# Alura, free, GET /research/keywords: Keyword research API

> Get Etsy and Google search volume, competition, trend and average price for up to 100 keywords by their text, in one language. Each keyword comes back with the `id` the other keyword endpoints take.

Alura's Free plan for the keyword research API costs $0.00 per 1,000 keywords. Alura's docs list 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Search volume, Competition.
We haven't run Alura through [our keyword research API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-keyword-research-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 290 plans for keyword research APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.543 per 1,000 keywords or less. [See the best free keyword research API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-keyword-research-api.txt)
[AppDrift's $14.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/appdrift/14-99-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 keywords. AppDrift's keyword research API costs nothing beyond the plan price.
[seodata.dev's $4.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/seodata-dev/4-99-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of keywords. seodata.dev's $4.99 monthly plan costs less up front than AppDrift's $14.99 monthly plan.
[DataForSEO](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dataforseo/top-up-from-50-pay-as-you-go-post-v3-dataforseo-labs-google-keyword-overview-live/llms.txt), [AppDrift](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/appdrift/14-99-monthly/llms.txt) and [Bing Webmaster Tools](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/bing-webmaster-tools/free-get-webmaster-api-svc-json-getkeywordstats/llms.txt) are the best keyword research API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/free-get-research-keywords
- [Keyword research API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-keyword-research-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.alura.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.alura.io/v1/research/keywords`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.alura.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.alura.io/api-reference/research/keywords/lookup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- Sold by: Alura (https://alura.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Search volume: ✓
- Competition: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 keywords: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 92 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get Etsy and Google search volume, competition, trend and average price for up to 100 keywords by their text, in one language. Each keyword comes back with the `id` the other keyword endpoints take.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: 24 hours
- Use data: You may use Alura Data for research for your own Etsy business, inside your workspace. [...] You may not sell, resell, sublicense, rent, lend or give away Alura Data or access to the API or the MCP server. You may not offer Alura Data to other people as part of your own product or service, such as a website, an app, a dataset, a feed, an API or a tool for other sellers, unless we agree in writing. You may not copy Alura Data in bulk. In particular, you may not: page through search results, shops, products, reviews or keywords to copy them rather than to research, request shops, products or IDs in sequence or from lists to collect them, spread requests across several keys, workspaces, accounts, IP addresses or networks to get around limits, scrape, crawl or automate the Alura website, the Alura app or the Chrome extension. You may not use Alura Data to build, add to or improve a database, index, dataset or product that competes with Alura or with Etsy. You may not use Alura Data to train or fine-tune a machine learning or AI model. [...] You may not use Alura Data to: copy other sellers' products, photos or designs, or infringe their trademarks or copyrights, send spam or unsolicited marketing to Etsy buyers or sellers, fake or manipulate reviews, ratings, favorites or any other Etsy statistic, suggest that Etsy endorses you or your product. [...] You may not use Alura Data to identify, contact, track or profile a buyer or reviewer, or combine it with other data for that purpose. [...] When you show Alura Data to anyone outside your workspace, within section 4: credit it as "Data from Alura" with a link to https://alura.io, call estimates estimates, for example "estimated by Alura", and never present them as Etsy's numbers, do not use Etsy's name or logo in a way that suggests Etsy endorses you.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits a month
- Enough for: 100 results a month
- Expires: at the end of the calendar month (UTC)

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5
- Batch: 100

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: language
- Method: GET
- Path: /research/keywords

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an Alura account (workspace owners and admins create the API key)

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

keyword, keyword ID, language code, search volume, Google search volume, competition level, competing listings, search volume 3-month change, search volume year-over-year change, average price, estimated average monthly sales, last updated time

## Alura's plans (7)

- [Alura, free, GET /research/keywords](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/free-get-research-keywords/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Alura, $11.99 monthly, Basic, GET /research/keywords](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/11-99-monthly-basic-get-research-keywords/llms.txt): $5.995 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Alura, $29.99 monthly, Growth, GET /research/keywords](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/29-99-monthly-growth-get-research-keywords/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Alura, $69.99 monthly, Professional, GET /research/keywords](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/69-99-monthly-professional-get-research-keywords/llms.txt): $0.70 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Alura, $95.88 yearly, Basic (annual billing), GET /research/keywords](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/95-88-yearly-basic-annual-billing-get-research-keywords/llms.txt): $3.995 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Alura, $179.99 yearly, Growth (annual billing), GET /research/keywords](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/179-99-yearly-growth-annual-billing-get-research-keywords/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Alura, $359.88 yearly, Professional (annual billing), GET /research/keywords](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/359-88-yearly-professional-annual-billing-get-research-keywords/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored

## Alura's calls for this API (3)

- `GET /research/keywords/{id}`: [Alura, free, GET /research/keywords/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/free-get-research-keywords-id/llms.txt)
- `GET /research/keywords`: [Alura, free, GET /research/keywords](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/free-get-research-keywords/llms.txt)
- `GET /research/keywords/{id}/history`: [Alura, $29.99 monthly, Growth, GET /research/keywords/{id}/history](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/29-99-monthly-growth-get-research-keywords-id-history/llms.txt)

## Alura's APIs (2)

- [Alura: related keywords API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/related-keywords-apis/alura/free/llms.txt)
- [Alura: keyword research API pricing, 7 plans, GET /research/keywords](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/free-get-research-keywords/llms.txt)

## Alura: keyword research API alternatives

- [XMLRiver, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/xmlriver/top-up/llms.txt): $0.298 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [YepAPI, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/seo/keywords/overview](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/yepapi/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-seo-keywords-overview/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Keywords Everywhere, $150 pack](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/keywords-everywhere/150-pack/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Seonio, $480 yearly, Business (yearly), POST /api/v1/keywords/global](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/seonio/480-yearly-business-yearly-post-api-v1-keywords-global/llms.txt): $0.444 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://docs.alura.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- https://docs.alura.io/api-reference/credits-and-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- https://docs.alura.io/api-reference/introduction.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- https://docs.alura.io/api-reference/research/keywords/lookup.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- https://docs.alura.io/legal/api-terms.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- https://www.alura.io/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- https://www.alura.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- https://www.alura.io/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing