Ahrefs vs Moz Pro
Plans, prices and documented capabilities side by side, from each vendor's own documentation.
A side-by-side reference, not a recommendation. Neither product has been independently tested.
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Lowest listed plan
Starter · $29/mo month-to-month
Vendor-checked26 Oct 2026 · Not independently tested
Lowest listed plan
Starter · $49/mo month-to-month
Vendor-checked27 Oct 2026 · Not independently tested
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SEOFinder editorial summary
For AI search tracking included in the subscription, Moz Pro adds AI visibility dashboards from Standard ($99/mo), tracking 150 to 600 prompts in GPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode; Starter ($49/mo) has none. Ahrefs plans from Lite ($129/mo) include 150 to 600 custom AI prompt checks, and full AI visibility (Brand Radar) is a paid add-on from $199/mo. Ahrefs offers a free plan for sites you verify you own but no free trial; Moz offers a Medium-plan trial that requires a card. Extra users cost from $40/mo each at Ahrefs and $49/mo each at Moz.
SEOFinder's editorial summary of each vendor's own documentation. Neither product has been independently tested.
Summary
- 3documented differences
- 10documented the same for both
- 6documented for one tool only
- 2unknown for both
- Billing
- Ahrefs: Month-to-month billing
- Moz Pro: Month-to-month billing
- Free plan
- Ahrefs: Yes · Ahrefs Free
- Moz Pro: Unknown
- Free trial
- Ahrefs: No
- Moz Pro: Yes · card required
- AI engines tracked
- Ahrefs: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Copilot (plan not specified)
- Moz Pro: ChatGPT, AI Mode and Gemini (confirmed from Standard); AI Overviews (confirmed from Starter, the lowest paid plan)
Documented differences
Both tools documented, and the support or plan differs.
- AI visibility monitoring
- Ahrefs: Paid add-onAdd-on from LiteAvailability on lower plans not verified.
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from StandardAvailability on lower plans not verified.
- Rank tracking
- Ahrefs: OfferedConfirmed from LiteAvailability on lower plans not verified.
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from Starter, the lowest paid plan
Documented for one tool only
No documentation was found for the other tool. That is unknown, not a missing capability.
- Unknown for Ahrefs: Content briefs, Backlink monitoring
- Unknown for Moz Pro: Automated content generation
Pricing
- The lowest listed plans are not necessarily equivalent. Check plan limits before comparing prices.
- Plans
- Ahrefs:
- Ahrefs FreeFree
Limits of Ahrefs Free
Requires verifying ownership of your website for Site Explorer, Site Audit and Web Analytics; Site Audit 5K crawl credits/month per project; 1K backlinks & keywords visible at once.
- Starter$29/mo month-to-month
Limits of Starter
Listed separately from the core plans.
- Lite$129/mo month-to-month
Limits of Lite
5 non-verified projects, 6 months history, 750 tracked keywords, 150 AI prompt checks, 100,000 crawl credits. Annual price not listed. 1 user included; up to 2 more at $40/mo each.
- Standard$249/mo month-to-month$2,490/yr billed annually
Limits of Standard
20 non-verified projects, 2 years history, 2,000 tracked keywords, 300 AI prompt checks. 1 user included; up to 5 more at $60/mo each.
- Advanced$449/mo month-to-month
Limits of Advanced
50 non-verified projects, 5 years history, 5,000 tracked keywords, 600 AI prompt checks. Annual price not listed. 1 user included; up to 10 more at $80/mo each.
- Enterprise · annual commitment$1,499/mo billed annually
Limits of Enterprise
Annual commitment required (monthly-equivalent price shown). Uncapped API access, custom API endpoints, SSO, unlimited history. From 3 users included; additional users $100/mo each.
- Ahrefs FreeFree
- Moz Pro:
- Starter$49/mo month-to-month
Limits of Starter
1 user seat, 1 campaign, 50 tracked keyword rankings, 5,000 pages crawled a week, 75 keyword queries and 75 backlink queries a month. No AI Visibility dashboards, tracked prompts or AI content briefs; prompt suggestions and AI Overviews by keyword are included.
