AlsoAsked costs $15 a month on the Basic plan, or $12 a month if you pay for the year. That is cheap for an SEO tool, and the cheap plan has a problem that is not obvious from the pricing page.
Basic cannot export. No CSV. It also keeps your search history for 24 hours. So you can run the research, and tomorrow it is gone, and you never had a way to get it out of the browser in the first place.
I run Ecommerce Paradise and I use question research constantly for the buying-intent content that actually sells high-ticket products. Here is the full ladder, what each tier really unlocks, and one thing sitting in their page source that will save you money if you are not in a hurry.
The $12 Plan Cannot Export Your Research
CSV export starts on Lite. Basic gives you 100 credits, 24 hours of history, and no way to get the data out.
The Full Ladder
All figures came off AlsoAsked’s own pricing page, read in September 2026. Prices are quoted before tax, which their page states explicitly.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | Annual payment | You save | Credits per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $15 | $12/mo | $144 | $36 | 100 |
| Lite | $29 | $23/mo | $276 | $72 | 300 |
| Pro | $59 | $47/mo | $564 | $144 | 1,000 |
A flat 20 percent for paying yearly across all three plans. There is also a free tier of sorts: their page says non-registered users get free monthly search credits, so you can try the core product without an account at all.
What Each Tier Actually Unlocks
This is the part the pricing page shows but does not emphasise, and it changes the decision completely. The feature list looks identical under every plan until you notice which entries are greyed out.
| Feature | Basic $12 | Lite $23 | Pro $47 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Credits per month | 100 | 300 | 1,000 |
| Search history | 24 hours | 1 month | 1 year |
| Unlimited users | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| All regions and languages | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PNG image export | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Deep search | No | Yes | Yes |
| CSV data export | No | Yes | Yes |
| Bulk searches | No | No | Yes |
| API access | No | No | Yes |
| Pay-as-you-go credits | No | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No | Yes |
Three things in that table are worth stopping on.
Basic has no CSV export
You can save a PNG of the question tree, which is a picture. You cannot get the questions out as data. For a tool whose entire output is a list of questions you want to turn into headings and articles, that is a meaningful limitation rather than a nice-to-have.
If your workflow is look at the tree, pick three questions, write the article, Basic is fine. If your workflow involves a spreadsheet at any point, Basic is not.
Basic keeps your history for 24 hours
Run your research on Monday, come back Wednesday, and it is not there. Lite extends that to a month and Pro to a year.
Combined with the export limitation, Basic is effectively a single-session tool. Whatever you do not act on immediately, you pay credits to run again.
Pay-as-you-go credits are Pro only
This is the one that would catch me out. On Basic and Lite, when you hit 100 or 300 credits, that is the end of the month. You cannot top up. The only way to get more searches is to upgrade the plan.
On Pro you can buy extra credits as you go. So the top tier is the only one with a release valve, and the cheaper tiers convert a busy week into a forced upgrade.
Want the Content Written Instead of Researched?
We build high-ticket stores and the content that ranks them, so the keyword tooling and the writing both sit on our side of the line.
Cost Per Credit, Which Is the Real Comparison
Credits are the unit you are actually buying, so the honest way to compare the tiers is what each one costs per credit rather than per month.
| Plan | Credits per year | Annual cost | Cost per credit | Versus Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 1,200 | $144 | $0.120 | Baseline |
| Lite | 3,600 | $276 | $0.077 | 36 percent cheaper |
| Pro | 12,000 | $564 | $0.047 | 61 percent cheaper |
So there is a genuine volume discount here. Pro costs nearly four times what Basic does and gives you ten times the credits, which works out at well under half the unit cost.
That is worth pointing out because it is not how every tool in this category behaves. Ahrefs, for example, charges effectively the same per credit at every tier, so its higher plans buy you concurrency and history rather than cheaper output. AlsoAsked genuinely rewards buying more.
The caveat is that a volume discount only helps if you use the volume. Buying Pro at $0.047 a credit and using 150 of your 1,000 credits means you actually paid $0.31 a credit, which is more than twice Basic’s rate. Cheaper per unit is only cheaper if the units get used.
Unlimited Users Is the Quiet Feature
Every plan includes unlimited users, including the $12 one. In a category where seat limits are the standard way of pushing you up a tier, that stands out.
