The FatGrid Guest Post Price Index: 12 Months of Backlink Pricing Data
We tracked 44,821,814 price records across 448,655 domains and 37 publishers. Here is what happened to link prices between March 2025 and February 2026.
Long story short - backlinks inflation is real!
But how big is it? Let's dive into numbers.
We tracked 44,821,814 price records across 448,655 unique domains and 37 publishers. Here is what happened to link prices between March 2025 and February 2026.
The short version: guest post prices are rising 14.9% per year. We tracked the same domains on the same marketplaces month over month to measure how much prices actually moved.
FatGrid Guest Post Price Index (Mar 2025 = 100)
What Is Driving Prices Up
The 14.9% headline is an average across the entire market. But inflation is not evenly distributed. Two forces are driving prices: premium demand at the top and marketplace repricing in the middle.
Annualized Price Change by Starting Price Tier
Based on 67,148 domain-marketplace pairs observed in both June 2025 and January 2026. Dashed line = weighted average (14.9%).
Max Roslyakov
Founder, FatGrid