Social Fetch vs Ayrshare
Ayrshare lets your product publish, schedule, and moderate on behalf of connected social accounts — OAuth into the user's networks, then post. Social Fetch reads public social data without posting rights. One is a write/management API. The other is a read/enrichment API.
- Primary verb
- Read public profiles, posts, comments, transcriptsPost, schedule, analyze, and moderate connected accounts
- Auth model
- Your API key; public data onlyEnd-user OAuth / connected social profiles
- Billing unit
- Credits per completed lookupActive social profiles (customer/brand slots), monthly
Teams running monitoring, research, and enrichment pipelines
Why Social Fetch
Why teams switch from Ayrshare.
What changes when your social lookups move to one REST API.
One API for 25 platforms
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, X and more behind one key and one schema — no separate Ayrshare setup per network.
Pricing you can reason about
One completed lookup, one price. Failed lookups aren't billed, so you know how far a balance goes.
JSON in the same request
Fetched live when you ask and returned in the response — ~3.2s on average, no job to poll.
No scraper maintenance
We handle proxies, browser changes, and platform breakages.
Built for production jobs
Run concurrent workloads with explicit statuses and request IDs.
Pay as you go, or save monthly
Start with 100 free credits and no subscription. Pay-as-you-go credits never expire; running lookups every month? A monthly plan gets you lower per-credit rates.
What teams build with Social Fetch
Monitoring, enrichment, research and content workflows — the jobs teams run on Ayrshare, as plain API calls.
Monitor brands and competitors
Watch accounts on a schedule and get a signed webhook when something new posts.
Find and vet creators
Check reach and engagement before you reach out.
Turn video into searchable text
Transcribe and index video and audio content so you can find the exact moment you need.
Track public communities
Follow the subreddits, groups, and channels where your audience talks.
Per-profile publishing plans vs per-lookup read credits
Ayrshare bills by active social profiles: Premium $149/mo, Launch $299/mo, Business from $599/mo. Social Fetch bills read credits — Scale $379/230k ($1.64/1k). Different verbs.
Cheapest paid plan
- Social Fetch
- $1.35/1k (Scale Annual, billed yearly)
- Ayrshare
- $149/mo Premium
MVP multi-user posting
- Social Fetch
- Not offered
- Ayrshare
- $299/mo Launch (trial available)
SaaS scale posting
- Social Fetch
- Not offered
- Ayrshare
- From $599/mo Business + per-profile tiers
75k public profile reads
- Social Fetch
- ~$124 at the Scale pack rate
- Ayrshare
- N/A — not a read-metered product
Post as your customer
- Social Fetch
- No
- Ayrshare
- Yes — core product
Free trial
- Social Fetch
- 100 credits, no card
- Ayrshare
- Launch plan 28-day free trial (no card per Ayrshare)
| Scenario | Social Fetch | Ayrshare |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | $1.35/1k (Scale Annual, billed yearly) | $149/mo Premium |
| MVP multi-user posting | Not offered | $299/mo Launch (trial available) |
| SaaS scale posting | Not offered | From $599/mo Business + per-profile tiers |
| 75k public profile reads | ~$124 at the Scale pack rate | N/A — not a read-metered product |
| Post as your customer | No | Yes — core product |
| Free trial | 100 credits, no card | Launch plan 28-day free trial (no card per Ayrshare) |
Ayrshare prices checked 21 July 2026. How we priced this, with sources
Pricing
Social data, priced simply.
Start with 100 free credits. Monthly plans give you predictable volume and lower per-request rates.
Starter
1,000credits
$14.00 per 1k · $0.0140 per request
- Prove one workflow before you buy more
- All 25 platforms on one API key
Growth
25,000credits
$2.36 per 1k · $0.00236 per request
- For a project or one-off batch job
- Better per-credit rate than the Starter pack
Scale
230,000credits
$1.64 per 1k · $0.00164 per request
- For a large one-time job
- Best pack rate of the three — includes bonus credits
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Social Fetch vs Ayrshare, side by side.
How each product expects you to integrate, what you're billed for, and which capabilities come as standard.
Primary verb
- Social Fetch
- Read public profiles, posts, comments, transcripts
- Ayrshare
- Post, schedule, analyze, and moderate connected accounts
Auth model
- Social Fetch
- Your API key; public data only
- Ayrshare
- End-user OAuth / connected social profiles
Billing unit
- Social Fetch
- Credits per completed lookup
- Ayrshare
- Active social profiles (customer/brand slots), monthly
Entry paid price
- Social Fetch
- $14 for 1k read credits (PAYG Starter pack)
- Ayrshare
- Premium $149/mo (own presence) / Launch $299/mo
Needs user to connect Instagram?
- Social Fetch
- No — public lookup by handle/URL
- Ayrshare
- Yes — posting requires linked accounts
Best fit
- Social Fetch
- Enrichment, monitoring, creator intel in your backend
- Ayrshare
- SaaS products that publish as their users
| Row | Social Fetch | Ayrshare |
|---|---|---|
| Primary verb | Read public profiles, posts, comments, transcripts | Post, schedule, analyze, and moderate connected accounts |
| Auth model | Your API key; public data only | End-user OAuth / connected social profiles |
| Billing unit | Credits per completed lookup | Active social profiles (customer/brand slots), monthly |
| Entry paid price | $14 for 1k read credits (PAYG Starter pack) | Premium $149/mo (own presence) / Launch $299/mo |
| Needs user to connect Instagram? | No — public lookup by handle/URL | Yes — posting requires linked accounts |
| Best fit | Enrichment, monitoring, creator intel in your backend | SaaS products that publish as their users |
| Capability | Social Fetch | Ayrshare |
|---|---|---|
| Synchronous REST JSON (no actor run polling) | ||
| One API key for all platforms | ||
| Unified schema across platforms | ||
| Public OpenAPI specification | ||
| Official TypeScript SDK | ||
| Interactive API playground | ||
| TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Reddit, X in one vendor | ||
| Pay-as-you-go without required monthly subscription | ||
| PAYG credits never expire | ||
| Web fetch (markdown/HTML) in same product | ||
| Scheduled account / feed monitors | ||
| Signed webhooks when watched accounts post |
Customers
Teams building on Social Fetch.
