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Google Trends API alternatives, compared criterion by criterion

Google Trends API alternatives are the other ways to get Google Trends data programmatically: the pytrends library, archived on April 17, 2025, and paid SERP APIs such as SerpApi with monthly plans. Each alternative page compares status, price, keywords per request and 429 handling with the Kwerix Google Trends API, and shows how to switch.

Google Trends API alternatives illustration: a fork in a road of data lines, one broken and one continuous

A Google Trends API alternative is any library or service that returns Google Trends data to code, because Google’s own API is an alpha with access by application. The alternatives differ in 4 criteria: whether they are maintained, what they cost, how many keywords share one scale and who handles Google’s HTTP 429 rate limits.

Alternatives compared, one by one

Libraries

  • pytrends alternative illustration: an archived, locked box next to a running data pipeline

    The pytrends alternative guide moves Python code from the archived library to the Google Trends API, method by method.

APIs