# Rakko Keyword review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Japanese keyword research with suggest data from five search engines

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Rakko Keyword is a Japanese web-based keyword research tool. It gathers search suggestions from Google, YouTube, Amazon, Rakuten and Bing, shows monthly search volume and SEO difficulty on paid plans, and looks up the keywords a competitor's site ranks for. Plans are monthly credit allowances priced in yen, and the site is in Japanese.

- **Category:** Keyword Research Tools
- **Made by:** ラッコ株式会社 (Rakko Inc.)
- **Website:** https://rakkokeyword.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you can't read Japanese, as the site and support are in Japanese.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Rakko Keyword has a free plan, and paid plans start at ¥660 per month, billed annually (¥1,320 billed monthly), incl. tax.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 50 credits a week, reset each Monday, with suggest keywords and most research tools at lower output caps. No search volume data.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| フリー (Free) | ¥0 | 50 credits a week for suggest keywords, competitor keywords (50 results), rank checks to position 30 and other basic lookups. |
| エントリー (Entry) | ¥660 per month for 400 credits, billed annually (¥1,320 billed monthly) | Search volume and difficulty, 800 competitor keywords per lookup, 1 user. A suggest search costs 1 credit, a site lookup 3. |
| ライト (Light) | ¥990 per month for 1,000 credits, billed annually (¥1,980 billed monthly) | 1,000 credits, 2,000 competitor keywords per lookup and MCP access for AI tools at 5 times the web credit cost. No API. |
| スタンダード (Standard) | ¥2,475 per month for 3,000 credits, billed annually (¥4,950 billed monthly) | 3,000 credits, 10,000 competitor keywords per lookup, API access, 100-URL bulk site checks and 5 simultaneous users. |
| プロ (Pro) | ¥4,950 per month for 6,300 credits, billed annually (¥9,900 billed monthly) | Standard's features with 6,300 credits a month and 10 simultaneous users. |
| エンタープライズ (Enterprise) | ¥9,900 per month for 13,500 credits, billed annually (¥19,800 billed monthly) | Standard's features with 13,500 credits a month and 25 simultaneous users. |

Read from https://rakkokeyword.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Rakko Keyword before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Half price with annual billing** (Annual discount): Rakko Keyword's pricing page marks annual billing as 50% off: Standard is ¥29,700 a year instead of ¥4,950 a month. Source: https://rakkokeyword.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Suggest keywords from five engines:** Pull search suggestions from Google, YouTube, Amazon, Rakuten and Bing; paid plans add search volume, difficulty and an expanded list of up to 10,000 or more.
- **Competitor keyword research:** See which keywords and pages bring a site its search traffic, with estimated visits and trend charts; 50 to 10,000 results per lookup by plan.
- **Headings and co-occurring words:** Extract the headings and the words used most by the top 20 results for a keyword, to plan an article's structure.
- **Rank checks:** Check where up to 50 URLs rank for a keyword on Google or Yahoo, to position 30 on the free plan and 100 on paid plans, by region and device from Standard.
- **Bulk search volume:** Look up current Google monthly volume, CPC and competition for a list of keywords at 0.02 credits each, with a minimum of 10 per request.
- **AI article drafts and MCP:** Generate titles, headings and article text from the top results, and connect Claude, ChatGPT or n8n through MCP from Light or the API from Standard.

## Good for

- Bloggers and marketers writing for Japanese search
- Research across Amazon, Rakuten and YouTube suggestions as well as Google
- Small budgets: paid plans start at a few hundred yen a month

## Worth knowing

- The site, support and keyword data are aimed at Japan; prices are in yen including 10% consumption tax.
- There is no free trial of paid features, and cancelling mid-term brings no refund.
- Monthly billing costs twice the annual rate; plans can only be upgraded, not downgraded, without cancelling.
- Use through AI tools burns credits faster, 5 times on Light and 1.5 times from Standard, and the API itself needs Standard or above.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Rakko Keyword is a Japanese web keyword tool that pulls suggestions from Google, YouTube, Amazon, Rakuten and Bing, with volume, difficulty and a rival's keywords on paid plans. The site, support and data are aimed at Japan. There's no trial and no mid-term refund, monthly billing costs double, the free plan shows no volumes, and the API waits on Standard at ¥2,475 a month.

- **Value for money: A.** Entry is ¥660 a month on yearly billing, tax included: a few dollars, and under 60% of this category's cheaper quarter. It's only 400 credits, though, the API waits on Standard at ¥2,475, and monthly billing costs double.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with 50 credits a week, reset every Monday, for suggestions, competitor keywords (50 results) and rank checks to position 30. No search volume at all, which is the number you came for.
- **Features: C.** Suggestions from five search engines, volume and difficulty, competitor keywords, headings from the top 20 results, rank checks, AI drafts and MCP. It covers the job, but for Japan: the site, support and keyword data are all aimed there.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. The tools are simple lookups, but the whole site is in Japanese, and each tool costs a different number of credits, so there's some working out to do.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with MCP for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, n8n and Dify from Light, and the API from Standard. Results go to Google Sheets or Excel. No desktop or phone app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Rakko Keyword'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

- Rakko Keyword's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 38 of the 51 other keyword research tools we grade, and level with 5.
- It stands best on value for money (A, above 37 of 51) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/keyword-research

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Rakko Keyword 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. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 38 of the 51 other keyword research tools we grade.

- You could not: Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Claude, Claude Code and ChatGPT among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini, n8n, Dify, Google Sheets, Excel

**Tags:** Keyword research, AI features, Public API

## Alternatives

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- [Ubersuggest](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ubersuggest): Low-cost SEO tool for keyword ideas, site audits and rank tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rakko-keyword-vs-ubersuggest)
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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://rakkokeyword.com/pricing
- https://rakkokeyword.com/
- https://rakkokeyword.com/knowledge/9777/
- https://rakko.inc/

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