Ahrefs

Ahrefs

371 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Ahrefs	Score 8.9 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

Editions & Modules

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

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Ahrefs
Considered Both Products	Ahrefs Verified User Partner 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? Chris Kirksey Founder, CEO Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs Site Explorer seems to crawl in more depth and has more features. Incentivized Helpful? Imtiaz khan Internet Marketing Manager 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 … Helpful? Nirav Sampat SEO Manager 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, … Helpful? Verified User Manager 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 … Helpful? ML Matt Lenicki CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Ahrefs I got recommendations from my coworkers Helpful? SA Saif Ali Assistant Director 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 Director 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 Helpful? Verified User Director 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 Employee 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 Helpful? Katie Goh SEM/SEO Analyst 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? Verified User Consultant 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 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? Ari Roth Senior Account Manager 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? Mike Koolwijk Online marketing 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? Andrea Hester Director Of Operations 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 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 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? Ramon Khan Freelance Marketing Consultant Chose Ahrefs Ahrefs is one of the many tools that I use but on it's own it's great. Many back link analysis tools don't have that many results and many test have shown that Ahrefs has some of the largest datasets in the industry. So compared to other tools, its one of the best, if not the … Incentivized Helpful? Mike Blumenthal Author - Understanding Google Places and Local Search Chose Ahrefs [Semrush and Ahrefs] serve different functions Incentivized Helpful? CH Chad Hadley SEO Strategist 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 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? AD Andrew Davison Founder 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?
Top Pros	Pro Keyword research Pro Backlink profile Pro Easy to use
Top Cons	Minus Free trial Minus New users Minus 7 days

Features

Ahrefs

SEO

Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
	Ahrefs 8.0 69 Ratings 3% above category average
Keyword analysis	9.366 Ratings
Backlink management	8.967 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking	8.665 Ratings
Page grader	7.160 Ratings
Competitive analysis	8.667 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics	7.362 Ratings
Site recommendations	5.959 Ratings
Task management	8.031 Ratings

SEO Channels

Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
	Ahrefs 8.0 61 Ratings 5% above category average
Local SEO	7.449 Ratings
Social SEO	7.447 Ratings
Mobile SEO	8.046 Ratings
Global SEO	9.255 Ratings

SEO Platform & Account Management

Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
	Ahrefs 8.4 58 Ratings 0% below category average
Multi-domain support	8.555 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools	8.429 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Ahrefs
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (74 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (14 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Ahrefs
Likelihood to Recommend	Ahrefs Ahrefs is a must have in the SEO toolbox. It is one of the leading tools in the industry for serious SEO research. It can do almost everything you need on the non-technical side of SEO. In my opinion, it is not great if you need a detailed technical tool that identifies errors and helps with fix suggestions. In that instance, I think there are better tools on the market. But - for content and keyword related tasks, I think it's must have. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Ahrefs I have been using this platform in my organization to develop several SEO tools to help to grow our website much. It has all the main features which include competitor research, keyword research, website audit, content research, and rank tracking. I have been using all these functions in the organization for several purposes. It provides complete information and complete performance details of the SEO. It provides us the detailed keyword research with volume, CPC, and other information. Incentivized Bella Castilla Senior Account Executive Read full review
Cons	Ahrefs Can't export graphs: some graphs within the tool would be useful as an export. Unfortunately, exporting them is not an option. No "blanket" reporting options: though Ahrefs is excellent for gathering and exporting intel/data, there are no blanket SEO reports provided. Exporting data is great, but simple report exporting would make it better. Incentivized Mitch Lee SEO Manager Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Ahrefs Their index is too vast to ignore when looking at a complete backlink profile. We find links in Ahrefs that do not appear in any other link detection tool. For this reason, it's a must for our agency to use for the foreseeable future. Plus, it's very affordable considering the data you get Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Ahrefs Ahrefs is very easy to use - you can jump right in and understand most of the assets. Overall, the dashboard snapshots give a very good picture of inbound link activity. For deeper analysis of historical trends, the system can become cumbersome, making it hard to do full work without exporting and reformatting the data. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Ahrefs Ahrefs has always been responsive when there's been a technical issue with the site. There are usually very little problems, but if there are, they announce it on their social media accounts which keeps its customers informed. Email support is prompt and the customer service people are very helpful, knowledgable and friendly. Incentivized Kenny King Web Production Manager Responsible for SEO, Web Design, & Social Media Marketing Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Ahrefs Majestic and Ahrefs are really close in terms of tool. Ahrefs does offer competitive comparison and they do have a more up to date data base. Majestic however has a more comprehensive historical view of sites which is also extremely valuable. Majestic also offers a link velocity chart that is missing on Ahrefs. Ahrefs makes up for this with their links gained/lost calendar which Majestic is missing. Incentivized Joshua Titsworth Digital Marketing Specialist Read full review
Return on Investment	Ahrefs Ahrefs Site Explorer has helped with any comprehensive backlink analysis and backlink profile management we've had. Ahrefs Site Explorer has helped tremendously in getting manual penalties lifted for certain sites. Aherfs Site Explorer has been helpful in identifying 404 error pages. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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