# SearchVolume.io review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Free bulk search volume checker with a paid AI keyword platform Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. SearchVolume.io offers a free bulk checker that returns Google monthly search volume for up to 800 keywords at a time, without a Google Ads account. Its paid web platform adds an AI keyword assistant, competitor keywords, related and long-tail ideas, difficulty and CPC, and a cannibalization checker that groups keywords shown in the same results. Paid plans are monthly credit allowances. - **Category:** Keyword Research Tools - **Made by:** Search Volume - **Website:** https://searchvolume.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if your research comes in bursts, since unused credits don't roll over. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, SearchVolume.io has a free plan, and paid plans start at $29 per month for 500 credits. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** The free bulk tool on the homepage gives average monthly search volume for up to 800 keywords at a time, with export to Excel. The research platform itself is paid. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of the paid plans. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free tool | $0 | Bulk search volume for up to 800 keywords at a time, exportable to Excel. | | Lite | $29 per month for 500 credits | All platform tools for one marketer, with email support. A credit is one lookup or one keyword analyzed. | | Standard | $69 per month for 2,000 credits | The same tools with 2,000 credits a month. Unused credits do not roll over. | | Scale | $119 per month for 5,000 credits | 5,000 credits a month, with email and video call support. | Read from https://searchvolume.io/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SearchVolume.io before buying. ## Key features - **Free bulk search volume:** Paste up to 800 keywords and get each one's average monthly Google search volume, then export the list to Excel. - **AI Keyword Assistant:** Suggests keywords to target from seed keywords or a written prompt. - **Keyword cannibalization check:** Groups keywords that show the same pages in Google's results, so one page can target them instead of several competing pages. - **Competitor keywords:** See the keywords a competing site ranks for, drawn from a database the vendor puts at over 7 billion Google keywords. - **Related and long-tail ideas:** Semantically related and long-tail keyword ideas from a seed, with search volume, difficulty and Google Ads cost. - **40 languages:** Keyword data in 40 languages, from Arabic and Bengali to Ukrainian and Vietnamese. ## Good for - Checking volumes for a keyword list without a Google Ads account - Writers who want to stop two pages competing for the same searches - Small budgets that need a few hundred lookups a month ## Worth knowing - Credits reset monthly and do not roll over; one lookup costs one credit even when it returns thousands of rows. - The pricing page shows monthly prices only, with no annual option. - There is no rank tracking, site audit or backlink report in the plans listed. - When credits run out you wait for the next billing cycle or upgrade. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. SearchVolume.io has a free bulk checker that gives Google search volumes for up to 800 keywords at a time, with no Google Ads account. The paid platform, from $29 a month, adds AI keyword ideas, a rival's keywords and a cannibalization check. Credits don't roll over, there's no yearly price, API or integration, and it does no rank tracking, audits or backlinks. - **Value for money: C.** Lite is $29 a month for 500 credits, right at this category's dearer quarter, and there's no yearly discount. One lookup is one credit even when it returns thousands of rows. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The bulk checker is free: up to 800 keywords at a time, exported to Excel, no Google Ads account needed. If volumes are all you need, you could live on it. The platform itself has a 7-day trial. - **Features: C.** An AI keyword assistant, competitor keywords from a database it puts at over 7 billion, related and long-tail ideas with difficulty and CPC, and a cannibalization check, in 40 languages. Research only: no rank tracking, audit or backlinks. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. The free tool is paste a list, get numbers, and the platform's tools are lookups too, with nothing to connect. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no integrations or API on record. Results go out to Excel. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SearchVolume.io'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 - SearchVolume.io's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 23 of the 51 other keyword research tools we grade, and level with 14. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 41 of 51) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $18 for the category: 23 of the 35 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 9 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 SearchVolume.io 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 costs $348 a year. - You could not: Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. - 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. **Tags:** Keyword research, AI features ## Alternatives - [Google Keyword Planner](https://toolgpa.com/tools/google-keyword-planner): Free keyword ideas, search volumes and bid estimates inside Google Ads. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/google-keyword-planner-vs-searchvolume-io) - [Keywords Everywhere](https://toolgpa.com/tools/keywords-everywhere): Browser extension that shows search volume on the sites you browse. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/keywords-everywhere-vs-searchvolume-io) - [Ubersuggest](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ubersuggest): Low-cost SEO tool for keyword ideas, site audits and rank tracking. 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