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You open Google, run a search, and Keywords Everywhere's widgets still list related keywords, "people also search for" and long-tail picks. The numbers are gone until you top up credits. You search for a free keywords everywhere alternative, click into a roundup, and it points you at an extension Chrome's store no longer carries.
Sound familiar? Six jobs ride under one extension: volume overlay, idea widgets, bulk lookups, overlays on YouTube and Amazon, domain metrics, trend charts. You likely installed it for one or two. Replace those, and the choice gets simple.
This guide maps each Keywords Everywhere job to a free pick and a paid pick, with the limit that bites on each one. It also reports a dated check of the keyword extensions the top-ranking roundups recommend, since two of those extensions are no longer listed. Prices and store listings were read on November 2, 2026.
Keywords Everywhere alternative: the short answer
Keywords Everywhere is a keyword research tool that bundles six separate jobs inside one browser extension. Decide which one you opened it for, then pick the replacement for that job, not for the whole extension. The search volume overlay on Google has a free swap. Most of the other jobs have one too, with a daily cap.
One job isn't on the list: rank tracking. Keywords Everywhere's own FAQ says it isn't a rank tracker, so if you need daily rankings for a target list of keywords, you want a rank tracker, not a Keywords Everywhere alternative.
Prices and limits in this table were read on the vendor's own pages on November 2, 2026. "Free" means usable without paying on that date.
| Job you used Keywords Everywhere for | Free replacement | Paid replacement | The limit that bites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search volume and CPC on Google's results page | Keyword Surfer (no Surfer account) or Ubersuggest's extension (40 reports a day) | Ahrefs Starter at $29 a month, up to 800 SERPs with SEO metrics | Surfer's extension has not been updated in nine months; Ubersuggest's has a daily cap |
| Keyword ideas while you search | Keywords Everywhere's widgets without credits, Google's autocomplete and People Also Ask, AnswerThePublic (one search a day as a guest, three signed in) | AnswerThePublic Starter at $20 a month or $120 a year | Free versions give you ideas, not search volumes |
| Bulk search volumes for a pasted list | Keywords Everywhere's free Search Volume Checker (250 lookups a day without signing in, 500 signed in, up to 100 per submission) | Keywords Everywhere Bronze at $84 a year for 100,000 credits | The anonymous daily pool is shared, so the cap is not guaranteed |
| YouTube, Amazon and other non-Google sites | Ubersuggest's extension (also on YouTube and Amazon) | KeywordTool.io from $68 a month billed annually | Keywords Everywhere's own FAQ says its figures on these sites are Google's search volume for the term |
| Domain and page metrics | Keywords Everywhere's free tier, MozBar (DA and PA with a free Moz account), Ahrefs SEO Toolbar (DR and UR with a free sign-in), SEOquake (no account) | Any of the suites | Authority scores are each vendor's model, not search volumes |
| Trends over time | Google Trends (free, a 0 to 100 index of relative interest) | Glimpse (adds absolute volumes to Trends; check its current plans) | Trends shows relative interest, not search counts |
| Your own site's queries | Google Search Console (free, first-party) | None needed | The web interface caps the table at 1,000 rows and omits anonymized queries |
The deciding question is one line long: which Keywords Everywhere feature did you open the extension for? Replace that one.
A free stack covers most SEOs: Keyword Surfer or Ubersuggest's extension for the overlay, Keywords Everywhere's own widgets (or AnswerThePublic) for ideas, Keywords Everywhere's free Search Volume Checker for a pasted list, and Search Console for queries that already show your site.
What Keywords Everywhere costs now, and what's still free
Some readers do not need to leave. Keywords Everywhere sells annual plans, with the same features on each one.
| Plan | Billed yearly | Credits per year | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze | $84 | 100,000 | 1 |
| Silver | $168 | 400,000 | 3 |
| Gold | $480 | 2,000,000 | 10 |
| Platinum | $1,440 | 8,000,000 | 20 |
One credit buys the volume, CPC, competition and 12-month trend chart for a single keyword. A Google search with the default widgets filled costs about 54 credits by Keywords Everywhere's own worked example: one for the main query, eight for Related, 20 for People Also Search For and 25 for Long-tail. Credits burn even on keywords with no measurable volume. Whatever's left expires 12 months from the day you bought it. Leave the extension on and it burns credits on every supported site you open, personal browsing and all, unless you flip the widgets to load on demand.
The source behind those numbers? The vendor's own answer: Google Keyword Planner, averaged across 12 months. Browse YouTube or Amazon with it? The figure overlaid there is still Google's volume for that term, not actual demand on the platform.
