What Ahrefs does
The Ahrefs pricing page lists five paid plans. Starter, at $29 a month, is a light research plan. Lite ($129) includes Site Explorer, Keywords Explorer, Site Audit, Rank Tracker and Brand Radar, with 750 tracked keywords and 150 AI prompt checks. Standard ($249) and Advanced ($449) raise those limits, and Enterprise is $1,499 a month on an annual commitment. Brand Radar AI, which tracks how AI assistants mention brands, is an add-on from $199 a month, and a Content Kit add-on starts at $99.
There is also a free plan, which Ahrefs describes as a way to "get Ahrefs data on your site and fix what matters".
What Tractionora does
Tractionora answers a narrower question: what should change on your site first? Rapid Scan reads up to 25 of your public pages, and a read-only connection to Search Console and Analytics adds what Google and your visitors are doing. You see a handful of Opportunities with the evidence for each, rather than a full audit.
The first change is prepared for you to approve, change or put off. With publishing access on a supported platform, Tractionora makes that one change, reads the live page to confirm it is there and measures what follows. A Growth Receipt keeps the whole story, including changes that did not help.
Two free checks, compared
If all you want is a free look at your own site, both tools offer one, and you could reasonably try both. Ahrefs’ free plan gives you its data about your site. Rapid Scan gives you a short list of changes in plain words. The difference shows after the first look: Ahrefs is built to help you research further, and Tractionora is built to take one change through approval, publishing and a check of the live page.
Side by side
| What we compared | Ahrefs | Tractionora |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest paid price | $29 a month (Starter) | $39 a month (Starter), not on sale yet |
| Main tools | From $129 a month (Lite) | Rapid Scan and read-only Google data, free |
| Free option | Ahrefs Free, for your own site | Free Forever, with Rapid Scan of up to 25 pages |
| Link and competitor research | Yes, with Site Explorer | No |
| Keyword research | Yes, with Keywords Explorer | No |
| AI answer tracking | 150 prompt checks on Lite; Brand Radar AI from $199 a month | Not yet |
| Making the change | Done by you or your team | Applied after your approval, where publishing is set up |
| Record of each change | Not listed on its pricing page | A Growth Receipt for every finished change |
Which to choose
Choose Ahrefs if you need to understand other websites: who links to a competitor, which of their pages bring them visitors, which keywords are worth going after. That research is what Ahrefs is built for, and we do not offer it.
Choose Tractionora if you run the business rather than the SEO, your site already gets some visits, and you want to be told which change matters, approve it and see what followed. We would rather you had one change you understand than a dashboard you open twice and forget.
How we checked
We read ahrefs.com/pricing on 30 October 2026. Prices are in US dollars as the page shows them, and Ahrefs offers a discount for paying yearly. Check the page before you buy, and write to hello@tractionora.com if anything here is wrong.