Ahrefs

4.6 (159 Reviews)|Write a Review|Claimed profile
Singapore HQFounded 2010

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Overview

About Ahrefs

Ahrefs is known as the world's largest index of live backlinks and the ultimate website analysis toolset that is trusted by thousands of SEOs and Integrated Marketing Professionals worldwide. Explorer disrupted the stagnant field of backlink analysis and kick-started a new round of competition among SEO software providers. It quickly became one of the world's best backlink analysis of SEO tools.

At a glance

Software information

Industries served, licensing and the support Ahrefs provides.

Industries

  • Information-technology-services

Licensing

  • Proprietary
  • Monthly Payment

Support

  • Email
  • 24x7 Support

Training

  • Webinar
  • Documentation

Knowledge Base

Languages (1)
English

Review analytics

What customers report

4.6
Based on 159 verified reviews

What users like the most

  • Very easy to use, with super helpful information icons that explain key definitions well.
  • I've used it for training young SEOs and it has been great!
  • The blog and other resources are honestly unmatched - the team are personal and really seek to help people.

What users like the least

  • It would be great if we could somehow automate parts of the reports, but I don't actually know if this would be a good thing.
  • Data is sometimes not available
  • Some tools are not very useful, for example, the Content Explorer provides a lot of irrelevant content examples

What users say

Review Analytics of Ahrefs

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4.5159 Verified Reviews
Ease of use (27 reviews)4.3
Features & functionality (27 reviews)4.7
Customer support (27 reviews)4.3
Value for money (16 reviews)4.1
Integrations (16 reviews)4.0
Review Summary
Summarized from 159 verified reviews · Updated September 2026
Ahrefs is widely praised for comprehensive SEO capabilities, particularly strong backlink analysis, competitor research, and keyword tracking with accurate data and an intuitive interface. Users consistently highlight its all-in-one functionality, frequent feature updates, and helpful educational resources as major strengths. However, the platform's high pricing is a recurring complaint across reviews, and some users note limitations in specific features like site audits and data segmentation options. The tool's learning curve and occasional discrepancies between estimated and actual traffic metrics are also mentioned as minor drawbacks.
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BJ Enoch, Vice President of Enterprise Accounts at SocialSEO IncVerified Review
Posted on Aug 28, 2019

“All rounder tool for SEO purpose”

Overall rating4.5

Ahrefs is a go-to tool for all-around services regarding SEO at SocialSEO Inc. My division primary works with 10,000+ URL enterprise clients and Ahrefs does an excellent job of aggregating large data sets around link metrics, rankings, basic technical items, competitive metrics, and keyword tracking.

Biggest pros:

-Pages best by links feature. You're able to at a glance see the most equitable pages, look for anchor text discrepancies, and identify high link value pages that are 404'd or improperly redirected.

-Internal backlinks. Gives an easy to follow visual look at the internal link metrics for any site and allows for easy looking at internal anchor texts.

-Regularly updated keyword tracking

-Content explorer function: The new version of the content explorer tool is an amalgamation of AdWords keyword explorer, Answer the Public, and MOZ's keyword tool.

Lizzie Dunn, SEO Associate at FunderaVerified Review
Posted on Aug 27, 2019

“Allows you to monitor and grow your search traffic”

Overall rating5.0

Ahrefs is a powerful SEO tool that allows you to monitor and grow your search traffic. You can explore keyword research, content, and backlink data as well. Ahrefs is also great for competitor performance analysis.

One thing being an SEO Associate of Fundera I like about Ahrefs is that they have a content explorer which is great for generating new ideas for content creation or outreach campaigns. In addition to comprehensive backlink profiles, they have an intuitive dashboard that can be customized based on what SEO metrics you're looking to track.

Harsha Reddy, Co-founder and editor-in-chief at SmallBizGenius.netVerified Review
Posted on Aug 27, 2019

“An irreplaceable tool!”

Overall rating4.5

We use Ahrefs for our SERP rank. Considering the team at SmallBizGenius.net, we all are of over a dozen SEO specialists and writers, Ahrefs offers some decent pricing for multiple users. More importantly, it’s a powerful tool which offers everything we need to rank our website.

Backlinking goes smoothly, as it has incredible web-crawling powers. Also, it does just fine with keyword search, enough for everything we need! The only thing that lowers its score is that we frequently hit the maximum amount of searches, and then have to find ways to bypass it.

