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What can I use for free in Ahrefs?

Learn which tools and capabilities you can use for free at Ahrefs

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Written by Constance Tan
Updated over a week ago

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 features you can use without spending a single dollar. Here's a quick overview of what they are, and how you can use them:

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools

Analyze SEO data and fix technical issues for websites you own¹ for free!

  • View SEO metrics such as backlinks and organic traffic using Site Explorer

  • Crawl your website on demand for technical issues using Site Audit

¹Proving that you own a website is done by verifying ownership

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools also now includes the following two tools:

Ahrefs 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

Ahrefs Web analytics is free up to 1 million events per month. If your website exceeds that, consider upgrading your project to Pro or Max

Ahrefs 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

Ahrefs Social Media Manager is free up to 3 channels & 10 posts/month.


GBP Monitor

Manage multiple Google Business Profiles at once, making it easy to keep your local listings updated and accurate.

Ahrefs 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:

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:

  1. Proofread your written content

  2. Rewrite with a different tone/style

  3. Humanize the text

  4. Summarize the content

  5. 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

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