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Ahrefs declares 37 subprocessors, plus 1 of its own affiliates, in its subprocessor list, which we last checked on Nov 11, 2026 (evidence). They include Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and OpenAI. No published changes since we first read it on Sep 21, 2026. 6 tracked vendors name Ahrefs as a subprocessor, including Userlist, Termly and WebFX.

Subprocessors CSV of Ahrefs's subprocessors · Atom feed of Ahrefs's subprocessors DORA draft CSV of Ahrefs's subprocessors as declared by Ahrefs what's this? · 

37 third parties, 1 affiliate.

NamePurposeLocationListed since
Accelevents Event managementUSA
Amazon Web Services Cloud storageUSA, Singapore
Apollo Sales intelligence and engagementUSA
Basecamp Project managementUSA
BugSnag Performance monitoringUSA
Canny Customer Feedback ManagementUSA
ChargeBee Payment processingUSA
Checkout Payment processingUnited Kingdom
Clay Sales intelligence and engagementUSA
Cloudflare Traffic optimization and distributionProcessed globally at data centre closest to end user
CookieYes Cookie consent managementUnited Kingdom
Cursor AI Coding PlatformUSA
Digital Ocean Cloud infrastructureUSA
Docusign Transaction managementUSA
Dropbox Cloud storageUSA
FastSpring Payment processingUSA
Fin (formerly Intercom) Customer engagement and business messagingUSA
Gong Revenue and conversation intelligenceUSA
Google Cloud Platform Cloud computingUSA, EU
Google Workspace Productivity and collaboration managementUSA
HeyReach Marketing automationNorth Macedonia
HubSpot Customer relationship managementUSA
Hunter Email outreachBelgium
Instantly Sales intelligence and engagementUSA
MailChimp Marketing automationUSA
Microsoft 365 Productivity and collaboration managementUSA
Microsoft Azure Cloud computingUSA, EU
Open AI AIAI-enabled functionalityUSA
OVHcloud Cloud infrastructureEU, Canada
PandaDoc Document automationUSA
Resend Email managementUSA
SendGrid Customer communicationUSA
Sentry Software performance monitoringUSA
Stripe Payment processingUSA, Ireland
Supermetrics Marketing intelligenceIreland, Luxembourg
SurveyMonkey Survey managementUSA
Zapier AI automationUSA
Ahrefs affiliates (1)
NamePurposeLocationListed since
Ahrefs Services LLC Related entityUSA

Web TechnologiesCSV of Ahrefs's web technologies · Atom feed of Ahrefs's web technologies

Ahrefs's homepage made 173 requests to 17 domains, and 8 services controlled by another company.

Advertising (3): Google Cloud, X Corp., Reddit, Inc.Analytics (3): LinkedIn, Meta, CloudflareCookie compliance (1): CookieYesOther (1): usually detected as Issue trackers: Sentry

8 third parties by category: Advertising 3Analytics 3Cookie compliance 1Other 1

Third parties 8 · 29 requests
CookieYessubprocessor CookieYes 5% of the page's requests 9
Google Cloudsubprocessor DoubleClick Floodlight Google Analytics Google Tag Manager 4% of the page's requests 7
LinkedIn Linkedin Insight Tag 2% of the page's requests 3
Meta Facebook Pixel 2.9.433 2% of the page's requests 3
X Corp. Twitter Ads 2% of the page's requests 3
Reddit, Inc. Reddit Ads 1% of the page's requests 2
Cloudflaresubprocessor Cloudflare Browser Insights <1% of the page's requests 1
Sentrysubprocessor sentry.io <1% of the page's requests 1
First party 1 · 144 requests
Ahrefs Cloudflare HSTS HTTP/3 Normalize.css Open Graph PWA Priority Hints Sentry core-js 3.32.2 83% of the page's requests 144

2 tracked companies loaded by the homepage are not in Ahrefs's subprocessor list. A website can use a service without it processing customer data.

Subprocessor of (6)CSV of the companies listing Ahrefs · Atom feed of the companies listing Ahrefs

6 companies
  • Bluebeam bluebeam.com SEO analytics platform processing website usage data and limited identifiers for optimization.
  • Calilio calilio.com
  • Paved paved.com SEO Analytics
  • Termly termly.io Search Engine Optimization
  • Userlist userlist.com Analytics
  • WebFX webfx.com Used to capture data on client competitors.

Incidents reported by Ahrefs's subprocessorsCSV of incidents reported by vendors Ahrefs lists · Atom feed of incidents reported by vendors Ahrefs lists

280 reported incidents in the last 30 days, by 14 of the vendors Ahrefs lists as subprocessors.

A subprocessor list names a company, not the service an incident touched. This does not show that Ahrefs was involved.

DateCompanyIncidentImpactLasted
SentryUS issues feed throwing intermittent errors minor51 min
SurveyMonkeyPROD-TEST - THIS IS A TEST - PLEASE IGNORE, no impact stated1 min
SendGridSMS Delivery Failures from Twilio to Turkcell Turkey minor3 h 54 min
SentryAccount emails not being delivered major42 min
SendGridRetroactive Incident Impacting Twilio Usage APIs no impact stated1 min
SendGridIssue resolved minor1 h 43 min
SentryEU region replay ingestion latency minor48 min
SurveyMonkeyTEST INCIDENT #2 major4 min
SurveyMonkeyTEST INCIDENT #1 no impact stated22 min
SendGridSMS Delivery Receipt Delays from Twilio Phone Numbers to Movistar Venezuela minor3 h 26 min
HubSpotSome HubSpot tools may be unavailable for some users no impact stated51 min
SendGridGateway API (Lookup API) Failure Increase on Verizon in United States minor10 h 23 min
OpenAIIncorrect cost data in Costs API exports no impact stated2 h 20 min
OpenAIElevated Errors On API minor42 min
SendGridWhatsApp Business API Message Send Failures minor16 h 29 min
OpenAIElevated ChatGPT Conversation Errors minor52 min
SendGridVoice Call Failures from a Subset of Twilio Phone Numbers to Chile minor19 h 20 min
SendGridVoice Call Audio Quality Degradation, Silent and One-Way Audio between Twilio and Multiple Networks in United Kingdom minor5 h 18 min
SendGridSMS Delivery Delays and Failures from a Subset of Twilio Alphanumeric Sender IDs and Long Codes to Multiple Networks in Italy minor3 h 14 min
SendGridSMS Delivery Delays and Failures from Twilio to Spusu United Kingdom minor3 h 26 min
SendGridSMS Delivery Receipt Delays from Twilio to Bouygues Telecom France minor13 h 31 min
SendGridSMS Delivery Failures from Network Subscribers in Germany to a Subset of Twilio Long Codes minor8 h 40 min
SendGridSMS Delivery Failures from Twilio to ETL Laos minor16 h 8 min
SendGridSMS Delivery Failures from Twilio to MTN Nigeria minor6 h
OpenAIElevated errors with image generation minor1 h 49 min

And 255 more. All of them: CSV · Who is around them.

ChangesCSV of Ahrefs's changes · Atom feed of Ahrefs's changes

See the list as we read it on any date: Time machine

None since tracking began.

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