Keyword Search Volume, CPC & Difficulty Checker (Bulk)

What does Keyword Search Volume Checker do?

Keyword Search Volume, CPC & Difficulty Checker returns Google search volume, cost per click (CPC), Google Ads competition, top-of-page bids, keyword difficulty, search intent and a 12-month search trend for every keyword you give it. Paste one keyword or ten thousand: it checks them in bulk, 700 at a time, and returns one flat row per keyword.

It is a fast keyword search volume API and Google Keyword Planner alternative for 94 countries, with no Google Ads account needed. You pay $5 per 1,000 keywords plus $0.015 per run, and keywords with no data are free. Free Apify plan: try the first 5 keywords per run; any paid plan gets every keyword.

Why use a bulk keyword volume checker?

• 🔎 Keyword research for SEO: size up a list of content ideas by volume, keyword difficulty and intent before you write.
• 💰 PPC planning: get CPC, competition and top-of-page bid ranges to estimate Google Ads budgets.
• 📈 Seasonality and trends: the last 12 months of search volume plus monthly, quarterly and yearly change in %.
• 🧭 Content prioritisation: sort thousands of keywords by volume vs difficulty to find quick wins.
• 🌍 International SEO: compare the same keywords across the US, UK, Germany, France, Australia and 89 more countries.
• 🤖 Automation and AI agents: call it from the API, Make, Zapier, n8n or the Apify MCP server inside your own keyword tools.

What data does it return?

Field	Example	Description
keyword	best crm for small business	Your keyword
searchVolume	2900	Average monthly Google searches
cpc	44.05	Average cost per click, USD
competition / competitionLevel	0.35 / MEDIUM	Google Ads competition
lowTopOfPageBid / highTopOfPageBid	8.3 / 60.46	Top-of-page bid range, USD
keywordDifficulty	29	How hard it is to rank in the top 10 organic results (0-100)
mainIntent / foreignIntent	commercial / null	Search intent: informational, navigational, commercial, transactional
trendMonthly / trendQuarterly / trendYearly	0 / 24 / 24	Volume change in %
monthlySearches	[{ "month": "2026-08", "searchVolume": 3600 }, ...]	Last 12 months, newest first
found	true	false when there is no data for the keyword (free row)
location / language / lastUpdated	United States / English	Market and data freshness

How to check keyword search volume in bulk

1. Click Try for free.
2. Paste your keywords into Keywords, one per line.
3. Pick a Country and Language (default: United States, English).
4. Click Start. A few hundred keywords take a few seconds.
5. Download the results as CSV, Excel, JSON or HTML, or read them through the API.

How much does it cost?

You pay $0.005 per keyword with data ($5 per 1,000 keywords), plus $0.015 per run (it covers the data provider's fixed fee per request, so send big lists in one run). Keywords with no data, duplicates, keywords that are too long and keywords skipped for any reason are free. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor only looks up as many keywords as that budget covers.

Actor	Price per 1,000 keywords
This Actor (volume, CPC, bids, difficulty, intent, 12-month trend)	$5
aitorsm/keyword-volume	$8 to $12 (by Apify plan)
khadinakbar/dataforseo-keyword-research	$10
steadyfetch/keyword-search-volume-scraper	$4 to $12 by Apify plan + $0.19 per fresh lookup run
s-r/google-keywords	$3
santhej/keyword-research-tool	$3 with difficulty and intent

Prices as listed on Apify Store in October 2026.

Free Apify plan: 5 keywords per run. Every lookup costs us a data fee and free-plan runs earn nothing, so runs on the free Apify plan look up the first 5 keywords only; the rest come back as free rows without data. Any paid Apify plan gets every keyword. A free run that repeats a lookup from the last 7 days gets the stored answer of that lookup (the run log says so); paid runs always fetch live data.

Input

{
    "keywords": ["running shoes", "best crm for small business", "keyword research"],
    "location": "United States",
    "language": "English",
    "includeMonthlyHistory": true
}

• keywords: up to thousands per run. Duplicates are removed (ignoring case and trailing punctuation). Questions like what is seo? work: edge punctuation is removed before the lookup and your original keyword is kept in the output. Phrases longer than 80 characters or 10 words are skipped for free.
• location: one of 94 countries.
• language: if the language has no data for that country, the country's main language is used (Germany + English becomes Germany + German) and the log says so.
• includeMonthlyHistory: add the last 12 months of search volume to each row.

Output example

{
    "keyword": "best crm for small business",
    "location": "United States",
    "language": "English",
    "found": true,
    "searchVolume": 2900,
    "cpc": 44.05,
    "competition": 0.35,
    "competitionLevel": "MEDIUM",
    "lowTopOfPageBid": 8.3,
    "highTopOfPageBid": 60.46,
    "keywordDifficulty": 29,
    "mainIntent": "commercial",
    "foreignIntent": null,
    "trendMonthly": 0,
    "trendQuarterly": 24,
    "trendYearly": 24,
    "monthlySearches": [
        { "month": "2026-08", "searchVolume": 3600 },
        { "month": "2026-07", "searchVolume": 3600 },
        { "month": "2026-06", "searchVolume": 2900 }
    ],
    "lastUpdated": "2026-09-14 21:13:57 +00:00",
    "error": null
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Use it from code

Python (pip install "apify-client>=3"):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("tenfoldfleet/keyword-search-volume").call(run_input={
    "keywords": ["running shoes", "trail running shoes", "marathon training plan"],
    "location": "United Kingdom",
})
for row in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(row["keyword"], row["searchVolume"], row["cpc"], row["keywordDifficulty"])

On apify-client 1.x or 2.x, call() returns a dict, so use run["defaultDatasetId"] instead.

JavaScript (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('tenfoldfleet/keyword-search-volume').call({
    keywords: ['running shoes', 'trail running shoes'],
    location: 'Germany',
    language: 'German',
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Tips

• Send big lists in one run. Keywords are checked 700 per request and the $0.015 run fee is paid once, so large lists finish quickly and cost less.
• Filter found: true to keep only keywords with data; the others cost nothing.
• Sort by searchVolume / keywordDifficulty to find high-volume, low-competition keywords.
• Use trendYearly and monthlySearches to spot seasonal and rising keywords.

Use it with AI agents (MCP)

Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client this Actor as a tool through Apify's MCP server: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=tenfoldfleet/keyword-search-volume as a remote MCP server and sign in with your Apify account. The agent fills in the input, runs the Actor and reads the results itself; you pay the same per-event price as a normal run.

FAQ

Where does the data come from?

From the DataForSEO Labs keyword database, which is based on Google Ads (Keyword Planner) data and refreshed monthly. lastUpdated shows when each keyword was last refreshed.

Why did some keywords return found: false?

Google has no search volume data for very rare, misspelled or brand-new phrases. Those rows are free. Rows with an error text were skipped (too long, max cost per run reached, free Apify plan, or the data source was unavailable) and are free too.

Is the search volume exact?

It is Google's average monthly search volume over the last 12 months, based on Google Ads data. CPC and bids are in USD.

How is keyword difficulty calculated?

Keyword difficulty (0-100) estimates how hard it is to reach the top 10 organic results, based on the link strength of the pages currently ranking.

Do I need a Google Ads account?

No. You only need an Apify account.

Can I use it in Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent?

Yes. It works with every Apify integration, the REST API and the Apify MCP server.

Support

Missing a country or a field? Open an issue in the Issues tab.

This Actor returns aggregated keyword statistics only. It does not collect any personal data.

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