Keyword research API pricing: plans compared

Name: Keyword research API plans
Creator: Datacircle
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Keyword research APIs side by side: the fields each returns, what 1,000 keywords cost and how fresh their data is.


API	Score						Price			Not found	Charges			In their words	Data	Plan				Rate limit			The call		About the plan		Sources
API plan	Overall score	Price score	Data score	Cost to get started score	Bundle score	Performance score	$ per 1,000 keywords	Per	Billing	$ per 1,000	Repeat free	Start fee	Also pays for	Their pitch	Freshness	Pay	You get	Enough for	Expires	Per second	Concurrent	Batch	You send	Path	Plan	Who can get it	Read from
Keyword research · 1 plan
DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/keywords_data/google_ads/search_volume/live	N/A	88	N/A	82	92	N/A	$0.09	result	pay first		never		from the same budget: SERP API · AI Optimization API · Backlinks API · Content Analysis API · DataForSEO Labs API · Keywords Data API · OnPage API · Merchant API · App Data API · Business Data API · Reviews API · Domain Analytics API	This endpoint will provide you with search volume, monthly searches, competition, and other related data for up to 1000 keywords in a single request.	live	$50	$50	about 555,555 results	never	0.2		1,000	keywords. Optional: location_name, location_code, location_coordinate, language_name, language_code, search_partners, date_from, date_to, include_adult_keywords, sort_by, tag	/v3/keywords_data/google_ads/search_volume/live	Pay as you go	anyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraine

DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_overview/live	N/A
DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/keywords_data/google_ads/search_volume/live	N/A

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Checked 2026-10-29

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We add each plan's price, data, cost to get started, bundle and performance scores at their weights and scale the total to 100. Data and performance come from our benchmark, so until we benchmark the provider they are N/A, and so is the plan's overall score. A plan whose data score is 0 has an overall score of 0, whatever its other scores. Click or tap any score to see how we scored it. Move a weight to rank the plans by the new scores.

Price40

Price › $ per 1,000 keywords
Not found › $ per 1,000

Data40

Our benchmark of the provider's call. N/A on a call we haven't benchmarked. Each API's sheet shows what we measured on each benchmarked plan, in the columns after its price.

Cost to get started10

About the plan › Who can get it
Price › Billing
Plan › Pay
Price › $ per 1,000 keywords

On a pay as you go plan, the price of one result. On a tier that starts after a set number of monthly calls, the cost of those first calls.

Bundle10

Charges › Also pays for

Performance10

Our benchmark of the provider's call. N/A on a call we haven't benchmarked. Each API's sheet shows what we measured on each benchmarked plan, in the columns after its price.