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Google Keyword Planner Alternative: Bulk Search Volume & CPC

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Google Keyword Planner alternative, Keyword Planner API, keyword CPC checker and MCP tool: Google Ads keyword planner, no Ads account. Google Ads keywords: bulk search volume or keyword ideas, ≤ 10,000 keywords: CPC, competition, difficulty, intent. $0.70-1 per 1,000 keywords with data + $0.02/run.

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Why not Google Keyword Planner itself?

No Google Ads account, no campaign, no billing setup: paste your keywords and run.
Exact monthly averages, not the broad ranges (1K-10K) that Keyword Planner shows to accounts without enough ad spend.
Bulk and automatable: up to 10,000 keywords per run, through the Apify API, n8n, Make, Zapier or AI agents, with clean JSON or CSV output.
More than Keyword Planner gives: keyword difficulty, search intent, SERP features and up to 8 years of monthly history in the same row.

Typical uses

Prioritise a content plan: volume, difficulty and intent for every keyword idea in one table.
Estimate ad budgets with CPC and top-of-page bid ranges per country.
Spot seasonality and rising topics with up to 8 years of monthly history.
Enrich keyword lists in Google Sheets, n8n / Make workflows or AI agents.

Why this one

All the metrics in one row: volume, CPC, competition, difficulty, search intent, SERP features and up to 8 years of monthly history together, not volume alone.
Big lists, bulk price: up to 10,000 keywords per run (or 100 seeds in ideas mode) at $0.001 per keyword or less.
No charge for keywords without data: a test with 5 keywords costs the start fee plus 5 results at most.
Hard cost cap: the run stops before the maximum cost you set.

What you get for each keyword

Field	Description
`keyword`	Your keyword, lowercased with single spaces
`found`	`false` when no data exists for the keyword (not billed)
`note`	Only on `found: false` rows: why the keyword has no data
`searchVolume`	Average monthly Google searches
`cpcUsd`	Average cost per click, in USD
`competition`, `competitionLevel`	Google Ads competition, 0 to 1, and LOW / MEDIUM / HIGH
`lowTopOfPageBidUsd`, `highTopOfPageBidUsd`	Typical top-of-page bid range
`keywordDifficulty`	0 (easy) to 100 (hard) to rank organically
`searchIntent`	informational, navigational, commercial or transactional
`trendMonthlyPct`, `trendQuarterlyPct`, `trendYearlyPct`	Change in search volume, in percent
`serpFeatures`, `searchResultsCount`, `serpUpdatedAt`	Google result types on the keyword's results page (e.g. `organic, people_also_ask, popular_products`), the result count, and when that page was last checked by the data source (often a few weeks or months ago). No extra cost; `null` when not available
`monthlySearches`	Monthly volumes, most recent first: 12 months by default, up to 96 (no extra cost)
`dataUpdatedAt`	When the underlying data was last refreshed
`observedAt`	When this run fetched it

Missing values are always null, never guessed.

Input

{
  "keywords": ["coffee maker", "espresso machine", "french press", "cold brew coffee"],
  "country": "US",
  "languageCode": "",
  "historyMonths": 12
}

keywords: one per line. Max 80 characters and 10 words each. Duplicates are removed for free (case-insensitive).
country: two-letter code of one of 94 countries: the US, Canada, the UK and most of Europe, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa (full list in the input form).
languageCode: optional. Defaults to the country's main language (German for Switzerland, French for Belgium). Regional variants are written like zh-TW. A language the data source doesn't offer for that country stops the run with a clear message and no charge.
historyMonths: months of monthly history per keyword, 0 to 96. Default 12.
mode: volume (default) or ideas (see below).
maxIdeasPerSeed: ideas mode only, 5 to 1,000. Default 50.

Ideas mode

Set "mode": "ideas": each line of keywords is a seed (up to 100 seeds per run), and the run returns up to maxIdeasPerSeed related keyword ideas per seed, most relevant first, with exactly the same fields as above plus seedKeyword.

{ "keywords": ["coffee maker"], "mode": "ideas", "maxIdeasPerSeed": 50, "country": "US" }

Each idea with data is billed like one keyword. An idea found by two seeds is returned and billed once (for the first seed); the seed itself is not returned as an idea.
A seed with no idea gives one free row with found: false and a note.
Ideas come with 12 months of history at most (the data source keeps 12 months for ideas).
If many seeds in a row return no idea, the run stops early and tells you which were not searched (nothing is charged for them).

