The short version
Pick it if
- You need Instagram profiles, posts and reels without the risk of logged-in data
- You want to pay after use, with no minimum and nothing charged for failed calls
- You want YouTube search or transcripts at volume
Skip it if
- You need Instagram followers, stories, comments or hashtag search
- You vet creators: there’s no fake-follower score and no audience breakdown
- You need creator search on YouTube, or data from X, Facebook or LinkedIn
Influship has the best creator search of any API we rank, which is why it tops our influencer data API ranking. Its search is semantic: Influship says it tracks billions of facts about tens of millions of creators, so you can find creators by anything, not just the filters a vendor built. Alongside it, it does the calls most teams make, profiles, posts, reels, videos and search results, with the best billing we’ve seen: you pay after use, there’s no minimum, and failed calls cost nothing.
It sells two things. The first is live endpoints for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube at a flat $1.80 per 1,000 calls. TikTok is the broadest, with 15 endpoints; Instagram has five and YouTube six. None of them needs a logged-in account, so there are no Instagram followers, stories or likers, and there are no Instagram or YouTube comments either. The second is creator search: describe the creator you want in plain English and get ranked creators back with written reasons and the posts behind them, through an app from $0 or an API you pay for by the call. It covers Instagram and TikTok, with YouTube coming soon, and profiles who engages with a creator’s content rather than estimating demographics. There’s no fake-follower score.
Influship at a glance
- Company
- INF Labs, Inc., trading as Influship
- Headquarters
- United States (Delaware corporation)
- Founded
- 2025
- Product type
- Creator-search app and API, plus live data endpoints
- Platforms
- Live: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube. Creator search: Instagram and TikTok, YouTube coming soon
- Billing
- API pay as you go, billed after use; app monthly
- Plans from
- $1.80 per 1,000 live calls; app free, then $50 a month
- Free tier
- 500 API credits ($5), no card; app Free plan, 3 searches a month
- SDKs
- REST, TypeScript; MCP server and Zapier
Pricing
API usage is billed through Stripe after the fact, with no subscription or minimum, and 4xx and 5xx responses aren’t charged. Every response shows what it cost. Volume pricing is on request.
Entry plan per month, compared
Using Influship
Signing up
API keys come from the developer dashboard with 500 free credits, no card and no expiry. The free tier allows 150 credits a minute and 1,500 an hour, which is about 833 live calls a minute; limits rise with your first payment and again at $500 and $2,000 of lifetime spend. The app has a free plan with three searches a month and no card.
Making a request
REST against api.influship.com, with your key in an X-API-Key header. Everything is synchronous except adding a new creator. Every response carries RateLimit and X-Credits-Charged headers, so you can see what each call cost. This profile call returns up to 50 recent posts for one $0.0018 charge:
curl "https://api.influship.com/v1/raw/instagram/profile/natgeo?include_posts=true" \
-H "X-API-Key: $INFLUSHIP_API_KEY"Documentation
Detailed, and unusually clear about failure cases: when null isn’t zero, why a 503 isn’t your rate limit, and when to retry. There’s a public OpenAPI spec, llms.txt, a changelog, runnable examples and a playground. There’s a TypeScript SDK and an MCP server, and every other language works straight against the REST API.
Support
Every customer gets a direct line to Influship’s founders and solutions engineers, whatever they spend, rather than a bot or an outsourced desk.
Verdict
Built for production apps and AI agents, with the best creator search we’ve seen. Its semantic search finds creators by anything, not just filters, and its live Instagram, TikTok and YouTube endpoints cover the calls most teams make at a flat $1.80 per 1,000, billed after use with failed calls free. There’s an MCP server, 500 free credits without a card, and a direct line to its founders and solutions engineers whatever you spend. It doesn’t sell data that needs a logged-in account, such as followers and stories: HikerAPI covers those, and ScrapeCreators goes widest on platforms.
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Questions
Which platforms does Influship cover?
Its live endpoints cover Instagram (5 endpoints), TikTok (15) and YouTube (6). Creator search, profiles and email lookup cover Instagram and TikTok, with YouTube coming soon. There’s nothing for X, Facebook, LinkedIn or Reddit.
Does Influship check for fake followers or show audience demographics?
It doesn’t have a fake-follower score. Its audience data looks at who engages with a creator’s kind of content rather than estimating age, gender or country. If fraud checks matter, pair it with Modash or HypeAuditor.
How much does Influship cost?
The API is pay as you go: $1.80 per 1,000 live calls, $22.50 per 1,000 creators from search at 100 a search, and 500 free credits to start. The app is free for three searches a month, or $50 a month for unlimited search.
How fresh is Influship’s live data?
Every response is timestamped, so you can always see how fresh the data is.
Influship or ScrapeCreators?
ScrapeCreators if you need comments or platforms beyond Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Influship if you’re building a production app or AI agent: you pay after use, failed calls are free, there’s semantic creator search on top, and you get a direct line to its founders and solutions engineers.