Ahrefs vs. Moz Pro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Ahrefs
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Ahrefs is an SEO tool providers. Ahrefs Site Explorer provides a suite of tools including a component for backlink & on-page SEO analysis, online brand mentions tracking, and domain comparison tool for competitor analysis, etc. They refer to themselves as “the largest index of live backlinks.”
$99
per month
Moz Pro
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
MozPro , from Moz in Seattle, Washington, is an SEO platforms for tracking the performance of all inbound marketing efforts comprehensively. It reveals how content is being shared through social channels and how that drives traffic to a website, and features a broad toolset for search engine optimization: rank tracking, link opportunites, site audit via Moz Analytics, prospective keyword analysis and content grading, as well as a crawl test to find broken or poorly designed site elements. Moz…
$99
per month
Pricing
AhrefsMoz Pro
Editions & Modules
Lite
$99.00
per month
Standard
$179.00
per month
Advanced
$399.00
per month
Agency
$999.00
per month
Standard
$99
per month
Medium
$179
per month
Large
$299
per month
Premium
$599
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AhrefsMoz Pro
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
AhrefsMoz Pro
Considered Both Products
Ahrefs
Chose Ahrefs
In my opinion, Ahrefs is the best backlink tool out there. Moz and SEMRush are also great tools for SEO, but if you strictly want to research your own backlinks and see what your competitors have in terms of backlinks, Ahrefs is the best way to do that. It's an easy platform to …
Chose Ahrefs
Ahref has more comprehensive functionality and it offers lots of online resources to train you on how to use their tools which is VERY helpful.
Chose Ahrefs
It's very clear that Ahrefs has a larger database than their competitors. I never run into issues where this tool isn't able to evaluate keywords - even if they are very long tail niche keywords.

The link section of the tool is also very useful. Ahrefs is able to clean up the …
Chose Ahrefs
At the time, Ahrefs had the most robust link index. Majesitc was a close second, and Moz lagged far behind. Since then, Moz promoted a major update and expansion of their link index, and it now bears further research to determine which product would be better for our …
Chose Ahrefs
Sadly we are coming [to] terms that even trough there are more and more options that Ahrefs has they are still incomplete or not working good enough. And the most important options (like frequent updates on rankings) are behind the most expensive membership.

Right now we mainly …
Chose Ahrefs
Ahrefs has the best backlink data even compared to funded competitors. On top of that, their analysis and tutorials make it possible to get value easily. Monitoring your website, your competitors, and finding SEO opportunities is very easy and there are some sophisticated …
Chose Ahrefs
Ahrefs is my clear choice when I need to better understand the link profile of my clients' websites as its database is unmatched. However, when it comes to keyword research, it is second only to Semrush. I wouldn't say that it's worse than Semrush as each is focused on …
Chose Ahrefs
I used to use Moz a lot and it is also a great tool. However, I found the Ahrefs UI was much friendlier and easier to navigate. I also like the specific use cases shown in the Ahrefs blog, which are much easier to follow and implement when using the Ahrefs tool itself. This …
Chose Ahrefs
Ahrefs provides a lot more data, in a lot more detail - and tells you exactly why it matters.
Moz is a nice tool - the UI is easier to navigate and there are more prompts for new users - but anyone doing serious work will do better with Ahrefs.
Chose Ahrefs
Ahrefs has more features and more accurate data than its competitors. While both Moz and Majestic are great tools and can be used as complimentary to Ahrefs, if you have to choose one tool, definitely choose Ahrefs. It has the biggest database of links and better stats for …
Chose Ahrefs
The closest competitor to Ahrefs Site Explorer would likely be SEMRush. Ahrefs seems to have a significantly larger amount of data to work with. They claim that their service is powered by the second most active crawler in the world, next to Google.
Chose Ahrefs
Moz's backlink, at least a few years ago, PALED in comparison. It was very unthorough and lacking in many backlinks that Aherfs Site Explorer would pull up. Aherfs Site Explorer would pull up way more. It also has way more info than Moz backlink tool did a few years ago - …
Chose Ahrefs
I feel like Ahrefs Site Explorer is the best in class for this type of tool. Moz has made great strides recently with their keyword research and backlink tool. It's come a long way, but I still feel Ahrefs Site Explorer is better at looking at sites, giving actionable insights, …
Chose Ahrefs
You can dip deeper with Ahrefs Site Explorer's data. It is great for crawling websites, doing website audits too. For deep analysis and research, Ahrefs is a step ahead of its competitors. Ahrefs has many tools like site & keyword explorer, content explorer, rank tracker, site …
Chose Ahrefs
As stated previously, Ahrefa Site Explorer is the best to have an array of tools in your pocket when researching websites and practicing SEO. I would recommend using multiple tools intermittently to cover a variety of searches related to your project. Some platforms may be …
Chose Ahrefs
I like the Ahrefs backlink tool the most. There's nothing else that gives that in-depth backlink analysis of your own websites and competitors.
Chose Ahrefs
I've used Moz in the past, and while it's simpler and easier to use for an unseasoned SEO person, it's also not as powerful as Ahrefs. If you already had a good idea of what you're doing, you're going to find that Ahrefs is much more useful than Moz. Moz is somewhat more …
Chose Ahrefs
Having used most of the industry's SEO suites, I chose Ahrefs because of its crawl depth and massive suite of tools. Most of the other suites have similar tools, but Ahrefs beats them in both accuracy and speed. These things are important for any SEO professional who …
Chose Ahrefs
It is the best tool available on the internet according to me. It has got some great tools and features which other tools and services does not have. It is more accurate as compared to others. It tell all the things for on-page seo and off-page seo about the competitor's website.
Chose Ahrefs
I like these other softwares too. If you work in an agency you will likely have uses for many different platforms. I do like the way that ahrefs indexes and tracks links more than anything else I have used though. I think it is very effective with competitive research as well.
Chose Ahrefs
Ahrefs is the oldest of the tools and its index is gigantic in comparison. It also distinguishes between live and historical links which is important for determening the current value of a website.

