Best Snapchat data APIs, 2026Every main way to get Snapchat data.Snap’s Public Profile, Marketing and Ads Gallery APIs, Snap Kit and the main Snapchat data APIs, compared on what they return, how they charge and how you connect.
An editorial comparison of what each vendor publishes, checked 25 Sept 2026. Monocrawl is ours and listed first. How we compared
What are you building?
Profiles, subscriber counts and Spotlight views for creator or influencer toolsA data API for any public profile. Snap’s Public Profile API adds creator discovery with audience filters, for partners it allowlists.
Spotlight views, shares and comments for content and brand monitoringAn option that returns a Spotlight’s view and share counts. Monocrawl also returns the comments under it, a page at a time.
A profile’s current Story and saved Highlights, for brand monitoring or archivingAn option that returns Story and Highlight snaps with their media links. Snap’s own API shares Stories only for creators who opt in or authorise you.
An AI agent that looks up Snapchat profiles and SpotlightsAn option whose own MCP server returns Snapchat data, so the agent can call it directly.
Ads shown in the EU, or your own campaigns and their performanceSnap’s Ads Gallery API, which needs no token, for ads delivered in the EU in the last 12 months. For your own ad accounts, its Marketing API.
11options compared
3with an MCP server
7free to start
37sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Four routes
Snap’s Public Profile API is for partners it allowlists, Snap Kit handles login and sharing in your own app, and its ads APIs cover EU ads and your own campaigns. Data APIs read any public profile with an API key.
Snap Public Profile API
Login Kit and Creative Kit
Snap Ads Gallery API and Marketing API
Monocrawl and the vendors below
What they return
What each option lists on its own pages, and how you connect.
| Snapchat data | Connect | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | Profiles | Stories and Highlights | Spotlight videos | Profile Spotlights | Spotlight comments | Search | Ads | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | – | – | – | – | Our API | |||||
| Snap Public Profile APIOfficial, allowlisted partners | – | – | – | 12345 | ||||||
| Snap KitOfficial, Login Kit and Creative Kit | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 678 | ||
| Snap Ads Gallery APIOfficial, ad library | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 910 | ||
| Snap Marketing APIOfficial, advertisers | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11121314 | |||
| ApifySnapchat scraper actors | – | – | – | 1516171819 | ||||||
| Bright DataSnapchat Scraper API | – | – | – | 202122 | ||||||
| EnsembleDataSocial data API | – | – | – | – | – | 232425 | ||||
| PhylloCreator data API | – | – | 26272829 | |||||||
| ReefAPIData API catalogue | – | – | – | 30313233 | ||||||
| ScrapingBeeWeb scraping API | – | – | – | – | 34353637 | |||||
Pricing
A request, a result, a record and a unit are not the same size, and allowances reset on different schedules. Price your own workload with each vendor.
One key and one response format across 70+ platforms, with monitors for alerts.
Monthly plans
No published price Access is allowlist only: Snap enables each OAuth app you create in Business Manager.
Worth knowingCreator discovery filters by followers, Spotlight views in the last 24 hours, country and audience, up to 5,000 creators per query.
No published price
No published price Snap reviews each app before release, typically within 5 to 10 business days.
Worth knowingLogin Kit returns no private messages, shared content or contacts; Creative Kit shares images, videos, stickers and Lenses from your app into Snapchat.
No published price
No published price Snap says its ads library endpoints are open to third parties, with no OAuth token.
Worth knowingNeeds no OAuth token. Besides ads, it lists organic commercial content live on Snapchat, searchable by creator name.
Open to call, with no OAuth token
No published price Open to all developers, through an OAuth app set up in Business Manager.
Worth knowingIts Ads MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini or Antigravity read your Snapchat Ads data, read-only, with no allowlist.
No published price
$2.00 per 1,000 profiles, on every Apify plan
Single Spotlights $1.50 per 1,000, and each run adds $0.001. Starter plan $19 a month.
Worth knowingTwo actors maintained by Apify: one reads profiles with their Stories and Spotlights, the other single Spotlights with view and share counts.
$5 of usage a month
$1.50 per 1,000 records, pay as you go
$499 a month includes 384,000 records, then $1.30 per 1,000.
Worth knowingFour Snapchat scrapers collect Spotlight posts by URL, profile or search URL, and profiles; posts carry view, share and comment counts.
