SociaVault sells social-data access as one-time credit packs. No subscription, and the credits never expire — their words: "Charging monthly when you only run jobs in bursts felt unfair, so we don't."
That is a genuinely different model from mine, and it is the reason this page is a table rather than a verdict.
Everything below was read from sociavault.com/pricing on 28 September 2026. My own numbers come from the code that charges the card, not from a marketing page.
Before the numbers: I am not a neutral party
I sell in this category. HonestHook is a social-data API and SociaVault is a competitor. I also hold an account with them. You should read every figure here knowing that, and divide the published numbers yourself — that is why they are all published.
What they charge
Four paid packs, plus a trial. Their page prints a per-credit figure next to each one, and I am reproducing it rather than recomputing it:
| Pack | Price | Credits | Their per-credit | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | $0 | 50, once | — | — |
| Starter | $29 | 6,000 | $0.00483 | $4.83 |
| Growth | $79 | 20,000 | $0.00395 | $3.95 |
| Pro | $199 | 75,000 | $0.00265 | $2.65 |
| Enterprise | $399 | 200,000 | $0.00199 | $1.995 |
$29 ÷ 6,000 = $0.0048333 per credit, or $4.83 per thousand. That is the number this page turns on, and it is the same one their page prints.
What I charge
| Plan | Price | Credits | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $0 | 1,000 per month, renewing | — |
| Annual | $79 | 60,000 | $1.3167 |
| Monthly | $9 | 5,000 | $1.80 |
| Pack | $99 | 50,000 | $1.98 |
| Pack | $29 | 12,000 | $2.4167 |
| Pack | $9 | 3,000 | $3.00 |
My packs behave like theirs: one-time, no expiry. My $9 and $79 plans are subscriptions and renew.
The ratio, and why it is a range
Against their entry pack at $4.83 per thousand, every tier I sell works out to:
| My tier | Per 1,000 | $4.83 ÷ mine |
|---|---|---|
| Annual $79 | $1.3167 | 3.67× |
| Monthly $9 | $1.80 | 2.69× |
| Pack $99 | $1.98 | 2.44× |
| Pack $29 | $2.4167 | 2.00× |
| Pack $9 | $3.00 | 1.61× |
So the honest range is 1.6× to 3.7×, and the headline figure is 2.7× — their entry pack against my $9 monthly plan, which is the one my pricing page shows first. Every number in that column is 4.8333 ÷ (my price ÷ my credits × 1000). If you divide the published numbers and get something else, I have made an arithmetic error and would like to know.
The free tiers are not a multiple
I give 1,000 credits every month, renewing. They give 50 credits once. There is no honest ratio between those two — it is a difference in kind, not in degree, and writing "20× more free credits" would be comparing a recurring allowance to a one-time sample. Read them as two different offers and decide which shape you want.
The same table again, tier against tier
The column above compares everything I sell to their entry pack, which flatters me. Here is each of their tiers against the cheapest way to buy the same rough volume from me:
| Volume | Theirs | Per 1,000 | Mine | Per 1,000 | Theirs ÷ mine |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~6,000 | Starter $29 | $4.8333 | Monthly $9 / 5,000 | $1.80 | 2.69× |
| ~20,000 | Growth $79 | $3.95 | Pack $99 / 50,000 | $1.98 | 2.00× |
| ~75,000 | Pro $199 | $2.6533 | Pack $99, bought twice | $1.98 | 1.34× |
| 200,000 | Enterprise $399 | $1.995 | Pack $99, bought four times | $1.98 | 1.008× |
The advantage shrinks monotonically with volume — 2.69 → 2.00 → 1.34 → 1.008. It does not hold at one number and it does not reverse; it just runs out.
Two things about that table so you can judge it properly. The first row compares their one-time pack to my monthly subscription, which renews — different products at a similar volume, and the only row where that happens. And the $1.98 figure assumes you are willing to buy a 50,000-credit pack: if you need 20,000 and want to buy closer to it, two of my $29 packs give you 24,000 at $2.4167 per thousand, which makes that row 1.63× instead of 2.00×. Both numbers are real; which one applies depends on whether you would rather overbuy or pay more per credit.
And where SociaVault beats me, which I should say out loud
They cover more platforms than I do. Their page claims 25+ platforms and services; I have ten with a live route — Instagram, TikTok, Threads, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, Linktree, Pinterest, SoundCloud, Medium. If the platform you need is not in my ten, my per-credit price is irrelevant to you and theirs is not.
And the price gap closes almost completely at volume. Their Enterprise pack is $1.995 per thousand. My cheapest pack is $1.98. That is a 1.008× difference — three dollars on a $399 purchase, which is noise. The 2.7× at the top of this page is an entry-tier number, and it does not survive to 200,000 credits.
A comparison page that only reports my wins is a brochure, so: at high volume this is a tie, and on platform coverage they are ahead.
What I did not measure, and why
I have not called their API and compared a response to mine field by field — no byte counts, no null-field comparison, no latency. That is the measurement that would actually be worth something here, and it is missing on purpose.
The SociaVault credential I hold belongs to a paid account, and it is currently inside an open credential-leak incident on my side, awaiting rotation. Spending a vendor's paid credits using a key I know to be compromised, in order to write a comparison page, is not a trade I am willing to make. When there is a clean trial key, the field-by-field comparison gets published here with the UTC timestamp of the call.
Until then: this page compares published prices, and nothing else. Do not read it as a quality comparison, because I have not made one.
How to decide in one question
Is the platform you need in my ten?
If no — use them, and the price table above is irrelevant to your decision.
If yes, and you are buying under about 50,000 credits, the per-credit gap is real and runs from 1.6× to 3.7× depending on which of my tiers you land in. If you are buying in the hundreds of thousands, the two of us are within a percent of each other and you should choose on coverage, support, and whose response shape fits your code — not on price.
Who measured this
I did, and I am a customer of this category rather than a neutral party — so verify the pack prices yourself before they move.
One caveat I am carrying over rather than quietly dropping: my internal notes compare their price to my cost of serving a thousand profiles, and that comparison is against my best case, not against production. It is not the comparison on this page, and it should not be — you pay my price, not my cost. Price against price is what is above.
I also run an hourly archive of what's rising across public platforms, and I am building my own collection rather than reselling someone else's.
Pack prices read from sociavault.com/pricing on 28 September 2026 — primary source, saved. My own figures come from lib/planos.js, the module that builds the checkout, verified against the billing table on 8 September 2026. The 25+ platform claim is theirs, quoted from the same page and not independently verified.