Burn through your credits and the widgets keep listing related, "people also search for" and long-tail keywords. Only the numbers go dark. On the free features page, the list grows: SEO difficulty, traffic metrics and ranking keywords for URLs and domains, Moz link data, a Search Console visualization, YouTube insights, and more than 200 prompt templates for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. The compare-plans FAQ gives a shorter free list. Go by the free-features page for current scope. Volume, CPC, competition and the trend layer sit on the paid side.
Keywords Everywhere also runs a free web Search Volume Checker outside the extension: 250 lookups a day without signing in, 500 signed in, up to 100 keywords per submission, from a shared daily pool. Not one of the five pages ranking today for Keywords Everywhere alternatives even mentions it.
Two corrections to what some roundups say. The API key is free; data pulls through it burn credits. And there are no monthly plans or per-call bills: you buy an annual credit pool.
Browser and market limits decide the question for some readers. It runs on Chrome, Firefox and Edge, desktop only. No Safari, no mobile app. It supports English, and its location list stops at Global, the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Work in a market outside that list? That alone makes the decision for you.
Check which extensions are still maintained before you install one
Two of the five lists that rank for "keywords everywhere alternative" recommend extensions that are gone from the Chrome Web Store, and two recommend one that has not been updated in 34 months. A vendor's own page can still say "Add to Chrome" for an extension the store no longer lists.
On November 2, 2026, we pulled up the Chrome Web Store listing for every keyword-research extension recommended by the five top-ranking competitor pages, Keywords Everywhere itself, and two picks we added (WMS Everywhere and Glimpse). We checked Firefox Add-ons for every extension that lists one, and Edge for the two vendors that link to it. Nothing was actually installed. The table reports what the store page said that day.
| Extension | Lists recommending it (of 5) | Chrome Web Store status | Users | Rating (count) | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keywords Everywhere | incumbent (named in all 5) | Listed, Featured | 1,000,000 | 3.3 (5,692) | 2026-10-25 |
| Keyword Surfer | 4 of 5 | Listed, Featured | 600,000 | 2.7 (1,051) | 2026-01-29 |
| Ubersuggest extension | 3 of 5 | Listed, Featured | 600,000 | 4.8 (1,141) | 2026-10-28 |
| Ahrefs SEO Toolbar | 2 of 5 | Listed, Featured | 400,000 | 4.7 (563) | 2026-09-15 |
| MozBar | 2 of 5 | Listed | 900,000 | 1.4 (2,531) | 2026-09-20 |
| Serpstat Website SEO Checker | 2 of 5 | Listed, Featured | 30,000 | 4.4 (192) | 2023-12-26 |
| SEOquake | 1 of 5 | Listed, Featured | 1,000,000 | 3.5 (2,644) | 2026-11-02 |
| Mangools SEO Extension | 1 of 5 | Listed, Featured | 50,000 | 4.2 (118) | 2026-08-04 |
| LiveKeyword (BiQ) | 2 of 5 | Not listed (error code 7) | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Keywords Nowhere | 1 of 5 | Not found anywhere checked | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| WMS Everywhere (WhatsMySerp) | 0 of 5 (vendor page still links it) | Not listed (error code 5) | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Glimpse (Google Trends overlay) | 0 of 5 | Listed, Featured | 100,000 | 4.5 (749) | 2026-10-16 |
The reading, in short:
- Gone. LiveKeyword and WMS Everywhere both resolve to an empty Chrome Web Store page that embeds an error code, the same page a made-up ID returns. Chrome's own update service knows both IDs but has no version to offer. Keywords Nowhere has no listing we could find, and keywordsnowhere.com did not answer.
- Not updated in over a year. Serpstat Website SEO Checker is one: its last update on Chrome, Firefox and Edge came on December 26, 2023, 34 months before this check, and the Chrome page still carries a Featured badge. On Firefox, SEOquake (January 2023) and Mangools (April 2020) are stale too, even though both have current Chrome versions.
- Nine months stale. Keyword Surfer, the most recommended extension, was last updated on January 29, 2026. Still listed, still Featured, 600,000 users, and a 2.7 Chrome rating, second-lowest in this set behind MozBar's 1.4.
- Current. In the current camp, Keywords Everywhere, Ubersuggest, Ahrefs SEO Toolbar, MozBar, SEOquake, the Mangools Chrome build and Glimpse all pushed updates within the three months before this test.
What the table can't tell you: whether the extension actually works, how trustworthy its data is, or the reason a listing went dark. User counts aren't comparable either. Chrome rounds the total, Firefox gives you average daily users, and Edge reports installs. Keep comparisons inside one store.
