9 best Majestic alternatives in 2026, compared by link index, Trust Flow and price

• $49.99 · $129 · $139

  Majestic vs Ahrefs vs Semrush: the short answer

  Majestic is the cheapest dedicated link index (Lite $49.99 a month, excluding VAT) with the best link-quality metric, Trust Flow. Ahrefs ($129) has fresher data and a full SEO suite; Semrush ($139) puts backlinks inside a marketing suite. Answered in detail: Majestic vs Ahrefs, Majestic vs Semrush (Majestic, Ahrefs, Semrush).

• 3 May 2024

  Majestic’s Historic Index hasn’t been rebuilt since

  Its data ends on 26 March 2024, and the counts have been identical in every archived copy since July 2024. Majestic announced no change and its FAQ still says “once every month”. Links earned since then appear only in the 120-day Fresh Index (index stats, FAQ).

• −61%

  The Fresh Index is smaller than in 2023

  URLs found in the 120-day window fell from 1.39 trillion (January 2023) to 548.2 billion (28 October 2026), crawled URLs from 475 billion to 187.8 billion. On 26 Oct 2026 Majestic said cleaning out 10,000+ spam sites “had an impact on Ref Domain counts” (archive 2023, Majestic blog).

• $399.99

  API access starts on the third plan

  Lite and Pro say “API access No”; the API plan is $399.99 a month with 5 users. Lite and Pro include 1 user each, and Majestic lists no extra-seat price. Prices haven’t changed since January 2018 (Majestic pricing).

• 13×

  AI assistants name Ahrefs 13 times as often

  Across 14,758 AI answers Rankfender stored for its customers in 2026, Ahrefs appears in 1,208, Majestic in 94, and 93 of those 94 also name Ahrefs (our own data; a sample, not a market survey). Assistants list Majestic as the link-quality specialist next to Ahrefs, rarely alone.

The 9 picks plus Raven Tools, Ubersuggest and Linkody, which also appear in Majestic comparisons. Monthly billing, checked 28 Oct 2026 on each vendor’s own page from the US. Index sizes are each vendor’s own wording and count different things (see [Majestic vs Ahrefs](#majestic-vs-ahrefs)). Ratings as listed, with the number of reviews in brackets.

*Majestic’s Trustpilot page is unclaimed, and several of its 16 reviews are about other companies called “Majestic”; Capterra/GetApp shows 4.4 from 30 reviews. G2 figures as listed in G2 search results (G2 blocks automated reading). A score from 1–19 reviews says little. Rankfender has no Trustpilot profile yet; our G2 page is linked rather than quoted.

What reviewers and rivals say (verbatim, dated where shown)

Impressions are times our pages were shown in Google, not search volume. We looked at the 29 Majestic queries that showed a Rankfender page over 90 days (30 Jul – 27 Oct 2026, Rankfender’s own data), almost all on our backlink-tools article; 49% came from the US and 81% from English-speaking countries. None got a click: we sat on pages 3–4.

• Majestic vs Ahrefs

  “ahrefs vs majestic”, “majestic vs ahrefs”, “ahrefs vs majestic seo”

  ~3K

  Answered head-on: Majestic vs Ahrefs

• Majestic vs Semrush

  “majestic seo vs semrush”, “semrush vs majestic”

  1,546

  Answered head-on: Majestic vs Semrush

• A forum thread

  “mpgh ahrefs semrush moz majestic”

  147

  Shared logins on a gaming forum (below)

• Three-way, with Moz

  “moz for majestic vs ahrefs vs semrush”, “majestic vs moz”

  47

  Majestic vs Moz and the table

• Forum opinions

  “ahrefs vs majestic blackhatworld”

  17

  People want users’ verdicts, not vendors’

• alternatives

  “alternatives majestic”, “ahrefs equivalent to majestic”

  8

  Almost nobody searches “Majestic alternatives”

What we did with it: 96.6% of these impressions are head-to-head questions, so this page answers Majestic vs Ahrefs and Majestic vs Semrush first, compares the link indexes in each vendor’s own words, explains why Trust Flow, DR and Authority Score can’t be compared, prices every seat and API, and only then lists the alternatives.

Three real set-ups, priced on each vendor’s public plans with monthly billing, read on 28 Oct 2026. Totals are list prices plus our seat arithmetic; confirm on the vendor’s page before you buy. Majestic is the first row of each; its prices exclude VAT.

Monthly billing in USD, before tax, read on each vendor’s page on 28 Oct 2026. Majestic’s prices exclude VAT; the others before any sales tax. Seat totals are our calculation from each vendor’s published seat price. Annual billing lowers most figures by 15–40%.

Majestic’s own feature names, and the closest replacement for each, checked 28 Oct 2026. In the Rankfender column, Yes means it does the job, Partial means part of it, No means it doesn’t.

We rate every tool on the same six criteria, with the same scale. We don’t add them into one total: the right tool depends on what you used Majestic for. After Ahrefs, the closest link index, Rankfender is listed second (see the disclosure), then the tools by the job they replace best. Rankfender is our product and is rated with the same rules; it scores lowest on link data because it has no index of its own.

• Link index (size, freshness)
• Link-quality metrics
• Research limits (rows, history)
• Price and seats
• Beyond research (suite, links built)
• Trial, refunds and terms

Excellent = 9–10, Strong = 7–8, Fair = 5–6, Limited = 0–4. Ratings are based on the verified facts on this page (prices, limits, terms and features from vendor pages, ratings from Trustpilot, G2 and Capterra) and our hands-on use where marked in “How we compared”.

