🔎 Keyword Search Volume: Keyword Planner Data, CPC & Trends

Get Google search volume, CPC, competition, top-of-page bids and a 12-month trend for up to 10,000 keywords per run, for any country and language. It's Keyword Planner data without a Google Ads account, and you get clean JSON that's ready for spreadsheets, SEO tools and AI agents.

• 📊 Keyword Planner metrics: average monthly searches, CPC, competition (LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH plus a 0-100 index), and low/high top-of-page bids
• 📈 12-month trend: searches for each month, oldest first
• 🌍 190+ countries, 50+ languages: pass names ("Germany", "German"), ISO codes ("DE", "de") or Google Ads location codes (2276)
• ⚡ Fast by default: results in seconds. Keywords looked up in the last 30 days come back instantly from a cache
• 🧹 Clean input: lowercases, trims and dedupes keywords. Keywords Google Ads rejects are flagged invalid and never charged
• 💸 You pay only for keywords that return data: no_data, invalid and error rows are free

Quick start

{
  "keywords": ["keyword research", "seo tools", "best running shoes"],
  "location": "United States",
  "language": "English"
}

Output

One item per keyword, in the same order as your input:

Field	Example	Notes
keyword	best running shoes	Normalized keyword
inputKeyword	Best Running Shoes!	As you typed it
status	ok	ok, no_data, invalid or error
searchVolume	201000	Average monthly searches (last 12 months)
monthlySearches	[{"month": "2025-10", "searchVolume": 165000}, …]	Last 12 months
cpc	1.42	USD
competition / competitionIndex	HIGH / 100	Paid-search competition
lowTopOfPageBid / highTopOfPageBid	0.61 / 2.07	USD
keywordDifficulty / searchIntent	71 / commercial	Only when the data comes from the keyword database (auto and labs modes)
spellCorrection	null	The spelling Google Ads used, when it corrected the keyword
location, locationCode, language, languageCode	United States, 2840, English, en
dataDate	2026-09	Latest month in the data
source	live	live (fetched this run) or cache (looked up in the last 30 days)
dataSource	google_ads	google_ads (Keyword Planner) or dataforseo_labs (keyword database built from Google Ads data)
fetchedAt	2026-10-26T22:11:36Z	When the data was fetched

The run summary (counts, cached vs fresh, and the mode used) is saved in the key-value store as OUTPUT.

Modes

Mode	Speed	Data source	Best for
auto (default)	seconds	DataForSEO Labs keyword database, then Google Ads live for anything missing	Most lists: fast and complete
live	~7 s per 1,000 keywords	Google Ads Keyword Planner (live)	When you want every number straight from Keyword Planner
labs	seconds	DataForSEO Labs keyword database only	Adds keyword difficulty and search intent; keywords not in the database come back as no_data
queue	1-3 hours	Google Ads Keyword Planner (standard queue)	Very large lists (5,000+ keywords) where waiting is fine

All modes return the same fields. Keyword Planner numbers only change once a month, so keywords looked up in the last 30 days for the same country and language can come back instantly from a cache.

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

Event	Price	When
Lookup	$0.12 per run	Once per run, only when fresh data is requested from the provider. Runs answered fully from the cache don't pay it
Keyword result	$0.003 per keyword ($3 per 1,000)	Per keyword that returns a search volume
Actor start	$0.00005	Apify's standard start fee

Keywords without data are free: no_data, invalid and error rows are never charged as keyword results. The lookup covers the data request itself, so it still applies to a run where fresh keywords were requested but none had data.

Examples: 20 keywords = $0.18, 100 keywords = $0.42, 1,000 keywords = $3.12 (if every keyword has data).

Set Max cost per run in the run options to cap spending. The Actor only processes as many keywords as your limit covers.

Data source

Data comes from DataForSEO, from its Google Ads Keyword Planner API and its DataForSEO Labs keyword database. DataForSEO's site says its customers may show its data in tools they sell to their own users. This Actor is built by SteadyScrape and isn't affiliated with Google or DataForSEO.

Limits & notes

• Each keyword can have at most 80 characters and 10 words. Characters Google Ads rejects are removed when Clean up keywords is on.
• Google Ads groups close variants, so for example running shoe and running shoes can show the same volume.
• Very low-volume keywords may return no_data.
• Worldwide (no location) is only available in live and queue modes.
• Up to 1,000 keywords per run by default (Max keywords per run, up to 10,000). Very large fresh lists may be asked to split into smaller runs.

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