crawlwise vs Ahrefs Site Audit

What it is

A site crawler inside a suite whose real asset is a proprietary link graph, refreshed continuously.

Where Ahrefs Site Audit is better

This section is the reason to read the page. A comparison that only lists our wins is marketing, and you would know it was.

• 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.

Where we differ

• 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.

What cannot be compared

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

Judge it yourself without paying either of us

Run the free domain rating checker on your own site — no account, no credit, no email. Then audit one page, which the trial credit covers, and read the limits page to see what it will not tell you before you spend anything.