# KeySearch review (2026): is it worth $20 a month, billed yearly? > Low-cost keyword research tool with rank tracking and site audits Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. KeySearch is a web-based SEO tool aimed at bloggers, publishers and small businesses. It centers on keyword research with a difficulty score, and adds competitor and backlink lookups, YouTube research, rank tracking, a site auditor and an AI content assistant. The Pro plan adds Foresight, which suggests keywords and content based on a site's niche and current rankings. - **Category:** Keyword Research Tools - **Made by:** KeySearch LLC (since 2015) - **Website:** https://www.keysearch.co - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you track lots of keywords, as Starter stops at 80 and Pro at 200. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, KeySearch is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $20 per month, billed annually ($24 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial, cancel anytime. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter Plan | $20 per month, billed annually ($24 billed monthly) | 200 keyword searches a day, 80 tracked keywords, 2,000 audited pages and 5,000 AI credits a month. No Foresight. | | Pro Plan | $40 per month, billed annually ($48 billed monthly) | 500 keyword searches a day, 200 tracked keywords, 5,000 audited pages, 15,000 AI credits a month, Foresight and team sharing. | Read from https://www.keysearch.co/#pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with KeySearch before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Two months free with annual billing** (Annual discount): KeySearch's pricing section offers annual billing with 2 months free: Starter is $20 a month instead of $24, and Pro $40 instead of $48. Source: https://www.keysearch.co/#pricing ## Key features - **Keyword research and difficulty:** Look up search volume, cost per click and a difficulty score for keywords by language and country, with filters for long-tail ideas. - **Live SERP and competitor analysis:** See which pages rank for a keyword and what keywords a rival site ranks for, along with a backlink checker and URL metrics. - **Foresight recommendations:** On the Pro plan, Foresight reads a site's niche, authority and rankings and suggests keywords it could win and pages worth improving. - **AI content assistant:** Builds outlines and drafts from the pages that already rank and checks topic coverage. AI use is metered in monthly credits. - **Rank tracking and site audit:** Track positions for 80 or 200 keywords depending on plan, and audit up to 2,000 or 5,000 pages a month for technical problems. - **YouTube research:** Research keywords for YouTube and look at the videos that perform well in a niche. ## Good for - Bloggers and niche site owners on a small budget - Finding low-competition long-tail keywords to write about - Small agencies that need research, tracking and audits in one cheap account ## Worth knowing - There is no free plan after the 7-day trial, only a set of free stand-alone tools. - Rank tracking is capped at 80 keywords on Starter and 200 on Pro, low next to dedicated rank trackers. - Foresight and team collaboration are only on the Pro plan. - Refunds can be requested within 30 days of the first purchase, according to the terms. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. KeySearch covers keyword research with a difficulty score, competitor and backlink checks, YouTube ideas, rank tracking and site audits, from $20 a month on yearly billing, for bloggers and small sites. But Starter tracks 80 keywords, Foresight and team sharing wait on Pro at $40, there's no API or integrations, and no free plan after the 7-day trial. - **Value for money: C.** Starter is $20 a month on yearly billing, or $24 monthly, which sits a little above this category's $17 middle for research, tracking and audits in one account. Pro, with Foresight and team sharing, is $40. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, just a 7-day trial and a set of free stand-alone tools. The listing doesn't say whether a card is needed. The terms let you ask for a refund within 30 days of a first purchase. - **Features: B.** Volume, CPC and a difficulty score by country, a rival's keywords, a backlink checker, YouTube research, rank tracking, audits and an AI writer. That covers the whole job. The limits are on the extras, like 80 tracked keywords on Starter. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. Looking up a keyword is quick, but it's a suite: rank tracking, audits and Foresight all need your site and keywords set up first, and AI use runs on monthly credits. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only. There's no desktop or phone app, and the listing shows no integrations and no API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from KeySearch's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among keyword research tools - KeySearch's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 12 of the 51 other keyword research tools we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on features (B, above 43 of 51) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $20 a month, against a middle price of $18 for the category: 19 of the 35 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 7 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/keyword-research ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace KeySearch you would be making search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 29 of the 51 other keyword research tools grade higher. It costs $240 a year. - You could not: Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. - You could not: An index of the links between billions of web pages. - You could not: Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results. - You could not: A crawler that checks every page of a site. - You could not: A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover. - You could not: Search data for YouTube topics and channels. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/keysearch-vs-semrush) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.keysearch.co/#pricing - https://www.keysearch.co/ - https://www.keysearch.co/tutorials - https://www.keysearch.co/terms Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/keysearch Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).