Top 10 SaaS Link Building Services
Ten SaaS link building providers, checked on 30 August 2026. Only three publish a rate. Their own domain ratings run from 19 to 79, and the cheapest published rate belongs to the weakest domain here.
Publish a rate: BrimCove, SaaStorm and uSERP. Six do not publish one, and one blocked our check.
The spread: $250 per link at the low end, $25,000 a month at the high end.
We sell outreach software and we are tenth on our own list. Read the verified columns, not the order.
Pick BrimCove if you want a published monthly rate. Pick uSERP if you have $10,000 a month to spend. Run the outreach yourself if your budget is under $1,000.
The part nobody lists: publishers in our inbox ask £30 to €1,500 for the placement itself. Most of a retainer is the outreach labour.
How we checked this list
Most "best SaaS link building agency" posts rank providers without checking anything about them. This one records two facts per provider that anyone can verify, and says plainly where we could not get an answer.
Published price. On 30 August 2026 we loaded each provider's own SaaS link building page and looked for a rate stated on it. Three publish one. Six do not, which is not a criticism, it is a fact about how they sell. One returned HTTP 403 to our request, so it is recorded as could not check rather than as an absence of pricing.
Their own domain rating. Every provider here sells authority, so their own is worth knowing. Each figure below came from the Ahrefs domain rating API on the same day. It is not a quality score and a low number is not a disqualification. It is context: BrimCove sells link building from a DR 19 domain and holds the top organic result for this search anyway, which says something useful about how winnable these pages are.
We are on the list because we compete for the same budget. We are software rather than an agency, and our entry says so.
The ten SaaS link building services
| Provider | Their own DR | Published price | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| BrimCove | 19 | $1,250/mo for 5 editorial links | Monthly, no long lock-in |
| SaaSLinkBuilder | 35 | Not published | Quote on request |
| Growpad | 33 | Not published | Qualifies by client revenue |
| SaaStorm | 31 | $350 average per link | Per link |
| Linkflow | 48 | Could not check | Site returned HTTP 403 |
| uSERP | 75 | $5,000 to $25,000+ per month | Managed retainer |
| Siege Media | 79 | Not published | Content-led retainer |
| Skale | 68 | Not published | Managed retainer |
| NUOPTIMA | 56 | Not published | Managed retainer |
| MentionAgent | 22 | $99/mo flat | Software you run yourself |
1. BrimCove
The only provider here that puts a full package on the page: $1,250 a month for 5 editorial links, billed monthly with no long lock-in. That is $250 a link, the clearest number on this list. Their own domain is DR 19, the lowest of the nine agencies, and they hold the top organic result for this search regardless. Best for a SaaS company that wants a fixed monthly figure rather than a scoping call.
2. SaaSLinkBuilder
A SaaS-only positioning on a DR 35 domain. No rate is published, so budgeting means a call. The narrow focus reads as genuine rather than a landing page bolted onto a general agency, which is rarer in this category than the marketing implies. Best for buyers who want a provider that works only on SaaS and are comfortable asking for a quote.
3. Growpad
Publishes no price but does something more useful than most: it qualifies openly by client size, naming Series B and above at $1M to $10M in revenue for one tier, and Series C and above at $10M or more for another. That tells you in one line whether you are the customer. DR 33. Best for funded SaaS past the seed stage, and explicitly not for early-stage companies.
4. SaaStorm
States a per-unit rate in its own FAQ: "Our average price per link is $350, with an average Domain Rating (DR) of 70." That is a specific, checkable claim about both price and placement quality, and few competitors make one. Their own domain is DR 31. Best for buyers who would rather pay per link than per month and want a stated quality floor.
5. Linkflow
DR 48. Their SaaS link building page returned HTTP 403 to our request on 30 August 2026, so we could not read what they publish. That is recorded as could not check, not as no price. Worth loading in a normal browser before you rule it in or out.
6. uSERP
The most open of the expensive options. Their pages state that prices "typically range from $5,000 to $25,000+ per month", that competent agencies "start at around $10,000 per month", and that Net30 terms apply only above $20,000 a month. DR 75, with named enterprise case studies. Best for funded SaaS with a real budget and an in-house marketing lead to run the relationship.
7. Siege Media
DR 79, the strongest domain here. No service price on the page we checked; the site leads with client outcomes instead, including a stated $148,646,000 in yearly client traffic value across its book of work. Content-led rather than pure outreach, which suits companies buying the asset and the links together. Best for later-stage SaaS running content and links as one programme.
8. Skale
DR 68, SaaS-focused, no published rate. Positioned around owning a category's search results rather than shipping a link quota, which is a different product from most of this list even though it competes for the same budget. Best for SaaS companies buying an SEO programme where links are one input rather than the deliverable.
9. NUOPTIMA
DR 56, no published rate on the page we checked. Leads with case-study revenue figures rather than link counts, including a stated $403,330 in contracted sales value for one client. Broader than SaaS alone. Best for buyers who want the pitch framed around pipeline rather than placements, and who will sit through the scoping call.
