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Ask your AI what the web says about a domain — and what AI says.

Backlinks, keyword difficulty, ranking movement and Ahrefs Brand Radar, answered inside ChatGPT or Claude. You need no Ahrefs seat and no API key of your own: Soku buys each call, tells your AI the price before it runs, and charges the units the call actually consumed.

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Claude CodeCodexCursorVS CodeChatGPTClaude (web & desktop)Your own agent
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The ask
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Do AI assistants mention us when people ask about our category — and which of our pages do they cite?

ahrefs_brand_radar_mentionsAhrefs Brand Radar · Soku-suppliedcharged $0.05You: 11% share of voice across AI answers
ahrefs_brand_radar_mentionsAhrefs Brand Radar · Soku-suppliedcharged $0.06The category leader: 34%, on the same prompts
ahrefs_brand_radar_cited_pagesAhrefs Brand Radar · Soku-suppliedcharged $0.064 pages cited; the docs pages, none of the marketing site
You are mentioned, but you are cited for the wrong thing: every citation is a docs page, and none of the pages you wrote to be found are among them. Share of voice is 11% against the category leader’s 34% on the same prompts — so the gap is not that AI has never heard of you, it is that the only pages it has to cite are the ones you did not write for readers.Brand Radar samples AI answer surfaces, which change week to week — read the ordering, not the decimal

Where this came from

Built-in — Soku buys itquoted first

  • Ahrefs Brand Radar$0.17
3 calls$0.17

Illustrative figures. Every source, mark and price rule comes from the live Connect catalogue.

About five minutes

Set it up once, in the app you already use.

There is nothing to install for Ahrefs specifically. One connection reaches every source in the catalogue, and this is one of them.

Claude Code

One sign-in covers every project, headless runs (`claude -p`, CI, the Agent SDK) work without a browser, and it can act on your accounts once you approve each change — the MCP connection is read-only.

  1. 1

    Create your Soku workspace

    The connection is public and identical for everyone — your Soku sign-in is what points it at your data. Connect one account in that workspace too: that is what your AI reads. The first time your AI uses the connection, Soku asks you to approve the access and names the workspace it will read through — so the workspace has to exist by then.

    Create your workspace

    Already have one? Nothing to do here — sign in when the connection asks for it.

  2. 2

    Copy the Soku MCP connection

    https://api.soku.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Add it to Claude Code

    claude mcp add --transport http soku https://api.soku.ai/mcp
    1. Run the command in any project. It writes the configuration and prints an `Added …` line.
    2. Authorize separately — adding a server does not open a browser.
    3. Run `claude mcp list` to confirm the server reads `✔ Connected`.
  4. 4

    Approve the access, then ask it something

    1. Inside Claude Code, run `/mcp` and follow the browser flow — or, from your shell, `claude mcp login soku`.
    2. The Soku consent page names the host, the workspace the grant will read through, and the scopes it is asking for.
    3. Approving creates the grant listed above on this page. Cancelling creates nothing.
    4. On a machine with no browser (SSH, headless Linux), `claude mcp login soku --no-browser` prints the URL and takes the pasted callback.

    Paste this first

    Using Soku, search for what capabilities I can reach.

    A list of capabilities with names, what each reads and what each costs. An empty list means the grant carries no scopes — re-authorize and tick them. An error naming authorization means the host never completed the browser step.

Checked 2026-08-25 against Claude Code documentation. Menu names change between releases — look for connectors, apps, tools or integrations.

Open the console to connect your accounts
8 things you can ask it

Ask in plain English. These are the tools behind the answer.

Each one is a tool your AI is offered by name once you connect. You never have to type the name — it is here so you can tell what actually ran.

  • How strong a domain is, in one call

    ahrefs_site_overview

    Domain Rating, referring domains, backlink count and estimated organic traffic — the authority snapshot, without paging through anything.

    • “How strong is this competitor’s domain?”
    • “Get me the Domain Rating and referring-domain count for example.com.”

  • Who links to them, and with what anchor

    ahrefs_backlinks

    The individual inbound links for a target — linking page, anchor text, and the strength of the domain it came from.

    • “Who links to this competitor?”
    • “Show me the backlink profile for example.com.”

  • What a keyword is worth, and how hard it is

    ahrefs_keywords_overview

    Monthly search volume, keyword difficulty, cost-per-click and traffic potential — for one keyword or a list of them.

    • “How many people search for marketing automation?”
    • “What is the keyword difficulty for ai agents?”