It lacks some of the onsite auditing tools which Serpstat Moz and even SE Ranking
Chose Ahrefs
Betweem Moz, SEMRush, and Ahrefs - Ahrefs takes the cake. Though Moz is catching up with link data, their other toolsets do not provide enough useful data to make complex decisions. SEMRush is a close tie with Ahrefs and would definitely be on top of mind if I also managed PPC. …
Chose Ahrefs
Ahrefs offers what each of these products have and more along with an easy to understand layout. If you had to choose one of the above due to pricing I would say go with SEMRush, however, if you don't have an issue with pricing then your best option will be Ahrefs.
Moz Pro
Chose Moz Pro
We still use Ahrefs periodically to fill in any gaps that Moz's data might have, or to see that data from a different angle. We always come back to Moz because they have a larger suite of tools in a single package. They provide the best value for the price. And because of the …
Chose Moz Pro
I prefer Ahrefs Site Explorer to Moz's Open Site Explorer. It has much more data on current and historical backlinks, as well as useful charts. The UI is easy to navigate and there are options for exporting the data, which I find useful as well.
Chose Moz Pro
MOZ is a great beginner tool but there are more advanced tools out there like Ahrefs that allow you to do even more and have live crawl indexes for making decisions in almost real time. When you compare the crawl depth of other tools to MOZ, you can see where MOZ is lagging …
Chose Moz Pro
I prefer Moz Pro to SEMRush and Ahrefs Site Explorer because I think it is much easier to use and understand. I believe it can be used along with SpyFu because SpyFu has alot of Google Adwords information that can be used in competition analysis that moz doesn't have. These two …
Chose Moz Pro
Moz is simple to use. It lacks the depth in backlinks database compared to Ahrefs, and Ahrefs perhaps does a little better in automatically figuring what keywords you rank for compared to MoZ. But overall Moz has some other strengths that make it an all-round package. It is …
Chose Moz Pro
The two closest competitors are Ahrefs and SEMRush, with additional tools upmarket.

