1lookupData and validation APIs
From $19.99
per 1,000 profile checks; $49.50 on Starter
Social and creator data
$50.00 for 100 Business API credits ($0.50/credit), the smallest pack; the page's pricing selector prints a package total for whichever of the 18 tiers you pick
socialblade.com
Account history vs breadth of data types
1Lookup is the Social Blade alternative that costs less per profile check than every Social Blade API pack.
Looking for a Social Blade alternative? This page sets Social Blade pricing beside 1Lookup, with every Social Blade figure taken from its own published pages, checked August 2026.
- 7-day free trial on every plan
- No contract and no minimum volume
10
Credits per match
~$0.035-0.05 per profile
0
Credits on a miss
no profile, no charge
10
Platforms, one endpoint
Instagram to Truth Social
30-60s
First live fetch
instant repeats for 7 days
At a glance
Here is where 1Lookup wins against Social Blade, and where Social Blade still wins.
1Lookup covers ten platforms for profile lookups and carries data Social Blade's API does not: single-post engagement, video transcripts, keyword search and public ad-library results. Social Blade's Business API covers five platforms, built around daily follower history.
1lookupWhere 1Lookup wins- Ten networks for profile lookups rather than five, including X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest and Truth Social
- Data types with no equivalent there: single-post engagement, video transcripts, keyword search and public ad-library results
- Monthly plans with no prepaid credit minimum and no expiry on inactivity
- Handles that no longer resolve are not charged, so auditing an old list costs only for the live accounts
- The same credits also buy phone, email and IP validation, so there is one balance rather than a separate purchase
What it costs
From $19.99
per 1,000 profile checks; $49.50 on Starter
Where Social Blade wins- A genuinely self-serve developer API with a fully public 18-tier price ladder: no demo, no sales call, no contract, and docs, base URL, auth scheme and an npm client all readable without an account
- A free, no-signup sandbox that is rare at this price point: statistics calls against Social Blade's own accounts cost 0 credits and need no client ID or token, and top-list calls can be made keyless against arbitrary profiles for a limited output, so the exact response shape can be inspected before spending anything
- Deep daily history at low unit cost on a four-step ladder: 1 credit for 30 days, 2 for 1 year, 3 for 3 years, and 5 for up to 10 years on TikTok, Twitch, Facebook and Instagram (YouTube tops out at 3 years). A 10-year lookup is 5 credits, so $2.50 at the $0.50 entry rate, falling to $0.30 only at the $0.06 rate that requires a 10,000,000-credit purchase; that is our arithmetic, not their figure
- A 30-day re-lookup window that is unusual value for monitoring: after one credit is spent on a profile it can be looked up daily for 30 days at no further cost, so tracking one creator continuously costs roughly 12 credits a year
- A very large tracked universe compiled since 2008, advertised as over 165 million users across 5 platforms, with an explicit stance that only public statistical data is sold
What it costs
$50.00 for 100 Business API credits ($0.50/credit), the smallest pack; the page's pricing selector prints a package total for whichever of the 18 tiers you pick
Short answer
Social Blade's Business API publishes ten endpoints across five platforms: account statistics and a top list for YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Facebook and Instagram, with daily history going back up to ten years. 1Lookup covers ten platforms for profile lookups and adds data types that have no equivalent there: single-post engagement, video transcripts, keyword search and public ad-library results.
Here is what 1,000 lookups cost at Social Blade and at 1Lookup.
Published rates only, drawn on one shared scale that starts at $0.
- 1Lookup Social Profile Check, from its rate card
- Social Blade published tiers
Social Blade, per published tier
100 credits (100 profile lookups), smallest pack
$500.0010,000 credits
$200.00100,000 credits
$100.0010,000,000 credits, largest pack published
$60.00
1Lookup, reference band (a range, not a bar from $0)
Social Profile Check at 10 credits each, all 4 plans: 2,000 profile checks/mo (Starter) to 100,000 profile checks/mo (Enterprise)
Cost per 1,000
| Product | Volume tier | Price | Cost per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Blade | 100 credits (100 profile lookups), smallest pack | $50.00 at $0.50/credit, printed by their pricing selector | $500.00 |
| Social Blade | 10,000 credits | $0.20/credit; their pricing selector prints the $2,000.00 package total | $200.00 |
| Social Blade | 100,000 credits | $0.10/credit; their pricing selector prints the $10,000.00 package total | $100.00 |
| Social Blade | 10,000,000 credits, largest pack published | $0.06/credit; their pricing selector prints the $600,000.00 package total | $60.00 |
| 1Lookup Social Profile Check | 2,000 profile checks/mo | $99/mo (Starter) | $49.50 |
| 1Lookup Social Profile Check | 8,500 profile checks/mo | $299/mo (Growth) | $35.20 |
| 1Lookup Social Profile Check | 25,000 profile checks/mo | $799/mo (Professional) | $32.00 |
| 1Lookup Social Profile Check | 100,000 profile checks/mo | $1,999/mo (Enterprise) | $19.99 |
What replaces what
Here is which 1Lookup product matches each Social Blade job.
Each row pairs what their published endpoints return with the 1Lookup endpoint covering the same ground, or the gap where they have no equivalent.
Account statistics on five platforms
Social Profile Check API
The same class of profile data on ten networks instead of five, including X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest and Truth Social, through one endpoint and one response shape.
10 credits per matched profile
No equivalent: their endpoints are account-level onlySocial Post Lookup API
Send a post URL and get the caption, author, likes, comments, shares, views and posted date. Their published API returns channel aggregates, with post identifiers carrying no engagement metrics.
5 credits per matched post
Finding creators in a niche to look upSocial Search API
Start from a keyword instead of a username and get back a page of matching public profiles and content to feed into the profile endpoint.
5 credits per search with results
Judging whether an audience is in the right countryTikTok Audience Demographics API
The follower-country split for a TikTok handle, each country with its ISO code and percentage share of the audience.
40 credits per matched handle
Side by side
Both products are measured on the same criteria, using Social Blade's own published numbers.
| Criteria | 1lookup | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Monthly plans with universal credits; core phone, email and IP lookups cost 1 credit, enrichment and intelligence products cost more | Two separate products: prepaid credit packs for a self-serve Business API (18 published tiers, $0.50 down to $0.06 per credit, 1 credit = 1 profile lookup), and website subscriptions billed monthly or annually, annual saving 17-20%. Silver, Gold and Platinum bundle 5, 20 and 50 API credits a month; Bronze bundles none |
| Starting price | $99/mo for 20,000 credits. At 10 credits each (Social Profile Check), that is $49.50 per 1,000 profile checks on Starter, down to $19.99 on Enterprise. | $50.00 for 100 Business API credits ($0.50/credit), the smallest pack; the page's pricing selector prints a package total for whichever of the 18 tiers you pick. The cheapest website subscription is Bronze at $5.99/month or $59.99/year, and it includes zero API credits |
| Free option | Free single lookups via the online tools at 1lookup.io/tools, no account required | Website: a free logged-in account with 5 favourites per platform, top-100 lists, and table data that their own subscription page states as 30 days in the plan table and 14 days in the description below it. API: no free allowance for arbitrary profile statistics, but zero-credit calls work with no client ID or token, against Social Blade's own accounts for statistics and against arbitrary profiles for top-list calls |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial on every plan: $5 of credits on Starter, $20 on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise, with no payment today | None. The refund policy states verbatim: "We do not offer a trial period for subscriptions." Subscription payments are refundable prorated only within 24 hours; Business API credit purchases are final |
| Do credits expire? | Unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months; separately purchased credits last 1 year | Yes, on inactivity. After 6 months without spending credits, 10% of the unused balance expires at the start of each of the next 5 months, and the remainder expires at the one-year inactivity anniversary. Subscription-bundled credits are spent first each month and do not roll over |
At volume
This is what Social Blade charges at each volume it publishes.
| Volume | Price | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 1Lookup Social Profile Check, every plan | $99 to $1,999 a month | $19.99 to $49.50 |
| 100 credits (100 profile lookups), smallest pack | $50.00 at $0.50/credit, printed by their pricing selector | $500.00 |
| 10,000 credits | $0.20/credit; their pricing selector prints the $2,000.00 package total | $200.00 |
| 100,000 credits | $0.10/credit; their pricing selector prints the $10,000.00 package total | $100.00 |
| 10,000,000 credits, largest pack published | $0.06/credit; their pricing selector prints the $600,000.00 package total | $60.00 |
Social Blade figures verified August 2026 against socialblade.com.
How you buy
This is how you buy from 1Lookup and from Social Blade.
1lookupHow it is sold
Monthly plans with universal credits; core phone, email and IP lookups cost 1 credit, enrichment and intelligence products cost more
What it starts at
$99/mo for 20,000 credits
How you try it
7-day free trial on every plan: $5 of credits on Starter, $20 on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise, with no payment today
How it is sold
Two separate products: prepaid credit packs for a self-serve Business API (18 published tiers, $0.50 down to $0.06 per credit, 1 credit = 1 profile lookup), and website subscriptions billed monthly or annually, annual saving 17-20%
What it starts at
$50.00 for 100 Business API credits ($0.50/credit), the smallest pack; the page's pricing selector prints a package total for whichever of the 18 tiers you pick
How you try it
None. The refund policy states verbatim: "We do not offer a trial period for subscriptions." Subscription payments are refundable prorated only within 24 hours; Business API credit purchases are final
A real result
This is what one 1Lookup result looks like.
Send the handle
POST platform plus handle, or just paste the full profile URL and we work out the platform from it. One request shape covers all ten platforms, and aliases like x, ig, yt and fb are accepted.
We fetch the profile live
First checks run a live fetch of the public profile, typically 30 to 60 seconds and up to about two minutes worst case. Repeats on the same profile within 7 days return instantly from cache.
