SEO suite with the Brand Radar add-on · Checked 9 October 2026

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Detectabli vs Ahrefs

Ahrefs is bootstrapped, past $100M in revenue, and the tool most SEO teams already pay for. Brand Radar is its AI visibility layer, sold as an add-on. Its strength is scale: a prompt index in the hundreds of millions, pulled from People Also Ask questions, that you can search for any brand with no setup.

Its limit is that it is an index, not a scan of your prompts. Chatbot data in the index refreshes monthly. Your own prompts are metered by checks, and a Claude run costs eight of them.

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Every claim about Ahrefs was read on its own pricing page, docs and changelog on 9 October 2026. What we read is listed below.

Where each is ahead

What Ahrefs does better, and what we do.

Where Ahrefs is ahead5

  • Look up any brand, including a prospect, in seconds, against history back to 2024 for AI Overviews and 2025 for chatbots.
  • Prompts carry Google search volume, so you can sort by demand.
  • The rest of the suite: backlinks, keywords, rank tracking, Site Audit with 170+ checks, GSC Insights, a free Web Analytics product that splits AI traffic, and Bot Analytics for crawler hits.
  • YouTube, TikTok and Reddit-in-SERP visibility indexes, free while in beta.
  • API, MCP and a Looker Studio connector.

Where Detectabli is ahead6

  • Your prompts, your engines, now. We run the bank you built across seven engines including Claude, Grok and DeepSeek whenever you press Run. Brand Radar's chatbot index updates once a month, and Grok collection was paused as of September.
  • Three grades per answer. Ahrefs reports mentions and citations. We also grade whether you were recommended, and whether the engine got its facts right.
  • No sentiment in Brand Radar and no accuracy check. Ahrefs points you to Letaido, a separate agent product, for both.
  • An improvement plan written for AI answers. Ahrefs Site Audit is an SEO audit with no AEO checks, no llms.txt check and no schema generation.
  • Profile audit, web presence grading, Quora and Reddit opportunities.
  • Agency white-label reporting and a managed service. Ahrefs has neither; its agency page is a directory of other people's agencies.
Pick Ahrefs if
You already pay for it and want a quick AI visibility read next to your keyword data, or you prospect many brands.
Pick Detectabli if
You want to track and fix your own AI presence week to week, on the engines Ahrefs doesn't run on your prompts.

Side by side

Capability by capability.

Detectabli and Ahrefs compared capability by capability, as read from Ahrefs's own pages on 9 October 2026.
AI enginesDetectabli7 incl. Claude, Grok, DeepSeekAhrefsAI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot; Claude on custom prompts only; Grok paused
Run cadenceDetectabliOn demand, no capAhrefsIndex monthly for chatbots; custom prompts daily, weekly or monthly, metered by checks
Brand accuracyDetectabliYesAhrefsNo; Letaido agent sold separately
Sentiment and toneDetectabliTone on third-party pages; competitor sentimentAhrefsNot in Brand Radar
On-site scanDetectabliAEO checks with a per-page planAhrefsSEO Site Audit, 170+ issues, structured data validation; no AEO checks
Schema generationDetectabliYesAhrefsNo
Third-party pagesDetectabliGraded for accuracy, authority, toneAhrefsWeb Visibility counts mentions; no grading
Profile auditDetectabliYesAhrefsNo
Prompt demand dataDetectabliNoAhrefsGoogle volume per prompt, AI-adjusted
Any-brand lookup with historyDetectabliNoAhrefsYes, 470M+ prompt index
GA4 AI referralsDetectabliYesAhrefsOwn Web Analytics splits AI traffic; GA import
Search ConsoleDetectabliRead and writeAhrefsGSC Insights, read
Crawler log analyticsDetectabliNoAhrefsBot Analytics, beta
AgencyDetectabliWhite-label reporting, client rosterAhrefsNo white-label, no agency plan
Managed serviceDetectabliYesAhrefsNo
Getting startedDetectabliFree scanAhrefsFree one-off checker; Brand Radar is a paid add-on

Questions

Before you decide.

Does Detectabli replace Ahrefs?

No. Keep Ahrefs for backlinks and keywords. Detectabli does the AI answer side: what seven engines say about you, whether it's true, and what to change on and off your site.

Why not just use Brand Radar?

If a monthly index read is enough, do. If you need your own prompts run on demand, graded for accuracy and recommendation, and turned into a to-do list, that's us.

What we read

On Ahrefs' site, 9 October 2026.

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