Ahrefs vs Waikay

Both are ai visibility monitoringtools, and both have been checked field by field against their own sites. Below is where they actually differ — and where we couldn't establish a difference.

From
$129/mo
AI engines
7
Capabilities confirmed
7 of 18 answered
Based in
Singapore, Singapore
From
On request
AI engines
4
Capabilities confirmed
8 of 12 answered
Based in
Biggleswade, United Kingdom

Where they differ

On the 20capabilities we track, we found no case where one of these does something the other verifiably doesn't. That is a real finding about how close they are — not a gap in the research. Compare them on price, engine coverage and the company instead.

Every capability, side by side

CapabilityAhrefsWaikay
Monitors brand mentionsYesYes
Tracks citationsYesYes
Sentiment analysisYesNot published
Competitor benchmarkingYesYes
Prompt discoveryYesYes
Share of voiceYesYes
Recommends fixesNot publishedYes
Writes contentNoNo
Publishes contentNoNo
Builds off-site citationsNoNo
Does outreachNoNo
Generates schema / llms.txtNoNot published
Technical auditYesYes
AI crawler analyticsNoNot published
Traffic attributionNoNot published
Revenue attributionNoNot published
A/B testingNoNot published
Geo segmentationNot publishedYes
AI advertisingNoNot published
Product catalogue optimisationNoNot published

Not published is not a no.Where a vendor never states whether it does something, we say so rather than printing a verdict we can't source — so an empty-looking row is a gap in their documentation, not a missing feature.

Pricing

Ahrefs

  • Ahrefs Free$0/mo
  • Starter$29/mo
  • Lite$129/mo
  • Standard$249/mo
  • Advanced$449/mo
  • Enterprise$1499/mo

Waikay

  • Small Teams$69.95/month
  • Large Teams$199.95/month
  • Bigger Projects$449.95/month

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