Best Google Trends APIs, 2026Every main way to get Google Trends data.Google’s Trends API alpha, website and BigQuery dataset, plus the main Google Trends data and scraper APIs, compared on what they return, how they charge and how you connect.
An editorial comparison of what each vendor publishes, checked 25 Sept 2026. Monocrawl is ours and listed first. How we compared
What are you building?
Interest over time for the keywords, brands or products you followAny option with interest over time. To compare terms on one scale, pick one that takes several terms in a request.
Searches rising right now in the countries you sell inAn option with trending searches. Google’s Trending now page shows the same list, with a CSV export.
Related queries and topics, top and rising, for content and SEOAn option that returns related queries and topics. They differ most in how they charge.
An AI agent that checks what people are searching forAn option whose MCP server has a Google Trends tool, so the agent can call it directly.
Five years of consistently scaled interest, or free charts and downloads for a storyGoogle’s own routes: the Trends API for accepted alpha testers, the website’s CSV downloads, and top and rising searches in BigQuery.
12options compared
5with an MCP server
11free to start
42sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Four routes
Google’s Trends API is in alpha, open to a limited number of testers. Its Trends website is free, with a CSV download for each chart, and BigQuery holds a public dataset of top and rising searches. Data APIs return Trends data with an API key.
Google Trends API (alpha)
Google Trends
Google Trends in BigQuery
Monocrawl and the vendors below
What they return
What each option lists on its own pages, and how you connect. Term comparison means several terms scaled together in one request; search types means image, news, Shopping or YouTube search.
| Google Trends data | Connect | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | Interest over time | Term comparison | Related queries | Related topics | Trending searches | Search types | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | Our API | ||||||||
| Google Trends APIOfficial, alpha | – | – | – | – | – | 12 | |||
| Google Trends websiteOfficial, website | – | – | 34567 | ||||||
| Google Trends BigQuery datasetOfficial, BigQuery public data | – | – | – | – | – | 8910 | |||
| ApifyGoogle Trends Scraper actor | – | – | 1112131415 | ||||||
| Bright DataGoogle Trends API | – | – | – | 16171819 | |||||
| DecodoWeb Scraping API | – | 20212223 | |||||||
| HasDataGoogle Trends API | – | 242526 | |||||||
| Scrape.doGoogle Trends API | – | 27282930 | |||||||
| SearchApiSearch data API | – | 3132333435 | |||||||
| ThordataGoogle Trends API | – | 363738 | |||||||
| Trends MCPTrend data API and MCP server | – | – | – | 39404142 | |||||
Pricing
A request, a result, a record and a unit are not the same size, and allowances reset on different schedules. Price your own workload with each vendor.
One key and one response format across 70+ platforms, with monitors for alerts.
Monthly plans
No published price Access is by application to the alpha test.
Google says it can’t open the API to everyone yet.
Worth knowingScales values the same way across requests, so you can pull only the latest period and join it to earlier data.
No published price
Free to explore in the browser and download one chart at a time.
Reused data should be cited to Google, and use is subject to its Terms of Service.
Worth knowingEach chart downloads as a CSV, and the Trending now list exports to CSV or an RSS feed.
Free, in the browser
Free to query within BigQuery’s 1 TB a month of free queries.
The BigQuery sandbox needs no Google Cloud account or card. Larger queries are charged at BigQuery rates.
Worth knowingHolds each day’s Top 25 and Top 25 Rising searches, for 210 US metro areas and about 50 more countries.
1 TB of queries a month
$3 per 1,000 results on the free plan
From $1 on Starter, $19 a month, to $0.30 on Business. Platform usage is billed on top.
Worth knowingMaintained by Apify; each result is one search term with its timeline, regional interest and related queries and topics.
$5 of usage a month
$1.50 per 1,000 requests, pay as you go
$499 a month includes 380,000 requests, then $1.30 per 1,000.
Worth knowingGoogle Trends runs through its search results API: you add widget names to a Trends URL and pay only for successful requests.
5,000 requests a month
$0.50 per 1,000 requests with standard proxies, on its $19 plan
Premium proxies with JavaScript rendering cost $1.50 per 1,000. Prices exclude VAT; billed monthly.
Worth knowingIts Google Trends scraper is now part of its Web Scraping API, which bills only successful requests.
Free plan: 2,000 requests a month, 1,000 with JavaScript
$59 a month for 200,000 credits, billed monthly
A Google Trends request costs 5 credits, so 40,000 requests a month. $590 a year billed yearly. Unused credits don’t roll over.
