Ahrefs

Ahrefs

382 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Ahrefs	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Ahrefs is an SEO tool providers. Ahrefs Site Explorer provides a suite of tools including a component for backlink & on-page SEO analysis, online brand mentions tracking, and domain comparison tool for competitor analysis, etc. They refer to themselves as “the largest index of live backlinks.”	$99 per month

Pricing

Ahrefs

Lite: $99.00
per month
Standard: $179.00
per month
Advanced: $399.00
per month
Agency: $999.00
per month

Pricing Offerings
Ahrefs
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
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Considered Both Products	Ahrefs Jon Baldwin Senior SEO Content Manager in Marketing at Rover (Consumer Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Ahrefs The User Interface and usability of the tool makes it very pleasant experience to use on a regular basis. Keyword research and topical clustering on the fly is really easy with SERP overviews and competitor keywords/traffic insights. Semrush is a little less user friendly and … Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Börner Owner, Cofounder, and Chief Creative Marketer and Strategist in Marketing at White Buffalo Creative (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs is easier to use, their features deliver understandable and logical recommendations, and in my opinion and most importantly — they list parent topics, which is huge when designing/redesigning a website. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Ahrefs It's competitive with Semrush, Moz and other tools of that same ilk. It's great for serious SEO work - not at the Enterprise level - but at the small business, small agency level. I would not consider it competitive with BrightEdge, Conductor, SEOClarity, etc. - but it IS … Incentivized Helpful? Imtiaz khan Internet Marketing Manager in Marketing at NetArt (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose Ahrefs We found the user interface of Ahrefs slightly better than the rest. Also, the details involved in the outputs we more informative. For example, once an audit is done, the steps that are involved in fixing that issue are well explained in Ahrefs. Also, I found Ahrefs backlink … Incentivized Helpful? Nirav Sampat SEO Manager in Marketing at CarWale (Automotive, 501-1000 employees) Chose Ahrefs Screaming Frog is a handy tool when it comes to performing technical SEO audits and improving technical aspects of SEO. But Ahrefs on the contrary is a strategic SEO tool that can help you do holistic SEO. This includes features like performing keyword research, building links, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Ahrefs In my experience, Ahrefs and Semrush are both powerful tools for improving SEO and content marketing efforts. However, I chose to use Ahrefs over Semrush for a few reasons. Firstly, Ahrefs has a stronger focus on backlink analysis and identifying potential link building … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Lenicki CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Information Technology at WebCrafters.pl (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Ahrefs I got recommendations from my coworkers Incentivized Helpful? Saif Ali Assistant Director in Engineering at Web Techne (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Ahrefs In my organizaion we are also using Semrush, but prefer Ahrefs as Semrush sometimes doesn't show keywords where there are low search rates. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Ahrefs With the digital initiatives we have currently underway, both are really valuable so we keep them both. The digital ecosystem changes so rapidly that only relying on one SEO tool is, in my opinion, not a great idea, as each has its own strengths and weaknesses. And the cost is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs provides more accurate and important data compared to other services. It has become a very trusted service among the SEO community and collected tremendous amount of data over the years of operation. Ahrefs is designed to meet the needs of a very demanding SEO expert, … Incentivized Helpful? Bella Castilla Senior Account Executive in Finance and Accounting at Twilio Inc. (Internet, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs is one of the best platforms available in the market dealing in developing online SEO tools and free educational material for marketing professionals. It has all the best features related to SEO and gives all the performance and analytics based on digital presence. Incentivized Helpful? Andrea Hester Director Of Operations at Clearfire, Inc. (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs is the most comprehensive tool we've used for providing SEO and performance analysis for our website clients. It's an essential part of our analytics stack, along with Google products. It doesn't require downloading and installing software, and it's more robust and user … Incentivized Helpful? Carl Pieri Growth Marketing Manager, HubSpot for Startups in Marketing at HubSpot (Internet, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs is more flexible for a large organization and overall has more features than competitors packed within a single tool. Other tools just don't have as much ability as the Ahrefs tool does. We also found the UI to be overall better on Ahrefs and easier to understand than … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Chaidaroglou Director & Co-Founder in Marketing at Altosight (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs has the best backlink data even compared to funded competitors. On top of that, their analysis and tutorials make it possible to get value easily. Monitoring your website, your competitors, and finding SEO opportunities is very easy and there are some sophisticated … Incentivized Helpful? Mike Blumenthal Author - Understanding Google Places and Local Search in Corporate at blumenthals.com (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Ahrefs [Semrush and Ahrefs] serve different functions Incentivized Helpful? Chad Hadley SEO Strategist in Marketing at Power Digital Marketing (Marketing & Advertising, 201-500 employees) Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs is my clear choice when I need to better understand the link profile of my clients' websites as its database is unmatched. However, when it comes to keyword research, it is second only to Semrush. I wouldn't say that it's worse than Semrush as each is focused on … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Glover Content Marketer in Marketing at ConvertFlow (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Ahrefs I used to use Moz a lot and it is also a great tool. However, I found the Ahrefs UI was much friendlier and easier to navigate. I also like the specific use cases shown in the Ahrefs blog, which are much easier to follow and implement when using the Ahrefs tool itself. This … Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Davison Founder in Corporate at Luhhu (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs provides a lot more data, in a lot more detail - and tells you exactly why it matters. Moz is a nice tool - the UI is easier to navigate and there are more prompts for new users - but anyone doing serious work will do better with Ahrefs. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Koolwijk Online marketing in Marketing at Monkey Vision (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Ahrefs Sadly we are coming [to] terms that even trough there are more and more options that Ahrefs has they are still incomplete or not working good enough. And the most important options (like frequent updates on rankings) are behind the most expensive membership. Right now we mainly … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Panagiotopoulos Co-Founder in Marketing at Kingston Creative (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Ahrefs Semrush and BuzzSumo are also good tools. Semrush is hardcore and technical; if you outgrew Ahrefs as an SEO practitioner and were doing intense work for one big client, I'd highly recommend it. BuzzSumo is more for a social media manager; it provides huge shortcuts for … Incentivized Helpful? Kenny King Web Production Manager Responsible for SEO, Web Design, & Social Media Marketing in Marketing at Ascension Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs has more features and more accurate data than its competitors. While both Moz and Majestic are great tools and can be used as complimentary to Ahrefs, if you have to choose one tool, definitely choose Ahrefs. It has the biggest database of links and better stats for … Incentivized Helpful? Lauren Ericksen SEM Analyst in Marketing at Vizergy (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs Site Explorer gives us an easier way of obtaining backlinks when we're doing link building, whereas with other products I have a more difficult time finding viable backlinks. The keyword list you can export from Ahrefs is also a lot more clear than in other products … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Ahrefs The closest competitor to Ahrefs Site Explorer would likely be SEMRush. Ahrefs seems to have a significantly larger amount of data to work with. They claim that their service is powered by the second most active crawler in the world, next to Google. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Ahrefs

Comparison of SEO features of Ahrefs
Feature	Ahrefs 7.8 71 Ratings
Keyword analysis	9.668 Ratings
Backlink management	8.569 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking	9.467 Ratings
Page grader	5.261 Ratings
Competitive analysis	9.469 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics	8.064 Ratings
Site recommendations	5.660 Ratings
Task management	7.032 Ratings

Comparison of SEO Channels features of Ahrefs
Feature	Ahrefs 7.5 62 Ratings
Local SEO	8.450 Ratings
Social SEO	6.147 Ratings
Mobile SEO	6.046 Ratings
Global SEO	9.656 Ratings

Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Ahrefs
Feature	Ahrefs 8.9 59 Ratings
Multi-domain support	9.456 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools	8.429 Ratings

User Ratings
	Ahrefs
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (76 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (14 ratings)