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SE Ranking pricing and alternatives: keyword research API

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 keywordsWe rank 33 plans by price. Mangools's $15 monthly plan 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.
Plan: Free trial one of SE Ranking's 6 plans
Call: POST /v1/keywords/export SE Ranking's only call for this API
API: Keyword research API one of SE Ranking's 5 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 month old. You get keyword data from SE Ranking's database.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Search volume, Monthly trend, Cost per click, Competition, Keyword difficulty.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100,000 credits once, enough for 5,000,000 results. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 14 days.
  • One call. You call POST /v1/keywords/export. You send source in the query string and keywords. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send sort, sort_order, history_from and history_to. The call returns each keyword's search data.
  • Who can get it: anyone who confirms an email address, a direct competitor of SE Ranking excepted. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SE Ranking: keyword research API alternatives

The table starts with SE Ranking's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 keywords closest to SE Ranking's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

SE Ranking, $29 monthlyDataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/keywords_data/google_ads/search_volume/liveSpyFu, $119 monthly, Pro + AI, GET /apis/keyword_api/v2/related/getKeywordInformation
$ per 1,000 keywords$0.0039$0.09$0.20
Completeness83%67%33%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$29$50$119
Enough for7,500,000 results a monthabout 555,555 results200,000 results a month
Freshness1 monthlive1 month
Who can get itcustomers with an SE Ranking Core, Growth or Enterprise subscriptionanyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraineanyone

Keyword research API pricing: plans compared

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.

  1. help.seranking.com/hc/en-us/articles/21487397355420-API-pricing
  2. seranking.com/api-pricing.html
  3. seranking.com/api/api-credits-system
  4. seranking.com/api/data/keyword-research/
  5. seranking.com/api/rate-limits
  6. seranking.com/api/usage-guidelines-for-commercial-purposes
  7. seranking.com/legal/api-terms-of-service.html

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
  • Cost per click
  • Competition
  • Keyword difficulty
  • Search intent, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 keywords$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Backlinks API · Domain Research API · Keyword Research API · Website Audit API · AI Search API
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRetrieves various data points for a list of specified keywords within a given regional database. It’s designed for bulk analysis and returns metrics like search volume, CPC, competition, keyword difficulty, search intent, and historical search volume trends for each submitted keyword.
Data
Freshness1 month
Keep datano limit
Use dataCustomer may use the data obtained through the Provider API for commercial purposes, including internal analytics, client SEO audits, or reporting, provided such use complies with this Agreement and does not fall under the restricted use cases outlined below. [...] Any access to or use of the Provider API by a direct competitor of SE Ranking requires Provider’s explicit written consent. [...] The following use cases require Provider’s prior written consent: (1) Embedding raw or substantially similar API metrics inside a paid SaaS product, including white-label dashboards, API-based widgets, or multi-tenant products, (2) Reselling, sublicensing, or bulk redistribution of API data, including data-as-a-service offerings, data feeds, or mirroring Provider’s datasets or databases, (3) Use of API data to train public machine learning or language models.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100,000 credits
Enough for5,000,000 results, once
Expires14 days
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch5,000
The call
You sendsource in the query string, keywords, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: sort, sort_order, history_from, history_to
MethodPOST
Path/v1/keywords/export
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone who confirms an email address, a direct competitor of SE Ranking excepted
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

keyword, data found, search volume, cost per click, competition, keyword difficulty, search intent, search volume trend

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