The best TikHub alternatives in 2026, tested on 17 lookups
- For Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Kuaishou, or Bilibili, stay on TikHub. Nothing else here covers the Chinese platforms as widely.
- TikHub covers the Western platforms too, and there paying per request costs less or the same. A TikTok profile is $0.45 per 1,000 on AnyAPI against TikHub's $1.00, an X profile $0.22 against $1.00, and an Instagram profile $1.00 on both.
- The same 17 lookups returned on both, with follower counts within 10 of each other. The run cost $0.011 on AnyAPI and $0.019 at TikHub's prices.
- TikHub doesn't take cards. It accepts Alipay, PayPal, USDT, and bank transfer.
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Get ~150 free requests$0.10 of credit on signup.TikHub is the pick if your work touches China. For TikTok, Instagram, and X alone, you're paying for breadth you don't use.
TikHub is a social media data API with 16 platforms and more than a thousand endpoints under one prepaid balance. Each endpoint returns close to what the platform returned.
- TikHub: 17 lookups on September 27, 2026: five TikTok profiles, five Instagram profiles, two TikTok video lists, two Instagram post lists, and three X profiles.
- ScrapeCreators: 20 lookups on the same accounts the same day, written up in the best ScrapeCreators alternative.
- EnsembleData and Data365: priced from their own pages the same day, not run.
The best TikHub alternatives
TikHub for Chinese platforms and raw breadth
AnyAPI for Western platforms, paid by card
ScrapeCreators for raw data with credits that never expire
EnsembleData for Twitch search
Data365 for enterprise feed collection
What makes a good TikHub alternative?
I'm assuming you pull TikTok, Instagram, and X data from code, maybe alongside a Chinese platform, for analytics, research, or an agent. Here's what I compared:
- Whether the data came back and agreed on the same accounts.
- Price per 1,000 lookups on the profile endpoints most people call.
- How you pay.
- What it takes to call, from rate limits to client quirks.
I didn't test the Chinese platforms themselves, comments, or search.
The best TikHub alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Best for | What it returns | Why pick it | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikHub | Chinese platforms and raw breadth | The platform's raw data from 16 platforms, including  TikTok,  Instagram,  X,  YouTube, Douyin,  Xiaohongshu, Weibo, and Bilibili | 1,000-plus endpoints | $0.001 to $0.01 a request, down to half with volume |
| AnyAPI | Western platforms, paid by card | The same JSON fields on every platform from 402 endpoints, including TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube,  LinkedIn, and a few Chinese platforms, plus Google and any web page | Same fields on every platform | $0.22 to $1.00 per 1,000 profiles |
| ScrapeCreators | Raw objects with credits that never expire | The platform's raw data from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X,  Reddit, and more | No rate limits | $47 for 25,000 credits |
| EnsembleData | Twitch search | TikTok, Instagram, YouTube,  Threads, Reddit, Twitch, X, and  Snapchat | The only Twitch keyword search here | From $100 a month |
| Data365 | Enterprise feed collection | The same JSON fields from Instagram,  Facebook, X, TikTok, Reddit, Threads, and  Pinterest | One JSON shape across seven networks | From €300 a month |
Here's what the Western lookups cost per 1,000 calls:
| Lookup | TikHub | TikHub past 30,000 a day | AnyAPI | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok profile | $1.00 | $0.50 | $0.45 | AnyAPI |
| Instagram profile | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | Same |
| TikTok videos | $1.00 | $1.00 | $0.70 | AnyAPI |
| Instagram posts | $2.00 | $2.00 | $0.80 | AnyAPI |
| YouTube channel | $1.00 | $1.00 | $0.50 | AnyAPI |
| X profile | $1.00 | $0.50 | $0.22 | AnyAPI |
Only TikHub's TikTok and X profile lookups get its daily volume discount; the other four stay at their base price.
TikHub (best for Chinese platforms and raw breadth)
TikHub pros:
- Returned all 17 lookups, with the platform's raw data
- Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Kuaishou, Bilibili, and Zhihu next to the Western platforms
- Daily volume tiers, applied bracket by bracket, take the base $0.001 down to $0.0005
TikHub cons:
- Alipay, PayPal, USDT, or bank transfer only, and a $5 minimum top-up
- A request with Python's default
urllibuser agent gets a Cloudflare 1010 block instead of data - 10 requests a second by default, with more sold monthly
TikHub covers TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Reddit, and LinkedIn, then Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Kuaishou, Bilibili, and Zhihu. If your market or research includes China, nothing else here covers it as widely.
It often has several routes to the same data, an app route and a web route. Every one of the 17 lookups came back, on both services:
| Lookup (calls a side) | TikHub returned | AnyAPI returned |
|---|---|---|
| TikTok profile (5) | 5 | 5 |
| Instagram profile (5) | 5 | 5 |
| TikTok video list (2) | 2 | 2 |
| Instagram post list (2) | 2 | 2 |
| X profile (3) | 3 | 3 |
Two things to know before you build on it. It doesn't take cards. And a plain Python urllib request came back with Cloudflare error 1010, a browser-signature block, until it sent a normal User-Agent header.
