SocialCrawl vs SocialHolmes

SocialCrawl is a real product and this page says what it is good at. On price alone it is about 12.0× what we charge for the same thousand results.

	SocialHolmes	SocialCrawl
Per 1,000 results	$0.50	$6.00
Paid before your first call	None	$19.00
Subscription	No	No
A run that returns nothing	Costs nothing	Usually billed
Free tier	1,000 credits on sign-up	One-off credits on sign-up

At 100,000 results a month

$50.00

SocialHolmes

$619.00

SocialCrawl, including its floor

What SocialCrawl is better at

SocialCrawl covers far more platforms than we do — dozens against our four — and computes derived fields like engagement rate on the response, which saves you a step if that is what you were going to do with it anyway.

If you need a long tail of small platforms in one integration, we are not the answer and they might be.

Where SocialHolmes wins

An order of magnitude on price for the endpoints we both serve, which for most people is profiles, posts and comments on the four platforms that matter.

Depth over breadth. Fifty-one endpoints across four platforms means the things you actually need on Instagram and TikTok are there, rather than a profile endpoint on forty sites and little else.

Is this comparison fair to SocialCrawl?

We have tried to make it so, which is why the page says what SocialCrawl is better at before it says anything else. The prices are their own published figures, normalised to the same unit and dated. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will fix it — a comparison people trust is worth more to us than a flattering one.

Why are you cheaper than SocialCrawl?

Two structural reasons rather than a promotion. We bill for results delivered rather than for attempts, so failures cost you nothing; and there is no subscription underneath the rate, so nothing has to be recovered from customers who use less than they pay for.

Can I run both while I decide?

Yes, and it is the sensible way to choose. Take the same hundred targets, run them through both, and compare completeness and latency rather than marketing pages. Our free credits are enough to do that without paying us anything.

What if I need something you do not cover?

Tell us. We serve four platforms deeply rather than forty shallowly, so there are real gaps — and if the thing you need is one we are already thinking about, knowing somebody wants it moves it up.

Try it against your own targets

The only comparison that settles this is your own. A new account gets 1,000 credits, needs no card, and runs against the same endpoints and the same rate as a paying one.

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Other providers' figures are their own published rates as at August 28, 2026, normalised to dollars per thousand results. They change often — check before you rely on them, and tell us if one is wrong.