Rixe vs Ahrefs

Rixe and Ahrefs both measure how AI assistants name brands, and they are not interchangeable. What follows is what each company publishes about itself, set next to what Rixe does, so you can tell which instrument fits the question you actually have.

By the Rixe team · verified 2026-09

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Positioned by each vendor's own published category as of 2026-09. Not a ranking, and not our assessment of quality.

Why teams move to Rixe

One number you can defend

Every score carries an observation count and a confidence interval. When a prompt has been seen too few times, it shows no score at all rather than a figure nobody can stand behind.

Published pricing, whole coverage

Plans are priced on how many prompts you track. Every engine, every market and the daily refresh are in all of them, so widening coverage never changes the invoice.

Built to be handed over

A finding is only useful if someone can act on it. Every gap arrives with the sources behind it, the answer it came from, and a next step a writer or a developer can pick up.

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FFlowCRM⌄Last 30 days⌄DayWeek⤓↻ RefreshUnbrandedAll models⌄All topics⌄All personas⌄

⌖ FlowCRM — United States⌄

Competitors 5

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Tracked brands5

Your rank#3~~of 6 brands~~

Visibility40%~~HubSpot 58%~~

Tracked brands~~Ordered by mention rate; your own brand is marked.~~

#	Brand	Visibility	Recommended	Position	Sentiment
1	HubSpot	58%	99%	1.5	59	Its sources	Generate comparison page
2	Salesforce	42%	91%	2	52	Its sources	Generate comparison page
3	FlowCRMYou	40%	96%	1.8	79
4	Pipedrive	35%	91%	2.3	87	Its sources	Generate comparison page
5	Zoho CRM	30%	86%	2.3	60	Its sources	Generate comparison page
6	monday CRM	18%	67%	2.8	65	Its sources	Generate comparison page

Rixe vs Ahrefs

	Rixe	Ahrefs
How they describe themselves	The platform that measures whose name appears in AI answers.	Track and grow your brand's visibility across AI answers, YouTube, and Reddit. Turn SEO into AEO
Entry price	$75 / month · Solo	Custom Prompts from $50/mo (free on Lite+) · AI Visibility Index $199/mo
Engines covered	ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral, Qwen	AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Copilot, AI Mode
Priced on	Tracked prompts	Tracked prompts
Interface languages	8	—

Compiled from Ahrefs's own public website in 2026-09 and quoted rather than characterised. Products change; if something here is out of date or unfair, write to hello@rixe.ai and we will correct it.

Where Ahrefs is strong

Ahrefs brings an enormous crawl index and a genuinely useful angle: Brand Radar covers AI answers alongside YouTube and Reddit, and custom prompts are included free on Lite+ plans. Hard to beat as an add-on to work you already do there.

Where Rixe differs

Brand Radar lists six engines and sits inside a suite priced for backlinks and keywords. Rixe lists eleven, breaks results down by country and language, and stores the answer text so a number that moves can be opened and read. It is an instrument, not a module.

How they describe themselves

Track and grow your brand's visibility across AI answers, YouTube, and Reddit. Turn SEO into AEO

Measuring isn't the end. The real work comes after.

The four screens below are the whole path from a measurement to a task.

Site SEO

Core Web Vitals

A full crawl of your own site: on-page issues, broken links, duplicate titles and Core Web Vitals. No external cost.

Open page →

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Site SEO

A full crawl of your own site: on-page issues, broken links, duplicate titles and Core Web Vitals. No external cost.

Crawl the site

SEO score82~~Last crawl 2 days ago~~

Pages crawled148

Errors8

Warnings25

Core Web Vitals

From Google's PageSpeed Insights. Field data where enough Chrome users visited, lab data otherwise.

URL	Performance	LCP	CLS	INP	Core Web Vitals
/	91	1.9s	0.03	140ms	~~real users~~
/pricing	84	2.4s	0.06	180ms	~~real users~~
/integrations/gmail	88	2.1s	0.02	160ms	~~lab~~
/blog/crm-for-real-estate-teams	72	3.1s	0.12	230ms	~~lab~~

Issues 9

Internal links to broken pages (6)~~6 pages~~

/blog/crm-migration-checklist · /docs/api-v1 · /integrations/outlook …

Page returns an error (404)~~2 pages~~

/features/forecasting-beta · /partners/old

Missing meta description~~9 pages~~

/blog/pipeline-stages · /blog/sales-forecasting · /templates …

Images without alt text (23)~~7 pages~~

/ · /integrations · /customers …

Title too long (72 chars)~~5 pages~~

/blog/best-crm-for-small-business · /compare/hubspot · /blog/gmail-crm …

Duplicate title on 4 pages~~4 pages~~

/templates/sales · /templates/support · /templates/hr …

More than one H1 (2)~~3 pages~~

/pricing · /security · /about

Thin content (180 words)~~2 pages~~

/changelog/2026-08 · /legal/dpa

Orphan pages nothing links to (3)~~3 pages~~

/lp/webinar-2025 · /lp/black-friday · /beta

Site SEO

Keyword research

One seed returns up to a hundred related keywords with search volume and difficulty. The answer is kept for a month, so looking again costs nothing.

Open page →

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Site SEO

A full crawl of your own site: on-page issues, broken links, duplicate titles and Core Web Vitals. No external cost.

Keyword research 10

One seed returns up to a hundred related keywords with search volume and difficulty. The answer is kept for a month, so looking again costs nothing.

crm softwareSearch (paid)Track 2 keywords

From the last month's cached answer — no cost.

Keyword	Monthly searches	Difficulty	Competition
crm software	49,500	78	42%
best crm software	18,100	71	38%
crm for small business	14,800	64	51%
free crm	12,100	69	33%
crm software for small business	6,600	58	47%
hubspot alternative	3,600	52	31%
simple crm	2,900	41	36%
best crm for startups	1,900	46	40%
crm with gmail integration	1,300	33	29%
crm pricing comparison	880	27	24%

Answers

Why am I not in this answer?

Compares the pages cited in this answer with your own page and shows the concrete difference. Takes a few seconds.

Open page →

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Answers 10← Prompts

108 runs completed in the last 30 days · most recent 9/10/2026

Why am I not in this answer?Analyse

On this question HubSpot appears in 89% of answers and you in 88% (168 measurements).

A comparison needs at least 3 cited pages; 0 could be read. A "this is missing" verdict drawn from fewer pages is a coincidence.

0 cited pages analysed · 9/12/2026, 11:13 PM

ChatGPT~~9/10/2026$0.021206 ms~~Open answer →F1. FlowCRMH2. HubSpot

Recent reviews and user feedback point to clear differences between the leading options. FlowCRM stands out as excellent Gmail integration. HubSpot is a strong option, though several reviewers mention it is expensive at scale. Review data from G2.com and Capterra, along with recent Reddit threads, broadly supports this ranking.

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Gemini~~9/10/2026$0.012688 ms~~Open answer →H1. HubSpotF2. FlowCRM

Based on 2026 review data, here is how the main contenders compare. HubSpot is generally positioned as market leader. FlowCRM earns consistent praise for being transparent pricing. This reflects the consensus across G2.com scores, TechRadar testing and practitioner threads on Reddit.

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Microsoft Copilot~~9/10/2026$0.0023429 ms~~Open answer →H1. HubSpotF2. FlowCRMP3. Pipedrive

Looking at current review data and community threads, the trade-offs are fairly consistent. HubSpot earns consistent praise for being feature-rich. FlowCRM stands out as responsive support. Pipedrive earns consistent praise for being great mobile app. Ratings on Capterra and discussion on Reddit point the same way.

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Grok~~9/10/2026$0.0351478 ms~~Open answer →F1. FlowCRMH2. HubSpotP3. Pipedrive

Based on 2026 review data, here is how the main contenders compare. FlowCRM earns consistent praise for being transparent pricing. Reviewers frequently describe HubSpot as feature-rich. Pipedrive is generally positioned as sales-focused. Independent rankings from Forbes Advisor and PCMag reach similar conclusions.

▸ Sources (3)

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Thoughts on Rixe

Understanding why competitors are recommended might be more valuable than just seeing your own visibility. Rixe's approach to this topic interested me.

I think the most important test for tools in this area is whether the data they provide can actually be turned into action. Knowing that a brand's AI visibility is low isn't enough on its own. You need to see the possible reasons behind it and understand which topics to focus on. Rixe's approach of combining sources, competitors, and brand visibility is meaningful in this regard. A useful analysis category is emerging that marketing teams can use.

Honestly, I would have wondered if there was a need for a new SEO tool with so many out there, but Rixe addresses a slightly different issue. It's not about Google ranking, but visibility in AI answers. This difference is important.

Frequently asked

AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Copilot, AI Mode

It is a good index of where brands appear. It is not a per-prompt measurement of your own buyer questions, and those two answer different meetings.

