Best Threads data APIs, 2026Every main way to get Threads data.Meta’s Threads API, Meta’s research library and the main 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?
Keyword search and replies for brand and topic monitoringAn option with keyword search of public posts and the replies under them. They differ most in how they charge.
Profiles, recent posts and engagement for creators or competitorsA data API for any public account. Meta’s API can also look up public profiles with 100 or more followers once your app passes App Review.
An AI agent that searches and reads ThreadsAn option with an MCP server that reaches Threads data, so the agent can call it directly.
Posting, reply moderation and insights for accounts that log in to your appMeta’s Threads API, which handles publishing, reply moderation and insights for accounts that authorise your app.
Academic or not-for-profit research on public Threads postsMeta Content Library, free for approved researchers. Threads posts are view-only in its web tool.
9options compared
4with an MCP server
6free to start
31sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Three routes
Meta’s Threads API is built for accounts that log in to your app; searching public posts and looking up other profiles need App Review. Its research library is for approved researchers. Data APIs read any public account with an API key.
Meta’s Threads API
Meta Content Library
Monocrawl and the vendors below
What they return
What each option lists on its own pages, and how you connect.
| Threads data | Connect | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | Profiles | Posts | Replies | Post search | Account search | Engagement counts | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | Our API | ||||||||
| Threads APIOfficial, Meta | – | – | 12345 | ||||||
| Meta Content LibraryOfficial, researchers | – | – | – | – | 678 | ||||
| ApifyThreads scraper actors | 910111213 | ||||||||
| Bright DataThreads Scraper API | – | – | – | 141516 | |||||
| Data365Social data API | – | – | – | 171819 | |||||
| EnsembleDataSocial data API | – | 202122 | |||||||
| ReefAPIData API catalogue | 23242526 | ||||||||
| SociaVaultSocial data API | 2728293031 | ||||||||
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 Searching public posts and looking up profiles needs App Review.
Worth knowingUntil Meta approves your app, searches cover only the logged-in user’s own posts, and profile lookups only Meta’s own accounts, such as @meta.
No published price
Free for approved researchers, with no fees for access or computation.
Worth knowingThreads posts are view-only in Meta’s web tool while the dataset is in development, and cannot be downloaded.
Free for approved researchers
$5.00 per 1,000 profiles from Apify’s own scraper
Community actors for posts, search and replies from $2.50 per 1,000 results. Starter plan $19 a month.
Worth knowingApify maintains a Threads profile scraper that includes latest posts; search and replies come from community-maintained actors.
$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 knowingSeparate scrapers for Threads profiles and posts, with proxies, unblocking and parsing included in the record price.
5,000 records a month
€300 a month for one network
500,000 credits included. A Threads post costs 1 credit; a profile 9 and a search 7, plus 1 per post fetched.
Worth knowingCollects live for each request, through tasks you start, check and then fetch; failed tasks are not charged.
14-day trial, on request
$100 a month for 1,500 units a day
Resets daily at 00:00 UTC. Threads posts and replies cost 1 unit each returned; a profile or user search 4.
Worth knowingIts docs say Threads returns at most 10 to 20 posts per keyword search and the latest 20 to 30 posts per account.
50 units a day
$15 a month for 10,000 credits
Threads calls cost 1 credit and search 2, and credits never expire. $7.50 a month billed yearly.
Worth knowingAlso reads an account’s Replies and Reposts tabs; follower and who-liked lists return a refusal, as Threads requires a login.
1,000 credits, no card
$29 for 6,000 credits, one time
Threads calls cost 1 credit each. Credits never expire.
Worth knowingA post lookup also returns its comments; its docs note Threads shows only about the last 20 to 30 posts per account.
50 credits
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded account search for “tech”, which returned Tech Drop Ph (@techdropphilippines) among its matches. No Threads login and no Meta app.
GET /v1/threads/search-userscurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/threads/search-users?query=tech" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"
Tech Drop Ph
@techdropphilippines
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Profile1 creditRecent posts1 creditOne post1 creditReplies to a post7 creditsKeyword search1 creditAccount search1 credit2.1sMedian 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
Meta publishes no price for its Threads API; access is set by permissions and rate limits instead. Each user can send 2,200 keyword searches and 1,000 profile lookups in a rolling 24 hours, and each profile can publish 250 posts in 24 hours. 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 1,000 credits, SociaVault 50 credits and EnsembleData 50 units a day.
Yes, once Meta approves your app for the threads_keyword_search permission. Until then, a search covers only the logged-in user’s own posts. Results can be sorted by top or recent and filtered by topic tag, media type, date or author, up to 100 per request, and Meta returns none for keywords it deems sensitive or offensive.
Only public profiles with at least 100 followers, looked up by exact username. With standard access, lookups return only Meta’s own accounts, such as @meta and @threads; other profiles need advanced access, which Meta grants through App Review. Each user can make 1,000 lookups in a rolling 24 hours, and a public profile’s posts follow the same rules.
Not with Monocrawl: you send your Monocrawl API key and get public Threads data back, with no Threads login and no Meta app. Meta’s API needs a Meta app with the Threads use case, each user’s authorisation through a Threads login and, for users without a role on your app, App Review of every permission.
Monocrawl, Apify, ReefAPI and SociaVault publish their own MCP servers that reach Threads data, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly. Bright Data’s MCP server has only a general scraping tool, which returns the page.
Yes. Meta’s API reads the replies to posts of accounts that log in to your app, and Meta Content Library shows replies to approved researchers. For any public post, Monocrawl returns the replies in pages, and Apify, EnsembleData, ReefAPI and SociaVault list replies too; EnsembleData’s docs say Threads returns at most the 20 to 30 most popular replies.
Method
What’s includedMeta’s Threads API and its research library, plus a selection of Threads data APIs that publish their pricing or offer a trial and come up across Threads API searches and comparison lists.
What we comparedWhat each vendor publishes about its Threads 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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