10. MentionAgent
Ours, and the reason we can be specific about publisher pricing below. It is software rather than a service: the agent finds topically relevant sites, verifies contacts, drafts a pitch against the specific page it is referencing, sends from your own domain and follows up on silence. $99 a month flat, no per-link fee, and you approve every send. Our own domain is DR 22. Best for founders and small teams with under $1,000 a month to spend who can give it an hour a week. Not the right call if you want somebody else to own the outcome.
What the link inside a retainer actually costs
Every retainer above buys two separate things: someone to run the outreach, and whatever the publisher charges to place the link. Agencies quote the two together. We can separate them, because publishers reply to our outreach with their rate cards.
56 publishers have replied to campaigns run through MentionAgent with a price attached. Thirty of them quoted more than one number, because most sell several products rather than one. Five priced explicitly per link. Here is what those replies look like, verbatim:
| What the publisher wrote | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| "$700 for guest post, $400 for link insertion" | A written article costs roughly double a link added to an existing one. |
| "$100 per article (guest post), $50 per existing article (link insertion)" | The same split, an order of magnitude cheaper, at a smaller site. |
| "€1,500 (Top 1), €1,250 (Top 2), €1,000 (Top 3), €750 (Top 4), €500 (Top 5 and more)" | Best-of lists are sold by position, like ad inventory. |
| "1st position: $749 USD, 6th position: $249 USD" | The same model at a different site, so it is not a one-off. |
| "$595 each, or $2495 for a block of 10" | Volume discounts exist, and the block price is per placement, not per month. |
| "$449 / year" | Some placements are rented annually rather than bought once. |
| "UK: £30.00 + VAT; Worldwide: £30.00 or $45.00" | The cheapest ask we have on record. |
Put that beside the agency numbers. BrimCove's package is $250 a link. SaaStorm states $350 a link. The placements themselves, in our data, run from about £30 to €1,500 depending entirely on the site and the position. The gap between those two figures is not margin on the link, it is the prospecting, the contact verification, the pitch and the negotiation. That is the work you are buying, and it is the part software can do if your budget will not stretch to a retainer.
One caveat we will not paper over: these 56 quotes are the publishers who chose to reply with a price. Sites that refuse paid placement entirely, which are usually the ones most worth having, are absent from this sample by definition. Treat the range as what the paid end of the market asks, not as the market.
What to ask before you sign
Four questions that separate providers quickly, in rough order of how much they reveal:
- What happens in month four? A narrow B2B category holds a finite pool of genuinely relevant blogs and a normal campaign works through it in weeks. Ask how the prospect list widens once the obvious sites are used up. Providers without an answer start pitching sites that make no sense, and that is when campaigns quietly stop producing.
- Is the fee per link or per month? Both are defensible. What is not defensible is a monthly retainer with no stated link volume, because afterwards you cannot tell whether you got value.
- Do you pay publishers, and is that inside the fee? Given the rate cards above, a provider quoting well under $250 a link is either buying from the cheapest end of the paid market or counting placements you would not want. Ask directly.
- Show me three live placements from the last 90 days in a niche like mine. Not a logo wall. Live URLs, recent, and close enough to your category that the relevance is checkable.
If you are weighing this against doing it in house, outsource link building compares the four buying models on cost, and link building for B2B SaaS is the step by step version for running it yourself. Agencies reselling to their own clients should read white label link building instead. For the cheaper end of the market, see affordable link building services.
Frequently asked questions
How much do SaaS link building services cost?
Of the ten providers we checked on 30 August 2026, three publish a rate. BrimCove states $1,250 a month for 5 editorial links, which is $250 a link. SaaStorm states an average of $350 a link. uSERP states $5,000 to $25,000 or more per month and says competent agencies start around $10,000 a month. Six publish nothing and one blocked our check. Running the outreach yourself with software is $99 a month flat.
Why do most SaaS link building agencies hide their pricing?
Because cost varies with the placements you want, and because a scoping call converts better than a price tag. That is a real commercial reason rather than a trick. It does mean you cannot compare six providers without six calls, which is why the three that publish a rate are worth starting with even if you end up elsewhere.
Does a link building agency need a high domain rating itself?
No, and this list is the evidence. The provider ranking first for this search sits on a DR 19 domain, well below the DR 79 and DR 75 firms further down. An agency's own authority tells you how good they are at marketing themselves, which is a different skill from placing links for a client. Use it as context, not as a score.
What do publishers actually charge to place a link?
In the 56 priced replies we have on record, the asks run from £30.00 plus VAT at the cheapest to €1,500 for the top slot in a best-of list. Guest posts typically cost roughly double a link inserted into an existing article at the same site, and best-of lists are commonly sold by position. Thirty of the 56 quoted more than one number.
Should a bootstrapped SaaS hire a link building agency at all?
Usually not at these prices. The managed floor on this list sits above $1,000 a month and most of it is well above that, which is hard to justify before there is revenue to protect. What a retainer buys is mostly prospecting, contact finding, pitching and follow up, and those are the parts software can do. Keep the judgement calls and the negotiation for yourself.