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You mainly need keyword data
Search volume, trend, CPC, competition level and keyword difficulty for up to 1,000 keywords per query. For content planning and campaign research, that covers most day-to-day work completely.
Queris delivers search volume, a 12-month trend, CPC and keyword difficulty for up to 1,000 keywords per query. Try it free, no credit card required.
Ahrefs is one of the best SEO suites on the market. Its backlink index ranks among the largest in the industry, and Site Explorer, Content Explorer, rank tracking and strong international data come on top. If you do serious link building or run large international projects, it can be worth every dollar. Entry pricing starts at around $129 per month (Lite) according to the provider, and the free Ahrefs Webmaster Tools only cover your own website.
Many people use Ahrefs mainly for one thing though: keyword research. In that case you pay every month for a backlink index and modules you never open. That is exactly where Queris comes in. You get monthly search volume as estimates based on Google data, a 12-month trend, CPC, competition level and keyword difficulty, up to 1,000 keywords per query, across 8 markets. The free plan with 10 queries per month runs without a credit card, and paid plans start at €15 including VAT.
Search volume, trend, CPC, competition level and keyword difficulty for up to 1,000 keywords per query. For content planning and campaign research, that covers most day-to-day work completely.
Ahrefs starts at around $129 per month according to the provider. Queris starts free with 10 queries per month, paid plans run €15 to €49 including VAT. Unused queries on paid plans stay valid for 3 months, and repeated queries are cached for 30 days at no extra cost.
8 markets (DE, AT, CH, US, UK, FR, IT, ES) with country and language freely combinable. Plus CSV export, keyword lists with a team sharing link, AI keyword suggestions and a direct ChatGPT and Claude integration.
Queris has no backlink index. If you analyze backlink profiles, hunt for link gaps or plan outreach, you need Ahrefs and its backlink index, one of the largest in the industry.
Queris has no rank tracking, no site audit and no on-page crawler. Ahrefs monitors your positions continuously and finds technical issues across your entire site.
Site Explorer and Content Explorer with historical data and strong international coverage are far more powerful for large competitive analyses than the domain analysis in Queris.
Ahrefs Lite costs about $1,548 per year. Queris Pro with 100 queries per month, up to 100,000 keywords, costs €348 per year. For pure keyword research, that is the difference between a tool and a subscription you have to justify.
For keyword research, yes. The free plan includes 10 queries per month with up to 1,000 keywords each, so up to 10,000 keywords, no credit card required. Ahrefs only offers its free Webmaster Tools for your own website. Queris does not replace backlink data or rank tracking though.
Search volume is an estimate in every tool in this industry, including Ahrefs. Queris shows average monthly estimates based on Google data, plus a 12-month trend, CPC and competition level. The numbers come from a real data source and are not AI-generated.
Ahrefs starts at around $129 per month (Lite) according to the provider. Queris starts free, paid plans cost €15 (25 queries), €29 (100 queries) or €49 (250 queries) per month including VAT. One query covers up to 1,000 keywords, and unused queries on paid plans stay valid for 3 months.
Queris has no rank tracking, no backlink index, no site audit crawler and no Content Explorer. If you rely on those every day, stick with Ahrefs. For pure keyword research you would be paying for a lot of machinery you never use.
8 markets: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the US, the UK, France, Italy and Spain. You can combine country and language freely, for example English keywords for the German market. The interface is available in 5 languages.
10 free queries per month, up to 1,000 keywords per query, no credit card. If you need more, paid plans start at €15 a month including VAT.
Start freePrices approximate, as of August 2026, per the vendors' websites, no guarantee. "–" means: no comparable offering known. All trademarks belong to their respective owners; Queris is not affiliated with them. All search volumes are average monthly estimates based on Google data.
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Mühlenstraße 4
06686 Lützen
Deutschland
Managing Director: Oliver Mahrle
Email: mail@getqueris.com
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Free registration: phone number (one-time verification via WhatsApp or SMS). Paid plans: email address and password (stored in encrypted form). Usage data: your queries (keywords, country and language) as well as your quota status. AI suggestions: when you use the AI keyword expansion, the keywords you enter are transmitted to our AI service provider. AI connector: when you connect Queris to an AI app, access tokens (stored only in encrypted form) and the queries made through it. Referral program: your referral code, the number of clicks on your link and the purchases resulting from them. For payment: processing via Stripe; card data is not stored with us.
Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR); legitimate interest in preventing abuse, attributing referrals and improving the product (Art. 6(1)(f)); consent, where required, for example for the Meta Pixel (Art. 6(1)(a)); legal obligations (Art. 6(1)(c)).
Hosting: Hetzner Online GmbH (Germany). Payment processing: Stripe. Verification via SMS and WhatsApp: Twilio. Transactional and onboarding emails: MailerSend (MailerLite, EU). AI keyword expansion: Anthropic (Claude); in this process the keywords you enter are processed, and a transfer to the USA takes place on the basis of appropriate safeguards (standard contractual clauses). Provision of search volume, domain and competition data: specialized data service provider (EU and USA). Anonymous, cookieless audience measurement: Plausible Analytics (EU-hosted, no cookies, no personal data, therefore without consent). Audience and marketing measurement: Meta Pixel (Meta Platforms), only with your consent (see Cookies), where applicable with a transfer of data to the USA. Contracts pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR are in place with all processors.
Technically necessary: a session cookie for your login (always active, no consent required). Functional: a referral cookie (qref) that is set only if you arrive via a referral link and stores the referral code for up to 90 days in order to attribute a commission correctly. Also functional is an attribution cookie (q_jrny) that stores, first-party, the source of your visit (referring page, UTM parameters and timestamps) on your device for up to 90 days, so we can understand which channels lead users to us; the legal basis is our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), the data stays with us and is not shared with third parties. Conversion events (e.g. registration and purchase): when you register or make a purchase, we send these events server-side to Meta via the Conversions API, transmitting your email address and phone number only in irreversibly hashed (pseudonymized) form. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in measuring advertising effectiveness (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); no cookies are set and no raw data is shared with Meta. Optional and only with your express consent: the Meta Pixel (Facebook and Instagram) for extended audience and marketing measurement. Without consent, no marketing cookies are set; you can withdraw your consent at any time via the cookie settings.
After you register, we send you a short series of emails that introduce you to Queris and its features. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in informing our own users about our services (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, § 7 Abs. 3 UWG (German Act Against Unfair Competition)). You can object to this at any time by using the unsubscribe link in each of these emails; you will continue to receive important transactional emails (for example for resetting your password) independently of this.
When you connect Queris to an AI app via our connector, we store the access credentials in encrypted form and process the queries made through it like normal Queris queries. The AI app itself (for example Claude by Anthropic or ChatGPT by OpenAI) is your own tool; what the respective provider does with your inputs is governed by its terms and privacy notices.
If you take part in the referral program, we process your referral code, the clicks on your link and the purchases resulting from them in order to calculate and pay out your commission. The legal basis is the performance of a contract as well as our legitimate interest in a functioning referral system.
Account and usage data until the account is deleted, or for as long as legal obligations exist. Verification codes are deleted after 10 minutes, and connector access tokens until they are revoked.
Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability, objection as well as the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Contact: mail@getqueris.com.
The provider is Implevo UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Mühlenstraße 4, 06686 Lützen ("Queris"). These Terms and Conditions apply to the use of the SaaS service Queris.
Queris provides search volume, CPC and competition data for keywords. Add-on modules (AI keyword expansion, domain analysis, backlink check) as well as an AI connector for Claude and ChatGPT can be booked optionally. The values are average estimates; no warranty is given for completeness or accuracy.
The free plan requires the one-time verification of a phone number via SMS or WhatsApp (one number = one account). Paid plans are created with an email and password.
Keyword plans: Free 10 queries/month; Basic 15 €/month, 25 queries; Pro 29 €/month, 100 queries; Business 49 €/month, 250 queries. Add-on modules per month: AI keyword expansion 9 €, domain analysis 29 €, backlink check 19 €, all-in-one suite 59 €. Modules can be booked individually and are billed in a single combined monthly invoice. One query covers up to 1,000 keywords; repeated (cached) queries do not count. All prices are inclusive of the applicable statutory VAT; the tax applicable in the individual case is shown at checkout depending on the country.
Paid plans run monthly and can be cancelled at any time with effect from the end of the billing period. No minimum term, no annual commitment.
Billing takes place monthly in advance via the payment service provider Stripe.
Users can refer other customers via a personal referral link. For a successfully referred, payment-effective subscription, we pay a commission of 25 % of the respective amount paid, recurring for as long as the referred subscription runs. No commission arises for your own purchases (self-referral), for refunded or charged-back payments, or in the case of abusive promotion (such as spam or misleading information). Payout is made manually on request from a minimum amount. The taxation of the commission is the responsibility of the participant. We may change or terminate the program and its terms with reasonable notice.
The connector for Claude and ChatGPT is subject to the same quota as the other queries and must be used fairly. Passing on the access credentials to third parties is prohibited. The third-party AI app used is the responsibility of the user.
No liability is assumed for decisions made on the basis of the estimated data provided. In all other respects, the provider is liable in accordance with the statutory provisions, and in the case of slight negligence only for the breach of essential contractual obligations.
German law applies. The place of jurisdiction is, to the extent legally permissible, the provider's registered office; the courts with local jurisdiction are the Amtsgericht Weißenfels and the Landgericht Halle (Saale) respectively. Status: June 2026.