For anyone running a store with a VA or a writer, this matters more than it first appears. On most research tools, adding the person who actually writes the articles means either paying for a second seat or sharing a login, and sharing a login is how people end up locked out mid-task.
Here you can put your VA, your writer and yourself on a $23 Lite plan and the bill does not move. Compare that with the pattern I keep running into elsewhere, where the second seat costs more than the first plan did.
It also changes the Lite recommendation below. If the reason you were considering Pro was team access, you do not need Pro. You need Lite and the seats are already included.
The one thing to check is what the MCP server integration requires, since that is the Pro-only feature most likely to matter to anyone wiring this into an AI workflow rather than clicking through the interface.
The Discount Sitting in Their Page Source
Here is something I found while reading the pricing page markup rather than the rendered page.
The page carries a second set of prices alongside the live ones, labelled as Black Friday rates. They are not displayed right now. They are simply present in the data the page is built from.
| Plan | Current yearly rate | The rate held in the page | Annual payment | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $12/mo, $144/yr | $9/mo | $108 | $36 less |
| Lite | $23/mo, $276/yr | $17.25/mo | $207 | $69 less |
| Pro | $47/mo, $564/yr | $35.25/mo | $423 | $141 less |
That is a further 25 percent off the annual rate. On Pro it is $141 a year.
Two honest caveats. I cannot tell you when or whether that pricing goes live, only that the page is built to display it. And a promotion that existed last year is not a promise about this year.
What I would take from it is narrow and practical: if you are about to commit to an annual plan and it is October, the cost of waiting a few weeks to find out is low. If it is March, buy it and stop thinking about it.
It is a nice contrast with the other end of this market. Ahrefs states plainly that it never runs discounts, which I covered in the Ahrefs pricing breakdown. Waiting for a sale there is waiting for something that does not come. Here, the machinery for one is visibly built in.
What This Tool Is Actually For
Worth being clear, because AlsoAsked is narrow and that is its strength rather than a weakness.
It maps the People Also Ask results in Google. You give it a topic and it returns the branching tree of questions real people ask, with the follow-up questions that appear when you expand each one. Google’s own documentation treats these question formats as a distinct part of how results are presented.
For high-ticket stores that matters more than it does for cheap products. Somebody spending $3,000 on a sauna or a generator asks a lot of questions before buying, and each of those questions is an article that catches them mid-research. That is the whole content strategy for this business model in one sentence.
What it does not do is search volume, keyword difficulty, backlinks or rank tracking. It is not competing with the all-in-one platforms, it is a specific instrument. If you were hoping to replace a full SEO suite with a $12 subscription, that is not what this is.
How It Fits With the Bigger Tools
The realistic stack question is whether this earns a place next to what you already pay for.
At $12 to $47 a month it sits well below the platforms. For comparison, Ahrefs Standard is $249 a month, and its whole ladder is broken down in the Ahrefs pricing guide.
Those tools do question research too, as one feature among hundreds. AlsoAsked does it better and shows the relationships between questions rather than a flat list. Whether that is worth a separate subscription depends on how much of your content plan is question-led.
For a store publishing buying-guide content every week, I think it is. For a store publishing occasionally, the question data inside a tool you already pay for is good enough and the extra subscription is not.
If you want the broader field, the AlsoAsked review covers the interface and workflow in detail. For the cheaper end of question research, the Ubersuggest versus AnswerThePublic comparison is the one to read.
The Case Against Buying It At All
Worth putting honestly, because I would rather you skip a $276 subscription than resent it.
People Also Ask data is public. It appears in the search results of anyone who types the query. You can open an incognito window, search your topic, and read the questions Google shows you for nothing.
What you cannot do by hand is the expansion. Every question in that box opens into more questions, and those open into more, and mapping three levels deep across twenty topics by hand is a day of clicking. That branching map is the product, not the raw questions.
So the test is whether you will do that work at volume. If you plan to publish a handful of articles this year, do it manually and keep the money. If you are building a content operation where every product category needs its own question map, the tool pays for itself in the first afternoon.
The other honest reason to skip it: if you already pay for a full SEO platform and you are not using half of it, adding a fourth subscription to solve a problem the third one partly solves is how tool budgets quietly reach four figures a year without anyone deciding to spend that.
Which Plan I Would Pick
Being specific rather than hedging.
Lite at $23 a month on annual billing. That is the plan I would buy, and the reason is CSV export rather than the credits. Research that cannot leave the browser is research you will redo.
Deep search arrives at the same tier, and 300 credits is enough for a store publishing a few pieces a month. A month of search history is enough to finish what you started.
Basic at $12 makes sense in exactly one case: you want to look at question trees occasionally, you act on them the same day, and a picture is enough. That is a real use case, just not a content operation.
Pro at $47 is for volume and automation. Bulk searches, API access and top-up credits are agency features. If you are running one store, you are paying for a release valve you will not open.
Where Question Research Fits in the Build Order
Worth stating, because keyword tools are bought far too early in this business.
Question research answers what should I write about. That only matters once you have a store, products and suppliers to write about. Before that it is preparation that feels like progress.
The first decision is what you sell, and the high-ticket niches list settles that at no cost. The second is who supplies you, which is the real gate and is covered in the supplier outreach guide.
Distributors want to see a registered entity before they will discuss terms, which is why the business formation guide comes before the content work. And if you are still weighing the model itself, start with what high-ticket dropshipping actually is.
Buy a question tool in the month you start publishing. Not before.
Read the Full Review First
The review covers the question tree interface, how the data compares to what the big suites return, and the workflow that turns it into published articles.
Common Questions
How much does AlsoAsked cost in 2026?
Basic is $15 a month or $12 on annual billing, Lite is $29 or $23, and Pro is $59 or $47. Annual payments are $144, $276 and $564. All prices are quoted before tax. Paying yearly saves a flat 20 percent.
Is there a free version?
Sort of. AlsoAsked states that non-registered users get free monthly search credits, so you can run searches without creating an account. There is no free tier with saved history or export.
Does the cheapest plan export data?
No. CSV export starts on Lite. Basic gives you PNG image export only, so you can save a picture of the question tree but not the underlying list.
What happens when I run out of credits?
On Basic and Lite, you stop until the month resets. Pay-as-you-go top-up credits are a Pro-only feature, so the cheaper plans cannot buy their way out of a busy month.
How long does AlsoAsked keep my searches?
24 hours on Basic, one month on Lite, one year on Pro. On Basic that means anything you do not use the same day has to be run again.
How many people can use one account?
Unlimited users on every plan, including the $12 one. That is unusually generous for this price bracket, where seat limits are the normal way of pushing you up a tier.
Does it replace Ahrefs or Semrush?
No. It does question and intent mapping and nothing else. No search volume, keyword difficulty, backlinks or rank tracking. It is a companion to a bigger tool, not a substitute for one.
The Short Version
The ladder is $15, $29 and $59 a month, or $12, $23 and $47 if you pay yearly, which is a flat 20 percent off across the board.
The real dividing line is not credits, it is CSV export and search history. Basic gives you 100 credits, 24 hours of history and no way to export the data, which makes it a look-at-it tool rather than a work-with-it tool.
Lite at $23 a month is the plan for anyone actually publishing. Pro is for agencies and automation, and it is the only tier that lets you buy extra credits mid-month.
Unlimited users on every plan is genuinely unusual and worth knowing if you have a VA or a writer.
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Trevor Fenner is an ecommerce entrepreneur and the founder of Ecommerce Paradise, a platform focused on helping entrepreneurs build and scale profitable high-ticket ecommerce and dropshipping businesses. With over a decade of hands-on experience, Trevor specializes in high-ticket dropshipping strategy, niche and product selection, supplier recruiting and onboarding, Google & Bing Shopping ads, ecommerce SEO, and systems-driven automation and scaling. Through Ecommerce Paradise, he provides free education via in-depth guides like How to Start High-Ticket Dropshipping, advanced training through the High-Ticket Dropshipping Masterclass, and fully done-for-you turnkey ecommerce services for entrepreneurs who want a faster, more hands-off path to growth. Trevor is known for emphasizing sustainable, real-world ecommerce models over hype-driven tactics, helping store owners build scalable, sellable, and location-independent brands.
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