Semrush charges $139.95/month. Ahrefs charges $129/month. A guy named Ben built the open-source alternative that you can run on your computer. It is called OpenSEO. Enter a competitor's website and it reveals the keywords bringing them traffic, the pages winning those searches, and the backlinks helping them rank. And enter your own site and it tracks rankings, crawls technical problems, reads Search Console, and shows whether ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews mention your brand. Then connect Claude or Codex. Your agent can pull the real numbers, compare opportunities, cluster keywords, and save a strategy back into the dashboard instead of guessing from a prompt. The hosted version starts at $10 a month. The entire codebase is MIT licensed, so you can also self-host it and pay DataForSEO directly for only the data you use. No, it does not magically reproduce every database and advanced feature Ahrefs built over a decade. But it breaks the most important rule of the old SEO market: You no longer need their permission to own the tool.

Pro tip if you ran out of Ahrefs MCP credits for your agents Just ask Codex to use Chrome and login to your account to run the reports there instead. It just grinds away in it's own little tab group, does all the keyword cluster and competitor research, and then implements!

Who is the @thsottiaux of @ahrefs? I want regular MCP credit resets for my agents! My vote goes to @ViperChill and I will trade site audit, brand radar, data exports for more sweet credits 🥺

OpenSEO: Open-source SEO tool — can it replace Ahrefs / Semrush? Self-hosted. Keywords, rankings, backlinks, and site audits run through DataForSEO on a pay-as-you-go model — no need to subscribe to Ahrefs or Semrush first. MCP and Agent Skills can plug the same data into Claude Code and Cursor. A good fit when query volume isn’t huge and you want to control deployment and cost yourself. More flexible than a fixed subscription. 👉

Last time I tagged @ViperChill, Ahrefs doubled MCP credits. So here I am again, hat in hand, asking to let me sign in on 3 devices (macbook, mini, phone) so me and my agents can grow the SEO machine.

I noticed that @Gartner_inc is appearing a lot more in citations in AI Overviews/AI Mode for prompts containing "best" and sure enough, @ahrefs Brand Radar shows a recent spike in AIO/AIM citations for "best" queries

Elon Musk was the most-searched person in the United States in early 2026, with an estimated 4.38 million monthly Google searches according to Ahrefs. By May the number dropped to around 1.8–2.2 million monthly, still placing him among the top searched names in the U.S. There is no reliable public data for total worldwide searches across all search engines. Google holds roughly 90% of global search traffic, so the U.S. figures are the strongest available signal. Bottom line: Extremely high and sustained search interest, but we cannot confirm he is the single most-searched person on the entire internet for 2026.

My real use cases for Grok Bot so far: 👇 I connected it to email. Now it filters the urgent stuff that actually needs my attention. I connected it to Intercom and GitHub. Our help center docs update automatically when a PR changes the UI or ships a new feature. I connected it to Cursor. Bug reports and feature requests from Intercom open the Cursor bot, and it starts triaging or implementing them. I can wake up to a PR. I basically hired another engineer. I connected it to Slack. When customer support asks product questions: if it’s covered in our docs, the Intercom bot pulls it. If not, the Cursor bot jumps in and pulls answers straight from the code. I just opened up that knowledge base to the whole team. I connected it to our CMS, Google Search Console, and Ahrefs. Now I’ve got a content engine that brainstorms ideas, builds a plan, and helps create content. I connected it to X, set the keywords and topics I care about, and now I get a briefing every morning. I have a personal secretary. I connected it to my bank statements. I can ask anything finance-related, revenue, spend, P&L, etc. No more QuickBooks, and honestly, I might fire my accountant. I paid $200/month for Grok Bot. Still expensive?