Link building pricing, in full
No tiers, no sales call, no invoice per published link. One subscription, plus credits for the actions the platform runs on your behalf. Every one of those prices is on this page.
Read it top to bottom and you can cost out your month before you sign up: what a credit buys, what a realistic month spends, and what the same work costs from a stack of tools, an agency, or a marketplace.
Pressmerit Pro
$49/month
- 500 ⚡ credits per cycle
- 3 website slots
- autopilot included
- verification & monitoring included
- cancel anytime
No trial. Plan credits reset each cycle; top-up credits live 12 months.
What a credit buys
Every action, priced in the open
One credit does one thing, and the whole list is here. You pay for work the platform performs. Never for a placement, and never a fee attached to a published link.
| Action | Cost |
|---|---|
| Add & analyze a website (keywords included) | 10 ⚡ |
| Re-run analysis | 5 ⚡ |
| Regenerate keyword batch | 5 ⚡ |
| Find 10 vetted prospectscharged per prospect delivered, 5 ⚡ run minimum | 20 ⚡ |
| Outreach request — verified contact + written pitchreleased in full if no contact is found | 10 ⚡ |
| Request to an on-platform publisher | 5 ⚡ |
| Extra pitch regeneration (after 3 free) | 1 ⚡ |
| Extra website slot beyond 3 | 100 ⚡ / month |
| Verification & ongoing 30-day link re-checks | Free |
| Chat, negotiation, all publisher-side actions | Free |
Prices are per action, charged when the action runs. A plan cycle carries 500 ⚡. If an outreach request finds no reachable contact, its full hold is released. Prospect discovery bills per prospect delivered, with a 5 ⚡ run minimum.
Worked example
A realistic month, end to end
Two sites analyzed, 50 prospects found, 40 outreach requests prepared ≈ 520 ⚡: the plan plus one $10 top-up. At benchmark cold-outreach reply rates that lands 2–5 verified live links: $12–30 per link. Assumptions published, not promised.
Estimate
Count your month before you pay for it
Move the three numbers to match the month you have in mind. The arithmetic is the credit table above, nothing else.
Your month
What it spends
- Analyze 2 websites
- 20 ⚡
- Find 50 prospects
- 100 ⚡
- 40 outreach requests
- 400 ⚡
- Total
- 520 ⚡
The plan plus the 100 ⚡ pack ($10).
At benchmark reply rates that is roughly 2–5 verified live links. An estimate, not a promise.
First month shown; site analysis is one-time.
Top-ups
More credits, not a bigger tier
If a month runs hot, add credits at the price you see. The plan stays $49.
100 ⚡
$10
covers ten outreach requests
300 ⚡
$27−10%
a busy month on top of the plan
1000 ⚡
$85−15%
an agency-scale quarter, prepaid
Top-ups never expire mid-year: 12-month lifetime, spent after plan credits.
The alternatives
What link building costs elsewhere
The work has to happen either way: discovery, metrics, contacts, pitching, verification. These are the four ways to pay for it.
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| Approach | What you pay | How it is charged | What limits it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pressmerit | $49/mo | all-in: one subscription plus the published credit prices above | 3 website slots included; extra slots 100 ⚡ / month |
| DIY stack | ≈ $400+ / mo | outreach tool $165–198 + metrics suite $129+ + contact finder $104 | you run the workflow yourself |
| Agency | $200–500 per link | per placement delivered | cost scales with every link |
| Marketplace | 10–25% commission | a share of every placement fee | inventory limited to signed-up publishers |
Public list prices, checked August 2026. Verify before quoting. Ranges reflect the entry tiers of the tools most often bought together for this workflow; agency and marketplace figures are the market ranges we see quoted, not a single vendor’s rate card.
Pricing questions, answered plainly
Why is there no free trial?
Because transparent prices replace the tour. One plan at $49/month from day one, and every per-action credit price is published on this page, so you can cost out a month of work before you subscribe instead of racing a countdown to find out what the product does.
What happens if I hit zero credits mid-action?
The action pauses rather than fails. A top-up modal offers the smallest pack that covers what is left to do; once it is paid, the flow resumes exactly where it stopped, with your state intact. Nothing you had already prepared is thrown away.
Do publishers pay anything?
Never. The receiving side is free forever. Reading a request, chatting, negotiating, accepting or declining cost a publisher nothing, and Pressmerit takes no commission on whatever the two of you agree.
Can I get a refund on spent credits?
There are no automatic refunds; support reviews cases individually. A revealed contact that turns out to be provably dead is credited back, and an outreach request that finds no contact at all is released in full before it is ever charged.
How long do you monitor a published link, and does it cost extra?
Verification and monitoring cost zero credits. Every placement is checked weekly through the first month, then re-checked every 30 days while the subscription is active. If a link disappears, you are notified and can request restoration in one click.
The price list is the pitch
The plan, the credits, the top-ups. That is the whole bill. No commissions, no per-placement invoices. Start on Pressmerit Pro, spend what the work costs, cancel from the dashboard whenever you like.