{"slug":"keywords","domain":"web","title":"How many people search a phrase","summary":"How many people search a phrase on Google each month, and the phrases people search near it.","help":"keywords: Google's monthly searches for a phrase, as a table.\n\nUSAGE\n  keywords volume TERM [TERM…] [--geo us] [--language en] [--file F] [--json | --tsv]\n  keywords ideas  SEED [SEED…] [--limit 200] [--geo us] [--language en] [--json | --tsv]\n\n  Quote a term of several words; a comma also separates terms. --file reads\n  more terms from a file, one a line.\n\nVOLUME\n  Each term's average monthly searches on Google, from Google Ads, with the\n  cost of a click in US dollars and how many advertisers bid on it (LOW,\n  MEDIUM or HIGH, and an index from 0 to 100). Up to 1,000 terms a call: ask\n  for the whole list at once.\n\nIDEAS\n  The phrases Google Ads offers for 1 to 20 seeds, busiest first, with the\n  same columns. --limit is 1 to 1,000 (default 200). This is where the way\n  people actually word a question is found.\n\nA COUNT, NOT A SCALE\n  Unlike `trends`, these are counts, so two answers can be set side by side.\n  Google rounds them into its own steps (9,900, 12,100). `-` in the volume\n  column is a phrase searched too little to count, which is an answer.\n\nOUTPUT\n  A table by default. --json prints the answer whole, with each term's\n  month-by-month counts; --tsv prints tab-separated rows with a header.\n\nWHERE\n  --geo is an ISO country code (default us); --language an ISO language code\n  (default en).\n\nCOSTS\n  Billed per call as keywords_volume or keywords_ideas, however many terms.","example_command":"keywords volume \"food truck business plan\" \"how much does a food truck make\" --geo us","example_output":"","cost_class":"upstream-fetch","tier":"metered","billing_items":["keywords_volume","keywords_ideas"],"price_per_1k_calls":187.5,"price_is_from":true,"status":"available","commands":["keywords"],"studies":[{"call":"volume","about":"Google's average monthly searches for each term, with the cost of a click and the competition","args":[{"name":"terms","positional":true,"list":false,"hint":""}]},{"call":"ideas","about":"the phrases Google Ads offers for some seeds, busiest first, with the same columns","args":[{"name":"seeds","positional":true,"list":false,"hint":""}]}],"default_enabled":false,"first_seen":"2026-11-02T07:20:48.068668Z","enabled":false}