Serpstat 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.
Individual
- 5 projects
- 100 searches for sites, keywords, and links per day
- 10,000 keyword position checks
- 30,000 pages to audit
- 50,000 export rows
Team
Popular- Unlimited projects
- 500 searches for sites, keywords, and links per day
- keyword position checks
- 150,000 pages to audit
- 250,000 export rows
Agency
- Unlimited projects
- 5,000 searches for sites, keywords, and links per day
- 500,000 keyword position checks
- 1,500,000 pages to audit per month
- 2,500,000 export rows per month
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
Serpstat vs Ahrefs FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Serpstat starts lower at $50/mo, compared to $129/mo for Ahrefs.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Ahrefs has a free plan. Serpstat doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Serpstat uses usage-based 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. Serpstat: Sitting well below Ahrefs and Semrush on entry price, Serpstat plays the value/challenger card for teams that want a full SEO suite without the premium sticker price. It's aimed at agencies and growing teams priced out of the big two, not enterprises chasing the most exhaustive data set. 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.
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We'll monitor pricing changes for Serpstat and Ahrefs and let you know when something moves.