# ScrapeCreators vs TikHub

Credit packs against pay-per-request: two developer-focused social scraping APIs compared on price, depth, and limits.

Checked August 2026. Public pricing pages. No affiliate links.

ScrapeCreators and TikHub both sell raw social data to developers with pay-as-you-go pricing and no subscriptions. ScrapeCreators is broader across Western platforms with flat one-credit pricing. TikHub is deeper on TikTok and Douyin with cheaper per-request rates and more endpoints. The right pick mostly follows your platform mix.

## At a glance

| Criteria | ScrapeCreators | TikHub | Openhandle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 100 credits, then prepaid packs | ~50 requests at sign-up, then prepaid top-ups | 100 free requests, no card |
| Pricing model | Prepaid packs, paid up front. Credits never expire | Prepaid per-request credits. Discounts only past a daily volume | Pay after use. No credits, no subscription |
| Effective rate | ~$1.88 per 1k ($47 pack). ~$0.99 per 1k needs the $497 pack | $1.00 per 1k. $0.50 per 1k needs 30k+ calls per day | $3 per 1k, down to $1.50 per 1k at volume. 30-day cache hits are free |
| Credits per call | 1 credit per call, prepaid. Cached results free | Credit weights change per endpoint | No credits. One answer, one request |
| Platform depth | 22 TikTok and 19 Instagram endpoints, plus 34 other platforms, each its own API | Deep on TikTok and Douyin, with TikTok split into web, app, and ads APIs. Thinner on Instagram and X, plus 12 more platforms | 45 Instagram, 28 TikTok, and 17 X endpoints. More platforms and data added by demand |
| Depth | 22 TikTok endpoints, 19 Instagram, each with its own shape | Deepest on TikTok and Douyin. 1,000+ endpoints in all, with mixed credit weights | 28 TikTok endpoints in one API, web and app combined. Ads routes soon |
| Rate limits | No limit published | 10 RPS by default. More needs a tier upgrade | 10 per second per key. Higher on request |
| Support | Direct from the founder. Small vendor, no SLA published | Discord community, no named person | Direct support from our team through Crisp and email |

Figures from public pricing pages, August 2026.

## Pricing

TikHub's headline rate is roughly half of ScrapeCreators' at every volume: $0.001 per request falling to $0.0005 with automatic daily volume discounts, against ScrapeCreators' ~$0.00188 falling to ~$0.00099 in its largest listed pack. ScrapeCreators counters with two mechanics: credits never expire, and cached results cost nothing. A workload that re-reads the same profiles can close the gap; a firehose of unique lookups will not.

## Coverage

ScrapeCreators covers more of the Western social stack in one key: LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, Reddit, transcripts, and ad libraries alongside TikTok and Instagram. TikHub covers fewer platforms but goes deeper, including Douyin, the Chinese TikTok, which almost no Western competitor touches, and exposes over a thousand endpoints.

Neither normalizes across platforms: both return payloads close to each platform's internal shapes, so your parsing is per-platform on either.

## Verdicts

- **TikTok or Douyin at volume.** TikHub. Deeper endpoints and roughly half the per-request price.
- **Multi-platform Western coverage under one key.** ScrapeCreators, especially with LinkedIn or Facebook in the mix.
- **Re-reading the same targets often.** ScrapeCreators. Free cache hits change the math.
- **Bursty scraping.** check TikHub's RPS tier fits your burst; ScrapeCreators advertises no rate limits.

## How we checked

Pricing and platform claims come from scrapecreators.com and tikhub.io public pages, read in August 2026. Vendors change pricing; check their pages before deciding. Tell us about an error and we will correct it.