How do I get access, and which level do I need?
Create an account, connect your Google Ads account with a standard Google sign-in, and you are asking questions of your search terms report and change history within minutes. Reading is free on every level, whether you run a local lead-gen account, an ecommerce store, or a large book of accounts across Search, Shopping and Performance Max. The only line that matters for most people: reading is free, and making changes needs a paid level (Professional+ or up). No developer token, no Google Cloud project, no approvals queue before your first answer.
The value here is time. The setup is minutes rather than the developer-token-and-console path the official Google Ads route asks for, and the same checks run every time you ask, so nothing gets forgotten between accounts.
Step 01 · ~1 minute
Create an account
- 01 Sign up at adtao.io (Google sign-in or email).
- 02 Connect one or more Google Ads accounts.
- 03 Choose a plan. Your plan determines your MCP access level (below).
Step 02 · Free path
Use it from Claude Desktop (free, read-only)
The fastest way to try AdTAO is to connect it in Claude Desktop with a Google sign-in. No API key needed. This gives you read-only access on the free level: ask about your search terms report, check budget pacing and change history, and see CPA, ROAS and wasted spend, all in plain English. You cannot make changes on the free level, so there is nothing to undo while you try it.
Step 03 · Paid plans
Create an API key
For Claude Code, Cursor, or any scripted use, create an API key.
- 01 In AdTAO: Settings → Security & Privacy → API Access.
- 02 Name it (e.g. "My Laptop") and Create Key.
- 03 Copy it immediately. It is shown once, then only a hash is stored.
Keys look like adtao_ followed by 48 characters (54 total). Creating a key requires an active (or trial) paid plan. Treat the key like a password; never commit it to source control.
See the quickstart to add the key to your host.
Access levels
Your plan → your level
Your plan maps to one of four MCP access levels. Each level sets what the agent can do and how many requests it can make.
| Level | What the agent can do | Req/min | Req/day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Read and analyse only. Ask questions of your search terms report, change history, and budget pacing; run diagnostics; see CPA, ROAS and wasted spend. Connect in Claude Desktop with a Google sign-in. | 5 | 50 |
| Professional | Everything in Free, with higher limits for busier days across more accounts. | 10 | 500 |
| Professional+ Read + write | Read and write. Prepare changes to budgets, bid strategies, and negative keyword lists, then apply them once you approve. Nothing touches the account until you say yes. | 50 | 5,000 |
| Enterprise | Full access, highest limits, built for managing many accounts at once. | 200 | 50,000 |
Reading is free on every level. Diagnostics, benchmarks against accounts like yours, budget pacing, and plain-English answers about your search terms report and change history all work from Free upward.
Making changes needs Professional+ or Enterprise plus an API key with write access. A change is always prepared for your approval first: the higher level unlocks the tools that apply an approved change, it does not skip the approval step. Nothing changes in your account until you approve it.
Limits are counted per organisation per minute and per day. If you hit a limit the server tells you and stops; it does not silently drop the request or leave a half-finished change in your account.
For current pricing and the plan that fits you, see /pricing.
Limits
What counts against your limits
Each look-up the agent makes is one request. A single question about your search terms report usually takes one look-up, because AdTAO builds the whole answer in one step instead of running several separate queries and stitching them together, so a normal working session stays well inside the limits. Reviewing budget pacing or negative keyword lists across many accounts in one go uses more, and Enterprise is built for that scale.
What to do: start free from Claude Desktop and ask about one account's search terms report and change history. If you want AdTAO to prepare changes to budgets, bid strategies, or negative keyword lists for your approval, move up to Professional+, create an API key under Settings, and add it to your host. See /pricing for the level that fits.
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