Keyword Research Tool: Keyword Ideas, Volume & Difficulty

Turn seed keywords into up to 1,000 keyword ideas each: long-tail suggestions, Google related searches or same-topic ideas, with search volume, CPC, keyword difficulty, intent and 12-month trend. 94 countries. Pay only per idea returned.

Try it on Apify

Typical uses

Content plans and topic clusters: hundreds of long-tail questions and phrases around a topic, sorted by volume or by difficulty.
Low-competition keywords: keep ideas under a difficulty of 30 with at least 100 searches a month.
PPC research: CPC and top-of-page bid range for every idea, per country.
Product and market research: see how people search for a product category with the `ideas` source.
Automations and AI agents: feed n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets or an MCP client with clean JSON rows.

Pricing

Pay per use, no subscription, no monthly fee. The price depends on your Apify plan. Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage every month.

You pay per	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
Keyword One keyword idea returned with its search volume, CPC, competition, difficulty, intent and 12-month history. Ideas removed by your filters, duplicates and seeds with no idea are not billed as ideas.	$0.004	$0.003	$0.0025	$0.002
Seed keyword Charged once per seed keyword sent to the data source, which bills a fixed fee for every search, even one that finds no idea. Not charged when the request is rejected or the data source is down.	$0.01	$0.01	$0.01	$0.01

Run it from your code

Get an API token in the Apify Console (Settings → Integrations), then:

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plainrows~keyword-ideas-generator/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "seedKeywords": [
    "coffee maker"
  ],
  "mode": "suggestions",
  "country": "US",
  "maxIdeasPerSeed": 100
}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("plainrows/keyword-ideas-generator").call(run_input={'seedKeywords': ['coffee maker'],
 'mode': 'suggestions',
 'country': 'US',
 'maxIdeasPerSeed': 100})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row)

Use it in automations and AI agents

n8n, Make, Zapier: use the official Apify integration and pick the Actor plainrows/keyword-ideas-generator.
Generate keyword ideas with search volume and difficulty into Google Sheets (n8n workflow JSON)
MCP (Claude, Cursor, other AI agents): https://mcp.apify.com?tools=plainrows/keyword-ideas-generator

Full documentation, input options and output fields: https://apify.com/plainrows/keyword-ideas-generator