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Majestic
Majestic is a backlink-intelligence tool built around its own web crawler — it shows what links to a site (or a competitor's) and scores those links with two proprietary metrics, Trust Flow and Citation Flow. The data comes from Majestic's Fresh and Historic link indexes, which it has been building since 2004.
Majestic has run its own crawler since 2004, building a Historic Index spanning trillions of URLs that no combination of public APIs assembles without an equivalent crawl.
What you lose building it yourself
- ✕Two decades of accumulated historical link data
- ✕Competitor backlink data — Google Search Console only covers sites you own
- ✕Trust Flow/Citation Flow scored over Majestic's own link graph
BUILD YOUR OWN · NOT OFFERED
Not offered here. Majestic's product is a self-run crawler that has been indexing the web since 2004, plus the historical link graph and proprietary Trust Flow/Citation Flow scoring built on top of that crawl. There's no realistic DIY starting point — reproducing it means operating web-scale crawl infrastructure indefinitely, not stitching together an afternoon's worth of API calls.
QUESTIONS
Is there a free tier or trial?
No free plan, but new customers get a 7-day money-back guarantee on the Lite and Pro plans, so you can test the data before committing.
What's the difference between Trust Flow and Citation Flow?
Citation Flow measures raw link volume pointing at a page. Trust Flow weights those links by how close they sit, in Majestic's link graph, to a manually vetted set of trustworthy seed sites — so a page can have high Citation Flow but low Trust Flow if most of its links come from low-quality sites.
Do I need the API plan to pull Majestic data into my own tools?
Yes — API access is gated to the top-tier API plan ($399.99/mo), roughly 4x the Lite plan price. Lite and Pro are web-interface only.