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SocialAPIs pricing and alternatives: Facebook Ad Library API

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86% complete: 6 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields

$0.00per 1,000 adsWe rank 30 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.Metapi, Adyntel and ScrapeUnblocker are the best Facebook Ad Library API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of SocialAPIs's 5 plans
Call: GET /facebook/ads/search SocialAPIs's only call for this API
API: Facebook Ad Library API one of SocialAPIs's 7 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 48 hours old. You get ads from SocialAPIs's copy of Meta's Ad Library.
  • 6 of the 7 key fields we check. Ad status, Run dates, Platforms, Text, Call to action, Advertiser.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits a month, enough for 200 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of the month.
  • One call. You send ad_page_id or query to GET /facebook/ads/search. You can also send country, activeStatus, after_time, before_time, sort_data and end_cursor. The call returns the company's ads.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter into the terms. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SocialAPIs: Facebook Ad Library API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 ads. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a week old.

This planSocialAPIs, freeAdyntel, freeScrapeUnblocker, freeScrapeCreators, freeSociaVault, free
$ per 1,000 ads$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness86%100%100%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0€0$0$0
Enough for200 pages a month50 pages, once500 pages, once100 pages, once50 pages, once
Freshness48 hourslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter into the termsanyone over 18 years oldanyone 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.")anyone legally able to enter into a binding agreementanyone

Every Facebook Ad Library API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

  1. socialapis.io/api-sources/meta-ads-search
  2. socialapis.io/api-sources/usage-limits
  3. socialapis.io/llms-endpoints.txt
  4. socialapis.io/llms.txt
  5. socialapis.io/openapi.json
  6. socialapis.io/pricing
  7. socialapis.io/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, not in the answer
  • Call to action
  • Advertiser
Price
$ per 1,000 ads$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 49 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch ads in the Meta Ad Library by keyword or page ID with country, status, and date filters.
Data
Freshness48 hours
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use the API to: Access publicly available Facebook and Instagram data, Build applications and integrations for legitimate business purposes, Research and analyze public pages, posts, ads and trends, Monitor public content about your own brand, products or market. [...] You may NOT use the API to: Attempt to access private or non-public information, Track, profile, or surveil individuals, or build databases of private persons, Send spam or unsolicited messages to people found through the Service, Harass, discriminate against, or harm any person, Process personal data without a lawful basis under applicable data protection law (such as the GDPR or CCPA), Engage in any illegal activity, Resell or share API access or API keys without our written permission, Circumvent rate limits or access controls, Infringe on intellectual property rights, Distribute malware or harmful code, Build a competing data API by reselling data obtained from SocialAPIs
Plan
Pay$0
You get200 credits a month
Enough for200 pages a month
Expiresat the end of the month
Rate limit
Per second0.28
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of ad_page_id or query. Optional: country, activeStatus, after_time, before_time, sort_data, end_cursor
MethodGET
Path/facebook/ads/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter into the terms
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

ad archive ID, page name, page ID, is active, start date, end date, targeted or reached countries, publisher platforms, ad text, call to action type, snapshot URL, spend, impressions, next cursor, has next page

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