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I feel like Ahrefs doesn’t give a shit about their $249/month product anymore
Posted by on December 21, 2025 at 3:00 pmAll charts with an amount of keywords in top 20 – top 100 are just "going down" because they don't want to spend extra money to parse more than 1 page. I know that Google switched off the num=100 parameter, but Semrush doesn't have that issue.
Main numbers like "Organic keywords" at the top don't even mean anything if you take a closer look. If you check any website, that number will be way lower than the actual number of keywords in any chart – so why even put a completely random number there?
Do you guys even care that your tool is just not working for showing any trends anymore? The only parameter that makes at least some sense is the amount of keywords in top 10 and top 3; all other parameters are just random numbers.
Keyword research is still good, but I'm not sure keyword research alone should cost $249/month.
I've been with Ahrefs for more than 10 years, but now I'm going for $99/month Semrush because it's actually better these days.
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1. We’re still working on bringing it back. I believe anything above 180 searches / month is being updated again as the current threshold.
2. I’m convinced no one actually uses Semrush. There has been 0 outrage from the SEO community for their data, instead you seem to prefer the shady thing it looks like they did which seems to be just copying position 11+ data for September over to October and November. Every word I checked for those 3 months has the same data for positions 11+. So of course their chart doesn’t show a decline, but it doesn’t appear they actually had fresh data either… Someone correct me if they see something different. Probably didn’t want the data issue to blow up their sale to Adobe.
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SEMrush is for the closers. Ahrefs is for wannabes
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My main reason it’s been essential for years is for research. For me the standard plan $249 is the only option for research – stress tested all the top options. Functionality and UX with unlimited queries is unmatched at that tier. That being said – tested lower tiers and burn through allocations in like 48hrs lol
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Yes, schill for SEMRush harder, please, maybe it’ll appear organic THIS time?
I mean, really, what an odd (likely artificial) gripe. CTRs at position #10 are already so minuscule, who gives a fuck what keyword is ranking at position #70… not to mention nobody trusts SEMRush’s rank data post *num=100* anyways.
Ahrefs provides far better data, has a UX that doesn’t make you want to kill yourself, and hasn’t paywalled all its most useful features like SEMRush has… who are now also owned by the biggest software dickheads of all time at Adobe.
Surely fees for canceling your SEMRush account will be coming soon, too!
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