While Google will not directly charge you for using Keyword Planner, you will not be
able to use Google Keyword 🧾 Planner for free. The costs are indirect - to use the Google
tool you have to spend money on Google 🧾 Ads.
Before you can access Google Keyword
Planner you need to complete the following steps:
Create a Google Ads account Connect
billing 🧾 method to Google Ads (usually your credit card) Start a Google Ads campaign
Keep the campaign running and make sure 🧾 it spends money
If you would like to see the
search volume data for keywords in Google Keyword Planner, you will 🧾 need to continue
running campaigns on Google Ads and likely spend the equivalent of hundreds or
thousands of US dollars 🧾 per months on Google Ads.
If, for some reason, Google decides
that you are not spending enough money on ads, the 🧾 precise search volume data in
Keyword Planner will be replaced with search volume ranges.
In order to get continuous
access to 🧾 Google Keyword Planner with precise search volume data for keywords, you will
need to maintain the Google Ads spend.
It is 🧾 important to note that if you stop
spending money on Google Ads, you will likely only see limited keywords data 🧾 in Google
Ads Keyword Planner and even risk losing access to it.