SE Ranking, read from its pricing page and API docs
SE Ranking API pricing and API credit costs by plan, endpoint and volume
The short answer
Every SE Ranking plan includes API access. Core at $129 a month carries 25,000 research API credits a month and Growth at $279 carries 100,000, plus the Projects API and MCP. Without a subscription, SE Ranking's docs price the Data API from $2,148 a year for 12 million credits. Rank tracking through the API does not use credits at all: it uses your plan's keyword limit.
Read from seranking.com/subscription.html, the API pricing page and SE Ranking's API documentation in October 2026. SE Ranking shows prices in the visitor's local currency; where only a euro figure was shown to us, we say so. We are not affiliated with SE Ranking.
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Three ways to pay for the same API, and they are priced very differently.
SE Ranking runs two APIs under one key. The Data API returns research data, such as keyword volumes, backlink profiles, domain overviews, site audits and AI search visibility, and it is billed in credits. The Project API manages your SE Ranking workspace: it creates projects, adds keywords, runs position checks and pulls the rankings back out. It is not billed in credits. It draws on the limits of the subscription you already pay for.
That split decides what you actually pay. A developer who wants keyword volumes for a content tool needs credits. An agency that wants daily rankings in Looker Studio needs a plan with enough tracked keywords, and the credits are a bonus. Most pricing roundups treat these as one number, which is why the figures they quote rarely match an invoice.
Data API
Credits
- Keyword research and volumes
- Backlinks and authority
- Domain and competitor analysis
- Website audit
- AI search visibility
10 requests per second
Project API
Plan limits
- Add and delete keywords
- Run a position check
- Keyword positions and history
- Competitor positions, top 10 and top 100
- Sub-accounts and sharing
5 requests per second
Core subscription
$129
a month, about $103 billed yearly
25K
API credits a month
2,000
daily keywords
10
projects
Yes
Projects API and MCP
The cheapest way in if you also want the web app and rank tracking.
Growth subscription
$279
a month, about $223 billed yearly
100K
API credits a month
5,000
daily keywords
30
projects
Yes
Projects API and MCP
The plan most agencies running client dashboards land on.
Standalone Data API
$2,148
a year for 12M credits, from the docs
$179
per 1M credits
$85
per 1M at 120M
No
web app needed
No
Project API
Research data only. No managed rank tracking without a plan.
Core and Growth dollar prices come from SE Ranking's own API FAQ ("Core at $129/mo and Growth at $279/mo"); its subscription page showed us the same plans at EUR 109 and EUR 235 a month, with 20% off on annual billing. The standalone ladder is the USD table in SE Ranking's Data API documentation.
The standalone Data API price ladder, from 12 million to 120 million credits a year.
SE Ranking's documentation publishes the standalone Data API as annual packages, paid upfront, with credits issued at the start of the year. The price per million credits falls from $179 to $85 as volume rises, and anything outside these steps goes to sales. Enterprise contracts above 120 million credits are advertised on the pricing page "as low as $30/1M credits".
Dollars per 1 million credits, annual packages
12M
$179 / $2,148 yr
24M
$159 / $3,816 yr
36M
$136 / $4,896 yr
48M
$121 / $5,808 yr
60M
$111 / $6,660 yr
72M
$103 / $7,416 yr
84M
$97 / $8,148 yr
96M
$92 / $8,832 yr
108M
$88 / $9,504 yr
120M
$85 / $10,200 yr
What the pricing page showed us instead
The marketing page for the API, rendered to us in euros, packages the same product differently: a 14 day trial with 100,000 credits, a Wallet at EUR 45 per 250,000 credits that never expire, a Standalone plan at EUR 155 a month billed annually, and an API add-on for existing subscribers at EUR 39 a month billed annually.
SE Ranking's older API landing page adds a third version in dollars: an add-on "starts at $149/month" and pay as you go needs "a $50 minimum deposit". Three of the vendor's own pages, three packagings. Ask for the quote in writing with the credit count on it before you build on any of them.
Credit costs per endpoint, and what 25,000 credits buys on Core.
Each Data API endpoint is charged per request, per record returned, or both, and only successful 2xx responses are billed. The spread is wide. A long tail keyword row costs 1 credit, an aggregated AI search overview costs 1,800. The table below is from SE Ranking's unit cost list; the last column is our arithmetic on the 25,000 monthly credits that come with Core.
| Endpoint | Charged | Credits | On Core's 25,000 a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keyword metrics export | Per keyword | 10 | 2,500 keywords |
| Related, similar or question keywords | Per keyword returned | 10 | 2,500 rows |
| Long tail keywords | Per keyword returned | 1 | 25,000 rows |
| Domain overview or domain keywords | Per request | 100 | 250 lookups |
| Domain competitors or keyword gap | Per request | 100 | 250 lookups |
| Backlink summary | Per domain | 100 | 250 domains |
| Backlink list or export | Per backlink | 1 | 25,000 backlinks |
| Website audit, standard | Per page | 2 | 12,500 pages |
| Website audit, advanced | Per page | 20 | 1,250 pages |
| AI search overview, aggregated | Per request | 1,800 | 13 requests |
| AI search leaderboard | Per request | 7,500 | 3 requests |
| Rank tracking through the Project API | Plan keyword limit | 0 | 2,000 daily keywords |
Read the last row twice. There is no live SERP or rank check endpoint in the Data API credit list. Rankings come out of the Project API, and SE Ranking's docs say plainly that adding a keyword through the API counts against the plan's keyword limit exactly as it would in the app. So the cost of rank data through SE Ranking's API is the cost of a plan big enough for your list: $129 for 2,000 daily keywords, $279 for 5,000.
