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DataForSEO

SEO and digital-marketing data through APIs and databases.

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DataForSEO provides REST APIs and databases for SEO and digital-marketing workflows, including SERP, keyword, backlink, domain analytics, on-page, business, merchant, app-data, content-analysis, and AI-optimization data.

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Core capabilities

Vendor's own claim
  • REST APIs for SEO and digital-marketing data
  • SERP, keyword, backlink, domain, on-page, and business-data products
  • Standard task workflow and immediate Live method for many APIs
  • Official PHP, C#, Java, Python, and TypeScript client libraries
  • JSON, XML, and selected HTML response formats
  • No-code connectors for Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, Airtable, Pabbly, and Lindy

API & agent surface

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Rate limits
Each API exposes endpoint-specific per-minute limits in X-RateLimit-Limit and X-RateLimit-Remaining response headers.
Machine-readable spec
No OpenAPI link

What is DataForSEO

Vendor's own claim

DataForSEO is an API-first data supplier for building SEO software, data pipelines, and automations. Its docs describe HTTP REST APIs with endpoint-specific rate-limit headers and a task-oriented retrieval model for many products.

Ideal customer profile

Our read

Technical SEO, growth, data, and AI teams that need programmable search and marketing data and can model usage-level API costs.

Who should look elsewhere

Our read

Teams that need a general GTM contact-data platform or a ready-made SEO application should look elsewhere: the documented product is a developer-facing stack of SEO and marketing data APIs. Very low-volume experiments also need to account for the stated $50 minimum payment, even though pricing is pay-as-you-go.

Tools in the same layer

Our read

No curated rival set covers this tool yet, so these are simply other tools in the same architectural layer and product form. Treat it as a starting point, not a shortlist.

DataForSEO FAQ

What can I build with DataForSEO?

Its docs position the API for SEO software, data-analysis pipelines, and no-code automations. The pricing page lists products covering SERP, keyword, backlink, domain, on-page, business, merchant, app, content-analysis, and AI-optimization data.

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Is DataForSEO a REST API?

Yes. The documentation says it uses REST over HTTP and returns JSON by default, with XML available by appending .xml and selected HTML results available by appending .html.

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Does it have official client libraries?

The docs list supported clients for PHP, C#, Java, Python, and TypeScript, alongside PHP, Python, C#, and Postman examples.

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How do Standard and Live methods differ?

The documentation describes a Standard workflow that posts a task and later retrieves results, and a Live method that returns an immediate response for supported APIs.

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How long are results retained?

The docs state that Standard results are generally stored for 30 days, Live results are not stored, and HTML results are stored for seven days; SERP JSON results are stored for 30 days for both Standard and Live methods.

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How is DataForSEO priced?

The pricing page says customers pay for individual services used under a pay-as-you-go model, with a $50 minimum payment and custom quotes available for APIs and databases.

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Can I use it from no-code tools or AI agents?

The integrations page lists connectors for tools including Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, Airtable, Pabbly, and Lindy. It also says DataForSEO has an MCP server, but we did not retrieve a confirmed MCP documentation page or tool list.

Vendor's own claim

Verify before you buy

  • Confirmed public MCP documentation and tool names
  • Machine-readable OpenAPI specification URL
  • Detailed per-product price table
  • Detailed free-trial terms
  • A machine-readable OpenAPI specification was not included in the reviewed source set.

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