The short version
Pick it if
- You’re building on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube data from your own code
- You want to pay as you go, with credits that never expire
- You need transcripts, search or TikTok follower lists behind one key
Skip it if
- X is central to what you’re building
- You need Instagram follower lists or live stories
- Procurement requires SOC 2
ScrapeCreators is a small, founder-led API from Austin that wraps public data from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit and about 30 more sources behind one key. Most endpoints cost one credit, whatever the platform, and credits come in one-off packs that never expire: $47 for 25,000, or $497 for 500,000. It ranks first for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and multi-platform work because it pairs the most platforms behind one key, with transcripts and creator extras, with the simplest pricing.
Depth is where it earns that. TikTok has 27 paths, including follower lists, search, Shop and transcripts. Instagram has 20, with search, comments, highlights and transcripts. YouTube has 18, including paid-promotion search and an experimental sponsor endpoint. The weak spots are just as clear. X is an afterthought and ranks last in our X list, Instagram has no follower lists or live stories, and it’s a small team with no SOC 2.
ScrapeCreators at a glance
- Founder
- Adrian Horning
- Headquarters
- Austin, Texas (“a small global team”, vendor says)
- Product type
- Live scraping API, with an optional free cache
- Pricing model
- One-off credit packs that never expire; usually 1 credit a request
- Free tier
- 100 credits, plus up to 7,000 bonus credits
- Plans from
- $47 for 25,000 credits
- Platforms
- TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit and about 30 more
- Endpoints
- 197 paths in its OpenAPI spec
- SDKs
- No language SDKs; OpenAPI spec, CLI, MCP server, n8n
- Security
- No SOC 2
Pricing
Packs are one-off purchases, not subscriptions, and every pack includes every API. Most requests cost one credit. The exceptions: TikTok audience countries cost 26, Instagram comments with replies 15, media downloads 10, and opt-in AI transcripts over two minutes 10 per started minute. Cached results cost nothing, and neither do many “account unavailable” responses. The old $10 starter pack has been dropped.
100,000 Instagram profiles a month, compared
At each provider’s entry rate, before volume discounts, from our Instagram ranking.
Using ScrapeCreators
Signing up
Sign up with GitHub; email and password sign-up was switched off in January 2026 because of abuse. You start with 100 free credits and can earn up to 7,000 more by saying how you found the service, starring its GitHub repo and leaving feedback on G2. You can create several API keys and give each one a credit limit.
Making a request
Every call is a plain synchronous GET or POST with your key in an x-api-key header, and JSON comes straight back with credits_remaining and credits_charged. Add trim=true for lighter responses, or cache_max_age to accept a recent cached copy for 0 credits. There are no account-level rate limits; the vendor recommends staying under 500 concurrent requests.
Documentation
Some of the best in the category. There’s an interactive playground, an OpenAPI spec and llms.txt files, and every endpoint documents its billing edge cases. A public changelog lists 144 dated updates with their billing impact, and the status page lists 36 past incidents, most of them platform changes fixed within hours. In October 2026 it changed Instagram error responses without notice, then apologised in the changelog.
Support
Support is by email. ScrapeCreators promises “1-on-1 support” and 24/7 monitoring, and its homepage testimonials, picked by the vendor, praise the founder’s responsiveness.
Verdict
ScrapeCreators is where we’d start for TikTok, Instagram or YouTube data, and the best multi-platform API we’ve reviewed. One key, one credit per call on most endpoints, credits that never expire, and endpoints rivals don’t have, such as transcripts, YouTube sponsor inference and TikTok Shop. Don’t buy it for X, where it returns about 100 popular tweets per account rather than a timeline. For Instagram follower lists, use HikerAPI. If you need SOC 2 or an enterprise contract, Bright Data is the safer name.
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Questions
Do ScrapeCreators credits expire?
No. Credits are bought in one-off packs, $47 for 25,000 or $497 for 500,000, and they never expire. There’s no subscription.
How much does ScrapeCreators cost per 1,000 requests?
$1.88 per 1,000 on the $47 Freelance pack and $0.99 on the $497 Business pack, since most endpoints cost one credit. Some cost more: TikTok audience countries take 26 credits and Instagram comments with replies take 15.
Can ScrapeCreators get Instagram followers or stories?
No. It has Instagram highlights, but no live stories and no follower or following lists. It does have follower and following lists for TikTok.
Is ScrapeCreators good for X (Twitter)?
Not really. Its user tweets endpoint returns only about 100 of an account’s most popular tweets, not the latest, and there are no follower lists. It ranks last in our X list. Use twitterapi.io or SocialData instead.
Is ScrapeCreators legit?
It’s an active, founder-led company with detailed docs, a public changelog and a public incident history. Independent reviews are scarce, though: it has no Trustpilot page, its G2 reviews are rewarded with free credits, and much of the comparison content about it is written by ScrapeCreators itself.
ScrapeCreators or Apify?
ScrapeCreators if you’re calling from your own code and want one key and one price. Apify if you need no-code scheduling or data types ScrapeCreators doesn’t have, such as Instagram follower lists.