Modash vs Influship
Two APIs built for different jobs: vetting creators, or finding them. Influship has the best search, billed after use with no minimum; Modash has the deepest filters and fraud data, if you can fund $16,200 a year.
Researched by Which Social API editorial teamLast reviewed 29 October 2026How we review
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The quick answer
For most teams building on creator data, Influship, which tops our ranking. Its search is the best in the category: semantic, so you can find creators by anything rather than by the filters a vendor built, and it returns ranked creators with written reasons and evidence, plus lookalikes and brief-fit scoring. Its audience data looks at who engages with a creator’s kind of content. It’s billed after use with no minimum, 500 free credits with no card, every endpoint price published and an MCP server for AI agents. It has no fake-follower score, so for fraud checks pair it with Modash or HypeAuditor.
Modash wins when vetting is the product. It covers Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, its reports carry audience estimates and a credibility score, and its search filters run from bio and brands to weighted audience age, gender, language and location. Modash’s catch is the $16,200-a-year minimum, paid annually by bank transfer.
Choose Modash if
You need audience demographics and a credibility scoreYou work across Instagram, TikTok and YouTubeYou can commit to an annual contractChoose Influship if
You want search by anything, not a fixed set of filtersYou’re building on it from an app or an AI agentYou want to pay after use, with no minimum or contractHead 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 price, the lower number gets the longer bar. How we review
For price, 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 publish every price. Modash sells annual credit bundles; Influship bills what you use, in arrears, with no minimum. Per search result Modash is cheaper, but only once you’ve paid for the year.
Features side by side
If you’re building on the API
Modash’s Discovery API is the richer of the two: search with deep filters, AI search, lookalikes, collaborations, and reports with audience and credibility data, across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. A separate Raw API, from $10,000 a year, fetches live posts and comments. The docs are OpenAPI-based with free test calls and example code in Node, Python and Java. Rate limits are tight, about 2 requests a second for reports and search, shared across the account.
Influship’s API is built around semantic search. You send a brief of up to 500 characters and get up to 100 ranked Instagram or TikTok creators back, each with a score, reasons and evidence; Influship says it tracks billions of facts about tens of millions of creators. Its match endpoint scores up to 100 creators against a brief as good, neutral or avoid. The docs are detailed, especially on how failures behave, with a public OpenAPI spec, a TypeScript SDK, runnable examples and an MCP server, and every customer gets a direct line to its founders and solutions engineers.
Modash API
- Endpoints
- Discovery, AI search, reports, collaborations, Raw API
- Platforms
- Instagram, TikTok, YouTube
- Pricing
- Annual credits, from $16,200 a year
- Rate limit
- About 2 a second on reports and search
- Docs
- OpenAPI, free test calls, code examples
Influship API
- Endpoints
- Search, lookalikes, match, profiles, posts, emails
- Platforms
- Instagram and TikTok for search and creator data, YouTube coming soon
- Pricing
- Pay as you go, billed in arrears
- Rate limit
- 150 credits a minute free, rising with spend
- Docs
- OpenAPI, REST, TypeScript SDK, MCP server
Where each falls short
Modash
The door is expensive. The Discovery API starts at $16,200 a year, annual only, by bank transfer; there’s no monthly or pay-as-you-go plan, and app plans don’t include API access. Testing credits come through a sales call. Rate limits of about 2 requests a second are shared across every key on the account, and it covers Instagram, TikTok and YouTube only.
Influship
YouTube is coming soon: search, profiles, posts and emails cover Instagram and TikTok for now. There’s no fake-follower or credibility score, and volume discounts are agreed on request rather than published.
Alternatives to both
See all 5 influencer data APIs in our ranking
Questions
Is Modash or Influship better?
Influship, for most teams: it has the best search in the category, billed after use with no minimum, and it ranks first of the five APIs we’ve reviewed. Modash, if vetting is the job: it has audience estimates, a credibility score and three platforms.
Which is cheaper?
Influship to start: no minimum, 500 free credits, and $22.50 per 1,000 creators found by search at 100 a search. Modash is cheaper per result once you’re in, at about $4.50 per 1,000 at its reported entry tier, but it starts at $16,200 a year.
Does Influship have audience data or a fake-follower score?
It has audience data, built on who engages with a creator’s kind of content rather than estimated age and gender. It has no fake-follower or credibility score.
Which platforms do they cover?
Modash covers Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Influship’s search and creator data cover Instagram and TikTok, with YouTube coming soon; its separate live endpoints cover Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.