In short
Ahrefs MCP is part of an Ahrefs subscription, from $129 a month. It gives your assistant Ahrefs' backlink, keyword and competitor data and, for projects connected to Search Console in Ahrefs, your own keywords, pages and positions. mowteng costs $9 a month and works directly with Google, Bing and Yandex: URL inspection, index audits, sitemap and IndexNow submission. Many teams will use both.
Where mowteng leads
| mowteng | Ahrefs MCP | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Add the URL and sign in with Google. No Google Cloud project, API key or service account. Bing and Yandex connect with their own sign-in. | An Ahrefs account on the Lite plan or higher, with Search Console connected to a project in Ahrefs for your own data. |
| Engines | Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Yandex Webmaster and IndexNow. | Ahrefs' own index (backlinks, keywords, competitors) and, through Ahrefs, Search Console keywords, pages, positions and history. Bing, Yandex and IndexNow not listed. |
| Actions | Submits or removes sitemaps, adds properties, and sends changed URLs to Bing, Yandex and IndexNow. Your assistant asks before each one. | Not listed. |
| Price | 7-day free trial without a card, then $9 a month or $90 a year. No free plan. | Included in Ahrefs plans from Lite at $129 a month; not available on the free plan. |
Why choose mowteng over Ahrefs MCP
- Costs $9 a month, without an SEO suite subscription.
- Bing Webmaster Tools, Yandex Webmaster and IndexNow next to Google, behind the same URL, with a Google vs Bing analysis.
- Can act, not only read: submit sitemaps to Google, Bing and Yandex and send changed URLs to IndexNow, with your assistant asking before each write.
- Works directly with the consoles: URL inspection and index audits, not only performance data.
When Ahrefs MCP may suit you better
- You get backlinks, keyword volumes and competitor data that Search Console does not have.
- It combines your Search Console numbers with Ahrefs' data, including anonymous queries.
- You already pay for Ahrefs.
Which of my pages have high impressions but a click-through rate below 1%?
About this comparison
What this page says about Ahrefs MCP was read from its own pages on 5 November 2026: MCP introduction, tool categories, GSC API reference, pricing. Products change quickly; if something here is out of date, email hi@milowda.com and we will correct it. Where a page did not say something, we say "not listed" rather than "no".