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ShortsIntel pricing: Facebook Ad Library API

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$0.00per 1,000 adsWe haven't run ShortsIntel through our Facebook Ad Library API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 140 plans for Facebook Ad Library APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.79 per 1,000 ads or less. See how many Facebook Ad Library API plans are free.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan 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.Scrappa, AdLibAPI and Metapi are the best Facebook Ad Library API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest ShortsIntel plan for that many ads. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Starter Grant one of ShortsIntel's 5 plans
Call: POST /ads/search ShortsIntel's only call for this API
API: Facebook Ad Library API one of ShortsIntel's 11 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 6 hours old. You get ads from ShortsIntel's copy of Meta's Ad Library.
  • All 7 fields on our checklist. Ad status, Run dates, Platforms, Text, Media, Call to action, Advertiser.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits once, enough for 1,000 results. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 90 days.
  • One call. You send advertiser to POST /ads/search. You set library to "meta". The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone who signs up. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ShortsIntel: Facebook Ad Library API alternatives

ShortsIntel alternatives: other Facebook Ad Library API providers by price

The table starts with ShortsIntel's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 ads closest to ShortsIntel's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

ShortsIntel, $10 packZembra, top-up from $6,862Parse, $1,000 monthlyProLevelMax, $10,000 packSocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/facebook/adlibrary/company/ads, List Facebook Ad Library company ads
$ per 1,000 ads$1.00$0.90$1.00$1.044$1.333
Completeness100%14%100%100%86%
Billingpay firstpay firstmonthlypay firstpay first
Pay$10$6,862$1,000$10,000£15
Enough for10,000 resultsas many as you pay forabout 33,333 pages a monthabout 9,583,333 results500 pages
Freshness6 hourslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who signs upanyone aged 18 or overanyoneanyone who sends the Contact sales form (company, work email, top-up amount, use case), paid by bank transfer and invoicedanyone 18 or over

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. shortsintel.com
  2. shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/authentication-and-limits
  3. shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/pricing-and-estimates
  4. shortsintel.com/meta-ad-library-api
  5. shortsintel.com/openapi.v1.json
  6. shortsintel.com/pricing
  7. shortsintel.com/terms

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
Extra fieldsone-line summary, niches, languages, full transcription, timestamped transcription, hook text, hook archetype, angle, offer type: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Research a niche · Refresh a research's videos · Run a Creator Breakdown · Search videos by keyword · Look up a video by URL · Look up a video by id · Analyse a video · Score a video against its creator · Read a video's comments · Read a comment's replies · Look up a creator and baseline · Page a creator's stored videos · Look up a hashtag's trend · Page a hashtag's videos · Look up a sound's trend · Page a sound's videos · Sample a keyword search · Look up a Meta Ad by id · Get a TikTok Ad · Look up an advertiser profile · Start tracking a target · Run a tracker cycle now · Set or clear a tracker's focus · Preview a focus on a tracker
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch by keyword or Advertiser, filtered by country, status, kind, media type, placement and start date, in four sort orders.
Data
Freshness6 hours
Keep datano limit
Use dataDerived works are permitted. You may analyse, transform, combine and build on the API output, and you may distribute and commercialise the results [...] Reselling the raw data is not permitted. You may not: resell, sublicense, redistribute or otherwise make available the raw records or bulk API output as a data product, feed, export or dataset, whether for a fee or free of charge, republish raw records in bulk, or mirror, replicate or reconstruct the ShortsIntel corpus or any substantial part of it, including by systematic enumeration of the API, use the API or its output to build, train or operate a substitute for the Service, or a competing short-form video data service, use the output to identify, target, profile, score or make decisions about individual people, including creators and commenters, or to enable anyone else to do so, remove, obscure or misrepresent the provenance of data obtained through the Service where you are permitted to display it. Upstream restrictions pass through. [...] Where those providers or platforms impose restrictions on the use, retention or redistribution of that data, those restrictions apply to you as well
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 results, once
Expires90 days
Rate limit
Per second1
Concurrent10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendlibrary "meta", advertiser. Optional: country, status, kind, media_type, placements, started_after, started_before, limit, cursor, order_by, analyze, wait, max_credits, estimate
MethodPOST
Path/ads/search
About the plan
PlanStarter Grant
Who can get itanyone who signs up
The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

ad archive ID, ad library URL, page ID, page name, is active, start date, end date, publisher platforms, ad title, ad text, call to action text, link URL, display format, media types, images, videos, thumbnail, impressions, spend, currency, targeted or reached countries, variant count, total active time, estimated audience size, next cursor, ad kind, winner score

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