You can do this check yourself from the listing page. Check the "Updated" date, the version, and the count of ratings (not only the star average). On Firefox? Open that store up as well. And no, the Featured badge isn't a freshness signal. Serpstat's 34-month-old listing wears one.
Replace Keywords Everywhere by the job you used it for
Most replacements do one or two of Keywords Everywhere's six jobs, so take them one at a time.
Search volume and CPC on Google's results page
Keyword Surfer gets you closest for free.1 No Surfer account needed. The extension drops volume and CPC right into the SERP and pops open a side panel of keyword ideas scored by overlap. The catch is maintenance: it was last updated on January 29, 2026, and its Chrome rating is 2.7. See our Surfer SEO alternatives guide for Surfer's own stack.
Ubersuggest's extension is the closest feature match overall: volume, CPC, competition, a trend chart and related lists on Google, YouTube and Amazon. Ubersuggest's help center says the daily cap is 40 reports a day, logged in or not; the three-a-day limit some roundups quote applies to the web app. The paid tiers start at $29 a month, or $192 a year billed yearly; see our Ubersuggest alternatives guide if you are weighing them.
Ahrefs SEO Toolbar gives you DR and UR for a free sign-in but keeps keyword metrics behind a paid plan. Starter is $29 a month, billed monthly only, with up to 800 SERPs showing SEO metrics per month. Our free Ahrefs alternatives guide covers Ahrefs' free tools in detail.
SEOquake is still worth installing for the page audit and SERP metrics, no account needed, but it does not overlay keyword volumes. Semrush publishes it (which answers one roundup's claim that Semrush has no extension).2 For Semrush's free tier, see our free Semrush alternatives guide.
Different tools disagree on the same keyword. Keywords Everywhere leans on Keyword Planner averages, while Ahrefs, Surfer and Ubersuggest each run their own volume models. For how two tool stacks disagree in practice, see our Semrush vs Moz comparison.
Keyword ideas while you search
Keywords Everywhere's related, "people also search for" and long-tail widgets still list the keywords when you have zero credits. The numbers disappear; the ideas stay. For an idea-only job, you may not need to leave at all.
Google itself gives you autocomplete, People Also Ask and related searches on each results page, free and signed-out. AnswerThePublic covers questions and prepositions on its own site: one search a day as a guest, three with a free account, then $20 a month or $120 a year (a promo was running on the test date, so the yearly figure may change). AlsoAsked gives People Also Ask trees with three free searches a day. Answer Socrates covers questions too, three searches a day free, with no SEO metrics on the free plan. Soovle shows autocomplete from several search engines side by side for free, with no keyword data. Only Answer Socrates includes keyword clustering on its free plan (500 cluster credits a month), so with the others the topic grouping is yours to do. None of them tells you the search intent either: you still read the SERPs and decide which terms belong on the same page.
One autocomplete tool to skip: Keyword Sheeter has been offline since August 2026, per Keywords Everywhere's own alternatives page.
For AI-assisted idea generation, see our ChatGPT SEO prompts guide. None of these free tools give you volumes, and that matters more than it sounds (see the section on ideas versus volumes below).
Bulk search volumes for a list
If you paste a list every week or two, Keywords Everywhere's free Search Volume Checker is enough: up to 100 keywords per submission, 250 lookups a day without signing in, 500 signed in. That anonymous pool is shared with everyone else using it for free, so it can empty out before you hit 250.
Google Keyword Planner costs nothing to use. Google will ask for billing details before it hands over any keyword ideas, though.3 Its volumes are 12-month averages, and they come rounded. Keywords Everywhere's own page says Keyword Planner shows ranges such as 1K to 10K to accounts without active campaigns; Google's help pages do not state that cap, so take it as Keywords Everywhere's reading of the behavior.
The suites' free tiers give you a handful of lookups a day: Mangools' KWFinder caps you at five lookups per 24 hours, Semrush at ten reports a day. For a paid bulk run, Keywords Everywhere Bronze works out to about $0.84 per 1,000 single-keyword lookups; the next section does the math.
YouTube, Amazon and other sites
Keywords Everywhere overlays its numbers on YouTube, Amazon, Etsy, Bing, DuckDuckGo and the rest of the 15-plus sites it supports. By its own FAQ, those numbers are the Google search volume for the term, not demand on each platform. If platform-native demand is what you need, Keywords Everywhere is the wrong source whichever plan you buy.
Ubersuggest's extension also works on YouTube and Amazon. KeywordTool.io pulls autocomplete from 17 platforms, with volume, CPC and trends on paid plans; its Starter plan is $88 a month billed monthly or $68 a month billed annually. For actual on-platform demand (an Amazon store, a YouTube channel), each platform's own analytics is the first stop.