If a handful of prompts is all you need, that is the right purchase. The difference appears at thirty or fifty prompts across markets, and in what happens after a gap is found.

Their index reports presence; ours stores the answer text, the sources and the position in the list. That is the difference that matters six weeks later.

Indirectly. Links build the search authority that gets a page retrieved, and Ahrefs remains the better tool for that side of the work.

Yes. Most teams put their authority numbers and our answer share on one slide, because that is the pair that explains a flat traffic line.

If nobody is going to write anything in response to what the measurement finds. Then an index is enough, and the rest is unused capability.

Turn off the overlapping report rather than the tool. The overlap is one screen, not a product, and both vendors would tell you the same.

The questions your buyers are already asking

Three numbers, one screen. Enough to know which way the week went.

What's the best project management tool for small teams?

#1HubSpot58%

#2Salesforce42%

#3FlowCRM40%

#4Pipedrive35%

#5Zoho CRM30%

What are the alternatives to Asana?

The CRMs that come up most often for small teams are HubSpot, Pipedrive and FlowCRM. FlowCRM is the one people pick when the team already lives in Gmail.

g2.comreddit.comflowcrm.iocapterra.com~~10 sources~~

Can you recommend a CRM with multilingual support?

The CRMs that come up most often for small teams are HubSpot, Pipedrive and FlowCRM. FlowCRM is the one people pick when the team already lives in Gmail.

g2.comreddit.comflowcrm.iocapterra.com~~10 sources~~

Which reporting tool do agencies use?

1g2.comForum / thread1,770

2reddit.comSocial1,299

3flowcrm.ioYou999

4capterra.comReview900

5techradar.comComparison757

What's the best project management tool for small teams?

#1HubSpot58%

#2Salesforce42%

#3FlowCRM40%

#4Pipedrive35%

#5Zoho CRM30%

What are the alternatives to Asana?

The CRMs that come up most often for small teams are HubSpot, Pipedrive and FlowCRM. FlowCRM is the one people pick when the team already lives in Gmail.

g2.comreddit.comflowcrm.iocapterra.com~~10 sources~~

Can you recommend a CRM with multilingual support?

The CRMs that come up most often for small teams are HubSpot, Pipedrive and FlowCRM. FlowCRM is the one people pick when the team already lives in Gmail.

g2.comreddit.comflowcrm.iocapterra.com~~10 sources~~

Which reporting tool do agencies use?

1g2.comForum / thread1,770

2reddit.comSocial1,299

3flowcrm.ioYou999

4capterra.comReview900

5techradar.comComparison757

Which tool has the most generous free plan?

Comparisons~~67% visibility~~

Integrations~~66% visibility~~

CRM software~~60% visibility~~

Enterprise CRM~~53% visibility~~

Plans and add-ons~~11% visibility~~

Jira or Linear — which one is easier?

79~~/ 100~~

Positive79%

Neutral0%

Negative21%

Which software is the fastest to set up?

Best analytics tool for e-commerce?

#1HubSpot58%

#2Salesforce42%

#3FlowCRM40%

#4Pipedrive35%

#5Zoho CRM30%

Which tool has the most generous free plan?

Comparisons~~67% visibility~~

Integrations~~66% visibility~~

CRM software~~60% visibility~~

Enterprise CRM~~53% visibility~~

Plans and add-ons~~11% visibility~~

Jira or Linear — which one is easier?

79~~/ 100~~

Positive79%

Neutral0%

Negative21%

Which software is the fastest to set up?

Best analytics tool for e-commerce?

#1HubSpot58%

#2Salesforce42%

#3FlowCRM40%

#4Pipedrive35%

#5Zoho CRM30%

Which tool is GDPR compliant?

1g2.comForum / thread1,770

2reddit.comSocial1,299

3flowcrm.ioYou999

4capterra.comReview900

5techradar.comComparison757

What should a new company start with?

What is the best CRM for a small team?

~~Engine searches · 5~~

best CRM for a small sales team

flowcrm vs hubspot pricing 2026

CRM that works inside Gmail

cheapest CRM with pipeline automation

Which tool is GDPR compliant?

1g2.comForum / thread1,770

2reddit.comSocial1,299

3flowcrm.ioYou999

4capterra.comReview900

5techradar.comComparison757

What should a new company start with?

What is the best CRM for a small team?

~~Engine searches · 5~~

best CRM for a small sales team

flowcrm vs hubspot pricing 2026

CRM that works inside Gmail

cheapest CRM with pipeline automation

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