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    Ahrefs

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAhrefs 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

    Moz Pro

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AMozPro , from Moz in Seattle, Washington, is an SEO platforms for tracking the performance of all inbound marketing efforts comprehensively. It reveals how content is being shared through social channels and how that drives traffic to a website, and features a broad toolset for search engine optimization: rank tracking, link opportunites, site audit via Moz Analytics, prospective keyword analysis and content grading, as well as a crawl test to find broken or poorly designed site elements. Moz…

    $99

    per month

    Pricing
    AhrefsMoz Pro
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $99.00
    per month
    Standard
    $179.00
    per month
    Advanced
    $399.00
    per month
    Agency
    $999.00
    per month
    Standard
    $99
    per month
    Medium
    $179
    per month
    Large
    $299
    per month
    Premium
    $599
    per month
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    AhrefsMoz Pro
    Free Trial
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    AhrefsMoz Pro
    Considered Both Products
    Ahrefs
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Chose Ahrefs
    Moz's backlink, at least a few years ago, PALED in comparison. It was very unthorough and lacking in many backlinks that Aherfs Site Explorer would pull up. Aherfs Site Explorer would pull up way more. It also has way more info than Moz backlink tool did a few years ago - …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    I feel like Ahrefs Site Explorer is the best in class for this type of tool. Moz has made great strides recently with their keyword research and backlink tool. It's come a long way, but I still feel Ahrefs Site Explorer is better at looking at sites, giving actionable insights, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    Ahrefs is easier, and faster.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    You can dip deeper with Ahrefs Site Explorer's data. It is great for crawling websites, doing website audits too. For deep analysis and research, Ahrefs is a step ahead of its competitors. Ahrefs has many tools like site & keyword explorer, content explorer, rank tracker, site …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    As stated previously, Ahrefa Site Explorer is the best to have an array of tools in your pocket when researching websites and practicing SEO. I would recommend using multiple tools intermittently to cover a variety of searches related to your project. Some platforms may be …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    I like the Ahrefs backlink tool the most. There's nothing else that gives that in-depth backlink analysis of your own websites and competitors.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    I've used Moz in the past, and while it's simpler and easier to use for an unseasoned SEO person, it's also not as powerful as Ahrefs. If you already had a good idea of what you're doing, you're going to find that Ahrefs is much more useful than Moz. Moz is somewhat more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    Ahrefs Site Explorer seems to crawl in more depth and has more features.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    Having used most of the industry's SEO suites, I chose Ahrefs because of its crawl depth and massive suite of tools. Most of the other suites have similar tools, but Ahrefs beats them in both accuracy and speed. These things are important for any SEO professional who …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    It's very clear that Ahrefs has a larger database than their competitors. I never run into issues where this tool isn't able to evaluate keywords - even if they are very long tail niche keywords.

    The link section of the tool is also very useful. Ahrefs is able to clean up the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    Ahref has more comprehensive functionality and it offers lots of online resources to train you on how to use their tools which is VERY helpful.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    At the time, Ahrefs had the most robust link index. Majesitc was a close second, and Moz lagged far behind. Since then, Moz promoted a major update and expansion of their link index, and it now bears further research to determine which product would be better for our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    It is the best tool available on the internet according to me. It has got some great tools and features which other tools and services does not have. It is more accurate as compared to others. It tell all the things for on-page seo and off-page seo about the competitor's website.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    In my opinion, Ahrefs is the best backlink tool out there. Moz and SEMRush are also great tools for SEO, but if you strictly want to research your own backlinks and see what your competitors have in terms of backlinks, Ahrefs is the best way to do that. It's an easy platform to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    I like these other softwares too. If you work in an agency you will likely have uses for many different platforms. I do like the way that ahrefs indexes and tracks links more than anything else I have used though. I think it is very effective with competitive research as well.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    Ahrefs is the oldest of the tools and its index is gigantic in comparison. It also distinguishes between live and historical links which is important for determening the current value of a website.

    It lacks some of the onsite auditing tools which Serpstat Moz and even SE Ranking …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ahrefs
    Betweem Moz, SEMRush, and Ahrefs - Ahrefs takes the cake. Though Moz is catching up with link data, their other toolsets do not provide enough useful data to make complex decisions. SEMRush is a close tie with Ahrefs and would definitely be on top of mind if I also managed PPC. …
    Incentivized
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    Chose Moz Pro
    Moz Pro and Ahrefs each have their own strengths, and we use both. There is a lot of overlap between the two, but I find that there are certain things that each does better. For keyword research, backlink analysis, and site crawls, we generally gravitate toward Moz Pro because …
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    The two closest competitors are Ahrefs and SEMRush, with additional tools upmarket.

    Each platform has its own strengths, and we use all three at FMI. For Moz, we most like the Keyword Explorer toolset and its recommendation engine and filtering mechanisms - it's a big difference …
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    Moz is simple to use. It lacks the depth in backlinks database compared to Ahrefs, and Ahrefs perhaps does a little better in automatically figuring what keywords you rank for compared to MoZ. But overall Moz has some other strengths that make it an all-round package. It is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    I prefer Moz Pro to SEMRush and Ahrefs Site Explorer because I think it is much easier to use and understand. I believe it can be used along with SpyFu because SpyFu has alot of Google Adwords information that can be used in competition analysis that moz doesn't have. These two …
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    MOZ is a great beginner tool but there are more advanced tools out there like Ahrefs that allow you to do even more and have live crawl indexes for making decisions in almost real time. When you compare the crawl depth of other tools to MOZ, you can see where MOZ is lagging …
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    Moz is an all-in-one SEO tool, just like Ahrefs, Serpstat or SE Ranking, which I've used. I'd say that it needs a better/more uniform UI to compete with Ahrefs and Serpstat, but it does a lot better than SE Ranking, which in my opinion is the weakest of them all. What I would …
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    I prefer Ahrefs Site Explorer to Moz's Open Site Explorer. It has much more data on current and historical backlinks, as well as useful charts. The UI is easy to navigate and there are options for exporting the data, which I find useful as well.
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    We still use Ahrefs periodically to fill in any gaps that Moz's data might have, or to see that data from a different angle. We always come back to Moz because they have a larger suite of tools in a single package. They provide the best value for the price. And because of the …
    Chose Moz Pro
    A[s] we all know Ahref or Semrush are very expensive tools. Startups cannot buy these tools. Moz Pro is reasonable and it gives you multiple features at [a] lower price.
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    I think all SEO tools have their pros and cons, but Moz is a heavy hitter. They are the resident authority for educating SEO's, and that is for a reason. Their product works well. I wouldn't say it is head and shoulders above any competitors, but it gets the job done. When it …
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    Moz is a good alternative but my current team leverages a variety of tools in order to support our external and internal customers. Moz has benefits for certain uses--it's strengths are easy, intuitive control systems, well rounded reporting functionality and decent backlink …
    Chose Moz Pro
    I consider Moz the most accurate service in terms of rankings, links, and authority metrics. More often than not, Moz's information reflects what we see on the search engines while other products have a much larger margin of error.
    Chose Moz Pro
    Not as detailed backlink tracking but far more tools for SEOs and inbound marketers.
    Chose Moz Pro
    My favorite tool is SEMrush. I selected Moz to help with link-based research because SEMrush is more focused on keyword data. For the link-based data, Ahrefs is probably the biggest threat to Moz. It has an amazing amount of data, and from the chatter I hear the data is more …
    Chose Moz Pro
    We use Raven Tools and Moz. Raven Tools aggregates Moz data through their partnership, so if you only have $100 a month to spend, consider Raven Tools.
    SEOmoz vs Majestic SEO - Moz has more more user friendly tools and interfaces but Majestic is more powerful. Majestic has …
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    Features
    AhrefsMoz Pro
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Ahrefs and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Ahrefs
    7.8
    71 Ratings
    Moz Pro
    7.3
    41 Ratings
    Keyword analysis9.568 Ratings8.041 Ratings
    Backlink management8.569 Ratings7.036 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking9.467 Ratings7.141 Ratings
    Page grader5.261 Ratings8.040 Ratings
    Competitive analysis9.469 Ratings8.040 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics8.064 Ratings7.039 Ratings
    Site recommendations5.660 Ratings7.037 Ratings
    Task management7.032 Ratings6.022 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Ahrefs and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Ahrefs
    7.5
    62 Ratings
    Moz Pro
    5.9
    32 Ratings
    Local SEO8.450 Ratings5.327 Ratings
    Social SEO6.147 Ratings5.323 Ratings
    Mobile SEO6.046 Ratings6.225 Ratings
    Global SEO9.656 Ratings6.827 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Ahrefs and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Ahrefs
    8.9
    59 Ratings
    Moz Pro
    7.0
    33 Ratings
    Multi-domain support9.456 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools8.429 Ratings7.130 Ratings
    User Ratings
    AhrefsMoz Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (76 ratings)
    8.0
    (78 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)