An EnsembleData alternative without a daily limit
LurkAPI is a social media data API. EnsembleData sells units by the day and wipes them at midnight UTC, so you pay for your busiest day. Here you buy calls once and use them whenever.
A 10,000-profile Monday costs $400 a month on EnsembleData, $36 here
EnsembleData
$200$400$800$1,400
Bronze plan, a monthSilver plan, a monthGold plan, a monthPlatinum plan, a month
LurkAPI
$9$36$59$118
Starter pack4 × Starter packsGrowth pack2 × Growth packs
$191 less for the same 10,000 TikTok profiles over 4 Mondays$364 less for the same 40,000 TikTok profiles over 4 Mondays$741 less for the same 100,000 TikTok profiles over 4 Mondays$1,282 less for the same 200,000 TikTok profiles over 4 Mondays
- Once a day's units are spent, every call fails until 00:00 UTC.
Pull 10,000 TikTok profiles every Monday and you need its 11,000-a-day plan, while six days a week sit idle. An Instagram profile costs 3 to 10 units there and 1 credit here.
Answers in under a second
EnsembleData's home page says its answers take under 3 seconds on average. Here, a typical call answers in 0.63 s.
Ours: the median of successful calls in production over the 7 days to October 26, 2026.
- TikTok videos0.61 s
- TikTok search0.95 s
- Instagram profile0.42 s
- YouTube search0.41 s
- Reddit subreddit0.92 s
What comes with LurkAPI, next to EnsembleData
MCP, free credits and billing as each one's own pages put them, and the 16 platforms one key reads.
| Feature | LurkAPI | EnsembleData |
|---|---|---|
| A remote MCP server | ||
| Claude and ChatGPT sign in, with no key to paste | ||
| Credits that never expire | ||
| No monthly plan to buy | ||
| Free credits every day, no card | ||
| Billed per call, not per item returned |
88 endpoints on 16 platforms
- TikTok17
- Facebook9
- Reddit5
- YouTube8
- Google8
- Bluesky3
- Snapchat1
- Truth Social3
- Telegram3
- X (Twitter)3
- Threads3
- Instagram8
- LinkedIn7
- Link-in-bio1
- eBay2
- Web7
Every endpoint and its price
TikTok
YouTube
Bluesky
Snapchat
Truth Social
Telegram
X (Twitter)
Threads
Link-in-bio
eBay
Web
Try it on your own calls in a minute
100 free credits, no card. Run one call right here, or let your AI set LurkAPI up for you.
This is EnsembleData's own example. Run it here.
Or let your AI set it up
Paste one prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code and it connects LurkAPI for you.
Other EnsembleData alternatives, compared
What 100,000 profile lookups a month cost on each.
LurkAPI
$59Growth pack
No daily limit, and packs that never expire. Facebook, LinkedIn and the ad libraries too.
HikerAPI
$100Standard, for Instagram profiles
Instagram only, but 120 endpoints deep, paid per request from a prepaid balance.
ScrapeCreators
$1884 × $47 packs
193 endpoints across 20 platforms, in packs that never expire.
TikAPI
$189/moBusiness plan, for TikTok profiles
TikTok only, and it can act as a signed-in account. It caps requests per day too.
Each price is the cheapest published buy of 100,000 profile lookups, as of October 31, 2026.
Questions before you switch
- How much does EnsembleData cost?
- $100 to $1,400 a month, for 1,500 to 50,000 units a day. A free trial gives 50 units a day.
- Do EnsembleData units roll over?
- No. Unused units vanish at 00:00 UTC, and once a day's units are spent, every call fails until then.
- What is a unit on EnsembleData?
- Its price for one call, which varies: 1 for a TikTok profile, 2 for a YouTube channel, 10 for an Instagram profile with its 12 latest posts.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to EnsembleData?
- Yes. On LurkAPI, 100,000 calls cost $59 with no daily limit; on EnsembleData they take a $200 to $1,400 monthly plan, depending on the calls.
Run your EnsembleData calls on LurkAPI, free
100 credits, no card. Move the token into a header and compare.