The free DR checker that returns a site's real Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR) on a live 0–100 scale. Use this domain rating checker on one site, or run a bulk DR check on up to 500 domains at once — no signup, no credits, no Ahrefs login.
Type any domain, like yourapp.com. No account, no credit card, and no daily credit limit to burn through.
Switch to bulk mode and paste a list of domains — a bulk DR checker for benchmarking a whole competitive set in one go.
Get the live Domain Rating for each site on a 0–100 scale, then download the whole set as a clean CSV.
Domain Rating (DR) is Ahrefs' 0–100 measure of how strong a website's backlink profile is relative to every other site, on a logarithmic scale. The more high-quality domains that link to you, the higher your DR. It is the SEO industry's most-used shorthand for “link authority,” which is why a quick domain rating check is often the first thing people run before buying a link, pitching a guest post, or sizing up a competitor. Just remember what it is not: DR is a backlink signal only — not a Google ranking factor by itself, and it says nothing about a site's traffic, relevance, or content quality.
To check the domain rating of a single site, paste the domain into the field above and hit check — you get the live Ahrefs DR in seconds. To check domain rating for many sites at once, switch to bulk mode and paste up to 500 domains, one per line. This bulk domain rating checker returns every score together and exports them to CSV, so you can benchmark your whole competitive set in one pass instead of looking each site up by hand. That makes it an Ahrefs bulk checker in everything but name - a bulk Ahrefs DR checker, or bulk domain rank checker if you prefer, that pulls the real Ahrefs DR for a whole list at once. Because this is a free DR checker with no login, you can run as many checks as you need without burning Ahrefs credits.
Ahrefs works out Domain Rating from the quantity and strength of the unique websites linking to a domain, then plots every site on a 0–100 logarithmic curve. Logarithmic matters: moving from DR 20 to 30 is far easier than moving from 70 to 80, because the top of the scale is crowded with the most-linked sites on the web. Since this tool is an Ahrefs DR checker built on Ahrefs' own API, the score you see is the real Ahrefs Domain Rating — not a re-computed third-party approximation — so it lines up with what a paid Ahrefs account would show.
There is no universal “good” Domain Rating — it is entirely relative to your niche and your age. A new SaaS site commonly sits in the single digits or teens, a solid mid-market competitor might land in the 40s to 60s, and household-name platforms sit at 90+. The number that actually matters is the gap between you and the specific sites you are trying to outrank. Run a bulk domain rating check on your top five competitors, and the spread tells you far more than chasing an arbitrary target like “DR 50.”
Most people searching for a DR checker really want an Ahrefs DR checker — the actual Ahrefs Domain Rating, not a lookalike estimate. That is exactly what this is. It runs on Ahrefs' official free Domain Rating API, so the Ahrefs domain rating you see here is the same DR a paid Ahrefs account would show for any domain you enter. There is no Ahrefs subscription, no login, and no credits to burn: check a single site, or run a bulk DR check on up to 500 domains and export the Ahrefs DR for every one. If another tool hands you a “DR” that is not sourced from Ahrefs, it is only an approximation — this Ahrefs domain rating checker gives you the real number.
People often use a domain rating checker and a domain authority checker interchangeably, but they are two different vendors' metrics. Both estimate link authority on a 0–100 scale, yet each uses its own index and formula, so the two scores rarely match. Here is the short version:
| Domain Rating (DR) | Domain Authority (DA) | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Ahrefs | Moz |
| Scale | 0–100, logarithmic | 0–100, logarithmic |
| Based on | Backlink profile strength | Backlinks + ranking model |
| This tool checks | Yes — live Ahrefs DR | No — pull DA from Moz |
The practical takeaway: don't compare a DR to a DA and expect them to line up. Pick one metric, use it consistently across every site you evaluate, and this DR checker keeps that comparison clean by giving you Ahrefs' Domain Rating for every domain — single or in bulk.
A DR checker is a tool that looks up a website's Domain Rating (DR) — Ahrefs' 0–100 score of how strong its backlink profile is. Instead of opening a paid Ahrefs account, you paste a domain into the DR checker and get the live score back in seconds. This one is a free, bulk-capable Ahrefs DR checker, so the number matches what Ahrefs reports.
Domain Rating is Ahrefs' 0–100 score of how strong a website's backlink profile is compared to every other site, on a logarithmic scale. A higher DR means more, stronger sites link to it. It is a useful shorthand for authority, but it is only a backlink signal — it is not a Google ranking factor on its own, and it says nothing about a page's traffic or relevance.
Yes. This free DR checker has no signup, no credit card, and no usage credits to run out of. The Domain Rating figures come directly from Ahrefs' free Domain Rating API, so a domain rating check here matches what you would see inside Ahrefs.
Paste the domain into the field above and press check — that is the whole process. To check domain rating for several sites at once, switch to bulk mode, paste up to 500 domains one per line, and export the results. You do not need an Ahrefs login to check domain rating with this tool.
Yes — it doubles as a bulk DR checker. Switch to bulk mode and paste up to 500 domains, one per line, to check every Domain Rating at once and export the results to CSV. It is the fastest way to benchmark your DR against a whole list of competitors without checking each site by hand.
It is powered by Ahrefs' official free Domain Rating API, so the numbers are Ahrefs' Domain Rating, not a third-party estimate. That makes it a genuine Ahrefs DR checker you can use without an Ahrefs subscription — the score you see is the same DR Ahrefs reports.
Yes. In bulk mode it works as an Ahrefs bulk checker: paste up to 500 domains and it returns the real Ahrefs Domain Rating for every one at once, then exports the results to CSV. Whether you call it a bulk Ahrefs DR checker or a bulk domain rank checker, the scores come straight from Ahrefs' official Domain Rating API, so it is a genuine bulk Ahrefs checker with no Ahrefs subscription required.
It depends entirely on your niche and age. A brand-new SaaS site often sits in the single digits or teens; an established competitor might be 50–70; giant platforms like LinkedIn or Wikipedia are 90+. What matters is the gap between you and the specific competitors you are trying to outrank, not a universal target number.
Domain Rating (DR) is Ahrefs' metric and Domain Authority (DA) is Moz's. Both are 0–100 estimates built mostly from a site's backlink profile, but each vendor uses its own crawler and formula, so the two numbers rarely match exactly. This tool is a domain rating checker (Ahrefs DR); if you also want a domain authority checker figure, you would pull that from Moz separately.
Domain Rating scores the whole domain's backlink strength, while URL Rating (UR) scores a single page's backlinks. A domain can have a high DR while a specific page has a low UR. This tool is a domain-level DR checker, not a url rating checker — for page-level UR you would look at the individual URL in Ahrefs.
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