actually move price are Domain Rating (DR) and real organic traffic. DR tells you how strong the site's backlink profile is; traffic tells you whether anyone actually reads it. A high DR with near-zero traffic is a classic warning sign of a PBN or link farm, and you should not pay premium money for it. This estimator weights both so you get a range that reflects a site worth linking from.
Use it as a sanity check. Plug in a site you're considering, compare the estimate to the quote in front of you, and walk into the negotiation knowing whether you're being fairly priced or fleeced. If you want the full picture of what drives a quote, our guest post pricing benchmarks break it down by DR and traffic tier, and the link building cost guide covers the wider market.
Pull the DR from Ahrefs (or DA from Moz if that's what you use). Higher authority lifts the fair price, but only when it's backed by genuine links rather than a gamed profile.
Use estimated organic search traffic from Ahrefs or Semrush, not total visits. Real readers are what you're paying for. A site with traffic that doesn't match its DR gets priced down, not up.
Tightly relevant SaaS and B2B tech sites command a premium because the link is worth more. General or off-topic sites should cost less, and often aren't worth buying at all.
The tool returns a low-to-high range anchored to current market benchmarks. Compare it to any quote you've been given, then browse Saaslinks to see real listings priced in that range.
We built this on how the market actually prices links, not on round numbers that sound good.
DR and verified organic traffic do most of the work in any honest quote. The estimate moves with both, so a strong-link, no-traffic site never reads as a bargain.
The ranges are anchored to published guest-post pricing data across DR and traffic tiers, so you're comparing against the wider market, not one seller's price list.
When traffic doesn't justify the DR, the estimate stays conservative. That's by design. You should never pay top dollar for authority that won't pass real equity.
Relevance weighting favors SaaS, B2B, and adjacent tech niches, because that's where a link does the most for your rankings and your traffic.
$77-$361
Typical range for a single paid guest post, depending on site quality (Ahrefs study of 800+ sites)
~$361
Average price publishers charge when you ask to pay for a guest post (Ahrefs)
73%
Share of bloggers who say traffic and authority drive their pricing more than anything else
Run your estimate, then browse Saaslinks to see real SaaS-relevant sites priced fairly, with traffic and metrics shown up front. Fund a wallet only when you find something worth buying.