The Ahrefs alternative that acts on the data, not just displays it

Ahrefs owns the best backlink index in the business, and SEOs love it for good reason. People go looking for an Ahrefs alternative when they realize they are paying for a world-class database while the actual work, the rewrites, the content, the follow-up, still happens by hand somewhere else. Seomake is built for that second half.

Flat price, unlimited audits, no credits

02 / Side by side

The honest side-by-side

Public facts only: Ahrefs' published Lite plan is about $129 per month for one user, with credit-based limits on reports. Seomake's planned Growth tier is $149 for three seats. Different tools, different jobs; here is the split.

Ahrefs

+The strongest backlink index and link analysis anywhere
+Deep, trusted keyword and SERP research data
–A database with reports; it does not produce the fixes
–About $129/mo per user, with credit limits that sting on heavy use
–A learning curve built for specialists

Seomake (planned tiers)

+Turns findings into finished fixes and content drafts
+Rank tracking tied to each change, so impact is visible
+Plain-language output a whole team can act on
–No backlink index; on-page and content are the focus
–Flat price, unlimited audits, no credits to run out of

Competitor pricing is their published list pricing as of July 2026 and may change; we compare positioning, not their internals.

03 / The real difference

Knowing your position is not the same as improving it

Ahrefs answers "where do we stand" better than almost anyone. Seomake is built for "what got done about it": the on page SEO pillar rewrites what is weak, the AI content generator for SEO fills the gaps, and every change is tracked to its outcome. Plenty of teams will keep a data tool alongside; what they stop paying for is the manual labor between the data and the fix.

Also weighing the other big name? The Semrush alternative page covers it the same way.

04 / Judge it

Test the output on your own page

Run the free AI audit on a page whose SEO you know inside out. If the audit misses, you have lost a minute. If it is sharp, you know what the loop will do at full scale.

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05 / Run it

From standings to shipped fixes

Put one of the pages your data tool keeps flagging through Seomake and read what it writes.

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