For research work the included credits go further than they look if you pick endpoints carefully, and not very far if you do not. SE Ranking's own worked example, backlink summaries for 250 domains plus a full export of 50,000 links for one of them, comes to 75,000 credits. That is three months of Core, or most of one month of Growth.
SE Ranking API vs SerpsTracker API for daily Google positions.
If the job is getting each morning's Google positions into a dashboard, a client portal or a spreadsheet, this is the comparison that matters. SE Ranking wins on breadth: research data, backlinks, audits and AI search sit behind the same key. We win on price for the tracking job and on not metering anything.
| SerpsTracker | SE Ranking | |
|---|---|---|
| API on the plan | Agency $249 and Enterprise $498 | Every plan, Core $129 and Growth $279 |
| 5,000 daily keywords | $249 a month or $1,494 a year | $279 a month, about $2,678 a year on annual |
| 10,000 daily keywords | $498 a month or $2,988 a year | Growth plus extra keywords, or Enterprise by quote |
| Billing model | Flat rate, no credits, no per call charge | Plan limits for rankings, credits for research data |
| Sites | Unlimited on Agency | 30 projects on Growth |
| Ranking depth | Organic top 10 | Top 100 |
| Search engines | Google, Bing, Yahoo and others | |
| Keyword and backlink research | Not offered | Included, billed in credits |
| AI search visibility | Not tracked | Prompts tracked daily, AI search endpoints |
| Rate limit | No per call billing | 10 per second Data API, 5 per second Project API |
| Best for | Daily Google positions in your own reports | Teams that want research data and tracking from one vendor |
Our own figures come from the pricing page; the endpoints and response shape are on the rank tracker API page. If subscription limits and plan names are what you are weighing, our SE Ranking pricing breakdown covers the full plans, and the SE Ranking alternative page compares the trackers feature by feature.
Pick SerpsTracker if this is you.
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You only need positions out of the API
Research credits you never spend are still in the price. Our Agency plan is the tracking job alone, 5,000 daily keywords for $249.
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You hate forecasting credits
No units, no per record charges, no 403 Insufficient funds halfway through a client report run.
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You report on many small sites
Agency covers unlimited sites. On SE Ranking, project counts of 10 and 30 become the limit before the keyword count does.
Buy SE Ranking if any of these is true.
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You need keyword and backlink data too
Volumes, related keywords, backlink profiles and domain traffic come through the same key. We do not sell research data.
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You track past page one or beyond Google
SE Ranking reads the top 100 and other engines. We read Google's organic top 10.
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AI search visibility is part of the brief
Prompt tracking and AI search endpoints are in the plans. We do not track AI answers.
Four steps to price an SE Ranking API build before you sign.
Step 01
Split the calls
List what is research (credits) and what is tracking (plan limits). They are priced by different rules.
Step 02
Price a month of research
Multiply each call by its credit cost and compare with 25,000 on Core or 100,000 on Growth.
Step 03
Size the tracking plan
Count keywords times engines and locations against 2,000 or 5,000 daily, and projects against 10 or 30.
Step 04
Get the quote in writing
SE Ranking's own pages package add-ons three ways. Ask for credits, expiry and price on one line.
The same breakdown for the other suites is in our Semrush API pricing page and the Ahrefs API pricing and Moz API pricing articles. For raw search result pages rather than finished rankings, see the SERP API pricing comparison.
Frequently asked questions
How much does the SE Ranking API cost?
API access comes with every SE Ranking subscription: Core at $129 a month includes 25,000 research API credits a month and Growth at $279 includes 100,000, both with the Projects API and MCP. Standalone Data API packages in SE Ranking's docs run from $2,148 a year for 12 million credits to $10,200 for 120 million.
Is the SE Ranking API free?
Only for 14 days. The trial gives 100,000 API credits across every Data API endpoint plus MCP access, with no credit card, and the credits expire when the trial ends. Trial accounts are also held to 1 request per second on the Data API, against 10 on a paid key.
What is an SE Ranking API credit?
A credit is the unit SE Ranking bills Data API usage in. Each successful call is charged either a flat number of credits per request or a number per record returned, and failed 4xx or 5xx calls cost nothing. A domain overview is 100 credits per request, a keyword metrics export 10 credits per keyword.
Can I track keyword rankings through the SE Ranking API?
Yes, but not with credits. Rank tracking runs through the Project API, which adds keywords, runs position checks and returns positions against your subscription limits. Core tracks 2,000 keywords daily and Growth 5,000, so the keyword limit of your plan is the real price of rank data through the API.
What are the SE Ranking API rate limits?
SE Ranking documents 10 requests per second per key on the Data API and 5 per second on the Project API, with HTTP 429 returned above that. Trial keys get 1 request per second on the Data API. Polling an asynchronous export counts against the same 10 per second limit.
Do SE Ranking API credits roll over?
It depends on how you bought them. Pay as you go Wallet credits never expire. Credits on an annual Standalone or add-on plan are issued upfront and expire at the end of the billing year, and top-ups bought on top of a subscription do not expire. Trial credits end with the 14 days.
Is there an SE Ranking API without the subscription?
Yes. The API pricing page sells a Standalone Data API plan, billed annually, that needs no web app subscription, and a Wallet you top up as you go. Neither includes the Project API, so standalone buyers get research data such as keywords, backlinks and audits but not managed rank tracking.
What is a cheaper alternative to the SE Ranking API for daily rankings?
If you only need daily Google positions in your own dashboard, SerpsTracker Agency tracks 5,000 keywords daily on unlimited sites with the API included for $249 a month, or $1,494 a year billed yearly. SE Ranking Growth tracks the same 5,000 for $279 a month and adds keyword and backlink research we do not offer.
Comparing every tracker that ships an API? The best rank tracker with an API roundup lines up the entry price of API access at each vendor, and the rank tracker cost comparison prices them per keyword.
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