The score, and the links that hold it up.
Use this domain authority checker to see any website's Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR) and backlinks.
Part of SEO automation
Write one domain or a list.
Check authorityThe domain authority checker opens SpringBrand with your request. Each check spends credits from your balance.
What the check returnsRuns in SpringBrandAfter you sign in or create an account, the domain authority checker reads each domain's Ahrefs Domain Rating and Ahrefs Rank and, if you ask, the backlinks behind the score.
START WITH A REQUEST
Each card is a real question people ask. Add the domains you care about and the domain authority checker opens it in SpringBrand.
Your domain's Ahrefs Domain Rating next to the sites you name, since a score only means something compared with the sites you compete with.
Question What is a good domain authority score for a new website?
Domain Rating and Ahrefs Rank for each domain from the same index, as a table you can sort. Each domain is one check.
Question Can I check DA or DR for a whole list of domains in bulk?
The domain's Domain Rating on the latest snapshot plus its strongest backlinks, so you can see which links hold the score up.
Question Why did my domain authority drop all of a sudden?
WHAT YOU GET
Three companies publish a 0 to 100 authority score, each built from its own link index. The domain authority checker reads Ahrefs Domain Rating, then helps you look past the number.
01 / THE SCORES
They are not interchangeable, and none of them is a Google metric, whichever domain authority checker reports them.
How each score is built is summarised from the vendors' own pages, checked 2026-11-13.
Moz: Domain Authority (DA)
Ahrefs: Domain Rating (DR)
Semrush: Authority Score (AS)
02 / NEXT TO THE SCORE
A score alone says little. Ask the domain authority checker for what holds it up and for the sites you compete with.
The links themselves
The page, not only the domain
Sites in the same race
The rest of the site
03 / IN BULK
Paste a list of domains into the domain authority checker in one request to vet link prospects, partners or a competitor set. Each domain is one Domain Rating check, which cost 4 credits on 2026-11-13.
You can run the same list from Claude Code, Codex or Cursor over MCP and get the results as a table. To go from scores to a plan, analyze competitors' SEO with the agent.
Link prospects
Partners
A competitor set
On 2026-11-13 we ran our own site through the domain authority checker, then checked the same day which keywords it ranks for.
The links behind the score explain part of the gap. In a sample of five backlinks, the two from the strongest site (rated DR 72) were nofollow directory listings. The three followed links came from sites rated DR 21, 9 and 21. A score adds links up; it doesn't tell you which ones matter for the pages you want to rank.
SEO practitioners say the same in plainer words: the score is a third-party summary of links, not something Google reads.
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No. Scores can be pushed up with low-quality links, so a high number on its own says little about rankings.
“You can increase it to 70 on Ahrefs with a Fiverr blast; doesnt mean you are 70 in Google's eyes”
No. Domain Authority, Domain Rating and Authority Score come from Moz, Ahrefs and Semrush, not from Google.
“It's a third-party metric, not a Google ranking factor.”
Most no-cost domain authority checkers report Moz DA and limit how many domains you can check at once. The table compares what each tool's own page says. Where a page did not say, we wrote that instead of guessing.
| Tool | Score | $0 use | Sign-in | Bulk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SpringBrand | Ahrefs DR and Ahrefs Rank | 100 credits a month at $0; a DR check cost 4 credits on 2026-11-13 | Account, no card | A list in one request |
| Ahrefs Website Authority Checker | Ahrefs DR | $0 | Account for the browser extension | Not stated |
| Semrush Website Authority Checker | Semrush AS | $0 | Not stated | Not stated |
| Keywords Everywhere | Moz DA | 250 domain lookups a day without signing in | Optional; signing in doubles the limit | Up to 100 domains per bulk job |
| SmallSEOTools | Moz DA and PA | Up to 5 URLs at a time | Not needed for the $0 version | Up to 20 on paid plans |
| DA PA Checker | Moz DA and PA | 5 URLs per submission; 30 a day for registered users | Optional | Up to 1,000 URLs on paid plans |
Checked 2026-11-13 from each tool's public page. "Not stated" means the page did not say, not that the feature is missing. Prices are the vendors' published monthly prices in USD.
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