Different jobs
What Ahrefs is for
Ahrefs is a research platform: a backlink index, keyword data, competitive analysis and a site audit. Agencies use it to decide what to do and to size an opportunity before pitching it.
What Rankelle is for
Rankelle starts after that decision. It groups the audit findings into causes, notices when a cause stops being detectable because somebody shipped, freezes a control set of comparable untouched URLs at that moment, and compares the two over the following month.
Where they overlap
Both crawl your site and both report technical issues. If you only want a list of what is wrong, the overlap is real and Ahrefs has a far larger research surface around it.
Running both
- Find and size opportunities in Ahrefs, using keyword and link data we deliberately do not sell.
- Let Rankelle group its own crawl into causes and track which of them get fixed.
- Take the verdict table into the monthly client report, where the ranking charts have never answered the causality question.
Can Rankelle replace our Ahrefs subscription?
No. We do not sell keyword data or backlink data and have no plan to. Every number we show is our own crawl or your own Search Console.
Do we end up crawling every client twice?
Yes, and it costs bandwidth rather than money on either side. Our crawler identifies itself and obeys robots.txt, so it is straightforward to tell the two apart in a log.
Checked in September 2026 against Ahrefs's own public description of the product. Vendors ship on their own schedule; if something here has gone out of date, tell us and we will correct the page rather than leave a false statement with our name on it.
Try it on your own site, free
No card, and the free tier does not expire — the first verdict takes about six weeks to arrive.