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Best Bluesky post API in 2026

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API Direct, ScrapingIsNotACrime and Bright Data are the best Bluesky post API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 3 providers. We list all three, ranked by score. For each one, we show its top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 posts cost. We rank 16 plans by price. ProLevelMax's top-up costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.003. ProLevelMax charges for each page of results. We count 1,000 posts on each page to get the $0.003 price.

  1. #1 API Direct: Bluesky post API

    API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request

    It returns all 4 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Author.

    Overall score
    65.0
    $ per 1,000
    $0.06
    Price score
    33
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: $3.00
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 16
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 posts than this plan: 10
    Data score
    71
    Cost to get started score
    100
    • How you pay: pay as you go
    • Least to pay before your first result: nothing, the provider bills you after you use it
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 142 other calls
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 31 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.327 s
    • API Direct, Bluesky User Posts, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.327 s
    • On 31 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 accounts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.7111 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 71 out of 100.

  2. #2 ScrapingIsNotACrime: Bluesky post API

    ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack

    It returns 3 of the 4 key fields we check: Text, Engagement, Author.

    Overall score
    58.1
    $ per 1,000
    $0.017
    Price score
    67
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 16
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 posts than this plan: 6
    Data score
    46
    Cost to get started score
    72
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $199
    Bundle score
    97
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: GET /instagram/profile/{username} · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/contact and 31 more
    Performance score
    18
    • This call's median time on 31 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.825 s
    • API Direct, Bluesky User Posts, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.327 s
    • On 31 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 accounts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.4599 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 46 out of 100.

  3. #3 Bright Data: Bluesky post API

    Bright Data, top-up

    It returns all 4 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Author.

    Overall score
    41.6
    $ per 1,000
    $1.50
    Price score
    18
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 16
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 posts than this plan: 15
    Data score
    60
    Cost to get started score
    93
    • How you pay: a top-up you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: no minimum, you top up any amount
    Bundle score
    50
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: other scrapers in the Web Scraper API library
    Performance score
    1
    • This call's median time on 31 October 2026, minus the baseline: 50.733 s
    • API Direct, Bluesky User Posts, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.327 s
    • On 31 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 accounts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.6049 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 60 out of 100.

The Data score on Bluesky post APIs

This score, out of 100, shows how much of an account's posts the call returns. Each call returns the first page of the account's posts. For each account, we count the posts the call returned. We also check which of the parts we score those posts hold. Then we average each account's result over all accounts. If the call returned no post for an account, that account counts as 0. Some providers may run on fewer accounts. We compare each such provider with the other providers on the same accounts. A provider can't score higher by running only on easy accounts. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer accounts than the benchmark has.

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