This article refers to any plan purchased before 18th March 2022. You can reach out to support@ahrefs.com for more details.

For plans purchased after that, please refer to this article instead

The Lite Plan suits freelance online marketers & SEOs who are just getting started with their careers and those who do SEO on their own few websites. The Lite Plan allows access to all Ahrefs tools; however, some data in the reports will be limited. You will also get fewer searches per day/month than you would with the Standard Plan.

The Standard Plan is perfect for SEO consultants, experienced freelancers, and in-house marketers. Choose this plan if you mostly work on multiple projects (up to 10), do keyword research frequently, and build links at scale. With the Standard Plan, you will get a higher number of daily/monthly searches in Ahrefs’ tools, track website rankings in multiple locations and will be able to do SEO audits on larger websites.

Reports per week

Lite: allows 175 reports per week
Standard: allows 700 reports per week

A report in Keywords Explorer is not limited to just one keyword. You can analyze up to 10,000 keywords in one run, that would still be one report.

Keywords lists

Lite: 5
Standard: 50

Lists are useful for saving the keyword ideas that you'll be discovering during your keyword research.

Unlike the keyword lists stored in the good old Excel or Google sheets, lists in Keywords Explorer will always have the freshest keyword metrics. Besides, you can easily update the Keyword Difficulty, check SERPs, and see position history graph straight from the list.

Within the list all the keyword data will always be fresh and you'll easily update KD & check SERP & position history.

SERP updates per month

Lite: 100
Standard: 1,000

By default, Keywords Explorer shows you cached top search results for the keywords.

For high-volume keywords, we update (and cache) search engine results pages (SERPs) often enough to keep them fresh. But for less popular keywords, we update SERP data less frequently.

Keyword Difficulty and Parent Topic for the keyword are based on the freshest SERP data available.

You can request to get the current top 10 results for any keyword in a given country by clicking the "Update" button.

OR

Rows per report

Lite: 1,000 (20-page report)
Standard: 5,000 (100-page report)

This limit applies to the number of keyword ideas (along with their keyword metrics) you can get (and export) in one run.

However, you are free to apply some filters to get a bunch of amazing keyword suggestions within this limit.

Rows per month

Lite: 200,000
Standard: 500,000

This limit applies to the number of keyword ideas (along with their keyword metrics) you can get during one month.

At the very least, one report will consume 500 “rows per month” as it always pre-loads the first 500 results. This means that you can run at least 400 “ideas” reports on the Lite plan and 1,000 on the Standard during one month.

Export, rows per month

Lite: 25,000
Standard: 100,000

This limit applies to the number of keyword ideas (along with their keyword metrics) you can export to .csv files during one month.

Historical data

Lite: last 6 months
Standard: last 24 months

Our full history goes back to 2015 for keywords and 2013 for backlinks.

Domains per week

Lite: 175
Standard: 700

This number limits the quantity of domains you can analyze each week in Site Explorer. You can, however, analyze different URLs of the same domain; this will count as one domain.

E.g. analyzing

https://ahrefs.com and

https://ahrefs.com/blog/301-redirects/

counts as one domain.

URLs per week

Lite: 700
Standard: 3500

This number limits the quantity of individual URLs you can analyze per week in Site Explorer.

Rows per report

Lite: 10,000
Standard: 30,000

“Rows per report” limits the number of results in every report of the Site Explorer tool.

You can export much more results. See “Export, rows per report” and “Export, rows per month”

Rows per month

Lite: 3 million

Standard: 6 million.

Link intersect, rows per report

Lite: 10
Standard: 30,000

Link Intersect is one of the advanced link research features of Ahrefs’ Site Explorer. It helps you to find who links to your competitors but does not link to you. If you’re serious about link-building, you should consider the Standard plan which allows 30k results in this report.

Export, rows per report

Lite: 100,000

Standard: 1 million

This limit applies to the number of backlinks you can export to a .csv file in one run.

Export, rows per month

Lite: 5 million

Standard: 25 million

This limit applies to the number of backlinks you can export to a .csv file during one month.

Export, rows per report

Lite: 10,000
Standard: 30,000

This limit applies to the number of organic keywords you can export to a .csv file in one run.

Export, rows per month

Lite: 500,000
Standard: 2.5 million

This limit applies to the number of organic keywords you can export to a .csv file during one month.

Competing pages / domains

Lite: Top 10
Standard: Top 50

This number limits the size of the “Competing domains” and “Competing pages” report that you can get.

Content gap, rows per report

Lite: 100
Standard: 10,000

Content Gap is another advanced report in Ahrefs. It helps to reveal search queries where your competitors’ websites are ranking, but yours does not.

Top pages / subfolders / subdomains, rows per report

Lite: 1,000
Standard: 5,000

This number limits the size of the following reports:

These reports reveal which pages or sections of a website get the most organic search traffic to your competitors. This information is invaluable for content planning and topic research.

Crawl credits per month

Lite: 10,000
Standard: 500,000

This is the maximum number of internal HTML pages returning the 200 (OK) HTTP status code that can be crawled per month.

Additional crawl credit

Lite: +$50 per 500,000

Standard: +$50 per 500,000

These are optional add-ons to each plan.

Data retention

Lite: 3 months

Standard: 3 months

This is how long we store crawled data for your projects.

JavaScript rendering

Lite: Included

Standard: Included

That's the ability to crawl and render JavaScript.

Content Explorer is our searchable database of over 1 billion pages of content. Check this video to learn how Ahrefs Content Explorer can help you find guest blogging opportunities and easy keyword targets.

Reports (searches) per week

Lite: 350
Standard: 700

You can use advanced search operators and filters to narrow down the results to the articles written by a specific author, republished articles, and pages from websites that do not link to yours.

Rows per report

Lite: 1,000
Standard: 5,000

Export, rows per month

Lite: 50,000
Standard: 250,000

History graphs, time period

Lite: up to 6 months
Standard: up to 6 months

Trend graphs

Lite: First result
Standard: First 5 results

Broken pages

Lite: Not included
Standard: Included

This feature is absolutely unique to Ahrefs. You can find content pages on a given topic that no longer exist. With it, Content Explorer will bring your broken link-building to a whole new level.

Tracked keywords

Lite: 500
Standard: 1,500

This number limits the maximum amount of keywords you can track in Rank Tracker across all your projects.

Update frequency

Lite: Every week
Standard: Every 5 days

Mobile ranking:

Lite: Included

Standard: Included.

Number and frequency

New & lost backlinks

Lite: 5 monthly

Standard: 15 monthly/weekly

New keywords

Lite: 5 monthly

Standard: 15 monthly/weekly

Mentions

Lite: 5 monthly

Standard: 15 monthly/weekly

Rows per month

Lite: 25,000

Standard: 100,000

Batch Analysis allows you to pull Ahrefs' backlink metrics for up to 200 individual URLs in one run. These credits are also spent to show data on our SEO Toolbar.

I hope this detailed comparison will help you choose the best pricing plan for you.

If you’re still hesitant, allow us to dispel doubts :) Just use our live chat or drop us a line at support@ahrefs.com.