International Keyword Research Tool

Enter one keyword in English, pick the languages you care about, and see how often it is searched in each of them. Translated for you, with volume, competition and CPC straight from Google Ads. Free, no sign-up.

International SEO keyword research in one search

Before you translate a site, or hire someone to, it helps to know whether the demand is there at all. A product that gets 50,000 searches a month in English might get 20,000 in Spanish and almost nothing in Japanese, and the only way to find that out cheaply is to check.

Each language is checked separately and the table fills in as the answers arrive, so you see the first numbers within seconds instead of waiting for the whole run.

How the tool works

1. Your keyword is translated into each language you picked.
2. Google Ads is asked in that language, not in English with a translated word attached. This matters: asking in the right language is what makes the local numbers real.
3. The exact match is kept and shown with its average monthly searches, competition and CPC, plus its share of the worldwide total.

Up to 20 languages per search. The share column is the quickest read in the table: it tells you where the demand actually sits, rather than where you assumed it did.

Multilingual keyword research, honestly

A translation is not always the keyword. People search in shorthand, in borrowed English words, and in phrasing no dictionary would produce. “Cheap flights” is not always what a Spanish or German searcher types, even when the translation is perfectly correct.

So read this tool as a first map, not a final answer. It tells you which languages are worth pursuing. Once a language looks promising, take the translated keyword and run it through the keyword suggestion tool with that language selected: the local variants it returns are usually the terms worth targeting.

Language, not country

This tool compares languages worldwide: Spanish here means Spanish everywhere, not Spain. That is usually what you want when deciding which language to publish in.

If you need a country instead, use the keyword search volume checker, where you can set the location to Mexico, Spain, Argentina or any of 216 countries and see the numbers for that market alone.

Why a language sometimes comes back empty

• Google has no data for that term there. Low-volume languages and narrow topics often return nothing at all.
• The translation is not how people search. Correct, but not the phrase anyone types.
• The translation service was busy. The tool says so plainly when that happens: it will never show you an English word dressed up as another language.

Whatever the reason, the note under the results names the languages that came back with nothing, so a short table is never a mystery.

Which languages are supported

51 languages: exactly the ones Google Ads reports search data for, including English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, German, Urdu, Bengali and Punjabi.

Google Translate handles hundreds more, but a language is only useful here if Google Ads has search data for it too. Offering the rest would mean showing you numbers that do not exist, so they are left out.

More free keyword tools

• Keyword search volume checker: one country at a time, with 12 months of history.
• SEO keyword suggestion tool: find the local variants once a language looks promising.
• Competitor keyword finder: see what a competitor in that market is built around.
• Keyword density checker: check a translated page against the keyword you targeted.

Frequently asked questions