Anchors include a key query, because this keyword plays a crucial role in search engine optimization.
Non-anchor links are equally significant this includes plain URLs, and the ability to click matters as it creates a route for search robots; crawlers navigate the target page along with internal pages, which is useful your project.
I provide semrush. In cases where backlink counts are lower for one of the services, I report on the service with a larger number of inbound links because of delays in indexation.