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Ahrefs API

Ahrefs data through one normalized API - per-request USD pricing and no subscriptions.

Endpoints4Providers1From · overview$5.01/1k req · OctopusFull breakdownRead docs
Uptime
99.44%
30d · 531 calls
Requests
531
30d · weekly, last 12 wks
Response
14.3s
median · 30d
POST

Overview

Most used
/v1/run/ahrefs.overviewahrefs.overview
Get an SEO authority overview for any domain or URL: Domain Rating, total backlinks, and referring domains - as normalized JSON.
464 /mo
â–²196%
99.35%
13760ms p50
1
price$5.01/1k req
Octopus
POST

Keywords

/v1/run/ahrefs.keywordsahrefs.keywords
Get the Ahrefs keyword-difficulty metrics for any search term: the difficulty score (0-100) and the number of referring domains a page needs to rank in the top 10 - as normalized JSON.
51 /mo
â–²21.4%
100.00%
17646ms p50
1
price$5.01/1k req
Octopus
POST

Backlinks

/v1/run/ahrefs.backlinksahrefs.backlinks
Get the referring pages linking to a domain or URL, each with the source page, anchor text, linking domain rating, and page title.
15 /mo
â–²250%
100.00%
20270ms p50
1
price$5.01/1k req
Octopus
POST

Keyword ideas

/v1/run/ahrefs.keyword_ideasahrefs.keyword_ideas
Get related keyword suggestions for any seed term, each with an Ahrefs difficulty and search-volume bucket.
1 /mo
100.00%
18516ms p50
1
price$5.01/1k req
Octopus

About the Ahrefs API

Open an endpoint for its live route, a copy-paste cURL and a sample response.

Measured performance

What the Ahrefs API actually does

Every call through AnyAPI over the last 30 days, counted here rather than promised.

99.4%
of calls succeeded (531 calls)
Succeeded on first lane 99.4%Failed 0.6%
Response time estimate (528 calls across endpoints)
Weighted p50 estimate
14.3s
Request-weighted average of endpoint p50 values, not a combined request percentile
Weighted p99 estimate
48.1s
Request-weighted average of endpoint p99 values, not a combined request percentile

FAQ

About the Ahrefs API

The AnyAPI Ahrefs API returns Ahrefs data as normalized JSON across 4 endpoints: backlinks, keyword ideas, keywords, and overview. You call one endpoint per job with a single key, and AnyAPI returns one normalized schema whichever source serves it. Pricing is in US dollars, from $5.01 per 1,000 requests on the cheapest endpoint, with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 99.4% of Ahrefs calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a request-weighted median response time of 14.3 seconds across 531 measured calls.

Pricing is in US dollars, from $5.01 per 1,000 requests on the cheapest endpoint, with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet, each call draws it down, and a failed request costs $0.

4 endpoints: backlinks, keyword ideas, keywords, and overview. Every one takes the same authentication and returns the same normalized response shape, so reaching a second Ahrefs endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.

Over the last 30 days, 99.4% of Ahrefs calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a request-weighted median response time of 14.3 seconds across 531 measured calls. These are AnyAPI's own measurements of traffic through the gateway, recomputed continuously, not a published service-level target.