- Standard$99/mo month-to-month$79/mo billed annually
Limits of Standard
1 user seat, 3 campaigns, 300 tracked keywords, 100,000 pages crawled a week, 3 AI visibility dashboards, 150 tracked prompts, 2 AI content briefs a month. Branded reports and report templates are not included. Extra user seats cost $49/mo each. Annual billing: $950 billed for the first year.
- Medium$179/mo month-to-month$143/mo billed annually
Limits of Medium
2 user seats, 10 campaigns, 1,500 tracked keywords, 500,000 pages crawled a week, 6 AI visibility dashboards, 300 tracked prompts, 10 AI content briefs a month. Extra user seats cost $49/mo each. Annual billing: $1,719 billed for the first year.
- Large$299/mo month-to-month$239/mo billed annually
Limits of Large
3 user seats, 25 campaigns, 3,000 tracked keywords, 1,250,000 pages crawled a week, 12 AI visibility dashboards, 600 tracked prompts, 50 AI content briefs a month. Extra user seats cost $49/mo each. Annual billing: $2,868 billed for the first year.
- EnterpriseContact sales — Custom pricing
Limits of Enterprise
Pricing on request.
- Starter$49/mo month-to-month
- Prices last verified
- Ahrefs: 26 Oct 2026
- Moz Pro: 27 Oct 2026
Capabilities
OfferedPartialPaid add-onNot offeredUnknown* Not yet verified
Not offered means the vendor says so. Unknown means we found no vendor documentation either way; the capability may still exist.
AI visibility2 differences · 3 documented for one tool only
- AI visibility monitoringDiffers
Evidence for AI visibility monitoring
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentationVendor notes: Full Brand Radar AI (research any brand across 505M+ prompts) is a paid add-on from $199/mo. Plans include a small number of custom AI prompt checks (Lite 150, Standard 300, Advanced 600). Brand Radar page (EUR view) shows 'AI Visibility Index' from €179/mo and '€654/MO FOR ALL MODELS'. Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: Paid add-onAdd-on from LiteAvailability on lower plans not verified.
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from StandardAvailability on lower plans not verified.
- ChatGPT tracking
Evidence for ChatGPT tracking
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: OfferedPlan not specified
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from StandardAvailability on lower plans not verified.
- Google AI Overviews trackingDiffers
Evidence for Google AI Overviews tracking
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentationVendor notes: Shows which keywords trigger Google AI Overviews. AI Overviews is not one of the tracked AI models for prompts. Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: OfferedPlan not specified
- Moz Pro: PartialConfirmed from Starter, the lowest paid plan
- Google AI Mode tracking
Evidence for Google AI Mode tracking
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: OfferedPlan not specified
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from StandardAvailability on lower plans not verified.
- Perplexity trackingOne side unknown
Evidence for Perplexity tracking
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: No vendor documentation found.
- Ahrefs: OfferedPlan not specified
- Moz Pro: Unknown
- Gemini tracking
Evidence for Gemini tracking
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: OfferedPlan not specified
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from StandardAvailability on lower plans not verified.
- Claude trackingOne side unknown
Evidence for Claude tracking
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: No vendor documentation found.
- Ahrefs: OfferedPlan not specified
- Moz Pro: Unknown
- Microsoft Copilot trackingOne side unknown
Evidence for Microsoft Copilot tracking
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: No vendor documentation found.
- Ahrefs: OfferedPlan not specified
- Moz Pro: Unknown
- Citation and source tracking
Evidence for Citation and source tracking
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: OfferedPlan not specified
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from StandardAvailability on lower plans not verified.
- AI competitor benchmarking
Evidence for AI competitor benchmarking
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: OfferedPlan not specified
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from StandardAvailability on lower plans not verified.
