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API pricing

TikTok API pricing
in 2026.
Costs, limits and access.

TikTok charges nothing for its APIs, TikTok Shop included. The catch: the one API that reads other accounts is for academic research only. Pick a job to see what it takes.

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  • 1 credita page of videos
  • 0research applications
  • Anypublic account
Research API
  1. Academic or non-profit researcher
  2. A research proposal
  3. TikTok’s approval
  4. Refresh the data every 30 days

Not for commercial use

Monocrawl
  1. One API key
  2. tiktok/profile-videos

1 credit a page

Official routes checked 26 September 2026.TikTok: Research API FAQ

Before your first call

What it takes
to read another account.

The Research API is the only official route to other accounts’ videos, comments and followers.

TikTok Research API
  1. Academic or non-profit researcher
  2. In the US, EEA, UK, Canada or Switzerland
  3. A research proposal
  4. TikTok’s approval
  5. Refresh the data every 30 days
  6. No commercial use
Monocrawl
  1. Free API key, no card
  2. Call any public account or shop

The official tiers

Every API is $0.
Access is the price.

TikTok’s terms say it does not currently charge, and keep the right to start.

  • Research API

    $0

    Approved research projects only

    • Videos, comments, followers, transcripts
    • 1,000 requests a day
    • No commercial use

  • Display API

    $0

    App review required

    • The logged-in user’s own videos
    • 600 requests a minute
    • Nobody else’s data

  • API for Business

    No fee

    Companies only; ad spend separate

    • Your own accounts and ads
    • Brand mentions, 24–48 hours late
    • Creator search: 50 a day

  • Shop Open API

    $0

    Partner Center sign-up

    • Shops that authorise your app
    • No lookup of other shops
    • Limits scale with your shops

What it reads

What each API reads.
Mostly your own account.

Green reads it, amber with conditions, grey can’t.

JobResearch APIDisplay APIAPI for BusinessShop Open APIMonocrawl
Another account’s videosLimitedAcademics onlyNoNoNoYes
Comments on a videoLimitedAcademics onlyNoNoNoYes
Followers and followingLimitedAcademics onlyNoNoNoYes
Video transcriptsLimitedAcademics onlyNoNoNoYes
Products from any shopLimitedEU shops, academics onlyNoNoLimitedShops that authorise youYes
Trending hashtagsNoNoYesTop 20 videos eachNoYes

The rules

The rules
that come with it.

From TikTok’s developer, research and TikTok Shop terms.

What changed

What changed
since 2025.

Who gets access keeps changing. The price hasn’t.

  1. Shop terms updated: still no charge.

    TikTok Shop Developer Terms

  2. Creator Marketplace API replaced by TikTok One.

    TikTok: TikTok One API

  3. TikTok One capped at 50 creator searches a day.

    TikTok: TikTok One rate limits

  4. New Research API terms; a US version for US researchers.

    TikTok Research API terms (US)

  5. Research data covers all public videos.

    TikTok developer changelog

  6. Business API Accounts scope needs an application.

    TikTok: Accounts API

On Monocrawl

The same jobs,
priced per call.

No research application, no company verification, no shop authorisation. One key, any public account or shop, and 150 free credits to start.

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Recorded 26 Sep 2026: NASA’s videos from tiktok/profile-videos, 15 for 1 credit.

  1. 50 years ago today, we introduced Enterprise. 🚀 NASA’s first Space Shuttle orbiter never flew to space, but the tests it performed helped make the shuttle missions that followed possible.

    129,8009,59930543817 Sept 2026

  2. Turns out you can dance in space! 🪩🕺💫🛰️ Microgravity just unlocked some new moves.

    616,10090,4001,7894,73216 Sept 2026

  3. We’re going back to the Moon. This time, to stay. 🌙 Since announcing plans for a Moon Base in March, NASA has been moving quickly to turn that vision into reality. No aim too high. No journey too far.

    472,90040,6008303,0899 Sept 2026

  4. Roman’s first images will be so large and detailed, you’d need a 4K TV the size of 45 city blocks to display just one. 🤯 The telescope is traveling 1 million miles from Earth, with its first images expected in early 2027. 🔭

    270,20013,7002653924 Sept 2026
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Questions

TikTok API pricing,
answered.

Does the TikTok API cost money?

No. TikTok’s developer terms say it does not currently charge for its developer services, and the TikTok Shop terms say the same. Both keep the right to charge in future.

Can a business use the TikTok Research API?

No. It is for non-commercial academic research, and TikTok’s FAQ says creators, advertisers and commercial users do not qualify.

Can I get another account’s videos or comments from TikTok’s API?

Only through the Research API. The Display API reads the logged-in user’s own videos, and the Business API reads your own accounts plus brand mentions.

Is the TikTok Shop API free?

Yes, but it reads only the shops that authorise your app. It has no search across other shops’ products or prices.

What are the TikTok API rate limits?

The Research API allows 1,000 requests and 100,000 records a day. The Display API allows 600 requests a minute per endpoint. The Business API starts at 10 queries a second.

What does Monocrawl cost for TikTok?

1 credit for a page of videos or comments, 2 for a page of TikTok Shop products. You start with 150 free credits; Starter is $29 for 10,000.

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TikTok data without a research application.
1 credit a page of videos.

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