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Foreplay pricing and alternatives: Facebook Ad Library API

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100% complete: all 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 adsWe rank 26 plans by price. ScrapeUnblocker's €299 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 ads: $0.0015. ScrapeUnblocker charges for each page of results. We count 500 ads on each page to get the $0.0015 price.
Plan: Free trial one of Foreplay's 11 plans
Call: GET /api/brand/getAdsByPageId Foreplay's only call
API: Facebook Ad Library API Foreplay's only API

About this item

  • Stored. You get ads from Foreplay's copy of Meta's Ad Library. Foreplay doesn't say how old the copy is.
  • All 7 key fields we check. Ad status, Run dates, Platforms, Text, Media, Call to action, Advertiser.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10,000 credits, enough for 10,000 results. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire: not carried over.
  • One call. You send page_id to GET /api/brand/getAdsByPageId. The call returns the company's ads.
  • Who can get it: anyone starting a Foreplay 7-day free trial. Keep data: 30 days. Use data: with conditions.

Foreplay: Facebook Ad Library API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 ads.

This planForeplay, freeScrapeCreators, freeScrapeUnblocker, freeSociaVault, freeMetapi, free, POST /v1/tasks
$ per 1,000 ads$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%86%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0€0$0$0
Enough for10,000 results100 pages, once500 pages, once50 pages, once3,000 results a month
Freshnessstoredliveliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyone starting a Foreplay 7-day free trialanyone legally able to enter into a binding agreementanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")anyoneanyone

Facebook Ad Library API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. public.api.foreplay.co/docs
  2. public.api.foreplay.co/openapi.json
  3. foreplay.co/api
  4. foreplay.co/faqs/do-credits-carry-over
  5. foreplay.co/faqs/how-are-credits-calculated
  6. foreplay.co/faqs/when-do-my-credits-renew
  7. foreplay.co/page/api-terms
  8. foreplay.co/post/api-launch
  9. foreplay.co/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Ad status
  • Run dates
  • Platforms
  • Text
  • Media
  • Call to action
  • Advertiser
Price
$ per 1,000 ads$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchPower AI agents & workflows with competitor ad data
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep data30 days
Use dataIts API Addendum to the Terms of Service: "Subject to this Addendum and payment of applicable fees, Foreplay grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence, for the term of your subscription, to access the API and use API Data — including within a product or service you operate for your own customers." [...] "Your customers must access API Data only through your product. You may not issue them API keys or give them direct API access." "You may not: resell, sublicense or provide direct access to the API, share, publish or expose your API key, export the Foreplay index in bulk, except under a separate written agreement, use API Data to create a general-purpose searchable archive of the Foreplay index, represent the Foreplay index as your own database." "You may cache the text and metadata we return — ad copy, transcripts, derived fields — for up to 30 days. Media is different: serve images and video from the URLs we provide rather than copying them into your own storage or CDN." "On termination, you may retain the analysis you have produced. Delete raw API Data within 30 days."
Plan
Pay$0
You get10,000 credits
Enough for10,000 results
Expiresnot carried over
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendpage_id. Optional: start_date, end_date, order, live, display_format, publisher_platform, niches, market_target, languages, video_duration_min, video_duration_max, running_duration_min_days, running_duration_max_days, cursor, limit, collect, force
MethodGET
Path/api/brand/getAdsByPageId
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone starting a Foreplay 7-day free trial
The 38 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits remaining, credits consumed, Foreplay ad ID, ad archive ID, ad name, Foreplay brand ID, ad text, ad title, call to action text, call to action type, ad categories, creative targeting, languages, market target, niches, product category, timestamped transcription, full transcription, cards, page profile picture, display format, emotional drivers, link URL, is active, persona, publisher platforms, start date, thumbnail, time product was mentioned, ad type, videos, images, content filter, running duration, video duration, Foreplay URL, next cursor

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