Ahrefs vs. Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Ahrefs

382 Reviews and Ratings

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

194 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
Screaming Frog	Score9.9 out of 10	N/A	N/A	$149 per year

Pricing

Ahrefs

Screaming Frog

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

Paid Version: $149.00
per year

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

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Ahrefs	Screaming Frog
Considered Both Products	Ahrefs 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? 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? 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? Sanjit Mandal Digital Marketing Strategist, Founder in Professional Services at California SEO Professionals (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Ahrefs The way Ahrefs presents the data collected is much more intuitive and easy to understand than the way SEMRush offers it. The interface of Ahrefs is more user-friendly than the one from SEMRush. I can get lost in the way SEMRush presents the data, and their help guides are not as … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Kirksey Founder, CEO in Corporate at Direction.com (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs Site Explorer seems to crawl in more depth and has more features. Incentivized Helpful? Katie Goh SEM/SEO Analyst in Marketing at Healthgrades (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees) 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 Helpful? Ari Roth Senior Account Manager in Professional Services at Five Blocks Inc. (Public Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees) 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 Helpful? Mitch Lee SEO Manager in Marketing at ConnectWise (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) 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 Helpful?	Screaming Frog Cole Watts Digital Marketing Manager in Marketing at GFL Environmental (Utilities, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Screaming Frog Please note that, while Screaming Frog is a great tool for scanning the website all it is, is a tool that scans the website. For deeper analysis or for keyword analysis, please take a look at tools like Semrush and Ahrefs for your medium size business, or Conductor for a … Incentivized Helpful? James Egan Data and Insight Consultant in Marketing at Surfingturtle (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Screaming Frog I use Screaming Frog because it is a very powerful tool that is not prohibitively expensive. Moz is at the same price range but has lost some of its zing because they have upped the price for individual aspects. Buy a license from SF and that is it, done and dusted. I just wish … Incentivized Helpful? Nirav Sampat SEO Manager in Marketing at CarWale (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Screaming Frog When it comes to crawling a website nothing can beat Screaming Frog. Incentivized Helpful? Robbin Block Creative Marketing Strategist in Marketing at BLOCKbETA Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Screaming Frog The tools I mentioned are in the same space, tools for SEO, but aren't website scrapers like Screaming Frog. We haven't found another tool that we like as much for providing simple and straight forward insights about a website. Incentivized Helpful? Katie Goh SEM/SEO Analyst in Marketing at Healthgrades (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees) Chose Screaming Frog We have a deep crawl integration with another tool and still find the information on DeepCrawl valuable because this tool is better at listing out reccomendations. However, Screaming Frog is easier to use, doesn't have limits on how many crawls it can run (on the Pro plan we … Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Daronzio SEO Director in Marketing at Boomerang Pharmaceutical Communications part of Accenture (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees) Chose Screaming Frog Screaming Frog is a desktop application that uses your own resources to crawl a site (Processing, RAM, Connection speed). Deep Crawl is a cloud-based crawler, and probably the best cloud based crawler out there. DeepCrawl can gather A LOT of data, but it becomes expensive. The … Incentivized Helpful? Ari Roth Senior Account Manager in Professional Services at Five Blocks Inc. (Public Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees) Chose Screaming Frog Moz's crawler is part of a larger, more expensive suite of proprietary tools. Screaming Frog is more affordable and does the job for those who don't need the other products offered by Moz. DeepCrawl makes some of the recommendations for you and is typically better for … Incentivized Helpful? Amanda Tessier SEO Specialist in Marketing at Altisource (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Screaming Frog ScreamingFrog is the foundation of any good SEO strategy because it identifies key elements that always fall under white-hat SEO tactics. It's so inexpensive for 2 licenses and the value it provides is being able to build properties that can grow organic web presence over time. Incentivized Helpful? Roman Yarovyi Product Project Manager in Marketing at SpringStudio (Construction, 11-50 employees) Chose Screaming Frog We tried also Netpeak Spider. Good alternative to Screaming Frog. Right now we are comparing these two because Spider can do almost everything that Screaming Frog does. A huge plus for Screaming Spider is that it's very stable; we work with very big projects with it (10-20 … Incentivized Helpful? Jeremy Waszak Senior SEO Manager in Marketing at Wpromote (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees) Chose Screaming Frog Screaming Frog's combination of capabilities and pricing beats competitors. DeepCrawl & Moz beats out Screaming Frog when it comes to being able to access and store data since it is web-based and Screaming Frog data is stored locally. Otherwise, Screaming Frog is my go-to … Incentivized Helpful? Joseph Miller Senior SEO Manager in Marketing at Blucora (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Screaming Frog DeepCrawl and Screaming Frog are complementary tools in my opinion. DeepCrawl is better for tracking progress over time while Screaming Frog is better for day to day adhoc requests. I use and recommend both. Both are more robust than the solutions offered by all in one … Incentivized Helpful? Joe Preston Director of Search in Marketing at ProjectManager.com (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Screaming Frog I like that it's a desktop client actually. I like it that I can stop something myself, rather than have some bot out of my control tear into a web site, consuming all it's content. Helpful?
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Features

Ahrefs

Screaming Frog

Comparison of SEO features of Ahrefs and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Feature	Ahrefs 7.8 71 Ratings	Screaming Frog SEO Spider 8.7 52 Ratings
Keyword analysis	9.568 Ratings	7.419 Ratings
Backlink management	8.569 Ratings	6.022 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking	9.467 Ratings	8.08 Ratings
Page grader	5.261 Ratings	10.021 Ratings
Competitive analysis	9.469 Ratings	10.026 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics	8.064 Ratings	10.052 Ratings
Site recommendations	5.660 Ratings	10.023 Ratings
Task management	7.032 Ratings	8.08 Ratings

Comparison of SEO Channels features of Ahrefs and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Feature	Ahrefs 7.5 62 Ratings	Screaming Frog SEO Spider 9.5 36 Ratings
Local SEO	8.450 Ratings	8.116 Ratings
Social SEO	6.147 Ratings	10.011 Ratings
Mobile SEO	6.046 Ratings	10.022 Ratings
Global SEO	9.656 Ratings	10.028 Ratings

Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Ahrefs and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Feature	Ahrefs 8.9 59 Ratings	Screaming Frog SEO Spider 8.8 41 Ratings
Multi-domain support	9.456 Ratings	10.030 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools	8.429 Ratings	7.534 Ratings

User Ratings
	Ahrefs	Screaming Frog
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (76 ratings)	10.0 (54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (5 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (4 ratings)	8.5 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (14 ratings)	7.9 (18 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)