By-the-Call SEO Manual Buy SEO data per request from DataForSEO instead of a monthly subscription
The By-the-Call SEO Manual shows how to buy SEO data from DataForSEO per request instead of paying for a monthly suite: a spending check that reads your own account's prices before each call, nine step-by-step guides (one per task), and the mistakes we paid for. $149. Not on sale yet: join the waiting list.
What it does: The month you stop paying for the suite, use DataForSEO's pay-as-you-go APIs instead, with the cost of every call known before it is made and a step-by-step guide for each task.
Who it is for
Site owners, marketers and SEO practitioners whose software subscription renews next month and who would rather pay for the calls actually made.
Not for: Anyone who needs a dashboard with a monthly seat. This is a practical manual for buying raw search data, with strict cost controls.
What it will never do: quote a price the documentation does not print. It reads your own account's price list and carries no price table of its own.
What it solves
- A suite bills every month whether you query it or not. Pay-as-you-go APIs, with the cost of every call known before it is made. Test calls, 2026: one session, $2.35.
- An AI assistant left alone on a paid service is a blank cheque. A spending check reads your balance and your own price list before any call. Blog plan, 2026: 54 topics researched for $0.41 against a written cap of $1.00.
- Documentation says what an endpoint does, never what it costs you. Nine step-by-step guides, one per task, each with the request we ran and what we paid. Full read of the 758-page official documentation, 2026.
Price and access
Files and their updates are delivered in English.
Waiting list: By-the-Call SEO Manual
No ship date is set: a system goes on sale once the points under “What we have not verified yet” that hold it back are closed and a live purchase of it has been tested. You get one dated note that day, with the price and the proof attached. No other emails, no countdown.
On sale now: The Domain-Only Website Kit, $129.
What is inside
The spending check, which reads your balance and your own price list before any paid call. Nine step-by-step guides, one per task, each with the request we ran and what it cost us. The dated pricing rules, the documented limits, the four AI-citation checks and the monthly cost record. Plus the report of our test calls: what each service actually returned, with the surprises.
New to DataForSEO itself? Start with what DataForSEO is and how people actually use it.
What we measured on the sites we manage
Not on sale yet: this product goes on sale once the points under “What we have not verified yet” that hold it back are closed and a live purchase of it has been tested.
Measured with: our DataForSEO account's balance and spend records, for the two sessions quoted here; the other dated sessions of 2026 are kept in the same audit archive.
The proof is kept in 2 dated audit folders and shared on request; every figure is also on our figures page.
What we have not verified yet (unverified)
- Licence to quote the documentation: The manual paraphrases and links the official docs; the right to reproduce excerpts is being confirmed with DataForSEO before the archive ships.
By-the-Call SEO Manual: questions
Does the manual reproduce DataForSEO's documentation?
No. It paraphrases and links the official pages; whether it may quote short excerpts is being confirmed with DataForSEO before the archive ships. It tells you which endpoint to call, what it costs on your own account grid, and what we got wrong. The documentation is theirs and stays on their site.
Does the manual include DataForSEO credits?
No. You open your own account and deposit your own $50 minimum. The manual makes sure you know what each call costs before you make it.
Does it replace a subscription suite?
It does not try to. It gives you raw SERP, keyword and backlink data by the call, with each call's cost known before you make it. A dashboard and a keyword database are what a suite sells, and the manual does not carry either.