Is there a free Ahrefs alternative?

looot has no monthly seat. You pay per call to the provider you pick, and the catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it. Whether that comes out cheaper than Ahrefs depends on your volume.

What does Ahrefs cost?

List prices change, so check Ahrefs's own pricing page. This page does not repeat them. The looot side is read live from the catalog on the web version of this page.

What is a good Ahrefs alternative for an AI agent?

An agent with a looot connection can call the providers behind Ahrefs's data jobs directly. The providers used here are dataforseo, searchapi-io, firecrawl, zyte-api.

Which Ahrefs features does looot not cover?

Not covered: own backlink index. Keep Ahrefs for those, or use another tool beside looot.

How do I replace Ahrefs with looot?

Paste the agent prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoints for each job and runs them. You can edit the prompt to match your own inputs.

Do I need a Ahrefs account to use looot?

No. looot calls its own providers and does not connect to your Ahrefs account. Your existing Ahrefs data stays where it is.

Can I replace it?

Can I replace Ahrefs?

An SEO suite known for its backlink index, keyword research and rank tracking.

Kinda

Ahrefs

SEO and marketing

2 of 6

jobs covered

Can I replace it?

Can I replace Ahrefs?

An SEO suite known for its backlink index, keyword research and rank tracking.

Kinda

Ahrefs

SEO and marketing

2 of 6

jobs covered

Ask your agent

Paste one prompt to replace Ahrefs

Your agent reads the looot setup file once, then runs the jobs below and shows each price first.

Prompt to replace Ahrefs

Use looot to list the backlinks and ranking keywords for a domain I give you, and compare them with two competitor domains. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table.

Setup

One prompt, one price, one ledger

The same three steps every looot agent follows.

Paste one prompt into your agent

Set up looot

Done, looot is connected.

Copy one prompt from /connect into Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP agent. No SDK, no dashboard click-through first.

Your agent finds the right operation

Hunter$0.0265

Exa$0.0090

Diffbot$0.0032

The agent finds the operation it needs and sees the price first. It calls nothing blind.

You watch what it cost

Hunter$0.0265

Exa$0.0090

Diffbot$0.0032

Total$0.0387

Every call settles for its quoted price and lands in the ledger. You always know what ran and what it cost.

What an agent can do instead

2 of 6 jobs covered, 3 partly.

6
Jobs listed: 2
Jobs covered: 3
Jobs partly covered: 4
Providers

Ahrefs jobs an agent can run

Kinda

Backlink analysis
Depth and freshness differ from a dedicated backlink index.
$0.000125
Keyword research
$0.000125 / call
Rank tracking
$0.000125 / call
Site audit
An agent can crawl and check pages, but there is no ready-made audit report.
$0.000333
Content gap analysis
An agent compares keyword lists itself.
$0.000125
Own backlink index
looot does not run a crawler of its own. It resells provider data.

Cheapest live price per job

Read from the looot catalog just now. Bars are to scale.

Cheapest call per job

Backlink analysis$0.000125
Keyword research (call)$0.000125
Rank tracking (call)$0.000125
Content gap analysis$0.000125
Site audit$0.000333

What Ahrefs does and what looot returns

The providers behind each job, with their real logos.

Ahrefs job by job

JobCoverageWhat looot returns

Backlink analysisPartly covered

Depth and freshness differ from a dedicated backlink index.

Keyword researchCovered

Data from DataForSEO and SearchAPI.io

Rank trackingCovered

Data from DataForSEO and SearchAPI.io

Site auditPartly covered

An agent can crawl and check pages, but there is no ready-made audit report.

Content gap analysisPartly covered

An agent compares keyword lists itself.

Own backlink indexNot coveredlooot does not run a crawler of its own. It resells provider data.

Questions about replacing Ahrefs

Partly. An agent running looot can do some of what Ahrefs does through catalog endpoints, and the page marks the jobs it cannot do.

For agents

app: Ahrefs
verdict: kinda
job: Backlink analysis: partial, providers dataforseo
job: Keyword research: covered, providers dataforseo searchapi-io
job: Rank tracking: covered, providers dataforseo searchapi-io
job: Site audit: partial, providers firecrawl zyte-api
job: Content gap analysis: partial, providers dataforseo
job: Own backlink index: missing
setup: https://looot.ai/skill.md
llms.txt: https://looot.ai/llms.txt
updated: 2026-10-02

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