Comparison
3RD vs Ahrefs: you just ask, and 3RD Agent does the work.
Ahrefs Brand Radar shows how often AI answers mention and cite your brand, as an add-on to an Ahrefs SEO plan, and suits SEO teams that already work in Ahrefs. With 3RD, any marketer can do the work: open 3RD Agent, ask what to focus on to reach your goal, and it tells you what needs doing. Ask it to do it, and it does. Then repeat.
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Quick answer · updated October 19, 2026
3RD or Ahrefs: the short answer
3RD (get3rd.com) is an AI visibility platform for marketing teams; Ahrefs is an SEO suite with Brand Radar, a paid add-on for AI visibility. Choose Ahrefs if your SEO team runs AI visibility next to backlink and keyword data. Choose 3RD if your marketing team owns it: ask 3RD Agent what to focus on, and it does the work.
How it works with 3RD
Open 3RD Agent, ask, and it does the work. It doesn't get easier.
Open 3RD Agent
It knows your brand, your competitors, your markets, and the prompts in your goal.
Ask what to focus on
It tells you what needs doing to reach your goal, and why AI chooses your competitors today.
Ask it to do it
It does the work in your brand voice, from content to briefs and outreach. You check it and publish.
Repeat
3RD checks your plan daily against the latest AI answers, so the next question always starts from what moved.
3RD vs Ahrefs
Which one fits you?
Choose Ahrefs if…
Your SEO team leads and already pays for Ahrefs. You want brand mentions and citations across AI answers, YouTube, and Reddit next to your backlink and keyword data, and your brand already shows up in AI search.
Choose 3RD if…
Your marketing team leads without an AI visibility specialist. You want to know why AI chooses your competitors, and a plan toward a goal. You sell in several markets and languages and need each one tracked separately, with the work drafted in your brand voice.
Side by side
3RD and Ahrefs, side by side
| 3RD | Ahrefs | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Marketing teams (brand, content, PR, and comms) at SMB, mid-market, and enterprise brands, B2B and B2C. Technical tasks go to the SEO or web team | SEO teams and agencies on an Ahrefs plan |
| Core focus | AI visibility: getting chosen in AI answers | An SEO suite, with Brand Radar as a paid add-on for AI visibility |
| The why | Diagnostics score five drivers per market (content coverage, content quality, crawlability, authority, and outreach) and explain them in plain language | Mentions and citations of your brand in AI answers, from a database of 492 million+ prompts |
| What to do | A Playbook toward a goal you set, with tasks ranked by impact and labeled content, technical, outreach, or ads, checked daily against the latest AI answers | Your team decides what to do, using the data in Ahrefs |
| Doing the work | Chat with 3RD Agent: ask what to focus on, then ask it to do the work. It drafts in your brand voice, and you check it and publish | Your team acts on the data in Ahrefs |
| AI models | Up to 2, 3, or 4 by plan, up to 13 on Enterprise | Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot |
| Prompts | 40 / 100 / 300 by plan, custom on Enterprise | 5, 10, or 20 custom prompts by Ahrefs plan; extra prompt checks from $50 a month |
| Users | 2 on Starter, unlimited from Pro | Set by your Ahrefs plan |
| Price / month | €99 / €299 / €499 a month (€84 / €254 / €424 billed annually), and Enterprise. 7-day free trial | Brand Radar $199 a month per AI platform, or $699 for all platforms, on top of an Ahrefs plan from $129 a month |
Ahrefs details from ahrefs.com (Brand Radar, pricing, and the Brand Radar help article), checked October 19, 2026. We update this page when either product changes.
Questions buyers ask
3RD or Ahrefs: what buyers ask
We already pay for Ahrefs. Do we need another tool?
If your SEO team owns AI visibility and wants it next to backlink data, Brand Radar may be enough. If your marketing team owns it, the question is who turns the numbers into work. 3RD has the specialist's know-how built in. 3RD Agent handles the diagnosis, the plan, and the drafts, so your team doesn't need to become AI search specialists.
Which explains why AI picks a competitor?
Ahrefs shows how often AI answers mention and cite your brand compared with competitors. 3RD scores the five drivers AI uses to choose a brand in each market (content coverage, content quality, crawlability, authority, and outreach), explains in plain language which ones hold you back, and turns them into a ranked Playbook.
Which is better for several markets and languages?
3RD tracks each market as a country and a language, so Denmark–Danish and Denmark–English never blur together. From the Pro plan, you can track any market you sell in, within your plan's prompts, and Content Agent drafts in each language, proofread to native quality.
What does each cost?
Ahrefs Brand Radar costs $199 a month per AI platform, or $699 a month for all platforms, on top of an Ahrefs plan from $129 a month. 3RD plans start at €99 a month (€84 billed annually) with 40 prompts, and every plan includes the diagnosis and ranked tasks.
Proof
One marketer, zero to the top five in a quarter
Boë Beauté started at 0.0% AI visibility. One in-house marketer with no GEO or SEO specialist background followed the plan, and within a quarter the brand reached 22.2% visibility and the top five of seven competitors. Read the case →
“3RD didn't just show us where we were visible, but why we weren't being selected in specific AI scenarios.”
FAQ
Getting started next to Ahrefs
Can we bring our prompts over?
Yes. Export them from Ahrefs, map them to our CSV template (prompt, country, language, topic, category, and tags), and import up to 10,000 prompts per file. Audiences aren't included in the import, so set those up afterward.
Does our SEO team still have a role?
Yes. Technical tasks in the Playbook, such as crawlability fixes, go to your SEO or web team, while your marketing team owns the story and the content.
Can we run both side by side before deciding?
Yes. The 7-day trial gives full access, so you can compare the diagnosis and the plan on your own brand.
Is 3RD ready for enterprise?
Enterprise brands run 3RD today. Enterprise plans include custom markets, up to 13 AI models, unlimited users, a 99.9% uptime SLA, and a dedicated CSM. Your data is stored in the EU, encrypted, and never used to train public AI models, and a GDPR DPA is included. Your team signs in with Google or Microsoft, with MFA; there is no SAML single sign-on yet.
Sources
Sources and last update
Ahrefs: ahrefs.com/brand-radar, ahrefs.com/pricing, and What is Brand Radar, checked October 19, 2026. 3RD: docs.get3rd.com and get3rd.com/pricing. See all comparisons →
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