No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is ahrefs.com legit or a scam?
Established SEO analytics platform with 15-year-old domain, Singapore company registration, and clean security scans despite credit-system complaints.
Analysis Summary
AI Security Analysis
The site presents itself as a legitimate AI-powered marketing and SEO tool with matching company details. Its domain age of 5669 days and active business registration in Singapore since 2012 provide strong legitimacy signals. Security scans returned completely clean results with no malware or phishing flags. While independent review aggregator shows complaints focused on credit usage and account restrictions, professional review sites rate the tool positively for its data quality. No evidence of cloning, malware distribution, or scam patterns appears in the scan data.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ahrefs.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. (201227417H) registered in Singapore Nov 2012, live company status, HQ address matches Trustpilot listing
- - Trustpilot: 2.1/5 score from ~319 reviews, multiple complaints about credit system and account blocks
- - Positive ratings on G2 (4.5/5), Capterra (4.7/5), Gartner Peer Insights (4.7/5) praising backlink/keyword data
- - Company blog post Feb 2026: 'Ahrefs under phishing attack' describing fake Google Ads impersonating login
- - Domain age 5669 days (~15.5 years); founded ~2010 per LinkedIn/company profiles
- - Reddit threads discuss credit consumption and pricing changes but no widespread malware reports
- Trustpilotopen
"DO NOT USE AHREFS. Bunch of scammers. You sign up for a plan thinking you can do some keyword research but GUESS WHAT: It's credit based."
- Trustpilotopen
"Ahrefs is a scammer, don’t buy. After 500 credit usage on the $250 plan, they block your account and say, “you violate our terms”"
- BlackHatWorldopen
"At this point, this whole platform became a scam . Imagine charging for every click you make."
Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. (UEN 201227417H) incorporated 7 Nov 2012, operating status Live Company. Address: 16 Raffles Quay #33-03, Singapore 048581
Our research found three negative mentions on independent review aggregator and BlackHatWorld focused on the credit-based pricing model and sudden account blocks. Two positive reviews on Gartner and the company's site highlight the tool's data capabilities. Business registration records confirm Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. as an active Singapore company since 2012 with a listed headquarters address.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (000 18.895).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ahrefs.com/
- 2200https://ahrefs.com/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on ahrefs.com and not a lookalike like a-hrefs.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on ahrefs.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- ahrefs.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 85/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. ahrefs.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 78 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ahrefs.com is 15.5 years old, registered on 11/25/2010 through Name.com, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report ahrefs.com as clean.
- No. ahrefs.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ahrefs.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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