Keywords Everywhere pricing in 2026: four annual credit plans

Keywords Everywhere pricing is annual-only: Bronze $84, Silver $168, Gold $480, and Platinum $1,440, billed once per year. The compare-plans page also prints those as $7, $14, $40, and $120 per month. There is no monthly checkout. Every paid plan includes the same extension, REST API, and MCP server. The meter is a credit pool that expires 12 months after purchase. One credit buys volume, CPC, competition, and a 12-month trend for one keyword. A typical google.com load with Related, People Also Search For, and Long-tail widgets is billed at 1 + 8 + 20 + 25 = 54 credits. Trends MCP uses a different meter: monthly request quotas from Free 100 calls to Starter $19 for 1,000, with no credit-per-SERP-widget. Keywords Everywhere still wins Google Keyword Planner volume and CPC overlaid on search pages. Trends MCP wins live multi-source boards and growth inside Cursor or Claude.

What do Keywords Everywhere's four plans cost in 2026?

Bronze is $84 a year for 100,000 credits and 1 seat. Silver is $168 for 400,000 credits and 3 seats. Gold is $480 for 2,000,000 credits and 10 seats. Platinum is $1,440 for 8,000,000 credits and 20 seats. Those four rows match both the compare-plans table and the annual checkout cards fetched on 29 August 2026.

The core product does not change between tiers. Volume, CPC, competition, 12-month trend charts, historical volume back to 2004, Bulk Keywords Data, Keyword Finder, related and long-tail widgets, keyword gap analysis, organic traffic metrics, SEO difficulty, YouTube insights, the REST API, and the MCP server are listed as included on every plan. The paid differences are credits, seats, per-site research caps, and extras.

Per-credit math on the annual sticker: Bronze is $0.00084 per credit, Silver $0.00042, Gold $0.00024, Platinum $0.00018. Ordinary keyword lookups are not capped by plan. They simply spend credits. The 1,000 / 2,000 / 5,000 / 10,000 caps apply only when pulling the keywords a domain ranks for, or its backlinks.

Seats are people sharing one API key, not devices. One person can use the same key on every browser. Teams hit the seat number. Custom Enterprise is email-only at [email protected]. Checkout on 29 August 2026 displayed "Join 1,555,575 marketing professionals." Paddle.com Market Limited is the merchant of record; card, debit, or PayPal, with VAT/GST/sales tax collected by Paddle where required.

A separate credit bundle page sells top-ups that also expire after one year: $80 for 200,000 credits (40.0 cents per 1,000), $150 for 500,000 (30.0 cents), $500 for 2 million (25.0 cents), $1,300 for 6 million (21.7 cents), $2,700 for 15 million (18.0 cents), and $8,000 for 50 million (16.0 cents). The $80 bundle is cheaper per credit than Bronze's $84 for 100,000 (84 cents per 1,000). Compare-plans says a user can top up or upgrade after credits run out. The bundle page does not state whether a live plan is required first.

Why one Google search can spend 54 credits

One credit is one keyword's volume, CPC, competition, and 12-month trend, even when volume is zero. YouTube or Amazon, where a single query sits under the search bar, costs 1 credit. Google Search Console costs one credit per keyword shown; 500 keywords on the page is 500 credits. Google Autocomplete suggestions cost one credit per suggested row unless "Show metrics for search suggestions" is turned off. Bulk Keywords Data spends one credit per imported keyword. Analyze Page Content spends one credit per keyword found on the page, and the vendor warns that this can drain a pool quickly.

The expensive default is google.com with the widgets on. The official example on both compare-plans and the credits FAQ is 8 Related + 20 People Also Search For + 25 Long-tail + the original query = 54 credits. At Bronze's $0.00084, that load is about $0.045. 100,000 credits / 54 is about 1,851 full widget searches per year if every Google visit looks like the example. The subscriptions FAQ also prints a shorter 1 + 20 + 8 = 29 credit example that omits Long-tail. Both numbers are vendor examples, not a guarantee of what a given SERP will show.

"My Favorite Keywords" is billed at one-quarter: 20 keywords on that page deduct 5 credits. Leaving the extension enabled keeps spending on ordinary browsing. The documented off switch is the "K" icon, then Off, which stops API calls. Credits are FIFO: oldest first. Unused credits expire 12 months from purchase. A subscription renewal does not carry leftover credits into the next year, per the terms fetched the same day.

Refund language splits across pages. Terms say Keywords Everywhere is not obligated to refund, with a 48-hour window after a transaction that can still be declined if many credits were used or abuse is suspected. The FAQ says a forgotten renewal refunded in full if emailed to [email protected] within a week. Compare-plans says plans can be canceled anytime from subscription details, and an upgrade keeps old credits unless support refunds the old plan instead. Uninstalling the extension does not cancel billing.

Does the API or MCP add a second bill?

No. There is no separate API fee and no separate MCP fee. Since June 2025 every REST method works on Bronze. The API docs and MCP guide both say data calls share the extension credit pool. Get Keyword Data accepts up to 100 keywords per POST and consumes one credit per keyword returned. Volume is described as Google Keyword Planner data (or a Planner-plus-clickstream blend via dataSource). Competition is the Google Ads advertiser metric from 0 to 1, not ranking difficulty. Keywords Everywhere is not a rank tracker.

The hosted MCP URL is https://mcp.keywordseverywhere.com/mcp. ChatGPT and VS Code 1.99+ can use OAuth. Other clients send the same API key as a Bearer token. Cursor's documented HTTP block is a URL plus header, with no transport field:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "keywords-everywhere": {
      "url": "https://mcp.keywordseverywhere.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KE_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Stdio clients that wrap the remote server need Node 18+ and mcp-remote 0.1.16 or later. Earlier mcp-remote versions had a security issue disclosed by JFrog in May 2025. Windsurf and Qodo Gen are documented as lacking remote HTTPS, so those two use the local npx helper. A paid plan with remaining credits is required before MCP data calls work. The API key itself is free.

