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About Ahrefs' Starter plan

Understand the limits and tools that the Starter plan provides, and how it compares to the free plan

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Written by Constance Tan
Updated this week

The Starter plan is a great plan for beginners in SEO that are looking to go beyond the basics offered in our free Ahrefs Webmaster Tools plan.

Available tools

Here are the accessible tools on the Starter plan:

Account usage limits

Limit

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools

Starter ($29)

Lite ($129)

Credits per month¹

-

100

500

Additional users

0

0

2

Unverified projects

0

1

5

Verified projects²

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Additional credits for verified projects³

Additional crawl credits for each verified project

500

5,000

500

5,000

500

5,000

¹Learn more about what actions consume credits

²Verified projects are projects that have gone through a verification process to prove you own the website.

³These additional limits can only be spent for URLs within any of the verified projects.

Site Explorer and Keywords Explorer limits

Limit

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools

Starter ($29)

Lite ($129)

Historical data

0

1 month

6 months

Max rows per report

-

250

2,500

Max rows in Top pages report

0

25

2,500

Export rows per month

None

None

500,000

Keyword lists

0

5, max 100 keywords per list

50

Site Audit limits

Limit

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools

Starter ($29)

Lite ($129)

Verified project
- Crawl credits per project per month

5,000

5,000

5,000

Unverified project
- Max pages per project
- Crawl credits per month

0
0

500
10,000

25,000

100,000

Rank Tracker limits

Limit

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools

Starter ($29)

Lite ($129)

Rank Tracker Keywords

0

50

750

SEO Toolbar limits

Limit

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools

Starter ($29)

Lite ($129)

SERPs with SEO Metrics per month⁴

0

up to 800

up to 40,000

SEO metrics will be shown in Google search results as below:

⁴Actual limit will be lower, depending on how much other tools such as Site Explorer and Keywords Explorer are also used in the same month.


Other terms and conditions of the plan

  • Additional users, credits or any other add-ons cannot be purchased on this plan. You would need to upgrade to Lite or higher plans.

  • Starter plan can only be renewed monthly.

  • Features and limits on this plan may be changed without prior notice.


If you have any questions about the starter plan, feel free to contact our live chat support, or email [email protected]

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