It's because it costs them a lot of money to crawl the internet accurately and quickly enough to keep up with growth. To have a good index of backlinks, you have to have ridiculous, Google level reach and speed. That costs a fuck ton of money to do.
How about just an api model that isnt a fuckin scam.
Shit, we're probably going to end up having to build our own to save money with the way all these shitty ass site explorer folks mangle there terms of service or api costs.
They lowered it allready but their pricing is just horrible. They should provide very cheap or free API access for developers if they want to promote themselves.
why? they're not a charity, they're a business. They need to make a profit.
Because they dont make a profit by pricing themselves out of business or putting restrictions on the api that make any sort of big customers more likely to develop their own systems then work with them.....
Theres a big difference between high pricing and retarded pricing.
Ahrefs is well beyond retarded pricing. Majestic/ Moz have laughable limitations / tos attached to them.
My guess is we wont see anything realistic until yse goes down. Right now proxies are by far the best investment.