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Ahrefs pricing and alternatives: keyword research API, GET /v3/keywords-explorer/overview, Overview, full

Ahrefs's sitellms.txtBest keyword research API in 2026: pricing compared

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$53.535per 1,000 keywordsHalf of the 45 plans we rank by price cost $0.225 per 1,000 keywords or less. This plan is cheaper than 17% of the 45 plans.Mangools's $15 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 keywords: as little as $0.0001. Mangools's $15 monthly plan covers up to 5,000,000 keywords a day.DataForSEO, Bing Webmaster Tools and Mangools are the best keyword research API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Lite one of Ahrefs's 7 plans
Call: GET /v3/keywords-explorer/overview, Overview, full one of Ahrefs's 2 calls for this API
API: Keyword research API one of Ahrefs's 6 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Search volume, Cost per click, Keyword difficulty.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $129 a month for 200,000 credits, enough for about 2,409 results.
  • One call. You call GET /v3/keywords-explorer/overview with the inputs in Product details. The call returns each keyword's search data.
  • Who can get it: anyone with an Ahrefs account, only workspace owners and admins create API keys. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Ahrefs: keyword research API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 keywords.

This planAhrefs, $129 monthly, Lite, GET /v3/keywords-explorer/overview, Overview, fullAnyAPI, top-up from $10, Manual top-up, POST /v1/run/ahrefs.keywordsRankParse, $59 monthlykwrds.ai, $49 monthly, Starter API Access, POST /keywords-with-volumesDataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume/live
$ per 1,000 keywords$53.535$5.01$19.667$81.667$90.00
Completeness50%50%50%83%67%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlymonthlypay first
Pay$129$10$59$49$50
Enough forabout 2,409 results a monthabout 1,996 calls3,000 calls a month600 calls a monthabout 555 calls
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownlivelive
Who can get itanyone with an Ahrefs account, only workspace owners and admins create API keysanyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone with a valid email address and a Google Ads account connected to RankParseanyone with an accountanyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraine

Every keyword research API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

  1. ahrefs.com/legal/terms
  2. ahrefs.com/pricing
  3. ahrefs.com/seo-api
  4. docs.ahrefs.com/
  5. docs.ahrefs.com/en/api/docs/introduction
  6. docs.ahrefs.com/en/api/docs/limits-consumption
  7. docs.ahrefs.com/en/api/reference/keywords-explorer/get-overview

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Search volume
  • Monthly trend, not in the answer
  • Cost per click
  • Competition, not in the answer
  • Keyword difficulty
  • Search intent, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 keywords$53.535
Perresult
Billingmonthly
$ a month$129
Charges
Start fee$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Domain rating · Backlinks stats · Batch analysis · Backlinks · Organic keywords · Related terms · Matching terms · SERP Overview
Overage
$ per 1,000 keywords$4.15
Not found
$ per 1,000$32.25
In their words
Their pitchVolume, difficulty, clickstream data, parent topics, keyword ideas for a single term or list.
Data
Keep dataUpon termination of your use of Ahrefs Services, any license rights granted to you under the Terms will terminate with immediate effect.
Use dataAhrefs grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to access and use Ahrefs Services solely for the purposes of your internal business operations. [...] you shall not engage in any use of Ahrefs Services, Content or User Content in violation of intellectual property rights, including but not limited to: a) reproducing, duplicating, copying, selling, trading, transferring, assigning, publishing, or exploiting for any commercial purposes, any portion of Ahrefs Services, or use or access to Ahrefs Services or the computer code that powers Ahrefs Services, without our express written consent, [...] You agree that you will not [...] i) except through the software or search agents provided by Ahrefs Services, search, crawl, scrape or harvest data or information from Ahrefs Services through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism, [...] l) use Ahrefs Services to develop a product or service which competes with us or any of our products and services
Plan
Pay$129
You get200,000 credits a month
Enough forabout 2,409 results a month
Rate limit
Per second1
The call
You sendcountry, select "keyword,clicks,cpc,cps,difficulty,first_seen,global_volume,intents,parent_topic,parent_volume,searches_pct_clicks_organic_and_paid,searches_pct_clicks_organic_only,searches_pct_clicks_paid_only,serp_features,serp_last_update,traffic_potential,volume,volume_desktop_pct,volume_mobile_pct,volume_monthly". Optional: where, order_by, limit, timeout, keyword_list_id, keywords, target_position, target, mode, volume_monthly_date_from, volume_monthly_date_to
MethodGET
Path/v3/keywords-explorer/overview
About the plan
PlanLite
Who can get itanyone with an Ahrefs account, only workspace owners and admins create API keys
The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

keyword, clicks, cost per click, clicks per search, keyword difficulty, first seen, global search volume, search intents, parent topic, parent volume, searches percentage clicks organic and paid, searches percentage clicks organic only, searches percentage clicks paid only, SERP features, SERP updated at, traffic potential, search volume, desktop volume percentage, mobile volume percentage, monthly search volume

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