SocialScrape and Bright Data, side by side
| SocialScrape | Bright Data | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | One-time packs and monthly plans. | Pay per successful record. Social scrapers sit under the same plans as the rest of the Web Scraper API. Source |
| Entry price | Starter pack: $15 for 5,000 credits ($3.00 per 1,000). Starter plan: $15 a month for 6,500 ($2.31 per 1,000). | Pay as you go: $1.50 per 1,000 records. Scale: $499 a month with 384,000 records included, then $1.30 per 1,000. Source |
| Free to try | 100 credits on signup, no card. | Free tier: 5,000 records a month, no card. Source |
| Platforms | 173 endpoints across 28 platforms and sources, all in beta. | Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn and YouTube in the intro; Reddit, Pinterest, Vimeo, Snapchat and Quora in the scraper list. Source |
Also on their page. One call takes up to 5,000 target URLs. Output as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, delivered by API, webhook, cloud storage, Snowflake or SFTP. Source
Where Bright Data fits better
- Built for bulk: up to 5,000 URLs in one call, delivered to cloud storage, a webhook, Snowflake or SFTP.
- A free tier of 5,000 records a month, against our one-time 100 credits.
Where SocialScrape fits better
- A $15 pack starts smaller than Bright Data's $499 a month Scale plan. Its pay-as-you-go rate is $1.50 per 1,000 records, below our per-credit prices.
- Small, interactive calls: a profile or a page of posts for 1 credit.
Other alternatives
- Data365. A monthly-subscription social media data API sold by number of networks.
- EnsembleData. A daily-units API for scraping posts, profiles, comments and hashtags.
- PhantomBuster. A no-code automation tool that runs scripts called Phantoms, billed by execution time.
Pricing is on the pricing page. The short version is SocialScrape vs Bright Data.