# DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_overview/live: Keyword research API

> This endpoint provides Google keyword data for specified keywords. For each keyword, you will receive current cost-per-click, competition values for paid search, search volume, search intent, monthly searches, as well as SERP and backlink information.

DataForSEO's keyword research API on its $1 trial credit plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 keywords. It returns all 6 key fields we check: Search volume, Monthly trend, Cost per click, Competition, Keyword difficulty, Search intent.
We rank 27 plans by price. [Mangools's $15 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/mangools/15-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 keywords: as little as $0.0001. Mangools's $15 monthly plan covers up to 5,000,000 keywords a day.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-dataforseo-labs-google-keyword-overview-live
- Get it: https://dataforseo.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_overview/live`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dataforseo.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_overview/live/
- Sold by: DataForSEO (https://dataforseo.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Search volume: ✓
- Monthly trend: ✓
- Cost per click: ✓
- Competition: ✓
- Keyword difficulty: ✓
- Search intent: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: 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

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This endpoint provides Google keyword data for specified keywords. For each keyword, you will receive current cost-per-click, competition values for paid search, search volume, search intent, monthly searches, as well as SERP and backlink information.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: any search engine results page (SERP) data or content obtained through the Service, including but not limited to data from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engine providers, shall not be used to compete with or adversely affect the business interests of the search engine providers from which such data originates

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $1
- Enough for: about 8,333 results, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 166.67
- Concurrent: 30
- Batch: 700

## The call

- You send: keywords, location_name or location_code, language_name or language_code. Optional: include_serp_info, include_clickstream_data, tag
- Method: POST
- Path: /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_overview/live

## About the plan

- Plan: $1 trial credit
- Who can get it: new accounts, one each, not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraine

## The 37 fields the plan's answer can hold

keyword, location code, language code, search partners, competition, competition level, cost per click, search volume, low top of page bid, high top of page bid, keyword categories, monthly searches, search volume trend, search volume normalized with Bing, search volume normalized with clickstream, clickstream search volume, clickstream gender distribution, clickstream age distribution, clickstream monthly searches, core keyword, synonym clustering algorithm, keyword difficulty, detected language, is another language, SERP item types, search results count, check URL, top results average backlinks, top results average dofollow backlinks, top results average referring pages, top results average referring domains, top results average referring main domains, top results average rank, top results average main domain rank, main intent, foreign intent, last updated time

## DataForSEO's plans (3)

- [DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_overview/live](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-dataforseo-labs-google-keyword-overview-live/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 month
- [DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_overview/live](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): $0.12 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 month
- [DataForSEO, contact us, Custom pricing quote, POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_overview/live](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dataforseo/contact-us-custom-pricing-quote-post-v3-dataforseo-labs-google-keyword-overview-live/llms.txt): 100% complete, 1 month

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

- `POST /v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume/live`: [DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume/live](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-keywords-data-bing-search-volume-live/llms.txt)
- `POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_overview/live`: [DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_overview/live](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-dataforseo-labs-google-keyword-overview-live/llms.txt)
- `POST /v3/keywords_data/google_ads/search_volume/live`: [DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/keywords_data/google_ads/search_volume/live](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-keywords-data-google-ads-search-volume-live/llms.txt)

## DataForSEO's APIs (9)

- [DataForSEO: keyword research API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_overview/live](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-dataforseo-labs-google-keyword-overview-live/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: related keywords API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v3/keywords_data/bing/keywords_for_keywords/live](https://datacircle.dev/related-keywords-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-keywords-data-bing-keywords-for-keywords-live/llms.txt)
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- [DataForSEO: related keywords API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_ideas/live](https://datacircle.dev/related-keywords-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-dataforseo-labs-google-keyword-ideas-live/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: related keywords API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_suggestions/live](https://datacircle.dev/related-keywords-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-dataforseo-labs-google-keyword-suggestions-live/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: related keywords API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/related_keywords/live](https://datacircle.dev/related-keywords-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-dataforseo-labs-google-related-keywords-live/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: SERP API pricing, 3 plans, bing/organic/live/advanced](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-serp-bing-organic-live-advanced/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: SERP API pricing, 3 plans, google/organic/live/advanced](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/dataforseo/free/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: SERP API pricing, 3 plans, google/organic/live/html](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-serp-google-organic-live-html/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: SERP API pricing, 3 plans, google/organic/live/regular](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-serp-google-organic-live-regular/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: SERP API pricing, 3 plans, google/organic/task_post, Setting Google Organic SERP Tasks (priority queue)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-serp-google-organic-task-post-setting-google-organic-serp-tasks-priority-queue/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: SERP API pricing, 3 plans, google/organic/task_post, Setting Google Organic SERP Tasks (standard queue)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-serp-google-organic-task-post-setting-google-organic-serp-tasks-standard-queue/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: backlink API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/dataforseo/free/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: tech stack API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/dataforseo/free/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: domain authority API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v3/backlinks/summary/live](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-backlinks-summary-live/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: domain authority API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v3/backlinks/bulk_ranks/live](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-backlinks-bulk-ranks-live/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: ranked keywords API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/bing/ranked_keywords/live](https://datacircle.dev/ranked-keywords-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-dataforseo-labs-bing-ranked-keywords-live/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: ranked keywords API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v3/dataforseo_labs/google/ranked_keywords/live](https://datacircle.dev/ranked-keywords-apis/dataforseo/free/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans, domains_by_html_terms](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-domain-analytics-technologies-domains-by-html-terms-live/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans, domains_by_technology](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-domain-analytics-technologies-domains-by-technology-live/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: news API pricing, 3 plans, live/advanced](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-serp-google-news-live-advanced/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: news API pricing, 3 plans, task_post, Setting Google News SERP Tasks (priority queue)](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-serp-google-news-task-post-setting-google-news-serp-tasks-priority-queue/llms.txt)
- [DataForSEO: news API pricing, 3 plans, task_post, Setting Google News SERP Tasks (standard queue)](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-serp-google-news-task-post-setting-google-news-serp-tasks-standard-queue/llms.txt)

## DataForSEO: keyword research API alternatives

- [SE Ranking, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/se-ranking/top-up-from-50/llms.txt): $0.004 per 1,000, 83% complete, 1 month
- [SpyFu, $119 monthly, Pro + AI, GET /apis/keyword_api/v2/related/getKeywordInformation](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/spyfu/119-monthly-pro-ai-get-apis-keyword-api-v2-related-getkeywordinformation/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 month

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

- https://dataforseo.com/apis/domain-analytics-api
- https://dataforseo.com/help-center/how-does-your-free-unlimited-trial-work
- https://dataforseo.com/pricing
- https://dataforseo.com/pricing/dataforseo-labs/dataforseo-google-api
- https://dataforseo.com/terms-of-service/
- https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/dataforseo_labs/google/keyword_overview/live/
- https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/domain_analytics/technologies/domain_technologies/live/