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n8nMajestic does one thing and has done it since before most of its competitors existed. It crawls the web for links, and Trust Flow and Citation Flow are its own metrics for what those links are worth.
So this page is not really a head-to-head. It is a question about how much of your SEO is link work, and for most people the answer is a monthly glance, which is why ContextBolt covers the link question and then the rest of the job.
Be honest about how often you open it
If you sell link building, run disavow audits, or make link decisions every day, Majestic is a specialist instrument and that depth is its job. Trust Flow and the historic index are Majestic’s. ContextBolt works on the current link picture, which is what a decision about who to chase needs.
Most people are not that person. Most people check backlinks about once a month, to see who is ahead and whether anyone new has linked to them. That is a real question and it does not need a specialist subscription.
What the $35 covers instead
ContextBolt gives you a backlink overview for any domain, its referring domains, and a gap comparison against competitors. Enough to answer where a rival’s authority comes from and which sites you are missing.
Then it does the rest of the job. Keyword and SERP research, competitor pages, page audits, a free Search Console connection with daily snapshots, and AI visibility research across Google AI and ChatGPT with live per-question checks in four engines.
All inside Claude, Cursor or Codex, which is the part that changes how it feels. You ask why a page is underperforming and get the queries, the competing pages, the audit and the link picture in one conversation, then ask it to draft the fix.
The pricing has two things to watch
Majestic Lite shows as €46.99 a month, or €469.90 a year, excluding VAT in the EUR view. So the real monthly cost is higher than the number on the page, and the page serves different currencies by region.
The Historic Index starts on Pro rather than Lite, and full API access is its own tier again. If either is why you want Majestic, price the plan that actually contains it.
ContextBolt is $35 a month for 1,000 credits, wherever you are. Different tools cost different amounts of credit, audits charge per page up to 50 a run, and your AI app bills separately. The SEO tool pricing guide covers the category.
Running both is reasonable
Nobody has to choose here. $35 for the everyday work and a Majestic plan when a link project needs it is a sensible stack, and cheaper than a suite that does both badly.
If you want to see what the link half looks like inside an agent first, backlink research with Claude walks through it.
Try it on the rest of the job
Take a page you want to rank better and ask why it does not, with Search Console connected.
Links will be part of the answer. They will not be the whole answer, and that is the point. Start the 7-day trial with 100 credits. A card is required, and it becomes $35 a month unless you cancel before the trial ends.