5,000 records a month
$100 a month for 1,500 units a day
Resets daily at 00:00 UTC. A Snapchat user lookup costs 3 units.
Worth knowingOne Snapchat endpoint: a user lookup by username that returns the profile with its current Story, Highlights and Spotlights.
50 units a day on a 7-day trial
Quote priced for your use
Its signup page lists a Startup plan at $399 a month.
Worth knowingReturns Snapchat creator and content data in the same response shape as its Instagram, TikTok and YouTube data.
Free trial with an API sandbox
$15 a month for 10,000 credits, billed monthly
Snapchat calls cost 1 credit each, and credits never expire. $7.50 a month billed yearly.
Worth knowingEight Snapchat actions at 1 credit each, including a creator’s Lenses, lens details and the trending Spotlight feed.
1,000 credits, no card
$19 a month for 75,000 API credits
A request costs 5 credits with JavaScript rendering, its default, and up to 75 with other options; AI extraction adds 5. Prices exclude VAT.
Worth knowingSend a Snapchat profile or Spotlight URL and get the rendered page back, or JSON from AI extraction rules you write.
1,000 free credits
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded response for Red Bull’s public profile, with 1,818,400 subscribers, 16 highlights and 16 Spotlights. No Snapchat login, OAuth app or allowlisting.
GET /v1/snapchat/profilecurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/snapchat/profile?handle=redbull&fresh=true" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"
Red Bull
@redbull
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Profile2 creditsOne Spotlight4 creditsSpotlight comments2 credits2.1sMedian response in our benchmark. 22 September 2026 catalogue benchmark. Median of recorded endpoint timings across 636 operations with a successful HTTP response. Includes network time; individual requests vary.
Questions
Snap’s own APIs are gated or narrow. Its Public Profile API returns metadata and stats for any Public Profile, but only to apps Snap allowlists. Its Marketing API manages your own ads, its Ads Gallery API returns ads delivered in the EU, and Snap Kit handles login and sharing in your app. For public data without Snap’s approval, a data API needs only an API key: with Monocrawl you send your key with a username and get the public profile back.
Snap publishes no price for its APIs. Its Ads Gallery API needs no OAuth token, but covers ads delivered in the EU, and the Public Profile API is allowlist only. For public data, most data APIs let you start free: Monocrawl gives 1,000 credits every month, Bright Data 5,000 records a month, Apify $5 of usage a month, ReefAPI and ScrapingBee 1,000 credits each, and EnsembleData 50 units a day on a 7-day trial. Phyllo offers a free trial with an API sandbox.
You need a Snapchat account, a Snap business account and an OAuth app made in Business Manager; Snap warns that a client ID from its Developer Portal won’t work with this API. Snap then allowlists the app, which it arranges through your Snap point of contact. Public endpoints return basic metadata and stats for any Public Profile; fuller stats need each creator to authorise your app or opt in to data sharing.
Yes. Snap’s Public Profile API gives allowlisted apps public Spotlight views and shares. Monocrawl returns a Spotlight’s view, share, comment, boost and recommend counts from its URL, and the comments under it a page at a time, with author names, times, reply counts and reactions. Apify, Bright Data and ReefAPI also look up single Spotlights, and EnsembleData returns the Spotlights on a profile with view and share counts.
Not with Monocrawl: you send your Monocrawl API key with a Snapchat username or Spotlight URL and get public data back, with no Snapchat login, no OAuth app and no allowlisting. Snap’s Public Profile API, Marketing API and Snap Kit need a Snapchat account and an app, and the Public Profile API also needs Snap to allowlist it.
Monocrawl, Apify and ReefAPI publish their own MCP servers that reach Snapchat data, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly. Bright Data’s and ScrapingBee’s MCP servers have only general scraping tools for Snapchat, which return the page. Snap’s own Ads MCP server is read-only and covers the ad accounts you can already access, not public profiles.
Method
What’s includedSnap’s own Public Profile API, Snap Kit, Ads Gallery API and Marketing API, plus Snapchat data and scraping APIs that come up across Snapchat API searches and comparison lists, list Snapchat data on their own pages, and publish their pricing or offer a trial.
What we comparedWhat each vendor publishes about its Snapchat data, pricing, free allowance and access, read on its own pages. “Best” here means worth comparing, not a ranking from tests: we have not run their APIs.
About MonocrawlMonocrawl is our product and is listed first. Its details come from our live plans and catalogue.
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