Pricing

API Direct uses a pay-per-request pricing model. There are no monthly fees, subscriptions, or minimum commitments.

Free Tier

Every account gets free requests per endpoint per month — 50 for most endpoints, 20 for Places Search, Place Reviews, and Place Photos. No credit card required. Free requests reset on the 1st of each month.

Endpoint Pricing

Prices range from $0.002 to $0.01 per request depending on the endpoint.

Twitter / X

Facebook

Instagram

Threads

Truth Social

Bluesky

TikTok

Reddit

YouTube

Google

Google Places

Amazon

Trustpilot

How Billing Works

• You are only charged for answered requests: 2xx responses, plus 404s, Instagram’s 403 with code private_account or limited_account, and a 400 for an Instagram post URL or code that Instagram itself rejects as invalid (each a definitive answer about what you asked for, billed as one request whatever pages you set)
• Other failed requests (4xx, 5xx) are not billed
• For multi-page endpoints (most Twitter and Facebook endpoints, Reddit Comments, YouTube, Instagram Posts, Instagram User Posts, Instagram User Followers, Instagram User Following, Instagram Post Comments, Instagram Comment Replies, Instagram Hashtag Posts, Truth Social User Posts, Bluesky (all paginated endpoints), TikTok Search Videos, TikTok Search Users, Web Search, Places Search, Place Reviews, Place Photos, Trustpilot Company Reviews), you are billed per page requested
• Batch requests are free — each item inside a batch bills under its own endpoint at the rates above, exactly as a direct call (items the batch never attempts are not billed; a failed item is billed only when the same direct call would be, such as a 404)
• Charges accumulate and are billed when your balance reaches a threshold

Add-ons

Emotion Analysis

Add get_sentiment=true to any endpoint that returns posts, videos, comments, or reviews to include AI-powered emotion analysis using Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions. Each result receives scores (0-100) for 8 basic emotions (joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation), a dominant emotion, emotional intensity (0-10), and overall polarity (positive, negative, or neutral).

Cost: +$0.001 per request on top of the base endpoint price. For multi-page endpoints, this applies per page.

Adding a Payment Method

To use the API beyond the free tier, add a credit or debit card in your billing dashboard. You can also set spending limits to control your costs.