Trends MCP splits hosts on purpose. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, and most clients use Bearer auth on https://api.trendsmcp.ai/mcp. Claude.ai Connectors use OAuth on the www /mcp host and must not be rewritten to the api host. Cursor's documented block adds "transport": "http":

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trends-mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.trendsmcp.ai/mcp",
      "transport": "http",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf on Trends MCP uses serverUrl for remote HTTP, which is the opposite of Keywords Everywhere's stdio-only Windsurf note. Setup copies live on the Cursor MCP landing page and the Google Trends MCP for Cursor page.

What still works after the credits run out?

The extension keeps listing Related, People Also Search For, and Long-tail keywords. Volume, CPC, and competition hide until a top-up or upgrade. LLM prompt templates are free for everyone and use no credits; a smaller premium template set starts at Silver. Instagram hashtag and engagement metrics, Pinterest insights, and X engagement metrics are listed as free with no API key. The volume/CPC/competition/trend layer needs a free API key plus a paid credit plan.

SEO Minion (on-page checks, broken links, SERP previews, hreflang, People Also Ask scraping) starts at Silver. Keyword Keg, the web research app with purchase-intent filters and bulk list upload, starts at Gold. RapidLevelUp course access, printed at $1,194, also starts at Gold. Priority email is Platinum-only; everyone else writes [email protected].

That free layer is not a Google Trends API. It will not return TikTok hashtag boards, Reddit hot posts, Amazon bestseller ranks, or get_growth across sources. For keyword research that starts from volume on a SERP, the overlay is the product. For SEO work that needs live boards plus period growth, the credit overlay is the wrong meter.

Which meter is cheaper for trend data in an AI client?

Keywords Everywhere is cheaper when the job is GKP volume and CPC on the pages a researcher already has open, and the team can keep widget spend under control. Bronze at $84 a year undercuts almost every SEO suite seat. It is the wrong comparison if the job is "what is climbing on TikTok, Reddit, and Amazon this week" inside an agent.

Trends MCP pricing HTML on 29 August 2026 lists Free $0 for 100 requests/month, Starter $19 (1,000), Pro $49 (5,000), Business $199 (25,000). Annual billing saves 20%. The yearly toggle printed Starter $16/month ($192 billed annually), Pro $39 ($468), Business $159 ($1,910), with the copy "2 months free." HTML also markets 35+ data sources, Free as top 10 trends plus 12 months of history plus 24-hour delayed data, a 7-day trial with the card collected at checkout and charged on day 8, failed calls free, and 9,428,727 API calls served. The markdown pricing table the same day lists the monthly SKUs and 20% annual note but does not print those Free caps or the live counter.

Source counts still disagree across official files: docs.md tables 15 keyword sources and 24 named live feeds (including TikTok Trending Hashtags by Category); data-sources.md lists the same 15 keyword sources and 20 live feeds (it omits the four by-category boards); llms.txt says plus 21 live feeds; the MCP get_top_trends schema lists 23 feeds and omits TikTok Trending Hashtags by Category. Do not flatten that to a single 15, 16, 20, 21, 23, 24, or 35+ figure. Keyword alerts are Pro 50 and Business 250. get_top_trends defaults to limit 25 and maxes at 200. get_growth counts as one request per source plus keyword even when several windows ship in the same call.

A researcher who lives in Google, YouTube, Amazon, Bing, eBay, and Etsy search pages should price Keywords Everywhere first. An agent that needs live boards and cross-source growth should price Trends MCP first. The two meters do not replace each other. For a wider tool list, see Keywords Everywhere alternatives.

Vendor pages for this post were fetched on 29 August 2026: Keywords Everywhere compare-plans, annual checkout, credit bundles, API docs, MCP setup, terms, and FAQ. Trends MCP figures come from the same-day pricing HTML, plus pricing.md, docs.md, data-sources.md, and llms.txt.

FAQ

Does Keywords Everywhere offer monthly billing?

No. All four public plans are billed annually. Compare-plans says monthly billing on the $7 Bronze equivalent would cost more in payment fees than it is worth. Checkout still prints a per-month column ($7 / $14 / $40 / $120) next to the annual charge. Cancel is documented from the subscription details page.

What happens when Keywords Everywhere credits hit zero?

Related, People Also Search For, and Long-tail lists keep rendering. Volume, CPC, and competition hide. The documented next step is a credit bundle or a plan upgrade. Credits also expire 12 months after purchase, oldest first, and a renewal does not carry leftovers forward.

Is there a separate Keywords Everywhere API or MCP price?

No. The API key is free. REST and MCP draw the same credits as the extension, with Get Keyword Data at one credit per keyword returned and a 100-keyword cap per call. MCP has been on every plan, including Bronze, since June 2025. The hosted URL is https://mcp.keywordseverywhere.com/mcp.

Can a team share one Keywords Everywhere subscription?

Yes, up to the seat count: 1 on Bronze, 3 on Silver, 10 on Gold, 20 on Platinum. Everyone shares one account and one API key. One person's own devices count as a single seat.

Is Keywords Everywhere cheaper than Trends MCP?

For GKP volume on a SERP, Bronze at $84 a year is usually the lower sticker. For live multi-source trend calls in Cursor, Trends MCP Free (100 requests) or Starter at $19 a month is the meter that matches the job. A 54-credit Google load on Bronze is about $0.045; a Trends MCP get_growth call is one request against a monthly quota. Pick the unit that matches the workflow, not the smaller headline dollar.