# Dekadans, free, POST /research/get_keyword_metrics: Keyword research API

> Popularity and difficulty for 1–20 keywords.

Dekadans' Free plan for the keyword research API costs $0.00 per 1,000 keywords. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Dekadans' docs list 1: Keyword difficulty.
We haven't run Dekadans through [our keyword research API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-keyword-research-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 343 plans for keyword research APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.563 or less per 1,000 keywords. [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. [Pixel Tools' ₽99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/pixel-tools/99-pack-guru-for-99-rubles-post-api-wordstatapi-wordstatapi/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 keywords a month: about $1.18.
[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), [Bishopi](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/bishopi/149-monthly-start-up-get-keyword-analysis/llms.txt) and [AppDrift](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/appdrift/14-99-monthly/llms.txt) are the best keyword research API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dekadans/free-post-research-get-keyword-metrics
- [Keyword research API: the best SEO keyword data providers](https://datacircle.dev/best-keyword-research-api.txt)
- Get it: https://dekadans.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://dekadans.net/api/research/get_keyword_metrics`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dekadans.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://dekadans.net/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing#research-tools
- Sold by: Dekadans (https://dekadans.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Keyword difficulty: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: POST /api/apps · Track keywords · Read tracked keywords · Read one keyword's daily history · POST /api/apps/:appId/refresh · from the same budget: get_keyword_suggestions · search_app_store · get_keyword_popularity · get_competitor_keywords · get_most_searched_keywords · get_app_details

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Popularity and difficulty for 1–20 keywords.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use Dekadans and its data for your own apps and for clients you do ASO work for. You may not: resell, sublicense, redistribute or publish data from Dekadans in bulk, or offer it as part of your own data product or API, use the service or its data to build or improve a competing product, or to train or fine-tune machine learning models, scrape the website, or access the service by automated means other than the documented API and MCP server within your plan limits, bypass or probe quotas, rate limits, authentication or security, or share accounts or keys to pool limits, overload, disrupt or reverse engineer the service, except where the law allows it, impersonate others, or use the service unlawfully or in breach of Apple's terms.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 25 requests a month
- Enough for: 500 results a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 20

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: terms. Optional: store, platform
- Method: POST
- Path: /research/get_keyword_metrics

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 16 years old

## The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

keyword, popularity, keyword difficulty

## Dekadans' plans (3)

- [Dekadans, free, POST /research/get_keyword_metrics](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dekadans/free-post-research-get-keyword-metrics/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Dekadans, $6.99 monthly, Pro, POST /research/get_keyword_metrics](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dekadans/6-99-monthly-pro-post-research-get-keyword-metrics/llms.txt): no limit, 17% complete
- [Dekadans, $59.99 yearly, Pro, POST /research/get_keyword_metrics](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dekadans/59-99-yearly-pro-post-research-get-keyword-metrics/llms.txt): no limit, 17% complete

## Dekadans' calls for this API (2)

- `POST /research/get_keyword_metrics`: [Dekadans, free, POST /research/get_keyword_metrics](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dekadans/free-post-research-get-keyword-metrics/llms.txt)
- `POST /research/get_keyword_popularity`: [Dekadans, free, POST /research/get_keyword_popularity](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dekadans/free-post-research-get-keyword-popularity/llms.txt)

## Dekadans' APIs (3)

- [Dekadans: App Store search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/dekadans/free/llms.txt)
- [Dekadans: related keywords API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/related-keywords-apis/dekadans/free/llms.txt)
- [Dekadans: keyword research API pricing, 3 plans, POST /research/get_keyword_metrics](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/dekadans/free-post-research-get-keyword-metrics/llms.txt)

## Dekadans: keyword research API alternatives

- [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
- [Bing Webmaster Tools, free, GET /webmaster/api.svc/json/GetKeywordStats](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/bing-webmaster-tools/free-get-webmaster-api-svc-json-getkeywordstats/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Alura, free, GET /research/keywords/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/alura/free-get-research-keywords-id/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [seodata.dev, free, Anonymous](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/seodata-dev/free-anonymous/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://dekadans.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- https://dekadans.net/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- https://dekadans.net/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- https://dekadans.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing
- https://dekadans.net/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=keyword-research-api-pricing