Placement services charge $135 to $500 per listicle placement, mostly paid once (Noble bills a monthly budget). Directories and publishers charge $300 to $1,200 a month or €199 to $1,798 once. Only 2 of 8 sellers say paid spots are labeled.
A placement in a "best X" list article costs $135 to $500 from placement services, mostly paid once. Directories and publishers that sell list positions charge $300 to $1,200 a month, or €199 to $1,798 once. Only 2 of the 8 sellers with a public price say on their page that paid spots are labeled.
This index collects the prices that sellers publish on their own pages. Every row below was opened on its live page on 31 October 2026, and each row links to that page. We update it every month.
| Seller | Type | What you get | Price | One-off or recurring | How long it stays | Disclosure stated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhino Rank | Service | A spot in an existing third-party list, priced by site authority (DA30+ to DA60+) | $135, $220, $340 or $450 per placement | One-off, per placement | 12-month replacement cover | Not stated |
| PressHERO | Service | A listicle placement with a dofollow link; the team writes the listicle | From $250 per placement, all-inclusive | One-off, per placement; no minimums or contracts | Guaranteed live for at least 12 months, with replacement | Not stated |
| Loganix AI Brand Links | Service | Brand mentions in listicles and comparisons on third-party sites | $400 (Supporting) or $500 (Premium) per placement | One-off, per placement | Guaranteed live and indexed for 6 months | Not stated |
| Stan Ventures | Service | Placements inside existing listicles on sites with DR/DA 30 to 60 | $1,500 for 5, $2,750 for 10, $5,000 for 20 ($250 to $300 each) | One-off packages; can be repeated monthly | Not stated | Not stated |
| Noble | Service | New mentions in third-party articles that AI assistants already cite | About $400 per mention all-in (about $200 placement plus a publisher fee averaging about $200); budget from $2,000 a month | Recurring: monthly budget on an annual plan, drawn down when a mention goes live | Not stated | Not stated |
| GoodFirms | Directory | Positions #1 to #15 at the top of a category page (example: Software Development, United States) | #1 $1,200, #2 $799, #3 $549, #5 $429, #10 $349, #15 $300 a month | Recurring, booked per month | The months you book | Yes |
| Coinranking | Publisher | The #1 spot in a list article on its blog, with 2 dofollow links | $1,499 once, or $1,798 once with writing | One-off | Permanent (terms apply) | Not stated |
| IdeaProof | Directory | A Sponsored Pick slot on one Top-10 list page, with click analytics | €199 once | One-off | 12 months | Yes |
Prices as published on each seller's own page, opened on 31 October 2026. "Not stated" means we could not find it on the page we link. GoodFirms rates differ by page and region; the figures shown are its booking tool's Software Development, United States page. Noble's figures are averages it states, not fixed prices. Coinranking is a crypto data site, so its list articles are about crypto, not software.
Some sellers offer list positions but ask you to contact them for a price. We list them here so you know they exist, but they are not part of the price ranges below.
Services find the list, pitch or pay the publisher and get you in. The cheapest public price is Rhino Rank at $135 for a DA30+ site. Most sit between $250 and $500. Stan Ventures works out at $250 to $300 per placement in its packages. Noble says a typical mention costs about $400 all-in.
Price mostly follows the site's authority score. Rhino Rank's four tiers run from $135 (DA30+) to $450 (DA60+). Loganix charges $100 more for its Premium tier, which needs DR 40+ and 5,000+ monthly organic visits.
Directories sell their own list positions directly. GoodFirms prices each position on a category page: on its Software Development, United States page, #1 costs $1,200 a month and #15 costs $300 a month. Position 1 costs four times position 15.
Publishers that sell a spot once charge more up front. Coinranking asks $1,499 for a permanent #1 spot. IdeaProof asks €199 for 12 months.
Most are one-off. Of the 8 sellers with a public price, 6 charge once and 2 charge every month.
One-off sellers protect the buyer with a guarantee instead: 6 months at Loganix, 12 months at Rhino Rank and PressHERO, and "permanent" at Coinranking. After that period, none of these pages says who checks that the spot is still there.
Two of eight. GoodFirms says sponsored positions are "Clearly labeled" on every ad surface. IdeaProof says paid placements are clearly marked as Sponsored and use rel="sponsored" links. The other six pages don't say whether the spot is labeled. Several say the opposite about links: Coinranking and PressHERO describe dofollow links, and Rhino Rank says its links pass equity.
That matters for two reasons. Google's link spam policy treats buying links for ranking as spam unless the link carries rel="sponsored" or rel="nofollow". And consumer rules in the US, EU and UK expect paid content to be recognisable as paid. Our guide to listicle placements explains both.
None of the prices tell you how many people read the list or whether AI assistants cite it. Those two things decide what the spot is worth to you. Our guide covers how to judge a list before you buy.
What we left out:
The index is updated monthly. Next update: December 2026. If you sell list spots with a public price and want to be included, or see a price that changed, email [email protected].
Yes. You can copy the table or the numbers into your own article, report or spreadsheet. Please cite "Rank Monthly, Listicle placement price index, October 2026" and link to this page: https://rankmonthly.com/research/listicle-placement-prices. The columns are seller, type, what you get, price, one-off or recurring, how long it stays and disclosure stated, so it pastes cleanly into a CSV. Check the seller's page before you quote a single price, because sellers change them.
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