Above Apex

Published 2026-09-07 · Updated 2026-09-07

Contents

Background
Services
Pricing
Terms and buyer protection
Reputation
Delivery evidence
Operational footprint
Value for money
Penalties
Category evidence
Frequently asked questions
History
See also

Above Apex is a link building agency based in Sofia, Bulgaria, serving software and business clients worldwide. It sells fixed-monthly retainers, pay-per-link placements, journalist-request outreach, and white-label fulfilment for agency clients worldwide. Its current Public Evidence Score appears in the infobox for round 2026-09-pes1, dated 7 September 2026.

Background

No company-register match was found, and the privacy policy names no legal entity.¹ ² A United Kingdom Companies House search returned no matching live entity for the name Above Apex.² The site names five staff, including a project owner, a growth marketer, and two project managers.³ The domain was first captured by the Wayback Machine in August 2020, while LinkedIn gives 2017 as the founding year.⁴ ⁵ LinkedIn lists a Sofia headquarters with a company size of two to ten people.⁵ Clutch lists the same city, between two and nine employees, and the same founding year.⁶ The trading name is Above Apex across the site, LinkedIn, and the Clutch profile.³ ⁵ ⁶

Services

The company sells a fixed-monthly programme of eight backlinks from domains rated DR 55 to 85 or higher.⁷ The programme bundles live reporting sheets, monthly metric summaries, and a dedicated messaging channel.⁷ Pay-per-link tiers start at stated DR floors, with higher figures for DR 70 and DR 80 placements.⁷ Journalist-request placements are invoiced only after the link is live, with pitch approval available on request.⁸ A white-label page offers unbranded fulfilment for agencies, with a stated monthly minimum spend.⁹ Direct clients are software companies, while agency engagements may cover industries beyond software products.⁷ ⁹ The company states that it declines gambling, adult, and crypto-speculative niches for direct work.⁸

Pricing

As of September 2026, the fixed-monthly card lists a rate of $3,500 per month for eight placements.⁷ The frequently asked questions on the same page quote a starting figure of $3,300 per month instead.⁷ Pay-per-link prices are listed from $400 per link, rising to $450 and $520 at higher DR floors.⁷ Journalist-request links carry the same three-tier figures by DR band, with a monthly minimum spend.⁸ Every priced offer routes to a discovery call, and no cart or checkout was found as of September 2026.¹⁰

Terms and buyer protection

No public terms-of-service page was found anywhere on the site as of September 2026.¹¹ The company states that removed links are reinstated or replaced with equally strong placements.⁷ The service pages list first-link timings of ten to fifteen days and twenty to thirty days.⁷ ⁸ Engagements run month to month with a twenty-working-day notice period before cancellation takes effect.⁷ No refund term and no dispute route were found on any public page as of September 2026.¹

Reputation

Clutch shows a rating of 4.9 from 16 reviews with an invited-review system as of September 2026.⁶ A later browser re-read of the same Trustpilot address found an empty page awaiting a first review.¹² Google Maps displays a rating of five with no visible review count for the listing.¹³ The site quotes two different Clutch review totals, neither matching the sixteen shown on Clutch.⁷ ⁹ ⁶ The smoothing method for combining platform ratings is described on the methodology page.

Delivery evidence

No live sample placements with checkable links were published on the public site as of September 2026.¹⁴ The company publishes four named case studies covering campaigns for Improvado, Action1, Influencity, and Dexatel.¹⁴ The studies claim gains such as twenty thousand added monthly visitors and one hundred forty-three links.¹⁵ ¹⁶ No article-level placement addresses were published, so none could be opened and checked live.¹⁵ The stated delivery model blends campaign outreach with journalist-request placements earned on outside publications.⁷ ⁸

Operational footprint

LinkedIn reports a company size of two to ten people, and the site names five staff.⁵ ³ Public contact routes comprise a booking form, an email address, and a telephone number.³ Published turnaround statements promise first retainer links within ten to fifteen days of starting.⁷ No office address beyond the city of Sofia was published as of September 2026.⁶

Value for money

No published prices for the defined guest-post, niche-edit, or monthly-package basket units were found.⁷ Listed retainer and per-link prices name DR floors, reporting lines, and replacement cover instead.⁷ The methodology page describes the standardised price-basket comparison behind value-for-money assessment across all providers.

Penalties

No public route to approve placement sites before publication was found as of September 2026.⁷ ⁸ No public copy guaranteeing rankings, traffic, or authority-metric increases was found as of September 2026.⁸ No headline buyer-protection promise contradicted by legal or footer text was found as of September 2026.¹ No evidence was found that placements are sold as editorial while landing on controlled sites.⁹ No consumer alert or incentivised-review flag was found on any located review profile as of September 2026.⁶ The journalist-request page openly discloses mixed link attributes rather than hiding a non-dofollow default.⁸

Category evidence

Dedicated pages cover software link building, journalist requests, white-label fulfilment, plus AI visibility services.⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁷ Category pricing appears for retainers, per-link tiers, and journalist-request bands, but not for AI visibility.⁷ ⁸ ¹⁷ Named case studies support the software category, while the remaining categories show no samples.¹⁴ Published category terms name eligible clients, excluded niches, notice periods, plus replacement cover terms.⁷ ⁸

Frequently asked questions

What does Above Apex sell?

It sells fixed-monthly retainers of eight placements alongside pay-per-link tiers, journalist-request outreach, and white-label fulfilment for agencies.⁷ ⁸ ⁹ A white-label page offers unbranded fulfilment for agencies, with a stated monthly minimum spend.⁹ The company states that it declines gambling, adult, and crypto-speculative niches for direct work.⁸

What does an Above Apex placement cost?

As of September 2026, the fixed-monthly card lists a rate of $3,500 per month for eight placements.⁷ Pay-per-link prices are listed from $400 per link, rising to $450 and $520 at higher DR floors.⁷ Every priced offer routes to a discovery call, and no cart or checkout was found as of September 2026.¹⁰

Are Above Apex links dofollow?

The journalist-request page openly discloses mixed link attributes rather than hiding a non-dofollow default.⁸ The company describes earned placements as editorial and not sponsored across its service pages.⁷ ⁹ Journalist-request placements are invoiced only after the link is live, with pitch approval available on request.⁸

Can buyers approve sites before publication?

No, no public route to approve placement sites before publication was found as of September 2026.⁷ ⁸ Pitch-text approval is available on request, which is not buyer approval of placement domains.⁸ The company states that removed links are reinstated or replaced with equally strong placements.⁷

What cancellation or refund terms apply?

Engagements run month to month with a twenty-working-day notice period before cancellation takes effect.⁷ The service pages list first-link timings of ten to fifteen days and twenty to thirty days.⁷ ⁸ No refund term and no dispute route were found on any public page as of September 2026.¹

How is Above Apex scored?

Its current Public Evidence Score appears in the infobox for round 2026-09-pes1, dated 7 September 2026. The methodology page gives the full published specification behind the current Public Evidence Score. Value for money is reflected in the current Public Evidence Score, which renders from the published price basket.

History

This article was created in September 2026 from round 2026-09-pes1 evidence, and the revision log renders from data.