TikHub vs Apify

TikHub charges per request, from $0.001 down to $0.0005 at 30k+ daily requests, with discounts applied automatically. There is no subscription; you top up credits. Enterprise tiers start around $3,000.

Apify combines a plan ($0, $29, $199, $999 per month, each including that amount of usage) with metered compute: one compute unit is 1 GB of RAM for one hour, at $0.13-$0.20 per unit depending on plan. Store actors add their own pricing on top: some charge per result, some just consume your compute.

The practical difference: TikHub costs are predictable per request. Apify costs depend on how efficiently an actor runs; a slow actor bills more compute for the same data. Estimating Apify cost per 1,000 posts requires testing the specific actor you plan to use.

TikHub is deepest on TikTok and Douyin, with over a thousand endpoints across its 16 platforms. Responses mirror the platforms' internal payloads: you get a lot of fields, but the shape differs per platform, and your code must handle each one separately.

Apify's coverage is as broad as its marketplace: if a platform can be scraped, an actor probably exists. But each actor defines its own output schema, its own parameters, and its own quality bar. Two Instagram actors can return different fields for the same profile. Switching actors means rewriting your parsing.

TikHub is one vendor operating its own endpoints; when a platform changes, the fix applies to everyone. Apify actors are maintained by individual authors: popular actors are patched quickly, long-tail actors can stay broken for weeks. Check an actor's last-updated date and issue tracker before depending on it.