Bulk keyword search volume without a Google Ads account
Keyword Planner needs an Ads account and hides exact volumes unless you spend. For content planning you can get the same underlying data by API at a fraction of a cent per keyword.
Steps
- Open Keyword Search Volume.
- Paste keywords, one per line (up to 10,000). Choose country and language.
- Run and export. Keywords Google has no data for come back as free rows with the reason.
A real list: 43 keywords
We checked 43 candidate phrases for this very site, United States, October 2026. Selected rows:
| Keyword | Monthly searches | CPC (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| google maps scraper | 1,600 | 6.93 |
| free email finder | 720 | 18.61 |
| apollo alternatives | 390 | 48.33 |
| apollo.io alternatives | 210 | 49.16 |
| google autocomplete api | 110 | 9.37 |
| extract emails from website | 90 | 8.46 |
| hunter.io alternatives | 70 | 32.77 |
| youtube comments scraper | 50 | 6.11 |
| weibo scraper | 20 | none |
Eighteen of the 43, mostly long natural-language phrases, had no volume at all. That is useful too: long phrases are not searched as such, so target their short head term.
How to read CPC
CPC is what advertisers bid. High CPC with modest volume (apollo alternatives at $48) means buyers: someone is paying nearly $50 a click. Low CPC with high volume is usually research traffic.
Cost
$0.0008 per keyword with data. 10,000 keywords cost $8.30.
Try it: Keyword Search Volume on Apify. $0.0008 per keyword with data. The Apify free plan includes monthly credit, so a test run costs nothing out of pocket.
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