Pull live Ahrefs backlink, keyword and site-audit data straight into your AI assistant.
Ahrefs' official hosted MCP server exposes Site Explorer, Keywords Explorer, Rank Tracker and Site Audit data to AI agents over streamable HTTP. That is what the ahrefs mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
Ahrefs' official hosted MCP server exposes Site Explorer, Keywords Explorer, Rank Tracker and Site Audit data to AI agents over streamable HTTP.
Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
The server publishes 12 tools. What each one is for:
get_backlinks — Return backlinks for a target domain or URL, with referring domain and anchor detaillist_issues — List SEO issues detected for a Site Audit project so an agent can prioritise fixessite-explorer-overview (tool group) — Core Site Explorer metrics: Domain Rating, backlink and outlink stats, organic and paid overview, metrics historysite-explorer-reports (tool group) — Detailed reports covering backlinks, referring domains, anchors, organic keywords and competitors, top pages and linked domainskeywords-explorer (tool group) — Keyword overview, volume by country and over time, matching and related terms, and search suggestionsserp-overview (tool group) — SERP overview for a given keywordrank-tracker (tool group) — Rank Tracker overview and competitor position reportssite-audit (tool group) — Site Audit projects, issues, page explorer and page contentweb-analytics-overview (tool group) — Web Analytics stats and charts for a connected propertygsc (tool group) — Google Search Console keywords, pages, positions and performance historybatch-analysis (tool group) — Analyse multiple targets in a single requestsubscription-info (tool group) — Report your current subscription limits and API unit usageAn Ahrefs subscription on the Lite plan or higher, plus an MCP client that supports remote servers over streamable HTTP.
This sits in the search and retrieval group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Ahrefs's toolset — get_backlinks, list_issues, site-explorer-overview (tool group) and 9 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by Ahrefs rather than a third party, which usually means auth handling and breaking changes are dealt with faster.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
Ask the assistant to pull referring domains and anchor profiles for two or three rivals, then have it cluster the results into outreach targets you have not already covered.
Fetch open Site Audit issues, let the model group them by template and severity, and export the result as tickets rather than reading a 400-row table by hand.
Combine Keywords Explorer volumes with organic-keyword reports for competing pages so a writer starts from evidence instead of intuition.
Have an agent read Rank Tracker movements and Search Console performance, then write the two-paragraph summary a stakeholder actually reads.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get_backlinks | Return backlinks for a target domain or URL, with referring domain and anchor detail. |
| list_issues | List SEO issues detected for a Site Audit project so an agent can prioritise fixes. |
| site-explorer-overview (tool group) | Core Site Explorer metrics: Domain Rating, backlink and outlink stats, organic and paid overview, metrics history. |
| site-explorer-reports (tool group) | Detailed reports covering backlinks, referring domains, anchors, organic keywords and competitors, top pages and linked domains. |
| keywords-explorer (tool group) | Keyword overview, volume by country and over time, matching and related terms, and search suggestions. |
| serp-overview (tool group) | SERP overview for a given keyword. |
| rank-tracker (tool group) | Rank Tracker overview and competitor position reports. |
| site-audit (tool group) | Site Audit projects, issues, page explorer and page content. |
| web-analytics-overview (tool group) | Web Analytics stats and charts for a connected property. |
| gsc (tool group) | Google Search Console keywords, pages, positions and performance history. |
| batch-analysis (tool group) | Analyse multiple targets in a single request. |
| subscription-info (tool group) | Report your current subscription limits and API unit usage. |
claude mcp add ahrefs https://api.ahrefs.com/mcp/mcp -t httpAn Ahrefs subscription on the Lite plan or higher, plus an MCP client that supports remote servers over streamable HTTP.
The simplest web tool that matters — fetch any URL and get model-ready markdown back.
Industrial-strength web extraction — render, scrape, crawl and search entire sites into clean markdown.
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Put 6,000+ pre-built scrapers at your assistant's fingertips through one MCP endpoint.