# AdSwipeFile, free: Facebook Ad Library API

> A small JSON API over the AdSwipeFile ad library, for signed-in accounts (free), with account endpoints for your saved ads, boards and followed brands.

AdSwipeFile's Free plan for the Facebook Ad Library API costs $0.00 per 1,000 ads. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. AdSwipeFile's docs list 1: Media.
We ran AdSwipeFile in [our Facebook Ad Library API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt). We didn't score any AdSwipeFile plan.
This plan is free. We rank 173 plans for Facebook Ad Library APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.443 or less per 1,000 ads. [59 Facebook Ad Library API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt) [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt) has a free plan with 500 pages of ads a month. Scrappa is the best Facebook Ad Library API in our benchmark.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) 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. [ScrapeUnblocker's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapeunblocker/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 ads a month: about $0.02.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt), [AdLibAPI](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/299-monthly/llms.txt) and [Zapi](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/zapi/rp129000-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Facebook Ad Library API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adswipefile/free
- [Facebook Ad Library API in 2026: the 17 best of 70+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt)
- Get it: https://adswipefile.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://adswipefile.com/api/v1/ads`
- API key: with the plan, on https://adswipefile.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://adswipefile.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing#endpoints
- Sold by: AdSwipeFile (https://adswipefile.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Media: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 ads: $0.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: Save an ad · Write a note on a saved ad · from the same budget: Search ads, brands, niches and formats · One ad's card · The account's saved ads · New ads from followed brands

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A small JSON API over the AdSwipeFile ad library, for signed-in accounts (free), with account endpoints for your saved ads, boards and followed brands.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The API and MCP server are for your own research and your assistant's answers. Section 6(8) applies to them as it does to the Site: do not use them to copy the library, export it in bulk or build a competing database. You agree to not: [...] Scrape, crawl, spider or bulk download the library, its ads, ad copy, media or lists of brands, niches and formats, by any means, including scripts, bots, browser automation, headless browsers and AI agents, other than the API, MCP server and markdown pages we provide, within their limits and these Terms, Copy, republish, resell, sublicense or redistribute the library or a substantial part of it, including data obtained through the API or MCP server, Use the Services, or data obtained from them, to build, populate or improve a competing ad library, swipe file, database or service, Use Content or data from the Services to train, fine-tune or evaluate a machine-learning or AI model, or to build a dataset, beyond what our robots.txt allows crawlers to read, Show or quote Content from the Services without the credit and link section 5(n) requires, Get around the limits we set, including sign-in, plan limits, API and MCP allowances, rate limits or blocks, for example by creating several accounts, sharing an account or rotating IP addresses

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 requests
- Enough for: 50 pages, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: brand, niche, format, visual_format, hook, season, offer_type, status, type, sort, limit, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/ads

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 13 years old

## The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

ad ID, ad name, ad description, brand name, brand slug, brand URL, niches, format label, visual formats, hook tactic, hook text, asset type, offer type, season, talent, images, creation time, ad page URL, results returned, query parameters, brand patterns, has more, next cursor, response note, full access note

## AdSwipeFile's plans (5)

- [AdSwipeFile, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adswipefile/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [AdSwipeFile, $39 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adswipefile/39-monthly/llms.txt): $0.39 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [AdSwipeFile, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adswipefile/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.198 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [AdSwipeFile, $390 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adswipefile/390-yearly/llms.txt): $0.325 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [AdSwipeFile, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adswipefile/990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.165 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored

## AdSwipeFile's calls (1)

- `GET /api/v1/ads`: [AdSwipeFile, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adswipefile/free/llms.txt)

## AdSwipeFile's APIs (1)

- [AdSwipeFile Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adswipefile/free/llms.txt)

## AdSwipeFile: Facebook Ad Library API alternatives

[AdSwipeFile alternatives: other Facebook Ad Library API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/adswipefile-alternatives.txt)

We list AdSwipeFile's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to AdSwipeFile in price per 1,000 ads.

- [AdSwipeFile, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adswipefile/990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.165 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [DataBlue, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/datablue/59-monthly/llms.txt): $0.164 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
- [SocialToAI, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialtoai/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Foreplay, $349 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/foreplay/349-monthly/llms.txt): $0.698 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://adswipefile.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adswipefile.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adswipefile.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adswipefile.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://adswipefile.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing