ScrapeCreators sells social media data through one API — same category as SocialCrawl, SociaVault and EnsembleData.
I found it by measuring sitemaps, not by reading about it. It has 2,581 pages, 5.7× the nearest competitor, and I hadn't seen it mentioned in a single comparison article. Including the ones written by its competitors.
What it costs
Credits, prepaid.
| Pack | Credits | Price | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 100, plus up to 7,000 claimable in bonuses | $0 | — |
| Freelance | 25,000 | $47 | ~$1.88 |
| Business | 500,000 | $497 | ~$0.99 |
| Enterprise | 1M+ | on request | — |
⚠️ Plan names changed. What this page called Scale on 5 September is
called Business on their pricing page as of 26 September 2026, and the
$47 tier is Freelance. The credit counts and prices are unchanged. Note
also that pricing lives at scrapecreators.com/#pricing — /pricing on its
own returns 404.
Credits don't expire. No rate limit. Cache is free — a cached result costs 0 credits. Both are unusual in this market — most competitors cap requests per minute and charge for every call regardless of freshness.
What it covers
37+ APIs, read on their pricing page 26 September 2026. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Threads, Pinterest, Snapchat, Truth Social and more.
From their tutorial matrix, the resource counts per platform: TikTok 24 · Instagram 18 · YouTube 17 · Facebook 10 · GitHub 9 · Spotify 7 · Reddit 6 · X 6 · LinkedIn 5.
The content machine, and how it actually works
87% of their sitemap is one directory: /tutorials/. 2,236 pages.
I assumed a content team. It isn't one. Every slug has the same shape:
how-to-scrape-{resource}-with-{language}
172 resources × 13 languages = 2,236. Exactly — every language has precisely 172 pages, no gaps, no manual exceptions. It's a cross product, generated.
The languages: csharp, go, java, javascript, kotlin, nodejs, php, python, r, ruby, rust, swift, typescript.
I wrote up the full method here. The short version: their SEO ceiling is set by their product surface, not by how much anyone can write. Each new endpoint produces thirteen pages.
Who it's for
Good fit if you want the most documented option, you hate rate limits, and you want to search "how do I scrape X in Rust" and actually find a page.
Good fit if your usage is spiky — no rate limit and free cache means bursts don't cost extra.
Bad fit if you need one platform only. A specialist is cheaper.
Bad fit if you need an SLA. Same as everyone here: no published uptime.
Where competitors are better
| Better at | |
|---|---|
| SocialCrawl | Broader declared coverage, a stronger MCP story, and composite endpoints that answer a business question in one call instead of a data question |
| EnsembleData | Longer in market. If vendor stability matters more than price, that's the trade |
| Bright Data | Scale, support, contracts. Enterprise cost to match |
| Phyllo | Official APIs with creator consent — the low-legal-risk option |
Where they beat me on price, flat out
At the Business pack — 500,000 credits for $497 — ScrapeCreators is ~$0.99 per 1,000 requests, against HonestHook's $1.80 per 1,000 credits. They are cheaper per unit, roughly by half, and no framing changes that.
The honest qualifiers, which narrow it without erasing it: you have to buy 500,000 credits up front to get there, and their $47 Freelance tier is $1.88 — slightly more than mine. So the win is at volume, not at entry. And a free cached result costs them 0 credits, which makes repeated reads cheaper still if your workload repeats.
If price per unit at volume is your deciding factor, buy theirs.
Where I think it's underrated
It quietly wins the thing everyone else is optimizing for and it doesn't show up in the discourse. If you're evaluating this category and only read the comparison posts, you'd never hear about the vendor with the most documentation and no rate limits.
That gap between what's visible and what's measurable is why I started pulling sitemaps in the first place.
The legal part
Same for every scraping vendor: it violates platform Terms of Service — civil exposure, not criminal. Meta v. Bright Data (2024) held that logged-off scraping of public data isn't bound by those terms.
Public data is still personal data under GDPR and LGPD. Store what comes back and you become the controller. That's your exposure, not the vendor's, and no comparison table will mention it.
Who measured this
We did, and we're building in the same category — so read the review as interested and check the counts, which is what the footer is for.
We pulled their sitemap apart in a separate post because the content machine is the interesting part: 172 endpoints × 13 languages, generated. We're deliberately not doing that. A page per endpoint that actually answers is worth more than two thousand that were filled in by a template — and we'd rather publish eight honest ones.
What we run today is an hourly archive of what's rising. What we're building is our own collection layer: public pages, no login, no reseller in between.
Read from scrapecreators.com — their sitemap and pricing page — on 5 September 2026, primary sources. Verify before deciding.