Keyword Suggestions & Research Tool

What it does

Keyword Suggestions & Research Tool turns a seed keyword into hundreds of long-tail keyword ideas that contain it, each with Google search volume, CPC, paid competition, keyword difficulty, search intent and a 12-month trend (DataForSEO Labs data). Ideal for content planning, SEO briefs, PPC research and AI agents building topic clusters. Suggestions come in the order DataForSEO returns them, and you pay $0.045 per seed plus $0.70 per 1,000 suggestions you actually receive.

Price per delivered record

Apify free plan: up to 5 items per run. Paid plans have no per-run cap; set maxTotalChargeUsd to cap spend.

Call it from code, an agent or the Console

This API is private on Apify for now. Email us and we will publish it for you, usually within two working days. The calls below work once it is public. contact@sfoln.com

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/sfoln~keyword-suggestions/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"seedKeywords":["coffee grinder"],"limitPerSeed":10}'

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=sfoln/keyword-suggestions"
    }
  }
}

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/sfoln~keyword-suggestions/runs?maxTotalChargeUsd=1
GET  https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/{runId}            # until status is SUCCEEDED
GET  https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{defaultDatasetId}/items?format=json

Authenticate with an Apify API token. MCP clients can instead sign in with OAuth when prompted. Example prompt for an agent: Give me 50 long-tail keyword ideas for "coffee grinder" in the US with search volume, keyword difficulty and intent, sorted by volume.

Input fields

Enter one or more seed keywords. Each seed returns up to `limitPerSeed` keyword ideas that contain the seed, in the order DataForSEO returns them.

{
  "seedKeywords": [
    "coffee grinder"
  ],
  "limitPerSeed": 10
}

One record per input item

Records land in the run's dataset; a synchronous call returns them directly. Each has a status (ok is charged; everything else is free) and a charged flag. The run's OUTPUT record totals items and charges.

{
  "recordType": "suggestion",
  "seed": "coffee grinder",
  "keyword": "best burr coffee grinder",
  "isSeedKeyword": false,
  "searchVolume": 2900,
  "cpc": 1.12,
  "competition": 0.98,
  "competitionLevel": "HIGH",
  "keywordDifficulty": 42,
  "searchIntent": "commercial",
  "secondaryIntents": [
    "transactional"
  ],
  "lowTopOfPageBid": 0.5,
  "highTopOfPageBid": 1.9,
  "trendMonthlyPct": 0,
  "trendQuarterlyPct": 22,
  "trendYearlyPct": -18,
  "monthlySearches": [
    {
      "year": 2026,
      "month": 9,
      "searchVolume": 2900
    }
  ],
  "wordsCount": 4,
  "dataUpdatedAt": "2026-10-01 10:00:00 +00:00",
  "locationCode": 2840,
  "languageCode": "en",
  "input": "coffee grinder",
  "status": "ok",
  "charged": true,
  "chargedEvent": "keyword-suggestion",
  "source": "dataforseo",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-14T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Related APIs

• related-keywords Related Keywords Finder$0.045 each
• keyword-difficulty Keyword Difficulty Checker$0.045 each
• ranked-keywords Ranked Keywords Checker for Any Domain$0.045 each

This page for agents

• /actors/keyword-suggestions.json — this API as JSON
• /actors/keyword-suggestions.md — this API as Markdown
• /catalog.json — the whole catalogue