Ahrefs pricing
Not a full free plan, but Ahrefs has limited free access; the cheapest paid plan is $29/mo.
Ahrefs' entry plan is the 2nd cheapest of the 6 marketing & seo tools we price, by the least a year costs on each; Zapier is lowest at $239.88 a year (billed annually). Figures last confirmed 19 Aug 2026.
Plans
- Free access
- Ahrefs Webmaster Tools: limited to data about your own verified site, not general SEO research; no full free version of the paid toolset
- Entry paid plan
- Starter, $29/mo: listed on the vendor page; its usage caps were not resolvable from our fetch and are unverified
- Next tier
- Lite plan, $129/mo: 5 projects, 750 tracked keywords, 5 tracked AI prompts, 100,000 crawl credits/month, 1 user seat (extra seats $40/mo each), 6 months historical data
- Bills in
- Metered 'credits' (crawl credits for Site Audit, report/usage credits for lookups), layered with hard caps on projects, tracked keywords and user seats per plan
- Cost per year
- $348 a year at the listed monthly price on the entry plan
Ahrefs against the cheapest marketing & seo tools
Entry plans only, ranked by the least a year costs on each: the annual-billed price where the vendor offers one, otherwise the monthly price times 12. The last column compares like with like: annual billing with annual billing when both tools offer it, otherwise the monthly price times 12 for both. Per-user and flat prices are not subtracted from each other.
| Tool | Free plan | Entry | Per year | A year vs Ahrefs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 ZapierTry | Yes | $19.99/mo | $239.88billed annually | $11.88 moreboth at the monthly price times 12 |
 Ahrefs | Limited | $29/mo | $348listed monthly price times 12 | this tool |
 InstantlyTry | No | $37.60/mo | $451.20billed annually | $216 moreboth at the monthly price times 12 |
 Surfer SEOTry | No | $49/mo | $588billed annually | $360 moreboth at the monthly price times 12 |
 SemrushTry | Trial only | $140/mo | $1,407.96billed annually | $1,331.40 moreboth at the monthly price times 12 |
 ClayTry | Yes | $167/mo | $2,004listed monthly price times 12 | $1,656 moreboth at the monthly price times 12 |
Is Ahrefs free?
Not a full free plan, but Ahrefs has limited free access; the cheapest paid plan is $29/mo. The free access: Ahrefs Webmaster Tools: limited to data about your own verified site, not general SEO research; no full free version of the paid toolset.
How much does Ahrefs cost?
Ahrefs' cheapest paid plan is $29/mo, which comes to $348 a year at the listed monthly price. Plan detail: Starter, $29/mo: listed on the vendor page; its usage caps were not resolvable from our fetch and are unverified.
Verified · source: ahrefs.com
2026-08-19 facts pass, direct vendor fetch, corroborated by 4+ secondary trackers. A cheaper 'Starter' tier at $29/mo also appears on the vendor page but its usage caps were not resolvable from the fetch, so 'Lite' ($129/mo, fully documented caps) is used as entryPaid; Starter's existence and exact caps remain unverified. 2026-09-24: entryPaid and the top-line price now start at Starter ($29/mo), correcting a listing that quoted Lite ($129/mo) as the cheapest plan although the same fetch saw Starter; Lite is now nextTier.
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