Ahrefs API

Ahrefs Overview API

Get an SEO authority overview for any domain or URL: Domain Rating, total backlinks, and referring domains - as normalized JSON. For the keywords a domain ranks for, use seo.ranked_keywords.

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What the API returneditems[0]
{
"domain": "notion.so",
"mode": "subdomains",
"domainRating": 90,
"backlinks": 4218563,
"referringDomains": 58421,
"dofollowBacklinksPct": 71,
"dofollowReferringDomainsPct": 64
}
Uptime
97.44%
30d · 469 calls
Requests
469
30d · weekly, last 12 wks
Response
8.6s
median · 30d

Pricing

Ahrefs Overview API pricing

You pay
$50.10
$5.01/1k req, only for what you use. No monthly plan.
Your first 19 requests are free with the $0.10 starting balance.

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{
  "found": true,
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "domain": "notion.so",
        "mode": "subdomains",
        "domainRating": 90,
        "backlinks": 4218563,
        "referringDomains": 58421,
        "dofollowBacklinksPct": 71,
        "dofollowReferringDomainsPct": 64
      }
    ]
  }
}

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Last verified 2026-10-31 · uptime and latency measured over 30d

Request body

JSON, posted to this endpoint.

  • urlstring

    notion.so

    The domain or page URL to analyze (e.g. ahrefs.com).

  • modeenum

    subdomains

    Analysis scope: subdomains covers the whole domain, exact matches only the given URL.

You send. A small JSON body. The values shown are examples to replace with your own.

Response

JSON, one example value per field.

each itemdata.items[]

Domain authority records: the requested domain plus its Domain Rating, total backlinks, and referring-domain counts. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • backlinksinteger

    4218563

    Total number of backlinks pointing to the domain.

  • dofollowBacklinksPctinteger

    71

    Percentage (0-100) of backlinks that are dofollow.

  • dofollowReferringDomainsPctinteger

    64

    Percentage (0-100) of referring domains that provide a dofollow link.

  • domainstring

    notion.so

    The domain or URL the metrics are scoped to. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • domainRatingnumber

    90

    Ahrefs Domain Rating, 0-100, measuring backlink-profile strength.

  • modestring

    subdomains

    Analysis scope used: subdomains (whole domain) or exact (the given URL only).

  • referringDomainsinteger

    58421

    Number of unique referring domains linking to the domain.

top level
  • foundboolean

    true

  • reason"not_found"

    Present only when `found` is false, and says why there is no result. `not_found`: the source states the target does not exist, or returned nothing for it. A `found: false` answer is a successful call, not an error, and `costUsd` is what it actually cost.

You get back. Named, typed fields in the same shape whichever source answers.

FAQ

About the Ahrefs Overview API

The AnyAPI Ahrefs Overview API returns Ahrefs overview data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/ahrefs.overview. Get an SEO authority overview for any domain or URL: Domain Rating, total backlinks, and referring domains - as normalized JSON. For the keywords a domain ranks for, use seo.ranked_keywords. AnyAPI returns one normalized schema whichever source serves it. It costs from $5.01 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 97.4% of Ahrefs overview calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 8.6 seconds across 469 measured calls.

It costs from $5.01 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet and each call draws it down. Some failed wallet-funded requests incur processing charges that we pass through at cost, with no markup; the error response shows the amount charged.

Get an SEO authority overview for any domain or URL: Domain Rating, total backlinks, and referring domains - as normalized JSON. For the keywords a domain ranks for, use seo.ranked_keywords. The response is normalized JSON with the same envelope every AnyAPI endpoint returns, so parsing a second endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.

Over the last 30 days, 97.4% of Ahrefs overview calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 8.6 seconds across 469 measured calls. These are AnyAPI's own measurements of traffic through the gateway, recomputed continuously, not a published service-level target.

Yes. A new AnyAPI account starts with $0.10 of free balance and no card required, which covers 19 Ahrefs Overview calls at $0.00501 each.

Send a POST request to https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/ahrefs.overview with your AnyAPI key in an "Authorization: Bearer" header and the input as a JSON body. The same key and the same wallet work on every AnyAPI endpoint.

No. You add US dollars to one prepaid AnyAPI balance and each request draws it down. There is no monthly plan and no minimum, and the same balance pays for every AnyAPI endpoint.

Yes. Install @getanyapi/sdk from npm for TypeScript or getanyapi from pip for Python. Both call every AnyAPI endpoint with the same key, and any HTTP client works too.

Yes. An agent can connect to the AnyAPI MCP server at https://api.getanyapi.com/mcp, or create its own free-trial key with one unauthenticated POST to https://api.getanyapi.com/agent/signup and call this endpoint over HTTP.
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