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Ahrefs
Who runs Ahrefs, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest SEO software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- Last price change
- None seen yet
- Closest alternative
- Semrush
Measured from Ahrefs’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Ahrefs01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Ahrefs
Ahrefs ahrefs.com
We help marketers drive visibility across AI search, SEO, content, and social – with the largest AI and search databases online.
Wikidata: search engine optimization company
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Hiring
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Ahrefs tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
More than all 19 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- CookieYes
- US company
- 8 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Pricing
What Ahrefs costs
The prices on Ahrefs’s pricing page as shown to visitors from Germany, in the order they appear. We check weekly; price changes are listed under What changed.
- € 119 / mo
- € 229 / mo
- € 419 / mo
- €37.4 / mo
- €56.1 / mo
- €74.8 / mo
- € 27 / mo
- €179 / mo
- +14 more
04 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Ahrefs
None of the 60 sites closest to Ahrefs match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
05 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Ahrefs adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
06 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 19 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 57 ms
Built with
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Advertising
- Google Ads conversion tracking page source: gtag('config', 'AW-
- LinkedIn Insight Tag page source: snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics
- Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
- Reddit Pixel page source: redditstatic.com/ads/pixel
- X (Twitter) Pixel page source: static.ads-twitter.com/uwt.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mail.…
- Cookie consent
- CookieYes page source: cdn-cookieyes.com
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=5050a531839b76be29b99cc3258d7154e48a08398c8055b83…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a594995f3c9726b7-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms30123980
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mail.…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS adam.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=K5q-tV3hv4u12bcTGUTuPX9tGJO8bamXuVkoK41nHnI
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=td8brmt3wu6dbdsm0q071p91in8qx8
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-F3FZfMZ7tyPEwJUf4jrwRTXa
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_vwLxddoJ4BT7INd3pWZ29h
Sitemaps
, 632 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on ahrefs.com 15/20
- HubSpot · not on ahrefs.com 13/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Atlassian · not on ahrefs.com 11/20
- OpenAI 11/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Google Fonts · not on ahrefs.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- Apple Business · not on ahrefs.com 7/20
- PHP · not on ahrefs.com 7/20
- Zendesk · not on ahrefs.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on ahrefs.com 6/20
- Salesforce · not on ahrefs.com 6/20