Ahrefs
Ahrefs Pte. Ltd.
The backlink king with the cleanest data in SEO.
Price
From $108/mo
Last checked
July 2026
Best for
Link building and competitor research
Category
All-in-one suites
About Ahrefs
Ahrefs built its reputation on crawling the web almost as thoroughly as Google: its index of around 500 million referring domains leads the industry, and Site Explorer remains the gold standard for analyzing any site’s links and organic keywords. The toolset stays deliberately SEO-focused (no PPC or social tools), the interface is the cleanest in the category, and the free Ahrefs Webmaster Tools tier is genuinely useful for site owners. Lite starts around $108 a month on annual billing; the AI-visibility answer, Brand Radar, costs a steep $199 a month on top. For link-driven SEO work, this is the one.
“The tool SEO professionals trust most for the data itself: the largest live backlink index in the industry and a keyword explorer that rarely misleads. Less broad than Semrush, more loved by specialists, and the Brand Radar add-on answers the AI question for $199 a month extra.”Editorial team, via SEOShortlist
Where to get it
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