No free tool replaces Majestic’s index for other people’s sites. But your own links cost nothing to see, and a few free tiers let you check any domain now and then.

1. 01

   Export before you cancel

   Raw exports are a Pro feature. Majestic’s terms let it restrict access to reports run on your old plan after a downgrade, and they say nothing about keeping data after you cancel. Export campaigns, historic link lists and reports first.

2. 02

   Cancel in the right place

   Card payers use “Cancel Future Billings” on the My Subscriptions page; PayPal payers cancel inside PayPal. Plans renew automatically, and cancelling gives no refund for time left.

3. 03

   Refund rules differ more than prices

   Mangools

   Full, within 48 hours

   Rankfender

   14 days, full, from your first payment

   Majestic

   7 days, first Lite or Pro purchase only

   Semrush

   7 days, annual plans only

   Ahrefs

   “Does not issue refunds in general”

   Moz Pro

   “No refunds of any kind”

   SE Ranking, Serpstat

   Non-refundable

   SEO SpyGlass, LinkResearchTools, Raven Tools

   No refunds

4. 04

   The scores don’t translate

   Trust Flow 30 is not DR 30 or Authority Score 30: each tool scores sites against its own index, and Authority Score also counts traffic. Re-baseline your reports with the new tool instead of converting numbers.

5. 05

   Index sizes count different things

   Majestic counts URLs, Ahrefs historical link records, Semrush and Moz links, with no live/historic split for the last two. Compare referring domains for three sites you know, in each tool, on the same day.

6. 06

   You can keep Trust Flow without Majestic

   Mangools LinkMiner and Raven Tools show Majestic’s Trust Flow and Citation Flow, and Linkody displays TF and CF next to each monitored link. Topical Trust Flow is only in Majestic.

1. 01

   Export

   Campaigns, historic link lists and raw exports (Pro and up), while your plan is paid.

2. 02

   Note the renewal date

   Plans renew automatically and cancelling refunds no time left.

3. 03

   Re-baseline the metrics

   Record DR, Authority Score or DA for your key sites in the new tool; don’t convert Trust Flow.

4. 04

   Run both on the same domains

   Compare referring domains and new links for three sites you know, on the same day.

5. 05

   Cancel future billings

   On My Subscriptions (card) or in PayPal, and keep the confirmation.

Majestic vs Moz

Moz’s Domain Authority predicts how likely a site is to rank; Trust Flow scores how close its links sit to trusted seed sites. Moz Standard is $99 with 5,000 backlink queries a month and no refunds; Majestic Lite is $49.99. Pick Moz if clients report on DA. More in our Moz alternatives.

Which tools use Majestic’s data?

Mangools LinkMiner (Majestic’s Fresh and Historic index, from $49) and Raven Tools (Majestic plus Moz, from $49, 2 users). Linkody shows TF and CF next to monitored links. Ahrefs and Semrush run their own crawlers.

Majestic API alternatives

Ahrefs opens its API and MCP from Lite ($129); SE Ranking includes 25,000 API credits on Core ($129); Serpstat’s backlinks API starts on Team ($129); Moz API from $20 a month (3,000 rows); SEO PowerSuite’s backlink API from $149. Majestic’s starts at $399.99.

Old links and expired domains

Majestic’s Historic Index still covers June 2006 to March 2024 and remains the deepest archive here. For links since then, Ahrefs keeps 5 years on Advanced ($449) and unlimited history on Enterprise.

Shared logins from forums (“mpgh ahrefs semrush moz majestic”)

MPGH is a gaming forum with account-trading sections. Shared or resold logins can stop working at any time and expose your client data. The free options above are the legitimate $0 route.

Majestic vs SE Ranking

SE Ranking Core ($129) gives unlimited backlink research, Domain Trust, rank tracking and site audits, with a 14-day trial without a card. Majestic is cheaper ($49.99) and has the topical metrics.

• Prices and limits: read on each vendor’s own pricing, help and terms pages on 28 October 2026, from a US connection, in US dollars. Majestic figures come from its pricing page (“All prices exclude VAT”), FAQ, glossary, Historic Index page, free tools page and terms (released 13 Apr 2026).
• Index history: Majestic’s index statistics as shown in its pricing-page footer in the Wayback Machine, January 2023 to January 2026, against the live page. Price history from the same archive, 2016–2026. Company facts from Companies House.
• Metric definitions: each vendor’s own wording: Majestic’s glossary, Ahrefs’ help article on Domain Rating, Semrush’s Authority Score page and Moz’s Domain Authority guide. Index figures: Ahrefs, Semrush.
• Ratings: Trustpilot pages read the same day; Capterra via GetApp; G2 figures as listed in G2 search results (G2 blocks automated reading). Semrush refund terms from its refund policy.
• Reviews: reviews on GetApp/Capterra, Trustpilot and third-party comparisons, quoted verbatim with the date posted and labelled when the author sells a rival tool. Reddit and BlackHatWorld blocked automated reading on build day, so no forum post is quoted.
• Search data: Rankfender’s own data, 30 Jul – 27 Oct 2026 (29 Majestic queries, 4,696 impressions across our pages).
• AI answers: 14,758 answers stored by Rankfender for its customers’ tracked questions in 2026, all topics, counted for each tool by name (each tool once per answer). Only 4 answers concerned backlink tools, too few for a separate chart. Counts only; no customer or question is shown.
• Hands-on vs not: we use Rankfender daily; its screens come from our app. We did not run a paid account of the other tools: their features come from official pages and documentation, and the screenshots from their public pages on 27–28 Oct 2026.
• Updates: we re-check prices and Majestic’s index statistics every 30 days and change the date above when anything moves.