Output example

Real row from a run on 2026-10-07 (US, historyMonths: 3; the three serp… fields from a check on 2026-10-12):

{
  "keyword": "coffee maker",
  "found": true,
  "country": "US",
  "languageCode": "en",
  "searchVolume": 201000,
  "cpcUsd": 0.79,
  "competition": 1,
  "competitionLevel": "HIGH",
  "lowTopOfPageBidUsd": 0.25,
  "highTopOfPageBidUsd": 1.23,
  "keywordDifficulty": 32,
  "searchIntent": "transactional",
  "trendMonthlyPct": 22,
  "trendQuarterlyPct": 22,
  "trendYearlyPct": 0,
  "serpFeatures": "popular_products, organic, product_considerations, perspectives, people_also_ask, related_searches, images",
  "searchResultsCount": 293,
  "serpUpdatedAt": "2026-07-30T03:52:04.000Z",
  "monthlySearches": [
    { "month": "2026-08", "searchVolume": 165000 },
    { "month": "2026-07", "searchVolume": 135000 },
    { "month": "2026-06", "searchVolume": 135000 }
  ],
  "dataUpdatedAt": "2026-09-15T12:07:43.000Z",
  "observedAt": "2026-10-07T10:29:36.658Z",
  "schemaVersion": "1.0"
}

Pricing

Bulk pricing: a start fee of $0.02 per run, then $0.001 per keyword with data on the free Apify plan, down to $0.0007 on paid plans. No subscription. Example on the Apify Starter plan: 1,000 keywords with data cost $0.92 ($0.02 start + 1,000 × $0.0009), $0.72 on Business; 100 keywords cost $0.11 on Starter. See the Pricing tab for the current prices. Keywords without data, duplicates and invalid keywords are never billed. Input mistakes (unsupported country or language, empty list) stop the run with a clear message and cost nothing beyond the $0.02 start fee. The run never spends more than the maximum cost you set: it stops looking up keywords before reaching it.

Free Apify plan: each run looks up the first 20 keywords (ideas mode: the first 2 seeds, 20 ideas each), and 5 runs per day (UTC) look up data, so you can test the output; later runs that day look nothing up and return one free row per keyword saying why. A paid Apify plan removes these limits.

Run summary

Each run also stores a summary in the key-value store (OUTPUT): keywords submitted, found, not found, billed, duplicates removed, invalid keywords with the reason, and any keyword skipped because of the free-plan or budget limit. In ideas mode: mode, seeds submitted and searched, seeds without ideas, ideas found and billed, duplicate ideas removed, and seeds skipped (free plan, budget, or too many seeds without ideas).

Track your keywords every month

The data source refreshes keyword data once a month, so a monthly run is all a tracking list needs:

Run the Actor once with your list, then click Save as a new task (your keywords, country and settings are kept).
In the task, click Schedule and pick the same day each month.
Send each run to your tool: the task's Integrations tab (Google Sheets, Slack, a webhook…), or the n8n / Make Apify nodes. Compare searchVolume and the trendMonthlyPct / trendYearlyPct columns from one month to the next to see which topics rise or fall (see Pricing for the cost of each run).

Use it from code, automations or AI agents

API (one call, results returned directly):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plainrows~keyword-planner-alternative/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords": ["coffee maker", "espresso machine"], "country": "US"}'

n8n, Make, Zapier: use the Apify integration and pick plainrows/keyword-planner-alternative as the Actor; map the dataset items to your sheet, CRM or database.

AI agents (MCP): add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=plainrows/keyword-planner-alternative to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client. The agent gets a typed tool with the input and output schemas of this page and pays per result.

Limits

Data comes from Google Ads keyword data via a commercial SEO data provider and is refreshed monthly. Very new or very rare keywords may have no data.
Search volumes are averages and estimates, not exact counts.
This tool is not affiliated with Google, Ahrefs or Semrush. Google Keyword Planner is a trademark of Google.
No AI search volume on this Actor: for that option (from October 24, 2026), use PlainRows Keyword Search Volume.

FAQ

Can I get Keyword Planner search volumes without a Google Ads account? Yes. Paste your keywords, pick the country and run: no Google account, no ad campaign, no billing setup. You get exact monthly averages instead of Keyword Planner's ranges.

How do I check the search volume of many keywords at once? Paste them in keywords, one per line (up to 10,000 per run), pick the country and run. You get one row per keyword with monthly volume, CPC, competition, difficulty, intent and monthly history.

Is this the same data as Google Keyword Planner? It comes from Google Ads keyword data through a commercial SEO data provider, refreshed monthly. Volumes are exact monthly averages instead of the ranges Keyword Planner shows to accounts with little ad spend, and you don't need a Google Ads account.

Is this an Ahrefs or Semrush alternative? For keyword metrics, yes: search volume, CPC, competition, keyword difficulty (0-100), intent and monthly history for up to 10,000 keywords per run, without a subscription or an Ahrefs or Semrush account. Difficulty is computed by the data provider on its own 0-100 scale, so it will not match Ahrefs KD or Semrush KD% exactly.

Can it find new keyword ideas, not only volumes? Yes: set mode to ideas. Each keyword becomes a seed and you get up to 1,000 related ideas per seed with volume, CPC, competition, difficulty, intent and 12-month history, billed per idea with data at the same price as a keyword. Ideas are deduplicated across seeds.

Which countries and languages? 94 countries, in the country's main language or another one the data source offers there.

What does it cost for 1,000 keywords? A $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.0009 per keyword with data on the Apify Starter plan ($0.0007 on Business), with no subscription: about $0.92 for 1,000 keywords. Keywords without data are free. The free Apify plan looks up 20 keywords per run, for testing.

Can I use it in Google Sheets, n8n, Make or an AI agent? Yes: through the Apify API, the Apify integrations for n8n, Make and Zapier, or the Apify MCP server (see above).

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