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Ahrefs vs Moz: what an AI agent can replace

Ahrefs and Moz do overlapping work. This page lines up their jobs and shows which ones an agent running looot can take over for each. It says nothing about which tool is better, what either costs or who uses it.

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Verdicts

Ahrefs and Moz, side by side

Each score is the share of that tool's listed jobs an agent running looot covers. It is not a score of the tool.

Ahrefs logo

Ahrefs

Kinda

58%

of its listed jobs an agent running looot covers. A partly covered job counts half.

Covered
2
Partly
3
Not covered
1
Moz logo

Moz

Kinda

60%

of its listed jobs an agent running looot covers. A partly covered job counts half.

Covered
2
Partly
2
Not covered
1

Job by job

Which jobs an agent covers for each

Jobs of the same kind sit in one row. A job with no match on the other side is listed alone.

  • Backlinks

    Ahrefs logoAhrefs

    • Backlink analysisPartly
    • Own backlink indexNot covered

    Moz logoMoz

    • Backlink dataPartly

  • Keyword research

    Ahrefs logoAhrefs

    • Keyword researchCovered

    Moz logoMoz

    • Keyword researchCovered

  • Rank tracking

    Ahrefs logoAhrefs

    • Rank trackingCovered

    Moz logoMoz

    • Rank trackingCovered

  • Site audit and crawl

    Ahrefs logoAhrefs

    • Site auditPartly

    Moz logoMoz

    • Site crawlPartly

  • Content tools

    Ahrefs logoAhrefs

    • Content gap analysisPartly

    Moz logoMoz

    No matching job on our list.

  • Domain Authority score

    Ahrefs logoAhrefs

    No matching job on our list.

    Moz logoMoz

    • Domain Authority scoreNot covered

Shared jobs

Jobs both do that an agent can take over

Both tools list these jobs and an agent running looot covers at least part of each. The logos are the providers it would call.

  • Backlinks

    Ahrefs: Backlink analysis. Moz: Backlink data.

  • Keyword research

    Ahrefs: Keyword research. Moz: Keyword research.

  • Rank tracking

    Ahrefs: Rank tracking. Moz: Rank tracking.

  • Site audit and crawl

    Ahrefs: Site audit. Moz: Site crawl.

What you keep

What you keep each tool for

These are the jobs an agent does not fully cover, with the reason.

looot is not Ahrefs and not Moz. Each product does things looot does not, and the lists below name them. Use this page to decide which jobs an agent can take over, not which tool to choose.

Ahrefs logo

Keep Ahrefs for

  • Backlink analysisPartly

    Depth and freshness differ from a dedicated backlink index.

  • Site auditPartly

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

  • Content gap analysisPartly

    An agent compares keyword lists itself.

  • Own backlink indexNot covered

    looot does not run a crawler of its own. It resells provider data.

Moz logo

Keep Moz for

  • Domain Authority scoreNot covered

    That score is Moz's own metric. looot cannot return it.

  • Backlink dataPartly

    Depth and freshness differ from a dedicated backlink index.

  • Site crawlPartly

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

Prompts

Ask your agent to take over the jobs

One prompt for each tool's jobs. Paste it into the agent you already use, after setting up looot.

Ahrefs jobs
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.

Questions about Ahrefs vs Moz

We list 6 jobs for Ahrefs: 2 covered, 3 partly covered and 1 not covered by an agent running looot. For Moz we list 5: 2 covered, 2 partly covered and 1 not covered. The verdicts are kinda for Ahrefs and kinda for Moz.

For agents
comparison
Ahrefs vs Moz
Ahrefs verdict
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Moz verdict
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scope
coverage of jobs by an agent running looot, not a ranking, price or quality claim
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/alternatives/ahrefs and /alternatives/moz
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https://looot.ai/llms.txt
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2026-10-02
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