A TikAPI alternative without a daily cap
LurkAPI is a social media data API that covers TikTok profiles, videos, comments, search and transcripts. TikAPI sells requests by the day, so 20,000 profiles take 10 days on its $79 plan. Here they take 67 minutes and $18.
100,000 TikTok calls cost $189 a month on TikAPI and $59 here
TikAPI
$79$189CustomCustom
Pro plan, a monthBusiness plan, a montha sales calla sales call
LurkAPI
$9$59$225$450
Starter packGrowth packScale pack2 × Scale packs
$70 less for the same 10,000 TikTok profiles$130 less for the same 100,000 TikTok profilesOnly a sales call prices 500,000 TikTok profiles on TikAPIOnly a sales call prices 1,000,000 TikTok profiles on TikAPI
- Every plan also caps bandwidth, 5 GB a month on Business, and one page of 30 posts is about 657 KB of JSON. Past the cap, every call gets a 429 until your plan renews, or you pay $12 a GB.
100,000 calls a month is 3,334 a day, more than Pro's 2,000, so you need Business. Unused requests never carry over. LurkAPI starts at $9, and credits never expire.
TikTok answers in under a second
TikAPI publishes no response times. These are LurkAPI's, from real calls in production.
Ours: the median of successful calls in production over the 7 days to October 26, 2026.
- A creator's videos0.61 s
- A video's transcript0.54 s
- Keyword search0.95 s
What comes with LurkAPI, next to TikAPI
MCP, free credits and billing as each one's own pages put them, and the 16 platforms one key reads.
| Feature | LurkAPI | TikAPI |
|---|---|---|
| A remote MCP server | ||
| Claude and ChatGPT sign in, with no key to paste | ||
| Free credits every day, no card | ||
| Credits that never expire | ||
| No monthly plan to buy | ||
| Response times on its own site |
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 TikAPI'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 TikAPI alternatives, compared
What 100,000 TikTok profiles cost on each.
LurkAPI
$59Growth pack
TikTok transcripts, TikTok Shop and the TikTok Ad Library, which TikAPI doesn't sell. Credits never expire.
Bright Data
$150Pay as you go
Ready-made TikTok scrapers, billed per record: a page of 15 videos is 15 records.
ScrapeCreators
$1884 × $47 packs
Cached answers up to 30 days old are free.
EnsembleData
$200/moBronze plan
Sold by the day too: its units reset at midnight UTC.
SociaVault
$307Pro + Growth + Starter packs
TikTok followers, following and audience demographics.
Each price is the cheapest published buy of 100,000 TikTok profiles, as of October 31, 2026.
Questions before you switch
- How much does TikAPI cost?
- $29, $79 or $189 a month for 300, 2,000 or 10,000 requests a day, about 17% less billed yearly. Anything bigger is priced by its sales team.
- Is TikAPI free?
- Only for a 5-day trial of Starter (300 requests a day), which then bills $29 a month unless you cancel. LurkAPI gives 100 free credits, no card.
- When does TikAPI's limit reset?
- There's no fixed time: it counts your last 24 hours, so each request frees up a day after you made it. Bandwidth resets only when your plan renews.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to TikAPI?
- Yes. On LurkAPI, 100,000 TikTok calls cost $59 once instead of $189 a month, with no daily cap.
Run your TikAPI calls on LurkAPI, free
100 credits, no card, no daily cap.