Domain and page metrics
Keywords Everywhere's free tier keeps the domain and page job: traffic metrics, ranking keywords and Moz link data (DA, DA trend, Spam Score, referring domains, backlinks). If this is why you installed it, you can stay free without buying credits.
Replacements split by scoring vendor. MozBar reports Moz's domain authority (DA) and page authority (PA) with a free Moz account, and on-page elements without one. Ahrefs SEO Toolbar reports DR and UR for a free sign-in. Mangools' extension covers domain metrics with a free Mangools account; SEOquake surfaces core metrics with no account. See our Moz alternatives guide if you are weighing a Moz plan.
Authority scores are each vendor's own model, not Google metrics, and not search volumes. A page can score high on one toolbar and much lower on another without either one being wrong.
Trends over time
Google Trends is free and does one thing well: it shows relative interest over time on a 0 to 100 index.4 It covers up to eight groups of up to 50 terms, five in the classic explore view.5
Glimpse is a Chrome extension that overlays absolute search volumes, growth and forecasts on Google Trends. Signing up is free; its paid plans are not on a public pricing page as of this check, so confirm the current scope before you build a workflow on it. Keywords Everywhere's own plans add 12-month and historical trend charts back to 2004 on the paid tier.
Free idea tools give you ideas, not volumes
How wide is the gap between an idea tool and a volume tool? We measured it.
On November 2, 2026, we pulled Google's autocomplete suggestions for "keywords everywhere alternative", "image sitemap" and "search console", each seed asked alone and with a to z appended, then looked up the US search volume for every unique suggestion in Ahrefs. Autocomplete handed over 288 unique suggestions. Ahrefs had a measurable US volume for 115 (40%); 21 (7%) reached 100 searches a month. The median of the measurable ones was 20 a month.
| Seed | Unique ideas | With measurable volume | 100 a month or more |
|---|---|---|---|
| keywords everywhere alternative | 11 | 7 (64%) | 3 |
| image sitemap | 25 | 12 (48%) | 3 |
| search console | 252 | 96 (38%) | 15 |
| All three | 288 | 115 (40%) | 21 |
Three readings worth your time. First, broader seeds give you more ideas and a smaller share with volume. Second, volume concentrates at the top: "search console" alone has 64,000 of the 71,450 searches its 96 measurable suggestions add up to. Third, plenty of suggestions wander off topic. Eight of the 11 for "keywords everywhere alternative" leave the phrase out, and a few like "key alternative word" don't even concern the tool.
The practical read: pair an idea source with a volume source before you pick targets. Keywords Everywhere's free Search Volume Checker, Keyword Surfer or Ubersuggest's extension handles the volume side. For queries you already show for, Search Console beats both (next section).
Caveats on this run: autocomplete is personalized and location-dependent; this one came from a German IP asking for US English, with no cookies and no account. Ahrefs' volumes are estimates, and a "0" or a missing row is not proof that nobody searches.
When staying on Keywords Everywhere is the cheaper call
For some SEOs, Keywords Everywhere is the budget-friendly option. The math from its own pricing page is the honest way to tell.
Bronze costs $84 for the year and ships with 100,000 credits. A Google search with every widget filled runs about 54 credits. Which means Bronze covers roughly 1,850 such searches a year, call it five a day. Set widgets to load on demand and pay a single credit per lookup, and the same $84 covers up to 100,000 single-keyword lookups (around $0.84 per 1,000). Credits expire 12 months after purchase. A quiet quarter can't be banked past that point.
Now stack the alternatives. Ubersuggest Individual runs $29 a month on monthly billing ($348 a year), or $192 for the whole year if you pay annually. Ahrefs Starter is $29 a month and only bills monthly, which comes out to $348 for the year. Keywords Everywhere's own Search Volume Checker, meanwhile, costs nothing and handles 250 to 500 lookups a day.
Stick with Keywords Everywhere if lookups are only occasional, you want Keyword Planner-based numbers across many sites from one extension, and your markets are on the supported list. Switch if a market you work in is not on its supported list, you would burn credits on daily browsing, or your one job maps to a free tool here. Two habits make it cheaper either way: load widget metrics on demand (its own conserving-credits page shows how), and switch the extension off for personal browsing.
For your own site, start with Search Console
Keywords Everywhere and each of its alternatives estimate how many people search a keyword. Of those searchers, Search Console shows how many actually clicked through to your site. For a query you already show up for, Search Console is free, first-party and a better guide than any volume model.
