SignalCompare SignalShelf with other social and web data APIs
Honest, sourced comparisons. Competitor prices are quoted from their public pricing pages with the date we read them. Speed claims only where we measured: so far, ScrapeCreators.
Speed benchmark
On 3 November 2026 we sent the same requests through our real app and to ScrapeCreators’ API: median 1.44 s vs 3.96 s across 119 endpoints both answered; we were faster on 102. Method, every endpoint and the raw JSON are public.
All comparisons
Pricing read 3 November 2026. SignalShelf: $0.95 to $0.50 per 1,000 credits, most endpoints 1 credit, 1,000 free credits + 5,000 to earn.
| Compare with | What they are | Their published pricing | Speed measured? |
|---|---|---|---|
| ScrapeCreators | Social data API | $47 / 21k credits ($1.88 per 1k) to $0.99 per 1k at 500k | Yes |
| Outscraper | Google Maps & web data | $3 per 1k places, then $1 per 1k after 100k | No |
| Apify | Scraper marketplace | $1.50–$2.70 per 1k Instagram results + plan | No |
| Bright Data | Scraping infrastructure & datasets | $1.50 per 1k records PAYG; $1.30 on Scale | No |
| EnsembleData | Social data API | $100/mo for 1,500 units/day and up | No |
| Data365 | Async social data API | €300/mo for 500k credits and up | No |
| SerpApi | Search-engine results API | $25 per 1k searches to $3.75 per 1k | No |
| Modash | Creator discovery & analytics | From $10,000/yr (Raw API) | No |
| Phyllo | Consented creator data | Not published | No |
| ScraperAPI | Generic scraping API | $49/mo for 100k credits; Google 25 credits each | No |
| ZenRows | Generic scraping API | $19/mo for 41k credits; up to 25 credits per page | No |
| SocialKit | Social & video API | $2.42 to $1.40 per 1k credits | No |
Other options worth knowing
RapidAPI: many social media scraper APIs on the RapidAPI Hub are run by independent providers. Each listing sets its own plans (typically BASIC, PRO, ULTRA, MEGA with quotas and overage fees), uses X-RapidAPI-Key and X-RapidAPI-Host headers, and has its own reliability. Rapid charges providers a 25% marketplace fee. Nokia acquired Rapid’s technology assets. Compare listings one by one.
Lobstr.io: a no-code-first scraper marketplace with async jobs, from $20/mo for 10,000 results (1 credit per unique result). It’s closer to Apify than to a request-by-request API.
How we write these pages
We quote competitor prices from their own public pages and list the URL and date on every page. When a number isn’t published, we say so. We only claim speed where we ran a benchmark, and we say where competitors are stronger. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.