The short version
Pick it if
- You need TikTok plus Douyin, Xiaohongshu or other Chinese platforms
- You want many platforms on one prepaid key, from $5
- You’ll test each endpoint before relying on it
Skip it if
- You can’t accept a provider reselling data derived from your requests
- You need refunds or a reliable status page
- X is your main platform
TikHub documents about 1,055 endpoints across 16 platforms: 164 for TikTok, 93 for Instagram, 34 for YouTube and 25 for X, plus Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Kuaishou, Weibo, Bilibili, WeChat and more. It’s pay as you go from $0.001 a request, falling to $0.0005 past 30,000 requests a day, with a $5 minimum top-up and no subscription. No one we review offers more breadth for less.
Three things hold it back everywhere it ranks. Its terms let it sell aggregated, de-identified data derived from what its API accesses for you unless you opt out by email. All sales are final. And its status page returned HTTP 521 when we checked on 29 October 2026. Add parallel versions of the same endpoints, hidden per-endpoint prices and almost no independent reviews, and it lands mid-table: fifth for multi-platform, sixth for Instagram, seventh for TikTok and sixth for X.
TikHub at a glance
- Company
- TikHub, LLC (California)
- Headquarters
- United States
- Platforms
- 16, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Douyin and Xiaohongshu
- Endpoints
- About 1,055 documented
- Product type
- Live API, pay per request
- Pricing
- $0.001 to $0.01 a request, by endpoint
- Minimum top-up
- $5
- Free tier
- $0.05 of credit (about 50 requests), no card
- Refunds
- All sales final
- Payment
- Alipay, PayPal, USDT, bank transfer
- SDKs
- Python, Java, TypeScript, Go, C++; n8n, MCP servers
- Docs
- English and Chinese, plus llms.txt
Pricing
A prepaid balance billed per request, with no subscription or monthly minimum. Endpoints cost between $0.001 and $0.01, and you only see each one’s price in the dashboard after signing up. On endpoints flagged for it, daily volume discounts apply bracket by bracket and reset every day, so 12,000 base-price requests in a day cost $10.00. All sales are final.
100,000 Instagram profiles a month, compared
At each provider’s entry rate, before volume discounts, from our Instagram ranking.
Using TikHub
Signing up
Sign-up comes with $0.05 of credit, about 50 requests, without a card; some endpoints need paid credit. The minimum top-up is $5, by Alipay, PayPal, USDT or bank transfer. Per-endpoint prices sit in the API Marketplace inside the dashboard, so you can’t cost a project until you’ve signed up.
Making a request
Calls are synchronous REST requests to api.tikhub.io with a Bearer token in the Authorization header, returning JSON; the docs warn against the slower api.tikhub.dev. A 402 means your balance has run out and a 429 means you’ve hit the rate limit. Ten requests a second are included, and more is a separate monthly purchase with no public price. Many platforms have parallel Web, App V3, V2 and V3 endpoints for the same data, at different prices, so you’ll need to choose which one to trust.
Documentation
An Apifox-hosted reference in English and Chinese, with an llms.txt index and an interactive API reference. Naming is inconsistent: duplicate versions, some names only half translated, and “recommend V2” notes. The Python SDK was updated in October 2026; most of the others haven’t changed since March 2025.
Support
TikHub publishes ticket response targets by lifetime spend. Support is English-only and staffed 12:00–03:00 Pacific, seven days a week, though its terms call support best-effort on business days.
Verdict
TikHub is the cheapest way to reach a lot of platforms, and on TikTok and the Chinese apps nobody covers more. But its terms let it resell data derived from your requests, all sales are final, its status page was down when we checked, and you can’t see per-endpoint prices until you sign up. Use it for experiments and for platforms others don’t reach, after testing. For production work, pick ScrapeCreators or Influship; for followers and stories on Instagram, HikerAPI; for X, twitterapi.io or SocialData.
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Questions
Does TikHub sell my data?
Its terms (section 8.5) let it sell, license or share aggregated, de-identified data derived from the public content its API accesses for customers. You can opt out by emailing team@tikhub.io.
Does TikHub give refunds?
Its terms say all sales are final. It may make exceptions if you ask within 7 days, and its refund policy allows refunds only when an endpoint doesn’t work as documented.
How much does TikHub cost?
From $0.001 a request ($1.00 per 1,000) with a $5 minimum top-up, falling to $0.0005 past 30,000 requests in a day on eligible endpoints. Some endpoints cost up to $0.01. New accounts get $0.05 of free credit.
Which platforms does TikHub cover?
It markets 16 platforms. Beyond TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X, its docs cover Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Kuaishou, Weibo, Bilibili, WeChat, Zhihu, Threads, LinkedIn, Reddit and Lemon8, among others. Coverage is deepest on TikTok and the Chinese platforms.
Is TikHub reliable?
Its status page returned HTTP 521 when we checked on 29 October 2026, and GitHub issues on its Python SDK include endpoints that stopped returning data and top-ups that weren’t credited.
Is TikHub good for X data?
It’s fine for occasional X calls if you already use it for other platforms. With 25 X endpoints it ranks sixth in our X ranking; twitterapi.io and SocialData go deeper on cleaner terms.