Influship vs ScrapeCreators
Two TikTok APIs at almost the same price, sold two different ways: billed after use, or prepaid packs that never expire. Influship is built for production apps and AI agents: billed after use, failed calls free, and transcripts even for videos without captions. ScrapeCreators goes wider on TikTok endpoints.
Researched by Which Social API editorial teamLast reviewed 29 October 2026How we review
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The quick answer
For most people, ScrapeCreators. It covers more of TikTok: follower and following lists, trending feeds, Shop, ads and live status, none of which Influship has, on top of the profiles, videos, comments, search and transcripts both offer. Per call they cost about the same, $1.80 against $1.88 per 1,000, and ScrapeCreators drops to $0.99 with its $497 pack.
Influship suits teams putting TikTok data into production. Usage is invoiced in arrears like the rest of your infrastructure, with no pack to buy and no minimum, failed calls aren’t charged, and 500 free credits need no card. It generates a transcript when a video has no captions for $0.025, for videos up to 10 minutes, and it works with AI agents over MCP and keyless x402 payments.
Choose Influship if
You want to pay after use, with no pack or minimumYou transcribe longer videos that have no captionsYou’re building an AI agent and want MCP or x402Choose ScrapeCreators if
You need follower lists, trending, Shop or ads dataYou want the lowest price at volumeYou also need X, Facebook, LinkedIn or RedditHead to head
Our ratings from published docs, prices and user reviews. The longer bar is better in every row, and the winner’s bar is in its colour.
For cost, the lower number gets the longer bar. How we review
For cost, the lower number gets the longer bar. How we review
For cost, the lower number gets the longer bar. How we review
Who covers more, and where
Share of the data types we check for that each returns. Darker is higher.
Pricing compared
Both charge per call with no subscription. Influship bills you afterwards; ScrapeCreators sells prepaid packs that never expire.
Features side by side
If you’re building on the API
Influship’s TikTok API has 15 live endpoints: profiles, profile videos, single and batch video lookups (up to 20), comments and replies, captions, transcripts and batch transcripts, sounds, and user, video and hashtag search. Auth is an API key header, rate limits are counted in credits per minute and per hour and rise as you spend, and every response reports the credits charged. It works over REST with a TypeScript SDK and an MCP server, and agents can pay per request with x402 or MPP, at a 20% surcharge with a $0.01 minimum per request.
ScrapeCreators has 27 TikTok paths, including Shop, with followers, following, trending, live room info and an audience-country estimate that Influship lacks. Auth is an API key header, there’s no account-level rate cap, and responses report the credits left. There’s no official SDK, but there is an MCP server, a CLI and an OpenAPI spec.
Influship API
- Endpoints
- 15 for TikTok
- Auth
- API key header, OAuth or x402
- Rate limit
- Credits per minute and hour, rising with spend
- SDKs
- REST, TypeScript, MCP server
- Docs
- OpenAPI, runnable examples
ScrapeCreators API
- Endpoints
- 27 for TikTok, including Shop
- Auth
- API key header
- Rate limit
- No account cap; under 500 concurrent advised
- SDKs
- None official; MCP server, CLI
- Docs
- OpenAPI, playground, dated changelog
Where each falls short
Influship
No follower or following lists, no trending feeds, and no live or Shop data.
ScrapeCreators
The audience-country estimate costs 26 credits a profile, and long AI transcripts cost 10 credits a minute if you opt in. Its own docs say the profile feed is “not an exhaustive inventory”. It’s a small team with no SOC 2 and no official SDK, and its status page lists 36 past incidents across all platforms, most fixed within hours.
Alternatives to both
See all 9 TikTok scraping APIs in our ranking
Questions
Is Influship or ScrapeCreators better for TikTok?
ScrapeCreators for most people: it covers more of TikTok for about the same price per call, and less at volume. Influship for production apps and AI agents: billed after use, failed calls free, and transcripts even without captions.
Which is cheaper?
About the same per call to start: $1.80 per 1,000 on Influship against $1.88 on ScrapeCreators’ $47 pack. At volume ScrapeCreators wins, at $0.99 per 1,000 on its $497 pack; Influship agrees volume pricing on request.
Which has TikTok follower lists?
ScrapeCreators. Influship doesn’t offer follower or following lists.