AirOps vs. Ahrefs

Ahrefs finds opportunities. AirOps ships content that wins AI search and SEO.

Page360 unifies AI visibility, SEO, and analytics versus Ahrefs' siloed tools

Automated bulk workflows and native CMS publishing versus Ahrefs' manual task lists

Visual workflow builder for content operations versus Ahrefs' retired WordPress plugin

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JOIN THE BEST BRANDS IN THE WORLD WINNING ON AIROPS
6% increase in AI-atttributed signups in days

Webflow 5xed content refresh velocity and increased visibility across Google and ChatGPT

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3x increase in AI search citations

Chime went from being recommended in 24 to 68 priority questions

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"The quality of our content since using Air Ops has honestly increased pretty significantly. "

George Bonaci VP of Growth, Ramp

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"AirOps isn’t just about velocity. It’s allowing us to scale without losing our brand’s human touch."

Nicole Baer, CMO, Carta

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How To Use AirOps for Reddit with Connor Beaulieu of LegalZoom

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How Docebo Captured a 25% Share of Voice Lead with AirOps

50% cut in production costs, thanks to the elimination of external agencies and manual tasks.

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“As CMO at Apollo.io, I've witnessed firsthand how AI is transforming marketing from a cost center into a precision revenue engine.”

Marcio Arnecke, CMO, Apollo

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Why Customers Choose AirOps to Go Beyond Visibility

Watching trends while traffic slips away is not a winning strategy. Only AirOps gives you the system to produce quality content that earns citations.

Win over humans
and agents alike

Get prime placement in AI Search by improving the structure, clarity, and quality of your content.

Fuel better content with
Brand Kits

Create content that sounds like your brand by weaving in your brand voice, personas, and expertise.

Content engineers, working alongside your team

Our experts help brands like Carta and Rippling build workflows and train their teams to move faster with confidence.

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What sets AirOps apart from Ahrefs

AirOps is built to execute content operations at scale, not just monitor performance. While Ahrefs provides unmatched backlink intelligence and site auditing across separate tools, AirOps combines unified AI and SEO tracking with workflow automation and native CMS publishing so teams can create, refresh, and ship content without exports, developer resources, or tool switching.

Capabilities
Track visibility across AI search
Benchmark competitors in AI search
Analyze AI citations and sentiment
Track AI visibility, SEO, and conversions in one dashboard
Identify content gaps and opportunities
Content creation, refresh, and publishing
workflows
Publish content directly to CMS platforms
7 Platforms
Manage brand through a centralized system
Access SEO tools natively
Sync with project management tools
Track and optimize offsite AI visibility

What our customers are saying

“AirOps is unlike any other AI tool we’ve seen. We’ve been able to drop our agency and focus on the highest value initiatives 
in weeks”

Nick Fairbain

VP Growth Marketing, Chime

“Our brand visibility score hit a high of 28% after we refreshed content. We saw a 56% increase in subscriptions in 30 days that corresponds to content engineered for agents."

George Bonaci

VP of Growth and Demand, Ramp

“With AirOps, we grew AI-attributed signups from 2% to over 10% in under a year with zero headcount growth. Just sharper workflows and faster loops.”

Josh Grant

VP of Growth, Webflow

Ready to Win in AI Search

Schedule a demo to get your AEO visibility audit and learn how to boost your performance across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.

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AirOps vs Ahrefs:
Which platform is right for your team?

Search VISIBILITY

AirOps unifies AI visibility with SEO data in Page360, while Ahrefs keeps them in separate tools

Ahrefs splits performance across separate tools and locks you into their blended AI models. AirOps Page360 unifies SEO, analytics, and AI citations in one view, plus gives you control over 20+ models and your own API keys.

Features
AI platforms tracked
5+
6
AI search visibility
Unified AI visibility, SEO, and web analytics dashboard
Content opportunity prioritization

Content Gap and Link Intersect identify opportunities

AI offsite visibility and optimization
WORKFLOW AUTOMATION

AirOps orchestrates content operations from research through publishing

Ahrefs delivers keyword research and SEO insights but stops at recommendations. AirOps automates end-to-end workflows from research to CMS publishing with Grid and visual workflow builders.

Features
Content creation, refresh & publishing
workflows
Power Agents

Pre-built, reusable

workflow components

Multi-step content workflow
Centralized brand context hub

AI Content Helper creates brand kit from existing articles

Centralized knowledge bases
Real-time collaboration
integrations

Connect AirOps with your entire martech stack from day one

With 30+ native integrations across data warehouses, CMS platforms, and marketing tools, AirOps is the central hub where teams execute and ship optimizations. No data exports or platform switching required.

Features
Native integrations
LIMITED
MCP / Claude Connector
Data warehouses

BigQuery,

Snowflake,

Postgres

CMS integrations

SEVERAL CMS platforms

(Webflow, Contentful,

WordPress, Ghost,

and more)

Web analytics

Google Analytics and

Google Search Console

Google Analytics and Google Search Console

SEO research tools

SEMrush, Ahrefs,

Moz, and more

Project management tools

Asana, ClickUp,

Airtable, Notion,

and more

Support AND Enablement

AirOps pairs hands-on support with built-in enablement

Semrush Academy provides excellent free training but support is webform-only unless you pay for priority tiers. AirOps pairs live chat and private Slack channels with embedded content engineers, cohort trainings, and fully managed offsite services.

Features
Email and live chat support

24/7 multilingual chat support (Enterprise only)

Embedded content engineer / solution architect
Fully managed Offsite service
Private enterprise enablement

dedicated onboarding support

Live cohort trainings

300+ Content Engineers

trained to date

Ahrefs Academy

How Webflow scaled content 5x in days with AirOps

Frequently Asked Questions

AirOps vs Ahrefs: Which is better?
What features does AirOps offer that Ahrefs does not?
Does Ahrefs just show optimization scores, or can it actually automate the fixes?
How do AirOps workflows differ from Ahrefs' automation?
How does AirOps track AI search visibility compared to Ahrefs?
Can AirOps replace both Ahrefs and my content creation tools?
What's the pricing difference between AirOps and Ahrefs?
How hard is Ahrefs to operationalize day to day?
What about Ahrefs' backlink data advantage?
Can I use both platforms together?