  • Where rankings moved, not just where they are

    ahrefs_rank_tracker

    Tracked keyword positions across a date range, so a drop has a shape and a date rather than only a number.

    • “How have our rankings moved this month?”
    • “Did we lose position on this term, and when?”

  • How often AI assistants mention a brand

    ahrefs_brand_radar_mentions

    Ahrefs Brand Radar: mention totals, share of voice and impressions across AI answer surfaces — visibility measured where people now ask, rather than where they used to search.

    • “How visible are we in AI answers?”
    • “Track our AI share of voice against these two competitors.”

  • Which pages AI assistants actually cite

    ahrefs_brand_radar_cited_pages

    The specific URLs AI surfaces cite when answering about a brand or topic, with citation counts — the half of AI visibility you can act on.

    • “Which of our pages does AI cite?”
    • “What content is earning us citations, so we can make more of it?”

And 2 more, same connection

Named rather than worked through — your AI discovers all of them through the connection itself, so you never have to pick one.

  • The linking domains, deduplicated from the linksahrefs_refdomains
  • Keyword ideas expanded from a seed termahrefs_matching_terms
Before you rely on it

When Ahrefs is the right tool — and when it is not.

Reach for it when

  • You want to know how strong a domain is before you compete with it, partner with it, or buy it.
  • You are auditing a link profile, or looking for the domains worth asking for a link.
  • You need volume and difficulty on a keyword before anyone writes anything.
  • You want ranking movement over time — the shape of a drop, not today’s snapshot.
  • You are being asked whether AI assistants mention your brand, and you need a number rather than an anecdote.

Use something else when

  • The site is your own and already in Search Console. That data is first-party, exact and free; Ahrefs estimates what Search Console measures. See the alternatives.
  • You want to know what currently ranks for a keyword. That is a live results page, not an index — ask a search source instead. See the alternatives.
  • You want app-store rankings. Web search and app search are different indexes with different keywords. See the alternatives.
  • You only need the totals and are about to page through every backlink. The overview answers that in one call, and backlink responses are heavy.
  • You need a guaranteed-complete link graph. Every backlink index is a crawl, and a crawl is a sample with a date on it.
What it costsNeeds a paid plan

Quoted to your AI before the call runs, then charged on the units Ahrefs itself reports for that exact call.

Metered from Ahrefs’ own `x-api-units-cost-total-actual` response header at $0.000449 per unit. Every call consumes at least one unit, and how many it consumes depends on how much comes back — which is why the quote arrives before the call rather than from a table. A call that returns no usable header falls back to a $0.001 floor.

No fixed price table, on purpose: units are what Ahrefs bills, and the charge is read from the response rather than guessed from the endpoint. A call that fails is never charged, and Brand Radar’s report-management calls are not billable at all.

Free $10 Ahrefs API credits. Credited when you subscribe to Creator within 7 days of signing up. That covers dozens of competitor lookups.

Limits, stated up front

  • Brand Radar measures AI answer surfaces, which are themselves sampled and change week to week. It is the best available read on AI visibility, not a census of it.
  • Backlink and referring-domain responses are heavy, and the metered unit count follows how much comes back. Where a card takes `limit` (the backlink list and the keyword expansion do; the overviews do not), a bounded question is the smaller one to ask.
  • Scoping is per capability, not universal: the site, backlink and rank reports take a country and a report date; the keyword lookups take a country and no date; Brand Radar takes a date window, and the cited-pages report takes no country at all. Ask for a scope the capability accepts, or you get its default rather than the one you meant.
  • Rate limiting is denominated in Ahrefs’ own row credits, so a burst of wide queries can be throttled upstream regardless of your Soku balance.
  • Built-in integrations need an active paid plan, because these are the ones Soku buys from a provider.
Two ways to get it

Buy Ahrefs directly, or reach it through Connect.

Ahrefs directly

  • An Ahrefs subscription, plus API access as its own paid line
  • A key of your own to store, rotate and hand to an agent
  • Units bundled into the plan you bought, and a bill that does not move when your usage does

Through Soku Connect

  • Per call, quoted before it runs, on the same credit balance as everything else
  • No Ahrefs seat and no key to hand to an agent
  • Reachable from any MCP client, in the chat you are already in

What Connect does not give you

You get the endpoints listed on this page, not the whole Ahrefs product. There is no Site Audit, no Content Explorer, no alerting, and no dashboard to share with your team — this is the data behind Ahrefs reaching your AI, not Ahrefs itself. If you want the application, buy the application.

Upstream documentation: https://docs.ahrefs.com/docs/api/reference/introduction