Keyword data for people and their agents
Real data fromGoogleYouTubeChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexity+ any MCP client
Give your AI the questions people actually search.
The searches people really type into Google and YouTube, plus Google Trends, served straight to ChatGPT, Claude and the rest. Your agent researches, clusters and saves a content plan.
Rated 4.9/5 across 100's of reviews. Free plan included. · Join 1M+ marketers. No card needed. 3 free searches a day.
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1,000,000+ keyword searches run100,000,000+ real questions returnedEstablished 2020
MCP server
Give your agent the data.
Answer Socrates runs a hosted MCP server, so ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor or your own agent can pull real Google searches, Trends and keyword clusters as tools.
Use with
# Customize > Connectors > Add custom connector. You sign in; no key. Full guide
https://answersocrates.com/api/mcp
Connecting is free, and every plan includes 3 data calls a month to try it. Seneca and above include 500 or more, plus keyword clustering. See plans
What your agent can do
1get_rising_topics
Find Exploding Topics
Feed it a topic and get the related searches that are breaking out right now: Google's own rising data, Breakouts included, next to the established top queries. The fastest way to find sub-topics you didn't know existed.
2get_trends
Pull Google Trends data
12-month interest-over-time for any keyword, any country. Your assistant compares whole baskets of terms in one go and ranks what's climbing, what's seasonal and what's fading.
3get_keywords
Searched Google Autocomplete data
Everything people search around a term in one request: Questions, Prepositions, Comparisons and the raw a to z autocomplete list. Usually hundreds of real search phrases per pull.
4get_youtube_keywords
YouTube keyword data
The same full pull, straight from YouTube's own search box: Questions, Prepositions, Comparisons and the a to z autocomplete list for any term. Built for planning videos, Shorts and channels, where people search for tutorials, reviews and how-tos.
5cluster_keywords
Keyword clustering
Hand it a keyword list and get it grouped into topics, with every keyword scored for search intent and funnel stage: TOFU, MOFU or BOFU. A raw pull becomes a content plan in about ten seconds. Priced per keyword from your cluster-credit allowance, not your requests.
6save_to_project
Projects
Save any keyword list straight into your Answer Socrates projects, so research done in a chat shows up in the app for your whole team. Free, along with listing and creating projects.
Keyword search
Stop guessing what to write. Answer real demand.
Most content fails for one reason: nobody was searching for it. Answer Socrates reads what people already type into Google, then turns it into questions, clusters, and metrics you can write from. Pick a tool to see it.
Try a free searchKeyword Research + Question Generation
Turn a single seed keyword into hundreds of real search ideas, sometimes thousands, plus the exact questions people ask. Long-tails, comparisons, People Also Ask queries: everything your audience actually types, from one search.
Keyword Clustering & Grouping
Cluster thousands of keywords with one click. Our algorithm groups them by meaning and intent, so you can build pillar pages and supporting articles that rank for more terms and earn real topical authority. LearnWire called it one of the best clustering tools they've reviewed.
Full Search Volume, CPC, and Competition Metrics
Prioritize by search volume, CPC, and competition. Question keywords arrive pre-sorted by volume, and every cluster shows its total volume plus average CPC and competition. The best opportunities float straight to the top.
Trending Topics
See what's spiking in real time, in any country and language, and jump on breakout topics first. Click "More questions" on any trend for hundreds of content ideas: SEO posts, digital PR angles, viral social and Reddit content.
People Also Ask Questions
Get the exact People Also Ask questions Google shows for your keyword. Drop them into FAQs, headers, or standalone posts to match intent, then win the PAA box itself for a second stream of traffic.
Social Media Content Ideas
Every search also surfaces the question content people engage with on social. Use the YouTube and TikTok title generators to turn one keyword into content ideas for every channel you publish on.
CSV Downloads
One click exports everything: keyword generations or full clusters, with search volume, competition, and CPC included. Your entire year's content strategy, in a spreadsheet, in minutes.
LLM Brand Tracker
Find every ChatGPT and AI Overview mention of your brand.
Buyers ask AI before they search. See every answer that names you, every one that names a competitor instead, and track your rank across the AI engines as it changes.
- 1Every ChatGPT and AI Overview mention. Radar searches millions of recorded ChatGPT answers and Google AI Overviews for your domain. The count is free; unlock each prompt, the page cited and your rank in the answer.
- 2Rank tracking in six AI engines. Live scans of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok and DeepSeek rank you against every competitor they name, rescanned daily, weekly or monthly.
- 3Share of voice and the sources behind it. See your position move over time, and which pages the AI engines cite, so you know what to publish next.
Run my free RadarFree with an account. Live scans on every paid plan.
AI Mention Radar · answersocrates.comChecked Oct 25
276AI answers name the site
AI Overviews
268
ChatGPT
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Question askedVolumeRank
tools for keyword research9,900#1
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keywords lsi720#2
free seo research tools320#1
304 questions in all, reaching 60,543 AI searches a month.
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NEWContent Studio
From topics to published articles, and the links to rank them.
Content Studio reads your site and your competitors, finds the topics you are missing and puts them on a schedule. Then it writes each article and publishes it for you.
- Topic ideas from your competitors' ranking keywords and the gaps on your site, topped up as you use them
- A content schedule that fills itself, each article researched from the pages ranking now
- Written in your voice, scored, with images and internal links
- Publishes straight to WordPress
COMING SOONBacklink Exchange: earn links from relevant sites, placed inside the articles you publish.
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Over 1 million marketers use it. Here's what a few of them say.
Rated 4.9/5 across 100's of reviews from SEOs, agencies, founders, and one-person businesses.
“Keyword research and content ideas with ChatGPT is easy - just use CSV exports from good keyword research tools like AnswerSocrates to give ChatGPT plenty to chew on 👍”
Will Francis - AI + Marketing
Answer Socrates user
“I’d recommend Answer Socrates to any SEO consultant who spends too much time organizing keyword research manually. The feature I use the most is Keyword Clustering. It’s really useful when you have a big list of keywords and need to understand which ones belong together, which ones share the same intent, and which ones could become part of the same content piece or topic hub. For me, it’s especially helpful when I’m planning the informational architecture of a site. It helps me detect content pillars, group pain points, and find top-of-funnel opportunities that can later be turned into articles, guides, or landing pages. It saves time, keeps the strategy cleaner, and helps avoid keyword cannibalization. Basically, it turns keyword research into something much more actionable.”
Juan Carlos Pell
Consultor SEO @ Juan Carlos Pell - Consultor SEO
“I discovered Answer socrates in a digital marketing course I was doing and have used it several times now, it has increased conversion rates for clients up to 20% thanks. Deb R”
Deborah Ricketts
Agency Owner and Marketer @ Versatile Marketing
“Answer Socrates gave me a laser focus for my content strategy, my followers at Body-Guru.com have increase 30% since i started doing my research with answer socrates...it's been a game changer.”
bill rodowsky
Physical Therapist Assistant/Health Coach @ Body Guru Health Coaching
“Hi! I'm a one-woman wildlife and landscape photography business. I found AnswerSocrates through a friend, and it's become one of my favorite SEO tools. It helps me discover the questions people are actually searching for, making it much easier to create content that attracts the right audience for my fine art wildlife and landscape photography while saving me a lot of time. Since I started using it, my page views have increased, visitors spend more time on my website, and many of my articles are now ranking well in search results.”
Anette Mossbacher
Professional Photographer @ Anette Mossbacher Photography
“I heard some marketing colleagues raving about Answer Socrates so I signed up as an experiment. The results are fantastic! The great shortcut is I don't have to figure out the prompts, or install the skills, that get me results from the first go. It's fast, accurate, and a part of my regular tech stack now. The game is changing fast and this tool helps me to keep up.”
Thom Van Dycke
CEO @ Van Dycke
“I've been using Answer Socrates for years. I found it on social media recommended by someone I follow and I've loved it ever since. It's great for keyword research and identifying what people are searching for.”
Tiffany Bartlett
Founder and email marketer @ Tiffany Digital NZ
“Found Socrates not in Greece but on X. Frees my brain a lot since it makes the process of finding questions so much easier. So it is not only about getting better results and more traffic but also a lot about getting back time.”
Jan Kutschera
Director @ True Brew Birdie
“I use Answer Socretes for every new SEO project I start, it is one of the most valuable tools in my business!”
Emma Holler
Founder @ Lead IT Lab Ltd
“Answer Socrates has quietly become one of my most-used tools for content research. It surfaces the actual questions people are searching for, which takes most of the guesswork out of planning articles and finding keyword angles. It's fast, easy to scan, and genuinely free, which is rare for something this useful. Highly recommend it for anyone doing SEO or content work.”
Sacha Fournier
Founder @ JournoFinder
“As someone who spends a significant amount of time on keyword research and content planning, Answer Socrates has become one of the first tools I open when exploring a new topic. It surfaces questions, search patterns, and content opportunities that many other tools miss, helping me quickly identify what real people are searching for. What I appreciate most is how much time it saves. Instead of manually piecing together topics from multiple sources, Answer Socrates organizes ideas into meaningful clusters and reveals content angles that would otherwise take hours to uncover. It’s an incredibly valuable tool for SEOs, content marketers, and business owners who want to build topical authority and create content that aligns with search intent. It’s earned a permanent spot in my content optimization workflow.”
Jeremy Weiss
Founder @ Weiss Media Marketing
“Answer Socrates has been such a helpful game changer for our SEO because we use it to find organic real questions people ask that are relevant the the niche we are targeting. I'm a 100% believer in what they do!”
William Moon
Financial Advisor @ Financial Advisor Pro
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Answer Socrates?
A keyword research platform that turns one seed topic into real search ideas, question-led queries, and organized topic clusters. It also includes Trending Topics, for catching subjects as they spike in popularity, and an LLM Brand Tracker that monitors how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, and Claude mention your brand over time.
What is the Answer Socrates MCP server?
A hosted server that gives AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, and editors like Cursor and Claude Code, live keyword tools: rising topics, Google Trends, full keyword pulls from Google and YouTube, keyword clustering and saving to your projects.
Do I need an API key to connect my AI assistant?
Not for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity: you sign in with your Answer Socrates account. Editors and coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor use a key from your Account page. Every plan includes 3 data calls a month to try it; Seneca and above include 500 or more, plus keyword clustering.
How is this different from a simple "keyword generator"?
Most keyword tools stop at search volume and a list of long-tails. Answer Socrates gives you those too, plus the hundreds of questions people actually ask about your topic. That is what a complete content plan is built from. Then you can cluster everything in one click and export it as a CSV, ready to action.
What can I do for free?
A lot. 3 keyword searches a day and 500 keyword clustering credits a month, free. The LLM Brand Tracker sits on the paid plans, which start at $19/month and also raise those limits.
Where do the keyword ideas and questions come from?
Straight from Google: Autosuggest, People Also Ask, and our own additional scraping of live results. Nothing is invented by an AI. These are the queries real people are typing. Our Trends feature uses its own dedicated sources to catch spiking topics.
Do you show search volume, CPC, or competition?
Yes. Click "Check Metrics" and you get full search volume, CPC, and competition data for every keyword generated, often 1,000+ per search. Available on all paid plans.
Does this work for non-English or different countries?
Yes, any language and any country. Pick them in the search settings and you'll see the exact questions real users in that market are searching, in their own words. Not a translation of English results.
Can I group keywords into topics automatically?
Yes. Our clustering feature uses NLP to group related keywords by meaning and intent, handing you a content plan of pillar and supporting pages in seconds. No manual sorting in a spreadsheet.
Do you support trending topic discovery?
Yes. Trending Topics shows what's spiking right now in every country and language, and one extra click turns any trend into hundreds of content ideas. You get them while interest is still peaking, not after.
Is there a free plan or trial?
Yes, and it's a genuinely free plan rather than a trial: 3 searches a day and 500 clustering credits a month, forever. If you upgrade and it's not for you, there's a 7-day money-back guarantee.
What paid plans are available?
Paid plans start at $19/month for 100 keyword searches, 3,000 cluster credits, and the full LLM Brand Tracker. Higher tiers go up to unlimited keyword searches and clustering.
Do you have tutorials or examples to get started?
Yes. The Training area has a guide for every feature, and dozens of independent reviewers have published their own walkthroughs on YouTube and their blogs. Those are worth watching to see how other SEOs actually use it.
Will this work for a niche site or small blog?
Absolutely. Niche sites are one of the biggest groups using Answer Socrates. Use it to find topics worth writing, then strengthen existing posts with new FAQs and H2s pulled from real questions.
Let your agent do the keyword research.
Start with a free search. Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor or your own agent when you're ready.
No credit card needed. 7-day money-back guarantee on paid plans.