Majestic vs Ahrefs for a disavow audit: penalised local-service site

Majestic vs Ahrefs for a disavow audit: penalised local-service site
Client suspected a negative-SEO hit. I pulled backlinks on a real account in both.

Majestic
➕ Trust Flow vs Citation Flow ratio instantly isolated 140 spammy domains with high CF, near-zero TF
➖ No traffic context — you can't see if a link actually drives anything

Ahrefs
➕ DR + linked-domain traffic let me keep links Majestic would've flagged as junk
➖ Its own "toxic" signal didn't exist back then; I scored manually

The case: I disavowed 96 domains (Majestic's TF/CF outliers, cross-checked in Ahrefs for traffic). Submitted the file; 11 weeks later rankings for 5 core terms climbed from page 3 to positions 6-9.

Best for: Majestic for cheap, fast link-quality triage; Ahrefs to avoid over-disavowing.
Price-vs-value: Majestic ~$50/mo did 80% of the work.

Pick Majestic if disavow is the whole job.
Skip Majestic for live link-building — its index lags Ahrefs.