Q: Ahrefs competitor?
Semdash claims to be an Ahrefs competitor. Looking at Ahrefs website, they mention running "3800 servers".
Can you explain how your data can be competitive running less servers? Or are there certain areas in Ahrefs that you do not compete with (that require these excessive amounts of servers)?
I am lacking the technical understanding why Ahrefs runs all these servers, I assume to crawl for backlinks, right?
Hazem_Semdash
Mar 31, 2025A: Ahrefs have their own search engine, but you can compare the data and tell us what you think :)
I might compare them myself, but would like to know from you in which features you don't compete with Ahrefs. That Ahrefs is bigger is clear. But when you say you compete with them, you must be able to give an answer in which fields you try to compete. That Ahrefs has qualitative data sounds trustworthy to me, because they crawl the web themselves. What do you do? How should we trust your data?

I compared it (with google search console) and your data is completely wrong. Unfortunately never heard your comments about it...