A 38 DA listing at $25 is the price of an experiment: if the article earns citations, you have found a channel; if not, you have lost one invoice.
In this group, the placement's value usually comes from the second-order effect: a business article that survives in search gets linked by smaller sites, round-up compilers and AI answer engines that cite the pages they can find. A 38 DA publication with 5.7k monthly visits is a plausible source for exactly that behaviour, which is why we prefer an evergreen operational piece to a trend piece here.
Within the Business section of the index — 35 listings, 53 median DA, 4.9k median traffic, $35 median price — this placement is 29% below the median on cost and in line with the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $20 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $25 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.
Editors in this category will accept a link to your resource if the resource is genuinely the subject of a sentence. That is the whole test: if the sentence still works with the link removed, the link probably will not.
Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 38 DA and 5.7k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.