Ahrefs vs LinkMiner

Ahrefs is a web and API platform for SEO research, including keyword research, rank tracking, site audits, backlink analysis and competitor research. It also provides content tools, AI assistants and MCP access. Content Explorer can find web mentions and link prospects, while AI Content Helper supports content improvement. The free plan provides site data and fixes with limited access to Site Explorer and Site Audit. Paid plans start with Starter at $29 a month. Lite costs $129 a month and includes five projects, 750 tracked keywords, 100,000 monthly crawl credits and one user; its Site Audit allowance has a 25,000-page project maximum. Annual payment saves up to 17%. Enterprise costs $1,499 a month and requires an annual commitment; it includes SSO, two-factor authentication, ISO27001 certification, access management, audit logs and unlimited additional users. Ahrefs says its web index contains 170 trillion pages, tracks 41.9 billion keywords and filters 28.7 billion keywords; AhrefsBot crawls 8 billion pages daily. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Singapore. Multilingual support is available five days a week.

LinkMiner is a backlink checker for finding competitors’ backlinks and identifying links that may be worth replicating. Users can browse all links, those found in the last 30 days, or links that have been lost. Metrics include Citation Flow, Trust Flow, referring IPs and domains, total backlinks, and Link Strength. An embedded website preview scrolls to a backlink and highlights its anchor text. Users can save selected URLs to Favorites lists, copy loaded results, or export them as CSV. The table initially displays up to 500 links, with another 500 added each time users load more. LinkMiner's data is based on Majestic’s Fresh and Historic indexes; the product page reports 9.5 trillion backlinks and 2.5 trillion unique URLs crawled since July 2013. A Mangools extension for Chrome and Firefox can show backlinks for the current page and continue analysis in LinkMiner. Released in January 2018, LinkMiner is included in Mangools’ SEO package alongside keyword research, SERP analysis, rank tracking, and site analysis tools. A free plan and free trial are available.