SocialFetch pricing, features, and alternative

SocialFetch sells prepaid credit packs. Each lookup uses 1 credit on every endpoint, and packs never expire. New accounts get 100 free credits, no card needed.

• —Starter pack. $14 for 1,000 credits, or $14 per 1,000 lookups.
• —$47 pack. 25,000 credits, about $1.88 per 1,000 lookups.
• —$379 pack. About 230,000 credits, about $1.64 per 1,000 lookups. This is the lowest listed rate.
• —Subscription. Saves 8%, but subscription credits reset each month.
• —Failed calls. Infrastructure failures are free.
• —Uptime. 99.8% published, over a rolling 90 days. Live fetches take about 3.2 seconds on average.

Example: 100,000 lookups a month. With $47 packs, that is 4 packs, about $188. The $379 pack covers a little over 2 months at that volume, paid up front.

• —The starter rate. $14 per 1k on the small pack is fourteen times the big-pack rate. You pay a premium for not committing.
• —Prepaid. The good rate needs $379 up front. A balance is money that is spent before it did anything.
• —Live fetch time. Around 3.2 seconds on average, by their own number. Fine for a batch, long for a request a user is waiting on.

• —A published uptime. 99.8 percent on a 90-day window, in public.
• —Tooling. Monitors with signed webhooks, an n8n node, a Make app. We have REST, OpenAPI, MCP, and SDKs. No monitors.
• —Breadth. 21 platforms, including Bluesky, GitHub, Telegram, and Hacker News.
• —Price at volume. About $1.64 per 1k on the biggest pack, against our $2 per 1k above 100k live requests a month. Theirs needs the biggest pack, ours needs no pack.

• —One rate, any amount. You add balance by card, from $10. The rate you get does not depend on how much you bought. Every top-up includes an invoice.
• —Cheaper small volumes. $2.50 per 1k from the first request, not $14.
• —Deeper on five platforms. 45 operations on Instagram, 28 on TikTok, 17 on X, 20 on Reddit, 29 on YouTube.
• —Hard limits. Your balance is the limit. You can also set a monthly request cap on each key.
• —Same honesty on billing. Failed requests are free, a not-found answer is billed. Same rule both sides.

1. 01Start with a Test key. Create a Test key in the dashboard. Use the synthetic identifiers in the quickstart to validate your integration without charges.
2. 02Map your calls. Match your required data to the API reference. Check endpoint coverage, parameters, and returned fields before switching. Keep unsupported operations with your current provider. The table below lists common Openhandle calls.
3. 03Update paths, parameters, and authentication. Use https://api.openhandle.dev/v1 with Authorization: Bearer followed by your key. Update each endpoint path and parameter using the API reference. Profile usernames need an @ prefix in REST paths. Use the documented identifier for each post.
4. 04Map response fields. Successful responses contain platform, resource, capturedAt, source, and data. Map shared fields and platform-specific fields using the response schemas. Keep unavailable metrics as null.
5. 05Handle pagination and errors. Pass meta.cursors.next back as cursor for list requests. Cursors from another provider cannot be reused. Handle Openhandle error codes and retry only when retryable is true. See pagination and errors.
6. 06Set a cap. Pick a monthly spending cap before you go live. We stop before it, so a bad loop cannot run up a bill.
7. 07Validate before switching. Check success, empty, private, and not-found cases with a Test key. Then move to Live and compare a small sample with your current provider before switching production traffic.