The Performance report has limits worth knowing. The query table caps at 1,000 rows (rare queries stay in the chart total but drop out of the table). Anonymized queries are omitted from the table to protect privacy.6 The report's own export stops at the same 1,000 rows; Google says its bulk data export (to BigQuery) holds the most complete list of queries. The report holds 16 months of data.7 You can filter queries with RE2 regex, "matches" or "doesn't match". For ready-made patterns, there's our Google Search Console regex cheat sheet. Our Search Console bulk export guide compares every route past that cap.
Keywords Everywhere does overlay volumes on the Search Console query table, but it charges a credit for each keyword shown: open a page with 500 queries, spend 500 credits. The underlying report costs nothing.
Once you have picked keywords and shipped the page, the question becomes whether that page is gaining clicks. SEO Heatmap, our tool, visualizes each page's Search Console clicks as a heatmap by month, week or quarter, with a growing/falling filter so you can see which pages are moving. It is free for one Search Console property.
Frequently asked questions
Is there still a free version of Keywords Everywhere?
Yes, but the free feature set is slimmer. The extension's related, "people also search for" and long-tail widgets keep listing keywords without credits; only the volume, CPC, competition and trend numbers disappear. Keywords Everywhere's free features page also lists SEO difficulty, traffic metrics, Moz link data and a Search Console visualization at no cost, and the company runs a free web Search Volume Checker that handles 250 lookups a day without signing in and 500 signed in.
What is the best free alternative to Keywords Everywhere?
Depends on which Keywords Everywhere job you actually used it for. For the search volume overlay on Google, Keyword Surfer is free with no account, and Ubersuggest's extension allows 40 reports a day. For keyword ideas, Keywords Everywhere's own widgets still work without credits, and AnswerThePublic gives you one search a day as a guest, three with a free account. For a pasted list, use Keywords Everywhere's free Search Volume Checker. For queries that already show your site, Google Search Console is free and first-party.
Why did Keywords Everywhere stop showing search volume on my searches?
You are out of credits, or your credits expired. Credits expire 12 months after purchase, and the extension spends them on each supported site you visit with it on, including personal browsing. One Google search with the default widgets filled costs about 54 credits by Keywords Everywhere's own worked example (one for the main query, eight for Related, 20 for People Also Search For, 25 for Long-tail). Top up, switch widget metrics to load on demand, or turn the extension off when you do not need numbers.
How much does Keywords Everywhere cost in 2026?
Keywords Everywhere sells annual plans only. At $84 a year, Bronze includes one seat and 100,000 credits. Silver bumps that to three seats and 400,000 credits for $168, Gold to ten seats and 2,000,000 credits for $480, and Platinum to 20 seats and 8,000,000 credits for $1,440. Each plan ships with the full extension and API. There are no monthly plans and no per-call billing, so the extension is cheap for occasional lookups and expensive for daily browsing.
Is Keyword Surfer still free, and is it being updated?
It is still free with no Surfer account needed, per Surfer's own page. On the maintenance side, its Chrome Web Store listing is still live and Featured, with 600,000 users, but its last update was January 29, 2026, nine months before this guide was checked. Its Chrome rating is 2.7 out of 5 from 1,051 ratings, the second-lowest in the extension set this guide checked.
Where does Keywords Everywhere get its search volume numbers?
From Google Keyword Planner, by Keywords Everywhere's own account. The volumes come as 12-month averages of monthly searches for a term. Open YouTube, Amazon or any other supported non-Google site, and the number next to a term is still Google's search volume, not what people search for on that platform. Running an Amazon store or a YouTube channel? Reach for that platform's own analytics first.
Does Google Keyword Planner show exact search volumes for free?
Not exactly. The tool itself costs nothing. Google wants billing details on your Google Ads account before showing you any keyword ideas, and the volumes come rounded as 12-month averages. Per Keywords Everywhere's own page, accounts without active campaigns see ranges like 1K to 10K. Google's help pages don't document that cap, so treat it as Keywords Everywhere's reading.
Can I use a Keywords Everywhere alternative to see my own site's keyword data?
If the data is about your own site, Google Search Console wins over any alternative, Keywords Everywhere included. It gives you the actual queries that drove impressions and clicks on your pages. You get 16 months of history, a 1,000-row query table in the UI, and RE2 regex filters on queries. Volumes in Keywords Everywhere, Ahrefs or Ubersuggest estimate the whole market's demand. Search Console counts what actually happened on your pages.
Picked your keywords with a free tool and published the page? Next question: is it pulling in clicks? SEO Heatmap lays out each page's Search Console clicks on a heatmap by week, month or quarter, so climbing or sliding pages jump out. It's free for one property.
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