Majestic
United Kingdom
Majestic is a backlink analysis service run by Majestic-12 Ltd, a company based in Birmingham in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2004 and describes itself as a specialist in backlink...
European Alternatives to Ahrefs
Mangools
Slovak Republic
EU
Mangools is an SEO tool suite from a company based in Bratislava, Slovakia, founded in 2014. It bundles five tools under one subscription and is positioned as easy to use and affordable.
Screaming Frog
United Kingdom
The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a website crawler for technical SEO audits, made by Screaming Frog Ltd in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, a UK search marketing agency. It runs on Windows, macOS and...
Seobility
Germany
EU
Seobility is an all-in-one SEO software from seobility GmbH in Nuremberg, Germany. According to its website, more than 700,000 users work with it. It combines website analysis, keyword research, ranking monitoring and...
Sistrix
Germany
EU
Sistrix is an SEO software from SISTRIX GmbH in Bonn, Germany. It is best known for the Visibility Index, a figure that tracks how visible a domain is in Google search over...
XOVI
Germany
EU
XOVI is an SEO software offered by WebPros Germany GmbH in Cologne. The product came to WebPros through the takeover by Plesk, the Swiss-based hosting software company that is now part of...
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Submit SuggestionAhrefs is an SEO toolset operated by Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. It is known for its backlink database and for tools that cover keyword research, rank tracking, site audits and competitor analysis. The SEO tools category lists European Ahrefs alternatives.
Why people look for an Ahrefs alternative
- Price and plan limits are a concern for freelancers and small sites.
- Some users want a provider inside Europe and support in their own language.
- Many need only one part of the toolset, such as backlink data or a crawler.
The European options compared
For backlinks, Majestic (United Kingdom) is the specialist: it has focused on link data since 2004 and offers its own metrics, Trust Flow and Citation Flow. Mangools (Slovakia) combines keyword research with LinkMiner for backlinks in a lighter suite and has a free account.
As broader platforms, Sistrix, XOVI and Seobility (all Germany) cover rankings, audits and competitor or backlink analysis. For the audit part of Ahrefs, Screaming Frog (United Kingdom) crawls a site on the user's own computer and is free up to 500 URLs.
What is different
The size and freshness of a backlink index decide how useful a tool is, and every provider builds its own. Comparing the same domain in two tools will show different link counts, so a trial with a real project is the best test before switching.