TikHub pricing: Prepaid balance, each request priced from $0.001 to $0.01 on TikHub by endpoint (profiles, TikTok videos, and YouTube channels $0.001, an Instagram post list $0.002); daily tiers down to 50% off past 30,000 requests on the endpoints that allow it; $5 minimum top-up; $0.05 free credit and about 50 free requests
AnyAPI (best for Western platforms, paid by card)
AnyAPI pros:
- Returned all 17 lookups, with follower counts within 10 of TikHub's
- TikTok and X profiles at half or less of TikHub's base rate, Instagram at the same price, paid by card
- The same fields on every platform, whichever source answers
AnyAPI cons:
- For Chinese platforms, only a few Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, and Zhihu endpoints, and a Xiaohongshu profile is $12.00 per 1,000
- Profiles carry far fewer fields than TikHub's raw data
AnyAPI is a catalog of 402 data APIs you pay for per call. Each returns the same JSON fields whichever source serves it: TikTok, Instagram, and X profiles and posts, plus YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google search, Maps, and any web page on the same key.
At TikHub's base rate, a TikTok profile costs about twice as much as paying per request and an X profile four and a half times as much. An Instagram profile costs the same on both. Past 30,000 requests a day, TikHub's TikTok price falls to $0.50 and nearly closes the gap.
The median lookup took 1.2 seconds against TikHub's 1.8. Here's the call:
curl https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.profile \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYAPI_KEY" \
-d '{"handle": "natgeo"}'AnyAPI pricing: Pay per request with no plan; TikTok profile $0.45, Instagram profile $1.00, X profile $0.22, TikTok videos $0.70, Instagram posts $0.80 per 1,000; Douyin profile $1.20; starter balance at signup
ScrapeCreators (best for raw data with credits that never expire)
ScrapeCreators pros:
- The platform's raw data, like TikHub, with credits that never expire
- No rate limits and free cached results
- Returned all 20 of the same accounts in a separate test
ScrapeCreators cons:
- $1.88 per 1,000 on its $47 pack, $0.99 on its $497 pack
- No Chinese platforms
ScrapeCreators covers TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Reddit, and more.
It's the closest match to TikHub on the Western platforms: the platform's own data, whole, on a prepaid balance that doesn't expire. The best ScrapeCreators alternative tests it on the same accounts.
ScrapeCreators pricing: Free 100 credits; Freelance $47 for 25,000 credits; Business $497 for 500,000; credits never expire
EnsembleData (best for Twitch search)
EnsembleData pros:
- A fixed monthly bill
- Card or bank transfer through Stripe
EnsembleData cons:
- Units reset daily at 00:00 UTC
- An Instagram profile is three units, $6.67 per 1,000 on the $100 plan
EnsembleData covers TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Threads, Reddit, Twitch, X, and Snapchat, and no Chinese platforms. It's the only one here that searches Twitch by keyword; AnyAPI's TikTok and Instagram profiles cost less than on any of its plans, and a quiet day's units are gone at midnight UTC.
EnsembleData pricing: Wood $100 a month for 1,500 units a day, up to Platinum $1,400 for 50,000; free trial of 50 units a day
Data365 (best for enterprise feed collection)
Data365 pros:
- One credit per post
- The same JSON fields across seven networks
Data365 cons:
- €300 a month for one network
- An asynchronous start, poll, and fetch flow
Data365 covers Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, Reddit, Threads, and Pinterest, in one JSON shape. It's for companies collecting whole feeds on a schedule, not for per-profile lookups.
Data365 pricing: Basic €300 a month (one network, 500,000 credits); Standard €850 (three networks); 14-day free trial
Which TikHub alternative should you use?
- Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, or any of the other Chinese platforms: TikHub.
- TikTok, Instagram, and X lookups, paid by card, alongside the rest of the web: AnyAPI.
- Raw Western data on credits that never expire: ScrapeCreators.
- Searching Twitch by keyword: EnsembleData.
- Whole feeds on a schedule: Data365.
The limits of this comparison
- TikHub's test cost applies its base price for each endpoint.
- The Chinese platforms weren't tested.
- Speed is a median of 17 calls from one machine.
For the other social data APIs, see the best ScrapeCreators alternative and the best Apify alternative.
Frequently asked questions
- How much does TikHub cost in 2026?
- TikHub is pay as you go from a prepaid balance, with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Each endpoint has its own unit price between $0.001 and $0.01 per request on TikHub, and on the endpoints that allow it, such as TikTok and X profiles, daily volume tiers take 10% to 50% off: $0.001 for the first 1,000 requests a day at the base rate, falling to $0.0005 past 30,000. The minimum top-up is $5. New accounts get $0.05 of free credit and about 50 free requests. Checked September 27, 2026.
- How do you pay for TikHub?
- TikHub's pricing page lists Alipay, PayPal, crypto (USDT), and B2B bank transfer as accepted payments. Enterprise plans start at a $3,000 single top-up or $4,500 cumulative spend.
- What is TikHub's rate limit?
- Every TikHub account starts at 10 requests per second. You can raise it from your balance on TikHub's RPS dashboard, billed monthly and separately from what you spend on requests.
- Why does TikHub return error 1010?
- Error 1010 is a Cloudflare block on the client's browser signature. A request to TikHub's API with Python's default urllib user agent returned it on September 27, 2026; setting a normal User-Agent header made the same request succeed.
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