Majestic

Majestic is the backlink specialist this category has been missing: none of the other eleven tools here builds a standalone link index, and Majestic has done nothing else since 2004.

Trust Flow and Citation Flow, its proprietary quality and quantity metrics, remain the most widely cited backlink scoring system outside Ahrefs and Moz. The Historic Index holds backlink data reaching back to 2006 across more than 21 trillion URLs, and the Fresh Index tracks newly discovered links from the last 120 days across 540 billion more — a scale no generalist European SEO suite in this directory attempts to match on links alone.

Majestic-12 Limited has operated from Birmingham since 2004 and is registered in England and Wales — an adequacy-decision jurisdiction rather than an EU or EEA one, the same position as Screaming Frog.

Three plans run from Lite at €46.99 a month for small-site audits and prospecting, through Pro at €94.99 for agencies and domain traders, to a 5-user API plan at €379.99 for developers needing bulk access; all prices exclude VAT. There is no free trial, only a 7-day money-back guarantee on Lite and Pro. The trade-off for that link depth is everything else: no crawler, no rank tracker, no keyword research, and an interface that shows its age.

What Majestic does well

• Dedicated backlink index running since 2004
• Trust Flow and Citation Flow link-quality metrics
• Historic Index back to 2006, 21 trillion+ URLs
• Fresh Index of links found in the last 120 days
• 7-day money-back guarantee on Lite and Pro

Where Majestic falls short

• No crawler, rank tracker or keyword research
• UK company: adequacy decision, not EU/EEA establishment
• Prices in EUR exclude VAT, no free trial
• Interface and reporting look dated next to newer entrants

Standout feature. The only dedicated backlink index in this category: Majestic has mapped links and nothing else since 2004.