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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

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01 · 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

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

· Pricing page ↗ · Price history

04 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Ahrefs

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Ahrefs, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than AhrefsNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

2 of the 60 sites closest to Ahrefs match.

  1. 01
    Semrush semrush.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility

    Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.

    Compare Semrush with Ahrefs →
  2. 02
    Mixpanel mixpanel.com Top 1K English Free plan 4 trackers

    Product Intelligence Platform for the AI Era | Mixpanel

    Mixpanel is the product intelligence platform for the AI era, combining analytics, session replay, experiments, feature flags, and AI-powered insights.

    Compare Mixpanel with Ahrefs →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Ahrefs’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Ahrefs uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

05 · 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
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
41 ms

Built with

Analytics
Advertising
Marketing automation
  • Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mail.…
Cookie consent
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=5050a531839b76be29b99cc3258d7154e48a08398c8055b83…
CDN
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mail.…
DNS hosting
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

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