Each platform has its own strengths, and we use all three at FMI. For Moz, we most like the Keyword Explorer toolset and its recommendation engine and filtering mechanisms - it's a big difference …
Chose Moz Pro
Moz Pro and Ahrefs each have their own strengths, and we use both. There is a lot of overlap between the two, but I find that there are certain things that each does better. For keyword research, backlink analysis, and site crawls, we generally gravitate toward Moz Pro because …
Chose Moz Pro
A[s] we all know Ahref or Semrush are very expensive tools. Startups cannot buy these tools. Moz Pro is reasonable and it gives you multiple features at [a] lower price.
Chose Moz Pro
I think all SEO tools have their pros and cons, but Moz is a heavy hitter. They are the resident authority for educating SEO's, and that is for a reason. Their product works well. I wouldn't say it is head and shoulders above any competitors, but it gets the job done. When it …
Chose Moz Pro
Not as detailed backlink tracking but far more tools for SEOs and inbound marketers.
Chose Moz Pro
Moz is a good alternative but my current team leverages a variety of tools in order to support our external and internal customers. Moz has benefits for certain uses--it's strengths are easy, intuitive control systems, well rounded reporting functionality and decent backlink …
Chose Moz Pro
I consider Moz the most accurate service in terms of rankings, links, and authority metrics. More often than not, Moz's information reflects what we see on the search engines while other products have a much larger margin of error.
Chose Moz Pro
My favorite tool is SEMrush. I selected Moz to help with link-based research because SEMrush is more focused on keyword data. For the link-based data, Ahrefs is probably the biggest threat to Moz. It has an amazing amount of data, and from the chatter I hear the data is more …
Chose Moz Pro
We use Raven Tools and Moz. Raven Tools aggregates Moz data through their partnership, so if you only have $100 a month to spend, consider Raven Tools.
SEOmoz vs Majestic SEO - Moz has more more user friendly tools and interfaces but Majestic is more powerful. Majestic has …
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Features
AhrefsMoz Pro
SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
Ahrefs
8.5
68 Ratings
9% above category average
Moz Pro
8.4
40 Ratings
8% above category average
Keyword analysis9.365 Ratings9.940 Ratings
Backlink management8.966 Ratings7.035 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking8.764 Ratings9.940 Ratings
Page grader8.259 Ratings9.939 Ratings
Competitive analysis8.666 Ratings8.039 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics8.761 Ratings8.938 Ratings
Site recommendations7.558 Ratings7.936 Ratings
Task management7.931 Ratings5.221 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
Ahrefs
8.6
60 Ratings
12% above category average
Moz Pro
5.9
32 Ratings
25% below category average
Local SEO8.148 Ratings5.327 Ratings
Social SEO7.946 Ratings5.323 Ratings
Mobile SEO8.745 Ratings6.325 Ratings
Global SEO9.454 Ratings6.827 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
Ahrefs
8.6
57 Ratings
2% above category average
Moz Pro
8.9
32 Ratings
5% above category average
Multi-domain support8.754 Ratings7.927 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools8.429 Ratings9.929 Ratings
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User Ratings
AhrefsMoz Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(73 ratings)
9.9
(77 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(5 ratings)
8.8
(37 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(14 ratings)
9.5
(7 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AhrefsMoz Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
Ahrefs
It gives the best report to us which helps us to find the opportunity to build backlinks. Another main feature that makes Ahrefs a safe and sound approach to SEO is that it provides information about duplicate content, URLs, redirects along with other errors that can be dangerous to the website.
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iContact
Businesses looking to keep track of their web presence and utilize a tool to identify areas of opportunity. The trends tracking and competitor modeling allow businesses to be able to build an SEO strategy that they can track progress over time and fill in content gaps. This is used by our company in conjunction with our marketing automation tool and Google's web presence suite (eg. Google Analytics, Search Console, Tag Manager).
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Pros
Ahrefs
  • Backlink data: Ahrefs continues to provide the best backlink data in the industry when compared to other tools. Other players are playing catching up, but as a first mover, Ahrefs is ahead of the game by far.
  • Keyword data: Ahrefs provides extremely valuable keyword data. Though I rank them second in this category, the data that they provide is comparable to the first ranked player.
  • Content Explorer: I don't think other industry tools (SEO specific) has a content explorer as useful as Ahrefs. Their content explorer works great for identifying top content and trends for multiple industries.
  • Rank Tracker: This rank tracker is better than the average tracker and Ahrefs provides a large limit for tracked keywords. Though they have moved away from daily updates, the rank tracker is great for bench marking progress.
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iContact
  • It finds relevant keywords and lets you know your chance of ranking with them.
  • It helps you find content that needs work to rank better.
  • It helps you improve any technical issues with your web pages.
  • It helps you audit your current site for any technical issues.
  • It helps you keep track of your most important keywords.
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Cons
Ahrefs
  • Anchor text alert notifications for a specific domain would be nice to have.
  • Would also be nice to set a specific client domain and then be able to pick 5 competitor sites to compare it to instead of entering in the client site and then 4 competitors to compare.
