# SocialAPIs, free: Facebook Ad Library API

> Search ads in the Meta Ad Library by keyword or page ID with country, status, and date filters.

SocialAPIs's Facebook Ad Library API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 ads. It returns 6 of the 7 key fields we check: Ad status, Run dates, Platforms, Text, Call to action, Advertiser.
We rank 30 plans by price. [ScrapeUnblocker's €299 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly/llms.txt) 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](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/321-monthly/llms.txt) and [ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapeunblocker/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt) are the best Facebook Ad Library API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialapis/free
- [Best Facebook Ad Library API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt)
- Get it: https://socialapis.io/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.socialapis.io/facebook/ads/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://socialapis.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://socialapis.io/api-sources/meta-ads-search
- Sold by: SocialAPIs (https://socialapis.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 86%
- Ad status: ✓
- Run dates: ✓
- Platforms: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Call to action: ✓
- Advertiser: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 ads: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 49 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search ads in the Meta Ad Library by keyword or page ID with country, status, and date filters.

## Data

- Freshness: 48 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 200 credits a month
- Enough for: 200 pages a month
- Expires: at the end of the month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.28
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of ad_page_id or query. Optional: country, activeStatus, after_time, before_time, sort_data, end_cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /facebook/ads/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## SocialAPIs's plans (5)

- [SocialAPIs, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, 48 hours
- [SocialAPIs, $4.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialapis/4-99-monthly/llms.txt): 86% complete, 48 hours
- [SocialAPIs, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialapis/49-monthly/llms.txt): 86% complete, 48 hours
- [SocialAPIs, $179 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialapis/179-monthly/llms.txt): 86% complete, 48 hours
- [SocialAPIs, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialapis/contact-us/llms.txt): 86% complete, 48 hours

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

- `GET /facebook/ads/search`: [SocialAPIs, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)

## SocialAPIs's APIs (7)

- [SocialAPIs: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook Marketplace listing API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-marketplace-listing-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook Marketplace search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-marketplace-search-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans, Facebook Page Details](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/socialapis/free-get-facebook-pages-details-facebook-page-details/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans, Facebook Page Details, full](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/socialapis/free-get-facebook-pages-details-facebook-page-details-full/llms.txt)

## SocialAPIs: Facebook Ad Library API alternatives

- [Adyntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adyntel/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapeunblocker/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

## 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.

- https://socialapis.io/api-sources/meta-ads-search
- https://socialapis.io/api-sources/usage-limits
- https://socialapis.io/llms-endpoints.txt
- https://socialapis.io/llms.txt
- https://socialapis.io/openapi.json
- https://socialapis.io/pricing
- https://socialapis.io/terms