The best social media scraping API for high-volume data pipelines (2026)

I build crawlfeed, and at high volume it’s the most expensive option on this page. Here’s the math, so you can skip it if price per call is what you’re optimizing.

Price at volume

Provider	Best for	Price at volume	Billing
ScrapeCreators	prepaid volume	$0.99 per 1k ($497 for 500k)	Prepaid, never expires
EnsembleData	steady daily volume	About $0.93 per 1k units ($1,400 a month)	Monthly, daily units reset
Bright Data	records with delivery	$1.30 per 1k ($499 a month)	Monthly or pay-as-you-go
Data365	one network, many posts	About €0.60 per 1k post credits (€300 a month)	Monthly
crawlfeed (mine)	normalized data, not volume	$2.33 per 1k ($349 for 150k)	Prepaid, never expires

Read the unit, not just the number

EnsembleData units cost 1 to 10 per request, so a detailed profile can cost ten times the headline. Data365 charges 9 credits for a profile and 7 for a search. Bright Data and Apify price per record, and a crawlfeed call can return a whole page. Price your actual request mix, not the cheapest line on each sheet.

1. ScrapeCreators

Best for: prepaid volume
Price: $1.88 to $0.99 per 1k, prepaid
Billing: Prepaid, never expires

$0.99 per 1k on the $497 pack, cache hits free, no expiry and no enforced rate limit.

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2. EnsembleData

Best for: steady daily pipelines
Price: $100+ a month, about $2.22 to $0.93 per 1k units
Billing: Monthly, daily units reset

The lowest unit price at the top plan, if your volume is the same every day. Unused daily units don’t roll over.

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3. Bright Data

Best for: records delivered to storage
Price: $1.50 to $1.30 per 1k records
Billing: Monthly or pay-as-you-go

$1.30 per 1k records on Scale, charged only for successful results, delivered where you want them.

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4. Data365

Best for: many posts from one network
Price: €300 a month for 1 network, 500k credits
Billing: Monthly, in EUR

Very cheap per post on one network. Profiles and searches cost 7 to 9 credits each, so it’s less cheap for those.

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5. crawlfeedMine

Best for: normalized data where volume is moderate
Price: From $19 prepaid; $7.60 to $2.33 per 1k calls
Billing: Prepaid, never expires

At $2.33 per 1k on the largest pack, crawlfeed costs more than everything above. It only makes sense at volume if the unified schema saves you more engineering time than the price difference costs.

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My pick

Bursty volume: ScrapeCreators. Flat daily volume: EnsembleData. Need delivery and compliance: Bright Data. Not crawlfeed, unless the schema is worth the premium to you.

What I’d do today

Export last month’s requests by type: profile, post, comments, search.
Price that exact mix on each sheet, counting multi-unit endpoints.
Run a 10,000-call pilot on the winner before you sign anything annual.

Questions

What’s the cheapest social media API at scale?

Per call, ScrapeCreators ($0.99 per 1k prepaid) and EnsembleData (about $0.93 per 1k units on its top plan). Per record with delivery, Bright Data at $1.30.

Why is crawlfeed more expensive?

Much of its data comes from third-party providers, and it adds normalization and failover on top. You pay for that layer.

Try crawlfeed

100 free credits, no card. Credits are prepaid and never expire, so a quiet month costs nothing. Run your real workload through it for a week. If another tool on this page fits better, use that one.

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I checked prices and features for every product here in October 2026, on each vendor’s own site: ScrapeCreators, EnsembleData pricing, Bright Data pricing, Data365 pricing. Pricing in this market changes often, so check before you buy. Spotted something out of date? Tell me and I’ll fix it.