- Prompt tracking
Evidence for Prompt tracking
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: OfferedConfirmed from LiteAvailability on lower plans not verified.
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from StandardAvailability on lower plans not verified.
Content & publishing2 documented for one tool only
- Automated content generationOne side unknown
Evidence for Automated content generation
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentationVendor notes: Inline Ask AI rewrites, shortens or expands text. Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: No vendor documentation found.
- Ahrefs: PartialPlan not specified
- Moz Pro: Unknown
- Automated publishing
Evidence for Automated publishing
- Ahrefs: No vendor documentation found.
- Moz Pro: No vendor documentation found.
- Ahrefs: Unknown
- Moz Pro: Unknown
- Content optimization
Evidence for Content optimization
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: OfferedConfirmed on the free plan
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from Starter, the lowest paid plan
- Content briefsOne side unknown
Evidence for Content briefs
- Ahrefs: No vendor documentation found.
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: Unknown
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from StandardAvailability on lower plans not verified.
SEO research1 difference
- Keyword research
Evidence for Keyword research
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: OfferedPlan not specified
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from Starter, the lowest paid plan
- Rank trackingDiffers
Evidence for Rank tracking
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: OfferedConfirmed from LiteAvailability on lower plans not verified.
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from Starter, the lowest paid plan
Technical SEONo documented differences
- Technical site audit
Evidence for Technical site audit
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: OfferedConfirmed on the free plan
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from Starter, the lowest paid plan
Backlinks1 documented for one tool only
- Backlink analysis
Evidence for Backlink analysis
- Ahrefs: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Ahrefs
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: OfferedConfirmed on the free plan
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from Starter, the lowest paid plan
- Backlink building
Evidence for Backlink building
- Ahrefs: No vendor documentation found.
- Moz Pro: No vendor documentation found.
- Ahrefs: Unknown
- Moz Pro: Unknown
- Backlink monitoringOne side unknown
Evidence for Backlink monitoring
- Ahrefs: No vendor documentation found.
- Moz Pro: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Moz Pro
- Ahrefs: Unknown
- Moz Pro: OfferedConfirmed from StandardAvailability on lower plans not verified.
Integrations
- Google Analytics
- Ahrefs: Unknown
- Moz Pro: Documented
- Google Search Console
- Ahrefs: Documented
- Moz Pro: Unknown
- Looker Studio
- Ahrefs: Documented
- Moz Pro: Unknown
- Public API
- Ahrefs: Documented
- Moz Pro: Unknown
“Unknown” means we found no vendor documentation for it, not that it is unavailable.
Who they are for
- Built for (vendor-stated)
- Ahrefs: Small businesses, Freelancers and consultants, Enterprises, Agencies, Ecommerce brands
- Moz Pro: Small businesses, Enterprises, Agencies
- Best suited for (SEOFinder editorial)
- Ahrefs:
- Competitor research on paid plans.
- Teams tracking up to a few thousand keywords (750 on Lite, 5,000 on Advanced).
- Moz Pro:
- Individuals managing a single website (Starter: 1 campaign, 50 tracked keywords).
- Marketers tracking several sites (3 campaigns on Standard, 10 on Medium, 25 on Large).
Sources
Each vendor's own pages, read on the dates shown. SEOFinder has not independently tested these products.
Ahrefs
Full profile of AhrefsChecked 26 Oct 2026
8 official sources
- ahrefs.com/pricing
- help.ahrefs.com/en/articles/3493211-how-does-2-months-free-discount-work-with-a-yearly-plan
- ahrefs.com/free
- help.ahrefs.com/en/articles/1406260-do-you-offer-any-discounts-or-free-trials
- ahrefs.com/brand-radar
- ahrefs.com/
- ahrefs.com/ai-content-helper
- help.ahrefs.com/en/articles/9229306-how-can-i-use-ahrefs-with-looker-studio
Moz Pro
Full profile of Moz ProChecked 27 Oct 2026