Best TikTok data APIs, 2026Every main way to get TikTok data.TikTok’s Display, Research and Commercial Content APIs 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?
Profiles, videos and follower lists for creator or influencer toolsA data API for any public account. To show creators’ own accounts after they log in, TikTok’s Display API.
Keyword search and comments for social listeningAn option with keyword search and comments. They differ most in how they charge.
Hashtags, sounds and search for trend researchAn option that covers hashtags and sounds as well as keyword search.
An AI agent that looks things upAn option with an MCP server, so the agent can call it directly.
Academic research, or research into ads shown in the EUTikTok’s Research API, for approved non-commercial researchers. For EU ads, its Commercial Content API.
13options compared
7with an MCP server
9free to start
44sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Four routes
TikTok’s Display API covers users who log in to your app. Its Research API is for approved researchers, and its Commercial Content API covers ads shown in the EU. Data APIs read any public account.
TikTok Display API and Login Kit
TikTok Research API
TikTok Commercial Content API
Monocrawl and the vendors below
What they return
What each option lists on its own pages, and how you connect.
| TikTok data | Connect | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | Profiles | Videos | Comments | Search | Hashtags | Sounds | Followers | Transcripts | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | Our API | ||||||||||
| TikTok Display APIOfficial, TikTok | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12345 | |||
| TikTok Research APIOfficial, researchers | – | 678910 | |||||||||
| TikTok Commercial Content APIOfficial, ad library | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1112 | |||
| ApifyTikTok Scraper actor | 13141516 | ||||||||||
| Bright DataTikTok Scraper API | – | – | 1718192021 | ||||||||
| Data365Social data API | – | – | 222324 | ||||||||
| EnsembleDataSocial data API | – | – | 252627 | ||||||||
| LamaTokTikTok API | – | 282930 | |||||||||
| SociaVaultSocial data API | 3132333435 | ||||||||||
| TikAPITikTok API | – | – | 3637 | ||||||||
| VirloShort-form video API | – | – | – | 3839404142 | |||||||
| XpozAgent data tool | – | – | – | 4344 | |||||||
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 Your app needs approval for Login Kit and the Display API.
Worth knowingShows a TikTok user’s own profile and videos in your app once they log in with TikTok.
No published price
No published price Access is by approved application only.
Up to 1,000 requests and 100,000 records a day.
Worth knowingVideo search runs on archived data: new videos can take up to 48 hours to appear, and counts up to 10 days to update.
No published price
No published price Apply online. TikTok says it replies within 2 working days.
Worth knowingAd data stays available until a year after the ad was last shown.
No published price
$3.70 per 1,000 results on the free plan
From $1.70 on higher plans. Starter plan $19 a month.
Worth knowingRuns can be scheduled and exported. Comments, followers and transcripts are paid add-ons.
$5 of usage a month
$1.50 per 1,000 records, pay as you go
$499 a month includes 384,000 records.
Worth knowingScrapes live on each request. Keyword discovery runs as a background job you collect later.
5,000 records a month
€300 a month for one network
500,000 credits included.
Worth knowingCollects live through tasks you start, check and then fetch, with 1 to 5 minutes of latency.
14-day trial, on request
$100 a month for 1,500 units a day
Resets daily at 00:00 UTC. A TikTok profile costs 1 unit; 20 search results cost 1 unit.
Worth knowingNeeds no TikTok account: every endpoint reads public data.
50 units a day
$1 per 1,000 requests on its popular plan
$0.60 per 1,000 at volume. No subscription.
Worth knowingBills successful responses only, from a prepaid balance that never expires.
100 requests, after Telegram verification
$29 for 6,000 credits, one time
Most TikTok calls cost 1 credit. Credits never expire.
Worth knowingAlso covers TikTok Shop, audience countries and Creative Center top ads.
50 credits
$29 a month for 300 requests a day
Includes 500 MB of bandwidth. Pro is $79 a month for 2,000 requests a day.
Worth knowingAlso reads data from TikTok accounts that connect through its own OAuth login.
5-day trial on Starter
$0.50 per creator lookup, from a prepaid balance
Hashtag stats from $0.05 a call. The balance never expires.
Worth knowingAlso covers YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels, with lookups that return stats, standout videos, sounds and trends.
Starter credits for new accounts
$20 a month for 7,500 credits
A TikTok query costs 5 credits.
Worth knowingTracks keywords and accounts for you, and searches post text and video transcripts.
500 credits, once
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded response for Gymshark’s public profile. No TikTok login and no TikTok developer app.
GET /v1/tiktok/profilecurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/tiktok/profile?handle=gymshark" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"
Gymshark
@gymshark
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Profile1 creditRecent videos1 creditComments on a video1 creditKeyword search2 creditsHashtag videos1 creditVideos using a sound1 creditFollowers1 creditVideo transcript5 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
TikTok publishes no price for its official APIs, but each is narrow: the Display API reads only users who log in to your app, the Research API is for approved non-commercial researchers and the Commercial Content API covers ads shown in the EU. 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, Xpoz 500 credits once, LamaTok 100 requests, SociaVault 50 credits and EnsembleData 50 units a day.
No. TikTok says creators, advertisers and commercial users are not eligible. Access is for academic institutions in the U.S., EEA, UK, Canada or Switzerland, not-for-profit research bodies in the EU and youth-safety researchers in Brazil, and each project needs approval. Approved access is capped at 1,000 requests a day.
The Display API can’t: it reads the profile and public videos of users who log in to your app with Login Kit and grant the scopes you ask for. The Research API can query public accounts and videos, but only for approved researchers, and new videos can take up to 48 hours to reach its search.
Not with Monocrawl: you send your Monocrawl API key and get public data back, with no TikTok login and no developer app. TikTok’s official APIs need a TikTok for Developers account and approval, and the Display API also needs each user to authorise your app.
Monocrawl, Apify, Bright Data, LamaTok, SociaVault, Virlo and Xpoz publish their own MCP servers, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly.
Yes. Monocrawl returns a video’s spoken words as text when the video has captions. Apify’s TikTok Scraper can transcribe videos with speech-to-text as a paid add-on, SociaVault can fall back to AI when no transcript exists, Xpoz returns transcripts on posts, and TikTok’s Research API includes voice-to-text for approved researchers.
Method
What’s includedTikTok’s official Display, Research and Commercial Content APIs, plus a selection of widely used TikTok data APIs that publish their pricing or offer a trial and come up across TikTok API searches and comparison lists.
What we comparedWhat each vendor publishes about its TikTok 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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