# netweft vs Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz and DataForSEO

> How netweft differs from the SEO suites people already pay for, and the five cases where it is the wrong tool and something else is the right one.

Source: https://netweft.com/compare

netweft is compared on the shape of the product rather than on a feature count. No page quotes another product's price, counts its features or rates its data.

## The comparisons

- [Ahrefs alternative, compared on shape](https://netweft.com/compare/ahrefs): A crawled link index sold per seat, against per-operation metering over a vendor's data. What each one charges for, and five things netweft does not do.
- [Semrush alternative, compared on shape](https://netweft.com/compare/semrush): A whole marketing platform against five metered capabilities. What is inside each subscription, and the five categories netweft leaves out entirely.
- [Moz alternative, compared on shape](https://netweft.com/compare/moz): Proprietary authority metrics against measured observations with named provenance. What netweft refuses to compute, and why that is sometimes the wrong choice.
- [DataForSEO API, or a product on top of it](https://netweft.com/compare/dataforseo): netweft's own data provider, and the honest case for skipping netweft and calling it directly. What the layer adds, and when it adds nothing.

## Where netweft is the wrong tool

**The work is link building**

netweft reads backlink data from a provider per request. It does not crawl the web, it holds no index of its own, and it cannot answer a question that requires one — such as which pages on the whole web link to a phrase.

**You need content tooling**

There are no briefs, no outlines, no optimisation scores and no writing assistant. The per-project assistant answers questions about the workspace's own stored figures, and is explicitly prevented from stating a number it did not read back through a tool.

**You need paid, social or local**

Organic only. Paid search, display, social and local are not in the product and are not planned into it.

**You need white-label client reporting**

Reports are the dashboard and the API. There is no white-label PDF, no client portal and no branded export.

**You need to evaluate for free**

There is no free tier and no free trial without a subscription started — a workspace with no subscription has no access. If the requirement is to evaluate without entering a card, netweft cannot meet it.