“Our TikTok and Instagram scrapers broke constantly. Social Fetch took us off that rotation — we ship product again.”
“Transcripts at volume from one endpoint. No broken scrapers for our small team to maintain.”
“Live profile data on every request. We never flag accounts from a stale cache.”
“Heavy concurrent load, no rate limits to negotiate. The rare API I haven't wrapped in retries.”
Which one should you pick?
If the Ayrshare list sounds like you, Ayrshare is probably the better buy — and that's fine.
Pick Social Fetch if…
- You need public social data without user OAuth
- Discovery, enrichment, monitoring, or agents read entities at volume
- Per-lookup credits beat per-profile monthly minimums for read-only workloads
- You want OpenAPI-documented read routes across many networks
- Posting is out of scope — you only need the data plane
Pick Ayrshare if…
- Your SaaS must publish or schedule content on behalf of end users
- You need comments/DM moderation APIs tied to connected accounts
- Billing by active customer profiles matches your packaging
- OAuth-connected analytics for managed accounts are sufficient
- You are replacing a home-grown posting integration, not a scraper
Social Fetch vs Ayrshare: common questions
Migration, billing surprises, and what changes when you add a second platform.
Can Social Fetch post to Instagram?
No. Social Fetch is read-oriented public data. For posting, use Ayrshare or another publishing API with proper user authorization.
Can Ayrshare replace Social Fetch for profile enrichment?
Only for accounts your users have connected, and within Ayrshare's analytics scope. It is not a general-purpose public TikTok/Instagram read API for arbitrary handles.
Why is Ayrshare more expensive per month?
You are paying for OAuth publishing infrastructure and platform compliance across networks, metered by profiles. Social Fetch's cheaper entry reflects a different product: prepaid read credits.
Do we need both?
If you both discover creators from public data and later publish as them (with consent), yes. If you only do one of those jobs, buy one.
Does Social Fetch store user social passwords?
No. We do not OAuth users' posting credentials for publishing workflows.
What about Ayrshare historical content APIs?
Ayrshare exposes management and analytics for connected profiles, including historical content on higher plans. Social Fetch fetches live public data for entities you specify — different authorization boundary.
The detailed Social Fetch vs Ayrshare comparisonHow Ayrshare works, where the costs come from, and when to keep it.
Posting APIs and read APIs solve opposite problems
If your product's promise is "connect Instagram and we will publish for you," you need OAuth, token refresh, platform policy compliance, and a posting API. That is Ayrshare's lane — and Buffer-style competitors, Outstand, etc.
If your product's promise is "paste a TikTok URL and we score the creator," you need public read access without asking the creator to OAuth into your app. That is Social Fetch's lane.
Forcing either tool into the other job creates weird architecture: using Ayrshare analytics as a scrape substitute, or expecting Social Fetch to publish Reels.
Why the invoices look nothing alike
Ayrshare grows with connected customers. When a tenant links accounts, you pay for that profile slot; when they churn and you delete the profile, billing drops. That matches SaaS COGS for publishing features.
Social Fetch grows with lookup volume. A viral launch day that resolves 50k public handles burns credits, not profile seats. Idle months cost nothing on PAYG packs you already bought.
Trying to compare "$149/mo" to "$1.64/1k" without naming the verb (post vs read) is how RFPs go wrong.
Using both in one product
A creator marketplace might use Social Fetch during discovery (public metrics across 25 platforms) and Ayrshare after a brand wins the deal (schedule approved posts onto the creator's connected channels). Same user journey, two APIs, zero overlap in responsibility.
Analytics overlap exists at the edges — Ayrshare reports on accounts you manage; Social Fetch returns public metrics for accounts you only observe. Pick based on whether you have posting consent.
Limits on each side
Social Fetch will not schedule posts, manage DMs, or hold user OAuth tokens for publishing. Ayrshare will not replace a broad public read catalog for accounts that never connect to you — and its analytics assume managed profiles.
If a vendor pitches "all-in-one social API" covering both write and deep public read at once, read the docs carefully. Most stack one strength and market the rest.
Bottom line: Write path vs read path
Ayrshare is a posting and social management API priced on connected profiles. Social Fetch is a public read API priced on lookups. They barely compete. Use Ayrshare to publish as your users. Use Social Fetch to read public social data into your product. Many serious social products eventually need both.
Methodology and sourcesHow we priced each scenario, and where every Ayrshare figure comes from. Checked 21 July 2026.
Sources
Ayrshare pricing from ayrshare.com/pricing (July 2026). Profile definition and volume discounts described on that page. Social Fetch does not provide OAuth posting; do not budget Ayrshare as a read-API substitute.
Ayrshare is a trademark of its owner. Social Fetch is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Ayrshare. Details about Ayrshare come from public sources checked on 21 July 2026.
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