Michal Pecánek, Head of Marketing at CDN77 & DataPacketVerified Review
Posted on Aug 26, 2019

“The best and most accurate data on top of all the useful features”

Overall rating5.0

At CDN77, we use Ahrefs for on-page and off-page SEO. Ahrefs has the best and most accurate data on top of all the useful features - we use it primarily for evaluating domains relevancy for partnerships, reverse-engineering what works for competitors including spying on their backlinks, batch analysis of URLs with backlink and traffic data, keyword and backlink tracking. It does most of the features better and with better UX.

Gregory Golinski, Head of SEO at YourParkingSpaceVerified Review
Posted on Aug 23, 2019

“It offers everything I need to improve in our website's SEO”

Overall rating5.0

As a Head of SEO at YourParkingSpace, my favorite feature of Ahrefs is the Content Gap tool. I can enter two competitors in the tool to see which keywords they rank for, while we don't. It's a great way to know which content is missing on our website, and where we should focus our efforts. Once I've done that, I can enter a topic related to our product in Ahrefs' Content explorer, and write down the most popular topics on the web, or the ones that get shared the most on social media.

Ahrefs' Keywords Explorer is another great tool to find new keywords. You can filter keywords to come up with untapped, long-tail keywords that will give you an edge over your competitors.

Jonathan Argile, SEO Manager at Zeal LtdVerified Review
Posted on Aug 23, 2019

“Favorite feature of the tool would be keyword explorer”

Overall rating4.0

One of the SEO tools the team of Zeal Ltd could not live without would be Ahrefs. As an SEO tool, Ahrefs is constantly developing itself and offering further features which can help improve performance. One of our favorite features is the keyword explorer which not only provides suggestions for new keywords but also insights such as search volume for a keyword, competitiveness of the keyword and a breakdown of keyword ideas from recently discovered terms through to question-based terms which can really help when creating content for websites.

Tina Bialba, Senior Analyst Manager at at Alpha Lion Holdings LCVerified Review
Posted on Aug 12, 2019

“Great and Useful Tool”

Overall rating5.0

Really useful and great tool to have. It is easy to navigate and has loads of useful feature. We, in Engineer Warehouse, use it as our go-to SEO tool. You get what you pay for and in this case, it's worth it.

Aristide Basque, CEO & Co-Founder at SHIFTVerified Review
Posted on Jul 1, 2019

“AHREF is the by far the best SEO tool”

Overall rating5.0
We've been using Ahref initially to find backlinks from our competitors. From there, we've been astonished as to how much value we've been able to get from this software. At SHIFT AGENCY, it's our favourite SEO software.
Tomas Kolafa, CMO at Growth MediaVerified Review
Posted on Apr 4, 2019
Overall rating5.0
Cale Loken, CEO at 301 Madison Consulting, LLC - Digital Marketing ConsultingVerified Review
Posted on Apr 2, 2019

“Great SEO Tool”

Overall rating5.0

Pros Our agency, 301 Madison Consulting builds links for clients. We’ve used several different SEO Software options over the last several years. Moz, Seranking, SEM Rush and now Ahrefs. There seemed to be about 15% more link results on Ahrefs vs the competition. Cons I think the price is a bit high compared to some of the other providers.

Capabilities

Ahrefs features

The full feature set, grouped by module.

SEO Software

  • Competitor Analysis
  • Keyword Research
  • Link Management
  • Localization
  • Mobile Search Tracking
  • Rank Tracking

Ai visibility tools

  • AI Search Visibility Tracking
  • Brand Mention Monitoring
  • AI Citation Monitoring
  • SERP Performance Analysis
  • Real-Time Visibility Reporting
  • Multi-Platform Monitoring
  • Custom Report Generation

Plans

Ahrefs pricing

Price Type
Month
Free Version
No
Payment Frequency
Monthly Payment
Preferred Currency
USD ($)
Lite$129.00 / month
  • 5 projects
  • 6 months of historical data
  • 750 tracked keywords
  • 5 tracked prompts
  • 100,000 crawl credits
  • 1,000 credits per user
  • 1 user included
  • Add 2 more users at $40/mo each
Standard$249 / month
  • 20 projects
  • 2 years of historical data
  • 2,000 tracked keywords
  • 10 tracked prompts
  • 500,000 crawl credits
  • Unlimited credits per user
  • 1 user included
  • Add 5 more users at $60/mo each
Advanced$449 / month
  • 50 projects
  • 5 years of historical data
  • 5,000 tracked keywords
  • 20 tracked prompts
  • 1,500,000 crawl credits
  • Unlimited credits per user
  • 1 user included
  • Add 10 more users at $80/mo each

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