Pitchbox vs Ahrefs Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Pro
- 2 Users
- 2 Email Accounts
- 2,000 Outreach Emails
- 1 Workspace
- 25 Campaigns /mo
- 1,000 Prospecting Searches /mo
- 50,000 Contacts
- 600,000 Data Credits per year
- Prospecting & Contact Discovery
- Outreach & Auto Follow-up
- CRM
- Inbox
- Basic Reports
- AI Personalization
- AI Reply
- Link Building Workflow
- Link Monitoring
Advanced
Popular- Unlimited Users
- 6 Email Accounts
- 5,000 Outreach Emails
- 25 Workspaces
- 1,000 New Campaigns /mo
- 5,000 Prospecting Searches /mo
- 200,000 Contacts
- Unlimited Data Credits
- Advanced Contact Discovery Tuning
- Email Rotation
- Bulk AI Personalization
- Deliverability Monitoring
- Slack Integration
- White-Label Reports
- Pro Reports
- API
Scale
- Unlimited Users
- 20 Email Accounts
- 25,000 Outreach Emails
- Unlimited Workspaces
- Unlimited Campaigns
- Unlimited Prospecting Searches
- Unlimited Contacts
- Unlimited Data Credits
- Advanced Automations
- Pro Reports + Looker
- Approval Workflow
- Hybrid oAuth/SMTP Sending
- Multi-Region Sending
Lite
- 5 projects
- 6 months of historical data
- 750 tracked keywords
- 5 tracked prompts
- 100,000 crawl credits
- 1,000 credits per user
- 1 user included
- Add 2 more users at $40/mo each
- Dashboard
- Site Explorer
- Keywords Explorer
- Brand Radar
- Site Audit
- Always-on audit
- Rank Tracker
- Competitive Analysis
- SERP history
- Page Inspect
- Web Analytics
- API access
- MCP Server
- Report Builder
- Social Media Manager Beta
- GBP Monitor Beta
Standard
- 20 projects
- 2 years of historical data
- 2,000 tracked keywords
- 10 tracked prompts
- 500,000 crawl credits
- Unlimited credits per user
- 1 user included
- Add 5 more users at $60/mo each
- Dashboard
- Site Explorer
- Keywords Explorer
- Brand Radar
- Site Audit
- Always-on audit
- Rank Tracker
- Competitive Analysis
- SERP history
- Page Inspect
- Web Analytics
- API access
- MCP Server
- Report Builder
- Social Media Manager Beta
- GBP Monitor Beta
- Portfolios
- Content Explorer
- Batch Analysis
- SERP comparison
- Web visibility
- Site structure
- Broken backlinks
- Broken links
- Outgoing links
- Calendar view
- Linking authors
- AI suggestions
- Keyword clusters
- Search intents
- Translations
- SERP updates
Advanced
- 50 projects
- 5 years of historical data
- 5,000 tracked keywords
- 20 tracked prompts
- 1,500,000 crawl credits
- Unlimited credits per user
- 1 user included
- Add 10 more users at $80/mo each
- Dashboard
- Site Explorer
- Keywords Explorer
- Brand Radar
- Site Audit
- Always-on audit
- Rank Tracker
- Competitive Analysis
- SERP history
- Page Inspect
- Web Analytics
- API access
- MCP Server
- Report Builder
- Social Media Manager Beta
- GBP Monitor Beta
- Portfolios
- Content Explorer
- Batch Analysis
- SERP comparison
- Web visibility
- Site structure
- Broken backlinks
- Broken links
- Outgoing links
- Calendar view
- Linking authors
- AI suggestions
- Keyword clusters
- Search intents
- Translations
- SERP updates
- Looker Studio integration
- Search type distribution
- Agency directory listing
- Segmentation Soon
- HTTP authentication
Enterprise
- Uncapped API access
- SSO & enterprise-grade security
- Access management & audit log
- Unlimited historical data
- Personalized higher limits & data exports
- Forecasting & trends
Pitchbox vs Ahrefs FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Ahrefs is the cheaper option, starting at $129/mo vs $300/mo for Pitchbox.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Ahrefs has a free plan. Pitchbox doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Pitchbox uses hybrid pricing, while Ahrefs goes with per-seat. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Pitchbox: This sits firmly in premium territory for outreach/link-building tools — most competitors in this space (BuzzStream, ContentHarmony-adjacent tools) price in the double or low-triple digits, so Pitchbox is clearly targeting agencies and enterprise SEO teams who bill this cost back to clients, not solo practitioners on a budget. Ahrefs: Ahrefs sits in the premium tier of SEO tools — more expensive than Ubersuggest or Mangools by a wide margin, and roughly neck-and-neck with Semrush on mid-tier plans. They're going after serious SEO practitioners and agencies who treat data quality as non-negotiable, not budget-conscious beginners.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Pitchbox and Ahrefs and let you know when something moves.