AgentMinds vs Ahrefs Site Audit
Different tools, different price points. Ahrefs starts at $129/month. AgentMinds is free during beta. Here's what each actually gives you.
Different philosophies
Ahrefsis a search engine. Its core asset is a 25-trillion-link backlink graph and 12-billion-keyword SERP database. Site Audit is a feature inside Ahrefs that uses that data to surface technical SEO issues — duplicate titles, slow pages, broken links, internal link equity, indexability problems. It's for teams that buy Ahrefs primarily for keyword research and competitor analysis.
AgentMindsis a collective intelligence platform. We don't crawl the web or buy SERP data. We scan a site, match findings against patterns reported by 100+ other sites, and surface the fixes that worked. We focus on technical health (security + SEO + AEO + perf), not link building.
Side-by-side
| Capability | Ahrefs Site Audit | AgentMinds |
|---|---|---|
| Backlink analysis | ✓ 25T-link database | — |
| Keyword research / SERP | ✓ Industry standard | — |
| Internal link equity | ✓ | — |
| Indexability + crawl errors | ✓ Deep crawl | Single-page check |
| Security headers | — | ✓ 20+ checks |
| AEO (llms.txt, AI-bot blocking) | — | ✓ 8 signals |
| FAQPage / structured data depth | Basic | ✓ Type-aware |
| Cross-site fix patterns | — | ✓ 1,000+ patterns |
| Continuous monitoring | ✓ Scheduled crawls | ✓ 6h pipeline |
| Free tier | Limited (10 audits, owned sites only) | ✓ All scans free |
| Pricing | $129-449/mo | Free during beta |
| API access | Enterprise plans | Free during beta |
Use Ahrefs when
- You're an SEO team and need backlink data, keyword volume, and SERP positions
- You're running a multi-site enterprise SEO operation
- You need historical organic traffic data for competitor analysis
- $129+/month is in your budget and link building is a primary motion
Use AgentMinds when
- You're a developer or solo founder who wants technical health, not SEO consulting
- You care about AI engine visibility (AEO), not just Google ranking
- You want security + SEO + performance in one scan, not three tools
- You need shareable scan URLs and embeddable badges (we have both)
- Free matters — Ahrefs Site Audit is part of a paid plan
What Ahrefs covers that we don't (yet)
We're not a backlink tool, and we won't pretend to be. If you need to know who's linking to you, what your competitors rank for, or what keywords have rising volume, Ahrefs does that vastly better than us. We'd rather be honest about scope than try to fake a feature we don't have.
For technical health and AI-engine readiness, though — that's our home turf, and we go deeper than the SEO category typically does.