Not ready for a subscription just yet, but would still like to try our tools? Don't fret!
We have a whole spread of powerful tools you can use without spending a single dollar, with an Ahrefs free account.
Ahrefs Free Account
A free account gives you access to the following 6 tools:
Tool | Limit |
1000 backlinks & keywords visible at once | |
5000 crawl credits/month per project | |
1,000,000 events per project | |
Unlimited posts and channels | |
1 document / month | |
Metrics: DR and UR only. All other On-page features: content, indexability, etc. are fully available. |
¹Available for websites you can prove ownership for. This is done by verifying ownership
When you're ready for access to even more features such as Keywords Explorer, check out the Starter plan.
Site Explorer
View SEO insights such as backlinks, organic traffic, and paid traffic using Site Explorer for websites you own. These are the reports in Site Explorer that you can access on the free account:
Section | Reports |
Overview | Overview |
Backlink profile | Backlinks Referring domains Anchors |
Organic search | Organic keywords Organic Positions Top pages Organic Competitors |
Paid search | Paid keywords Ads Paid pages |
Pages | Best by links Crawled pages |
Internal links | Internal links Most linked pages Internal anchors |
Check out Opportunities for a quick way to learn about use cases for Site Explorer
Site Audit
Crawl your website on demand for technical issues using Site Audit.
All 170+ issues that site audit tracks by default can be done for websites you own.
For websites larger than 5000 URLs, consider upgrading to Starter or a higher plan.
Web Analytics
Track where your website's traffic is coming from (including from AI assistants)
Set up funnels to analyze how visitors move through your website
Set up custom events to monitor important interactions like purchases or registrations
Measure performance of campaigns using UTM tags
Social Media Manager
Draft, schedule, and manage posts across Facebook, X, LinkedIn and Instagram
Drag and drop to schedule posts effortlessly across your calendar
Create once, and publish on multiple channels
AI Content Helper
Create content that competes well against top performing pages for your target keyword
Built-in AI helps you speed up research, improve topic coverage and level up your copywriting
Create a Brand Kit from existing articles to keep AI writing consistent with your brand's tone and style.
SEO toolbar
A great way to audit on-page SEO issues of your current page, see redirect chains, check outgoing links and more!
💡With a Starter plan or higher, you can also view SEO metrics of URLs linked in Google Search result pages and Google trends.
Other free tools:
Firehose
Firehose is a free, real-time, web mentions API powered by Yep. Define a set of rules, and get notified when the freshest pages matching those rules get published or changed.
Free AI Writing tools by Ahrefs
A whole list of small but powerful AI powered tools.
Create the perfect copy for different social media platforms
Detect AI in text paragraphs and humanize it
Generate SEO-friendly page titles, meta descriptions, Image alt text
Create outlines for essays, landing pages, blog posts
...and more!
Word Count
Originally a simple tool that helped you count words and characters in your written text, Wordcount today also supports a wide variety of AI powered capabilities:
Proofread your written content
Rewrite with a different tone/style
Humanize the text
Summarize the content
Detect AI Content
...and more!
💡 Free AI features are capped at 3 a day. To get unlimited access to all the AI editing capabilities, sign up for Wordcount Pro