How to use Ahrefs Site Audit beside Crawlwise

You might already live in Ahrefs Site Audit. That is a good sign. It means you care enough about the site to use a serious tool. This guide is here so you can keep that tool and still know, calmly, where Crawlwise fits beside it. A site crawler inside a suite whose real asset is a proprietary link graph, refreshed continuously.

Give Ahrefs Site Audit the credit it has earned

A comparison that only praises us is marketing, and you would feel it by the second paragraph. Here is where Ahrefs Site Audit is the stronger product, in plain language:

• They own a backlink index. We buy ours per query, so their referring-domain data is deeper, fresher and available without a per-lookup cost.
• Their keyword data comes from clickstream as well as SERP scraping, which is a genuinely better signal than a scraped position alone.
• Crawls run on a schedule at project scale with years of issue history, and their alerting is mature.
• Content gap, link intersect and the rest of the suite are things we do not have and are not trying to build.

If that list describes your actual week, stay. You will be happier, and you will do better work. We would rather you trust the next section because this one was fair.

Keep the tool that matches the job. Ahrefs Site Audit has jobs it wins. Crawlwise has a different one, and it is a good one.

Adnan Arodiya, Crawlwise

Where a Crawlwise sitting feels different

Our job is narrower, and we like it that way. You paste a URL. We show the evidence. We say when a check could not run. And we fetch the page as the answer-engine crawlers, so you know whether they can read it.

• A full audit here costs one credit, quoted before you click, and the free tools need no account at all. Their free tier stops at the point the audit starts being useful.
• Domain Rating is an Ahrefs metric, and we say so on the page every time we show it. They are also the only people who can tell you what it means.
• We tell you whether an AI crawler can reach the page and they do not, which matters more each year.
• We refuse to invent a score. Their health score is a weighted aggregate of issue counts; we publish the check count and the denominator instead.

That is the whole invitation. You can try the free tools with no account, then run a full audit when you want the checks together. A single page is about 1.25 credits, quoted before you click.

What we will not pretend

• Their link index is a decade of crawling. We are not going to have one, and a comparison that implies otherwise would be false.

Hold both products to that standard. If a page implies we replace their index, their desktop crawl, or their keyword history, it is wrong. Send people here instead.

A kind way to decide this week

Pick the URL a customer actually uses. Run the overlapping check in Ahrefs Site Audit if you already have it open, and run the same URL through a Crawlwise tool or a full audit. Put the two results side by side. Keep every finding you can verify. Discard the rest. You will leave with a shorter list and a better mood, which is the point of a good afternoon.

Then fix one thing on staging and check it again. The second run is how you know the fix landed. Save the Crawlwise report if you want next month to remember what you did. History is a small kindness you can give your future self.

What a plan actually costs

The free tools stay free. You can open them, run them, and leave without an account. A plan is for the moment you want the report saved, a few sites watched, or the same checks from the API. The price on this table is the price at checkout. A yearly plan is ten months of the monthly price, so two months are on us.

A single-page audit is about 1.25 credits, and that includes the live probe of answer-engine crawlers. You see the estimate before anything runs. If a hold is not used, it comes back to your balance. Extra credits, when you already subscribe, are $9.99 for 20.

You can root for both

Ahrefs Site Audit can stay in your toolkit. Crawlwise can sit beside it for the page-level questions, the crawler probe, and a price you can see. You do not have to pick a side to do good work. Open the URL, read the evidence, and ship the fix you can explain. That is a win, and you are close to it.