Read the numbers and flags
Follower counts, engagement, the link in bio and the verified, private and business flags land in one JSON payload. A real profile bills 10 credits; a handle that resolves to nothing bills zero.
Real profile or invented handle, one card settles it
- Platform
- TikTok
- Handle
- @wanderwithmaya
- Display name
- Maya | Budget Travel
- Exists
- true
- Followers
- 48,210
- Following
- 512
- Posts and videos
- 384
- Engagement rate
- 4.7%
- Link in bio
- linktr.ee/wanderwithmaya
200 OK, 10 creditsShowHide
{
"classification": {
"matched": true,
"exists": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"handle": "wanderwithmaya",
"display_name": "Maya | Budget Travel",
"followers": 48210,
"verified": false,
"private": false
},
"insights": {
"social_profile_check_result": {
"following": 512,
"posts_or_videos": 384,
"engagement_rate": 4.7,
"business_account": null,
"bio": "Budget travel, 3 continents and counting",
"external_link": "https://linktr.ee/wanderwithmaya"
}
},
"metadata": { "credits_used": 10 }
}Try the Engagement Rate Calculator, one of 1Lookup's free tools.
Work out a creator's engagement rate from their followers, likes and comments.
The evidence
Here is the evidence behind every number on this page.
Here is the same month priced at 1Lookup and at Social Blade.
Pick one of Social Blade’s own published volumes. Their figure is their published price at that tier; ours is the cheapest plan on our rate card that covers it. Nothing here is interpolated.
1Lookup
$1,999/mo
The Enterprise plan, 1,000,000 credits a month at $2 per 1,000 credits. 100,000 lookups at 10 credits each use 1,000,000, which is 100% of the plan, so $19.99 per 1,000 lookups effective.
Social Blade
$10,000
Their published price for “100,000 credits”, at $100 per 1,000.
$8,001
cheaper with 1Lookup at 100,000 a month, and the same credits work across all 76 1Lookup data products, not just this one.
Social Blade rates as published on socialblade.com, verified August 2026. Check their pricing page
1Lookup
Social Blade
Social Blade pricing and product facts verified against socialblade.com as of August 2026. Prices change, so confirm on the vendor’s site. 1Lookup numbers come from the live rate card.
Who it is for
Pick 1Lookup or stay with Social Blade depending on the job in front of you.
1lookupChoose 1Lookup if
you need public creator statistics as JSON your code can call, in bulk, across ten networks with one response shape.
Social BladeConsider Social Blade instead if
you want to read one creator's numbers on a page, or you need the long daily history of follower growth that Social Blade has built up over years.
Questions
People ask these questions before they switch from Social Blade.
Does Social Blade have an API?
Yes, and it is properly self-serve: a published credit ladder, docs and base URL readable without an account, and a free sandbox that returns real responses for Social Blade's own accounts at zero credits. The verified table on this page records the rates and the minimum purchase. The question worth asking is not whether it exists but whether five platforms and account-level statistics are the shape of data you need.
Is there a free Social Blade alternative?
1Lookup runs free web tools that answer the same one-off questions with no account: a profile viewer for follower and post counts, a username checker across ten networks, and an engagement rate calculator. They are rate limited, which is the trade for being free and login-free. Bulk and programmatic use is what the paid API is for.
Which is cheaper per lookup?
It depends entirely on volume and on which product you are pricing. Their credit ladder starts high per credit at the smallest pack and falls a long way at scale, and their thirty-day free re-lookup window makes repeat monitoring of the same creator very cheap. Our per-lookup cost is flat on a monthly plan with no prepaid minimum. Both sets of published numbers are in the table above.
Which platforms does 1Lookup cover?
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Truth Social, Pinterest and LinkedIn for profile lookups, through one endpoint and one response shape. The transcript and search endpoints cover different subsets, which the product pages list rather than glossing over.
Do you show historical follower growth charts?
No, and this is the clearest reason to choose them instead. Their API sells daily history in tiers going back up to ten years, built from tracking that started in 2008, and nothing can reconstruct that after the fact. 1Lookup returns current values, which suits vetting and enrichment and does not suit trend lines.
What data types does their API not carry?
Their published endpoint list is statistics and top lists per platform. There is no single-post engagement endpoint, no video transcript, no keyword search and no ad-library search, and the audience field on a profile is the creator's own country rather than a breakdown of where their followers are.
1lookupMore platforms, more than follower counts
Try 1Lookup free for 7 days and compare it with Social Blade on your own work.
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Keep going
Keep researching Social Blade with the matching 1Lookup pages.
Use 1Lookup
- Social Profile Check API10 credits per matched profile
- Social Post Lookup API5 credits per matched post
- Social Search API5 credits per search with results
- TikTok Audience Demographics API40 credits per matched handle
- Engagement Rate Calculator (free tool)Work out a creator's engagement rate from their followers, likes and comments.
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