Majestic Alternatives for Backlink Data

If you are considering a different backlink tool, you need to preserve the data access and history your analysis relies on. Majestic sells backlink data by volume, with allowances of 1 million, 20 million and 100 million analyzable backlinks. Its Fresh Index can be checked several times a day. Teams look elsewhere when they want link data inside a wider toolset, when they need more crawl or longer history, or when the analysis is really a step toward outreach.

OppAlerts publishes this page and is listed last on it, because buyers searching this term usually want cheap raw link data and that is not what OppAlerts sells.

No product below is recommended on index size. Nothing was measured for this page, and vendor crawl figures are not directly comparable.

Ahrefs, the closest like-for-like

Ahrefs is the direct alternative for link data at depth. Its plans at $129, $249 and $449 a month include 100,000, 500,000 and 1,500,000 crawl credits. They retain 6 months, 2 years and 5 years of historical data, respectively. API and MCP access are included on every plan, including the cheapest.

Price two things before switching. Ahrefs charges $40, $60 or $80 a month for each extra user, where one is included, so a team of four costs meaningfully more than the headline. Its included AI prompt tracking is only 5, 10 or 20 prompts, with larger tracking allowances bought through Brand Radar from $199 a month plus a check package.

Ahrefs Brand Radar also advertises tracking web mentions and finding link prospects, so it covers prospecting work Majestic does not.

Semrush, SE Ranking or Serpstat, when links are one part of the job

All three include backlink research inside a general platform rather than selling link volume as the product.

Semrush runs $139 to $549 a month and adds Site Audit, keyword research, competitor analysis and 50 to 200 prompts tracked daily from Starter. SE Ranking gives 10 projects, 2,000 keywords daily and 100 prompts daily at $129, and states unlimited keyword, competitor and backlink research. Serpstat starts at $50 a month, metered on searches for sites, keywords and links per day at 100, 500, 1,000 and 5,000.

If your Majestic subscription exists alongside a rank tracker and an audit tool, one of these can replace two or three subscriptions. If you use Majestic for raw link analysis at volume, none of them is a straight substitute.

OppAlerts, when the link analysis leads to outreach

OppAlerts does not sell link data by volume or publish a comparable crawl figure. It does not suit buyers whose requirement is a large allowance of analyzable rows.

It fits a different use of the same data. The link reports use a campaign definition covering the business, its brands, its competitors and three buyer personas to help you select sites to contact.

• Backlinks DB: Link Gap lists sites with observed links to the competitors you enter and no observed link to you.
• Brand Unlinked Mentions lists pages naming the business without an observed link, which is where a link request starts.
• PageRank history gives monthly link-graph measurements for a host, its www variant and its domain, so a prospect's history is visible before you invest in it.
• Site Info returns the stored public contact pages, emails, phone numbers and social profiles for that site.
• Prospect Index searches stored pages by meaning as well as keyword, filtered by opportunity type: guest contribution pages, resource lists, expert roundups, podcasts, industry directories and award programs.

The distinction is between analyzing a link graph and working a list. Majestic is built for the first, OppAlerts for the second.

Matching the reason to the product

Compare a representative link research task before switching. Check the required data volume, history and output so the replacement supports your analysis.

For the two-product version, see OppAlerts and Majestic compared, or the wider view in backlink analysis tools.