  • Adding emails to forward the exports to from running a report would be good too.
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iContact
  • Some of the auto-gen visual tables aren't all that useful for smaller companies. For instance on the Search Visibility tab, many of my clients have a tiny % of keywords in the top-10, so the table shows basically 4 overlaid flat lines. I wish we had some options to customize this table or expand the range or something.
  • I wish there were some more tools relating to the technical aspects of the site/pages. The whole tool is very keyword-oriented, which is fine, but I feel like over time this has become and will continue to be less important than technical aspects, site speed, voice search, etc.
  • There's an Anchor Text tab, but it only looks at Inbound links—I wish this feature was for on-site anchor text—this could be a much better optimization tool. Because there's nothing you can do about inbound link text.
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Likelihood to Renew
Ahrefs
Their index is too vast to ignore when looking at a complete backlink profile. We find links in Ahrefs that do not appear in any other link detection tool. For this reason, it's a must for our agency to use for the foreseeable future. Plus, it's very affordable considering the data you get
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iContact
We've been paying monthly for Moz for at least four years. We rely heavily on it for our daily work, and would need to re-engineer many of our processes if we were to cancel our subscription. I suspect we'll continue to use Moz as long as we are in business (assuming they maintain their quality).
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Usability
Ahrefs
Ahrefs is very easy to use - you can jump right in and understand most of the assets. Overall, the dashboard snapshots give a very good picture of inbound link activity. For deeper analysis of historical trends, the system can become cumbersome, making it hard to do full work without exporting and reformatting the data.
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iContact
it's easy to use once you get the hang of it and most people with any sort of background in using online tools and analytics systems can figure it out. it's just not as intuitive as it could be like google webmaster tools or Adobe (Site Catalyst)
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Reliability and Availability
Ahrefs
No answers on this topic
iContact
Every time I've ever needed it, it's been there.
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Support Rating
Ahrefs
Ahrefs has always been responsive when there's been a technical issue with the site. There are usually very little problems, but if there are, they announce it on their social media accounts which keeps its customers informed. Email support is prompt and the customer service people are very helpful, knowledgable and friendly.
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iContact
As I have mentioned before, if you have enterprise subscription, the staff are super helpful. Moz also participated in the marketing tech conferences especially moz in seattle. These sessions are super useful in helping digital marketing analyst like me to investigate new marketing techniques, tracking leads and conversions and eventually monetize them. Their staff is not only knowledgeable in their own product but they have been around. For example Dr Peter from moz always publishes his insights and I have relied somewhat on his opinions.
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Alternatives Considered
Ahrefs
I think when it comes to keyword tracking, Ahrefs is not as good BrightEdge, but Ahrefs Site Explorer trumps BrightEdge when it comes to anything backlink related. I would use Ahrefs Site Explorer for backlink analysis, identifying 404 error pages, examining anchor texts, and exploring top content. However, I would utilze BrightEdge for keyword and ranking information
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iContact
Moz emerged as an industry leader with a great reputation for driving optimal SEO performance and ROI for customers. Moz' thought leadership on all things SEO gave us a lot of confidence to invest and partner with them. The wide array of product features was also something that was important to us relative to Moz' competitors. In the end, we felt there wasn't anything we couldn't do with Moz. We were also impressed with the on demand platform training and tools provided from day 1. Lastly, Moz was one of the more expensive platforms, but it wasn't the most expensive, so we felt we received great value for the overall price.
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Return on Investment
Ahrefs
  • Identify the most effective keywords for content creation and optimizing existing content, which can help to increase organic traffic to your website.
  • Track backlinks, monitor the competition, and identify potential link building opportunities, which can help to improve your search engine rankings.
  • Analyze the top-performing pages on any website, which can help to optimize your own content and improve user experience.
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iContact
  • Here I can easily find competitor's ranking keywords and their backlinks. It also gives you another exciting feature where you can compare two domains at the same time.
  • The thing that I don't like about this software is, that sometimes your page can take too much time for crawling.
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ScreenShots

Ahrefs Screenshots

Screenshot of Analyze backlinks and keywords of any website to find opportunities for your organic traffic growthScreenshot of Check your website for 100+ pre-defined SEO issuesScreenshot of Get relevant keyword ideas supported by accurate SEO metricsScreenshot of Find the most shared and linked-to content on any topicScreenshot of Track your and your competitors' search rankings

Moz Pro Screenshots

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