API Access for regular users
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API Access for regular users with a normal subscription.
Say 50.000 requests?
We use it to automate Excel ... why would we download a list, go to ahrefs upload the list, wait for the download .... do this 10x times per 200 urls, use vlookups to extract the data back.
We are accessing the same data
Samuel Lavoie
This is especially important for integrations software such as ScreamingFrog. I do not use it on a daily basis but being able to pull ahrefs data for a medium size website crawl (~10k), is the main reason I've subscribed to ahrefs. 50k to 100k monthly requests would be the perfect spot for me.
Shyamal Parikh
We were building a SEO tool and thought we would be able to fetch Ahrefs' DR through API but going for Enterprise version is just out of our reach.
Hopefully they would reconsider their decision. Anyways for now we have to look for alternatives
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Matthew Pressnall
I'm an agency owner and removing API access for every level except Enterprise means you are pushing all of us to Moz (much cheaper) or SEMRush, now much cheaper by comparison.
You are hurting your users (why?) and going to lose business when you could easily allow for more CPU / RAM resources to handle the calls. Infra is easy / cheap compared to what you could make off this.
I understand this is the air travel First Class model where by pushing folks up to Enterprise / First Class, you will make more revenue off of that much smaller subset than you will with us economy fliers in coach but it is pretty apparent why it is being done.
At least with flying, they hold seats for upselling; they don't block people from flying that can't swing first class. That is called flying private and I think this approach won't go well for AHREFs.
I've been a huge advocate of AHREFs because of your superior product and almost SQL-like interface for querying data but this doesn't feel good at at all.
Safe travels and I hope you change the policy!
Murilo Elias
I'm sorry, but this business strategy of only allowing enterprise plans to access API v3. It wasn't thought out right. A small business could have ahrefs as a partner in the beginning and increase the plan as it grows. But unlike that, it uses its competitors and then ignores the ahrefs.
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Jason Rouleau
I 100% agree. It's ridiculous how high the price-point is just to use the API. Even just a small amount of requests at a reasonable price would be better than a $500 minimum.
James Scheller
This would be super useful for other lightweight internal cases as well. We just need to pull down things like AR, DR and search traffic volume once a day for our domain as a sort of alarm checking that goes onto a dashboard here. So like ONE ROW per day. $500 for this use case seems a little harsh.
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Randy Lau
I second this - we have 50000 integration "row" credits, why not be able to use this with our own small, internal apps?