head to head
Ahrefs vs Screaming Frog
Neck and neck on boosts. Profiles, pricing and deals below.
Ahrefs
The backlink index everyone else is compared against
community boosts
⚡ 0
pricing
Paid
what it is
Ahrefs pairs one of the largest live backlink indexes with keyword research, site audits and rank tracking. Its data quality made 'check it in Ahrefs' a verb among SEOs. Priced for professionals.
Screaming Frog
The desktop crawler every technical SEO swears by
community boosts
⚡ 0
pricing
Freemium
what it is
Screaming Frog's SEO Spider crawls your site like a search engine would, surfacing broken links, redirect chains, duplicate content and metadata issues. The free tier crawls 500 URLs; the license is a bargain for what it finds.