# AdLibAPI, free: Facebook Ad Library API

> Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads and Audience Network ads from Meta's public Ad Library, as JSON. Ads shown in the EU come with reach per country, targeting, payer and beneficiary.

AdLibAPI's Facebook Ad Library API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 ads. It returns all 7 key fields we check: Ad status, Run dates, Platforms, Text, Media, Call to action, Advertiser.
We haven't run AdLibAPI through [our Facebook Ad Library API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 118 plans for Facebook Ad Library APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.494 per 1,000 ads or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 ads: $0.00074. Zapi charges for each page of results. We count 30 ads on each page to get the $0.00074 price.
[Metapi](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/metapi/299-monthly-scale-post-v1-tasks-from-url/llms.txt), [Adyntel](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adyntel/top-up-from-0-55/llms.txt) and [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt) are the best Facebook Ad Library API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/free
- [Facebook Ad Library API: 7 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt)
- Get it: https://adlibapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.adlibapi.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://adlibapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://adlibapi.com/docs/reference/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Sold by: AdLibAPI (https://adlibapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Ad status: ✓
- Run dates: ✓
- Platforms: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Call to action: ✓
- Advertiser: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 ads: $0.00
- Per: page of 30
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: 24 hours
- Also pays for: Create watchlist: up to 3 brands, checked every 24 hours · from the same budget: Resolve advertisers · Get advertiser · List advertiser ads · Advertiser stats · Company profile · Check a domain · Get ad · Get ad features · Advertiser changes · Advertiser timeline · Create batch

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads and Audience Network ads from Meta's public Ad Library, as JSON. Ads shown in the EU come with reach per country, targeting, payer and beneficiary.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use the data for research, competitive analysis, reporting, monitoring and your own products. You may not: use the data to identify, profile, track or contact private individuals, or to make decisions about individuals, resell or redistribute raw API output as a substitute for the service (building your own product or reports on top of it is fine), use the service for anything unlawful, including infringing third-party rights, unlawful discrimination or harassment, circumvent rate limits, quotas or access controls, share keys to pool quotas, or interfere with the service or other customers, create multiple free accounts or use automated sign-ups.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 pages a month
- Expires: end of each billing month, no rollover

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: platform "meta", one of q, advertiser or domain. Optional: country, status, from, to, format, political, removed, source, sort, cursor, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an account and a valid email address, one free account per person or company

## The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

ad archive ID, is active, start date, end date, publisher platforms, ad text, ad title, call to action text, link URL, display format, images, videos, cards, targeted or reached countries, page ID, page name, page like count, page categories, collation ID, collation count, spend range, impressions range, currency, ad library URL, next cursor, results returned, from cache, platform, variant count, running duration, first discovered date, last discovered date, languages

## AdLibAPI's plans (9)

- [AdLibAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [AdLibAPI, $15 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/15-pack/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [AdLibAPI, $60 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/60-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [AdLibAPI, $200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/200-pack/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [AdLibAPI, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.193 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [AdLibAPI, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.138 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [AdLibAPI, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [AdLibAPI, $799 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/799-monthly/llms.txt): $0.083 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [AdLibAPI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## AdLibAPI's calls (1)

- `GET /v1/search`: [AdLibAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/free/llms.txt)

## AdLibAPI's APIs (4)

- [AdLibAPI: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/free/llms.txt)
- [AdLibAPI: Google Ads Transparency API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-ad-apis/adlibapi/free/llms.txt)
- [AdLibAPI: LinkedIn Ad Library API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-ad-apis/adlibapi/free/llms.txt)
- [AdLibAPI: TikTok Ad Library API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/adlibapi/free/llms.txt)

## AdLibAPI: Facebook Ad Library API alternatives

- [Captapi, $275 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/captapi/275-pack/llms.txt): $0.055 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataXAPI, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/dataxapi/top-up-from-50/llms.txt): $0.067 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Upscrape, $499 pack, Scale, POST /execute, Facebook Ad Library Advertiser Ads](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/upscrape/499-pack-scale-post-execute-facebook-ad-library-advertiser-ads/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $7,689 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/datablue/7689-yearly/llms.txt): $0.111 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://adlibapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adlibapi.com/docs/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adlibapi.com/docs/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adlibapi.com/docs/pagination?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adlibapi.com/docs/reference/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adlibapi.com/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adlibapi.com/platforms/meta?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adlibapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adlibapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing