# AdLibrarySpy, free: Facebook Ad Library API

> Search Meta ad creatives by brand, niche, format, placement and country. Open any ad for its copy, landing page, run dates and the brand's other ads.

AdLibrarySpy's Facebook Ad Library API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 ads. It returns 5 of the 7 key fields we check: Ad status, Run dates, Platforms, Text, Call to action.
You get 1,000 requests a day. You spend the requests on AdLibrarySpy's other calls. This call is free for up to 30,000 calls a month.
We haven't run AdLibrarySpy through [our Facebook Ad Library API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 118 plans we rank by price cost $0.494 per 1,000 ads or less. This plan has the lowest price per 1,000 ads of the 118 plans.
[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/adlibraryspy/free
- [Facebook Ad Library API: 7 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt)
- Get it: https://adlibraryspy.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://adlibraryspy.com/api/mcp`
- API key: with the plan, on https://adlibraryspy.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://adlibraryspy.com/SKILL.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Sold by: AdLibrarySpy (https://adlibraryspy.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 71%
- Ad status: ✓
- Run dates: ✓
- Platforms: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Call to action: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 ads: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: search_shops · get_shop · find_similar_shops · search_products · get_offer · offer_breakdown · get_brand_trust · search_landing_pages · get_ad · creative_breakdown · list_categories · trending_categories · list_tracked_brands · brand_changes · track_brand · untrack_brand · list_swipe_boards · get_swipe_board · save_ad_to_swipe_file · write_creative_brief · get_my_store · add_to_my_store · create_similar_store · publish_my_store · add_page_to_my_store · get_my_pages

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Meta ad creatives by brand, niche, format, placement and country. Open any ad for its copy, landing page, run dates and the brand's other ads.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 requests a day
- Enough for: 30,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Content-Type header "application/json", jsonrpc "2.0", id, method "tools/call", params.name "search_ads". Optional: params.arguments.query, params.arguments.mediaType, params.arguments.country, params.arguments.hook, params.arguments.angle, params.arguments.funnelStage, params.arguments.offer, params.arguments.style, params.arguments.urgency, params.arguments.sort, params.arguments.limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/mcp

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

ad text, link URL, start date, end date, publisher platforms, is active, media, hook archetype, angle, funnel, offer type, urgency, video style

## AdLibrarySpy's plans (1)

- [AdLibrarySpy, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibraryspy/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 71% complete

## AdLibrarySpy's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/mcp`: [AdLibrarySpy, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibraryspy/free/llms.txt)

## AdLibrarySpy's APIs (4)

- [AdLibrarySpy: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/adlibraryspy/free/llms.txt)
- [AdLibrarySpy: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/adlibraryspy/free/llms.txt)
- [AdLibrarySpy: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/adlibraryspy/free/llms.txt)
- [AdLibrarySpy: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibraryspy/free/llms.txt)

## AdLibrarySpy: Facebook Ad Library API alternatives

- [Metapi, free, POST /v1/tasks](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/metapi/free-post-v1-tasks/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [Adyntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adyntel/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeCreators, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapecreators/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SociaVault, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/sociavault/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SandBase, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/sandbase/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## 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://adlibraryspy.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adlibraryspy.com/SKILL.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adlibraryspy.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adlibraryspy.com/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing