Connect your AI tools to Ahrefs and access real SEO data including backlink analysis, keyword research, organic traffic insights, site audits, and competitive intelligence. Requires a Lite plan or higher.
Adding Ahrefs provisions three things in your zone: an upstream resource pointing at https://api.ahrefs.com/mcp/mcp (kept inside Keycard), a Keycard MCP Gateway URL - the downstream resource - that you install in Cursor, Claude Code, or any MCP client, and a provider for token exchange with Ahrefs’s OAuth issuer.
When your AI client makes a tool call, it sends a Keycard-issued access token to the gateway URL. Keycard’s STS exchanges that token for an upstream Ahrefs token, the gateway calls the upstream MCP, and the response is proxied back. Your zone’s identity provider, access policies, and audit log apply to every call - the upstream credential never leaves Keycard. Each call is recorded in the audit log with the user identity, the resource accessed, and the policy decision.
TOOLS
Tools the upstream server exposes through the Keycard MCP Gateway.
Ahrefs exposes 108 tools through the gateway:
- site-explorer-domain-rating-history
- Get historical domain rating over a date range
- site-explorer-organic-competitors
- List organic search competitors with SEO metrics
- rank-tracker-overview
- Get tracked keyword rankings overview by date
- brand-radar-mentions-history
- Get historical brand mention counts in an LLM
- brand-radar-impressions-overview
- Get brand impression counts in an LLM with filters
- web-analytics-source-channels-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by source channel
- serp-overview
- Get top SERP results for a keyword and country
- web-analytics-entry-pages
- List entry page stats with visitor and bounce data
- site-explorer-refdomains-history
- Get historical referring domain counts over time
- gsc-metrics-by-country
- Get GSC click metrics grouped by country
- doc
- View Ahrefs API v3 and MCP tools documentation
- keywords-explorer-volume-history
- Get historical search volume for a keyword
- subscription-info-limits-and-usage
- Get API subscription limits and usage stats
- brand-radar-sov-history
- Get historical share of voice for brands in an LLM
- web-analytics-languages
- List visitors grouped by browser language
- rank-tracker-competitors-pages
- List competitor pages and keyword metrics by date
- brand-radar-cited-pages
- List pages cited in AI responses mentioning brands
- gsc-performance-by-device
- Get GSC metrics broken down by device type
- public-crawler-ips
- List Ahrefs crawler IP addresses
- web-analytics-countries
- List visitors grouped by country
- web-analytics-exit-pages
- List exit page stats with visitor data
- site-explorer-pages-by-internal-links
- Analyze internal link structure for a site or page
- gsc-performance-by-position
- Get GSC metrics grouped by position ranges
- gsc-page-history
- Get GSC performance history for specific pages
- site-explorer-outlinks-stats
- Get outbound link stats for a URL or domain
- web-analytics-cities
- List visitors grouped by city
- brand-radar-mentions-overview
- Get brand mention counts in an LLM with filters
- web-analytics-source-channels
- List traffic grouped by source channel
- site-audit-issues
- List all issues from a Site Audit crawl
- site-explorer-broken-backlinks
- List broken backlinks for a URL or domain
- rank-tracker-competitors-stats
- Get competitor metrics overview for a project
- web-analytics-utm-params-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by UTM parameter
- web-analytics-referrers-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by referrer
- web-analytics-continents-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by continent
- web-analytics-entry-pages-chart
- Chart entry page visitor time-series
- web-analytics-stats
- Get aggregate stats: visitors, bounce rate, sessions
- site-explorer-backlinks-stats
- Get backlink stats for a URL or domain by date
- web-analytics-operating-systems
- List visitors grouped by operating system
- web-analytics-top-pages
- List most visited pages with pageview metrics
- brand-radar-ai-responses
- Get AI-generated responses mentioning your brand
- web-analytics-operating-systems-versions-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by OS version
- web-analytics-devices-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by device type
- web-analytics-chart
- Chart aggregate analytics time-series data
- keywords-explorer-overview
- Get keyword metrics: volume, CPC, difficulty, traffic
- site-explorer-url-rating-history
- Get historical URL rating over a date range
- management-keyword-list-keywords
- Get keywords from a keyword list
- web-analytics-sources-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by traffic source
- public-crawler-ip-ranges
- List Ahrefs crawler IP ranges for allowlisting
- site-explorer-metrics
- Get SEO performance metrics for a domain or URL
- site-explorer-referring-domains
- List referring domains linking to a target
- gsc-keyword-history
- Get GSC performance history for specific keywords
- site-explorer-metrics-by-country
- Get search metrics by country for a website
- site-explorer-all-backlinks
- List all backlinks for a URL or domain
- web-analytics-exit-pages-chart
- Chart exit page visitor time-series
- gsc-keywords
- List GSC keywords with clicks, impressions, CTR
- web-analytics-sources
- List traffic sources with visitor metrics
- site-explorer-total-search-volume-history
- Get historical total search volume for ranked keywords
- site-explorer-linked-anchors-external
- Get external anchor text data for a domain or URL
- management-brand-radar-prompts
- Get custom prompts for a brand radar report
- site-explorer-linked-anchors-internal
- Get internal anchor text data for a site
- keywords-explorer-related-terms
- Returns keyword metrics and related terms - such as "also rank for" keywords and "also talk about" keywords - for a given...
- site-explorer-organic-keywords
- List organic keywords with rankings and SERP data
- web-analytics-languages-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by browser language
- web-analytics-browsers
- List visitors grouped by browser
- keywords-explorer-matching-terms
- Find keyword ideas matching input terms
- management-project-keywords
- List tracked keywords for a Rank Tracker project
- brand-radar-sov-overview
- Get share of voice for brands in an LLM
- management-locations
- List locations filtered by country and state
- gsc-ctr-by-position
- Get GSC CTR data by keyword position
- gsc-anonymous-queries
- List anonymized GSC queries not reported by Google
- gsc-performance-history
- Get GSC performance chart data over time
- site-audit-page-content
- Get HTML and text content from a crawled page
- brand-radar-impressions-history
- Get historical brand impression counts in an LLM
- site-explorer-top-pages
- List top-performing pages with SEO metrics
- keywords-explorer-search-suggestions
- Get keyword search suggestions with metrics
- gsc-positions-history
- Get GSC keyword counts by position range over time
- gsc-pages-history
- Get GSC indexed page counts over time
- web-analytics-countries-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by country
- web-analytics-top-pages-chart
- Chart top pages visitor time-series
- site-explorer-keywords-history
- Get historical organic keyword count data
- site-explorer-anchors
- List anchor text with backlink metrics
- site-explorer-metrics-history
- Get historical search traffic and cost metrics
- rank-tracker-competitors-overview
- Get competitor rankings overview for a project
- site-explorer-pages-by-backlinks
- List pages ranked by referring link count
- web-analytics-utm-params
- List traffic stats by UTM parameter value
- web-analytics-cities-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by city
- web-analytics-browsers-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by browser
- site-explorer-domain-rating
- Get domain rating and metrics for a domain or URL
- site-audit-page-explorer
- List crawled pages with metadata and audit details
- web-analytics-browser-versions
- List visitors grouped by browser version
- site-explorer-pages-history
- Get historical page data for a domain or section
- keywords-explorer-volume-by-country
- Get keyword search volume broken down by country
- management-projects
- List projects with ownership and access details
- site-explorer-pages-by-traffic
- Get page distribution by organic traffic buckets
- rank-tracker-serp-overview
- Get SERP overview for a tracked keyword
- management-project-competitors
- List competitors for a Rank Tracker project
- web-analytics-operating-systems-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by operating system
- web-analytics-operating-systems-versions
- List visitors grouped by OS version
- web-analytics-devices
- List visitors grouped by device type
- site-explorer-paid-pages
- List pages ranking in paid search with metrics
- web-analytics-browser-versions-chart
- Chart visitor time-series by browser version
- site-audit-projects
- List Site Audit projects with health scores
- batch-analysis
- Analyze multiple URLs for SEO and backlink metrics
- brand-radar-cited-domains
- List domains cited in AI responses for brands
- web-analytics-referrers
- List referrer stats with visitor metrics
- gsc-pages
- List GSC pages with clicks, impressions, CTR
- site-explorer-linked-domains
- List external domains linked from a target
- web-analytics-continents
- List visitors grouped by continent
Install
Section titled “Install” INSTALL
Add Ahrefs to your zone and install the gateway URL into Cursor, Claude Code, or any MCP client.
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Open the catalog
In your zone’s Keycard Console, go to Applications → Add Application → Explore MCP Servers.
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Find and install Ahrefs
Search for
Ahrefsin the catalog and click Install. -
Connect your development tool
Once installed, Ahrefs appears on the Applications page with a Keycard MCP Gateway URL. Use the Install dropdown to add it to Cursor, Claude Code, or any MCP-compatible client.
Related
Section titled “Related” RELATED
- Catalog overview - browse other MCP and API servers
- Access policies - control who can use Ahrefs
- Identity providers - control who can sign in