Worth knowingInterest over time and by region take several terms per request; related topics and queries take one.
1,000 credits a month
$29 a month for 250,000 credits
A Google Trends request costs 10 credits, charged only when successful.
Worth knowingA default call returns interest over time and by region together; related queries and topics are separate calls.
1,000 credits a month
$40 a month for 10,000 searches
$4 per 1,000 on that plan, down to $1 per 1,000 on its largest. Only successful searches are billed.
Worth knowingSeparate engines for Explore data, Trending now and its news articles; custom date ranges go back to 2004.
100 free requests
$18 a month for 15,000 responses
$1.20 per 1,000, down to $0.70 per 1,000 at 1,000,000 responses for $700 a month. Only valid responses are charged.
Worth knowingCustom date ranges run from 2004 to today, and region data goes down to metro and city level.
7-day trial with 500 responses
$19 a month for 1,000 requests, billed monthly
$192 a year billed yearly. Starter keeps 1 year of history; the full archive comes with Business, $199 a month.
Worth knowingAdds an absolute search volume estimate, where available, to each weekly 0 to 100 score.
100 requests a month
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded response for “electric cars” in the United States over the past 12 months: weekly interest scores, with the week of 12 to 18 April 2026 at 74. No alpha application and no Google Cloud project.
GET /v1/google_trends/interestcurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/google_trends/interest?query=electric%20cars&location=United%20States&time_range=past_12_months" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"“electric cars”
United States · Past 12 months
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Interest over time4 creditsRelated queries and topics4 creditsTrending searches2 credits
TikTok search2 credits
YouTube search1 credit2.1sMedian response in our benchmark. 22 September 2026 catalogue benchmark. Median of recorded endpoint timings across 636 operations with a successful HTTP response. Includes network time; individual requests vary.
Questions
Yes, in alpha. Google announced the Google Trends API in July 2025 and is admitting a limited number of testers by application, saying it can’t open the API to everyone yet. It returns search interest for a rolling five years, up to two days ago, by day, week, month or year and by region and sub-region, scaled consistently so separate requests can be joined. Google publishes no price. Without alpha access, the Trends website offers free CSV downloads, and data APIs return Trends data with an API key.
Google publishes no price for its Trends API alpha, which only accepted testers can use. The Trends website is free, with a CSV download for each chart, and Google’s BigQuery dataset of top and rising searches is free within 1 TB of queries a month. Most data APIs let you start free: Monocrawl gives 1,000 credits every month, Bright Data 5,000 requests a month, Apify $5 of usage a month, Decodo 2,000 requests a month, HasData and Scrape.do 1,000 credits a month, Trends MCP 100 requests a month and SearchApi 100 requests. Thordata has a 7-day trial with 500 responses.
pytrends, an unofficial open-source Python library for Google Trends, was archived by its owner on 17 April 2025, and its GitHub repository is now read-only. Hosted data APIs return Trends data with an API key instead: Monocrawl returns interest over time for up to five terms, related queries and topics, and trending searches. Apify, HasData, Scrape.do, SearchApi and Thordata also return interest over time and related queries and topics.
Yes. Monocrawl reads Google’s public Trending now page for a country, with approximate search volumes, timing, categories and up to three related articles per trend, over the past 4, 24, 48 or 168 hours. SearchApi, Scrape.do and Trends MCP also return trending searches. On Google’s side, the Trending now page exports to CSV or an RSS feed, and its BigQuery dataset holds each day’s Top 25 and Top 25 Rising searches.
Not with Monocrawl: you send your Monocrawl API key with up to five terms, a location and a time range, and get interest over time back, with no alpha application and no Google Cloud project. Google’s Trends API is open only to accepted alpha testers, and its BigQuery dataset needs Google Cloud or the BigQuery sandbox.
Monocrawl, Apify, HasData, Thordata and Trends MCP publish their own MCP servers with tools that reach Google Trends, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly. Bright Data and Decodo also publish MCP servers, but with no Google Trends tool: their general scraping tools return the page. SearchApi’s MCP server lists no Google Trends tool.
Method
What’s includedGoogle’s own Trends API alpha, Trends website and BigQuery dataset, plus data and scraping APIs that document a Google Trends endpoint, publish their pricing or offer a trial, and come up across Google Trends API searches and comparison lists.
What we comparedWhat each vendor publishes about its Google Trends data, pricing, free allowance and access, read on its own pages. “Best” here means worth comparing, not a ranking from tests: we have not run their APIs.
About MonocrawlMonocrawl is our product and is listed first. Its details come from our live plans and catalogue.
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