> 100 free credits a month, no card. Starter is $19 a month for 8,000 credits. Per 1,000 ads against ScrapeCreators and Apify. Empty pages are free.

Web version: https://publicadsapi.com/pricing · Last updated: 2026-10-21

# Pricing

Start with a sandbox key and 100 credits a month, free. A credit is a page of ads or one ad. Empty pages, errors and sandbox calls are never charged.

## Free

$0

100 credits a month

Then $0.0025 a credit if you add a card

-   Sandbox key and test scenarios
-   Every platform, every field, and ad detail
-   5 requests a second

## Starter

Recommended

$19/month

8,000 credits a month

Then $0.0025 a credit

-   Everything in Free
-   20 requests a second
-   Email support from Matthew

[Start with Starter](https://publicadsapi.com/signup?tier=starter)

## Growth

$49/month

25,000 credits a month

Then $0.0020 a credit

-   Everything in Starter
-   50 requests a second

[Start with Growth](https://publicadsapi.com/signup?tier=growth)

## Enterprise

Custom

Your volume, your rate

Invoiced monthly

-   SLA and a named contact
-   Custom terms
-   Higher rate limits

[Talk to us](https://publicadsapi.com/contact)

## What a credit buys

One credit is one page of a platform’s search, or one ad with all its detail. LinkedIn uses 2, as about half its lookups are retried on a new address. A page holds up to the number of ads below, so per 1,000 ads the price depends on the platform.

Credits and cost per 1,000 ads, by platform
| Platform | Ads a page | Credits a page | Starter per 1,000 ads | Growth per 1,000 ads |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meta Ad Library | Up to 30 | 1 | $0.079 | $0.065 |
| Google Ads Transparency Center | Up to 100 | 1 | $0.024 | $0.020 |
| TikTok Commercial Content Library | Up to 36 | 1 | $0.066 | $0.054 |
| LinkedIn Ad Library | Up to 24 | 2 | $0.198 | $0.163 |

## Against the market, per 1,000 ads

As of October 2026, from each vendor’s published prices. Ours is the Growth rate with full pages. ScrapeCreators sells $47 for 25,000 credits and charges 1 credit per request for most endpoints; its page sizes differ from ours, so its column is an estimate that assumes a page as big as ours. Apify’s scrapers charge per ad.

Price per 1,000 ads, as of October 2026
| Platform | Public Ads API (Growth) | ScrapeCreators (estimate) | Apify scrapers |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meta Ad Library | $0.065 | $0.063 | $0.75 to $5.80 |
| Google Ads Transparency Center | $0.020 | $0.019 | $2.00 |
| TikTok Commercial Content Library | $0.054 | $0.052 | Not checked |
| LinkedIn Ad Library | $0.163 | $0.078 | Not checked |

Sources, read 16 to 18 October 2026: [ScrapeCreators pricing](https://scrapecreators.com), [Apify: facebook-ads-scraper](https://apify.com/apify/facebook-ads-scraper), [Apify: facebook-ads-library-scraper](https://apify.com/curious_coder/facebook-ads-library-scraper), [Apify: google-ads-transparency-scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/google-ads-transparency-scraper). A page with fewer ads costs the same credit, so a narrow search costs more per ad.

## What’s free

You pay for pages with ads and for ads found. Everything else costs nothing.

-   Every sandbox call, on every platform
-   A search page with no ads
-   A search the platform blocked on every address we tried
-   A timeout, or a page we could not read
-   Any other error, such as a parameter the platform doesn’t have
-   A call refused for quota or rate
-   Agent signup, and the sandbox and live keys it gives

## What a month costs

The cheapest plan for a given number of credits.

Monthly cost examples
| Credits a month | Cheapest plan | Monthly cost |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 100 | Free | $0 |
| 2,000 | Free with a card | 1,900 × $0.0025 = $4.75 |
| 8,000 | Starter | $19 |
| 15,000 | Starter | $19 + 7,000 × $0.0025 = $36.50 |
| 25,000 | Growth | $49 |
| 60,000 | Growth | $49 + 35,000 × $0.0020 = $119 |

## Pricing questions

### Do I need a card for the free tier?

No. Sign up with your email and you get a sandbox key and 100 credits a month. Without a card nothing is ever charged: past them the API returns QUOTA\_EXCEEDED until the next month. To keep going, move to Starter, or stay on Free and add a card to pay $0.0025 for each extra credit, with no monthly fee.

### What is a credit?

One page of ads from a search, or one ad with all its detail. Each uses 1 credit; LinkedIn uses 2, as about half its lookups are retried on a new address. An empty page, a block, an error and every sandbox call use none.

### How is going over billed?

Each credit past your allowance is added to your next monthly Stripe invoice, at your plan's rate: $0.0025 on Starter, $0.0020 on Growth, and $0.0025 on Free with a card.

### Can I change or cancel my plan?

Yes, from the Billing page in your dashboard, at any time. After cancelling, your plan runs to the end of the period you paid for.

### When does my allowance reset?

At the start of each calendar month, in UTC.

## Start with the free tier

Upgrade from the dashboard when you need more credits.

[Get a free API key](https://publicadsapi.com/signup) · [Read the quickstart](https://publicadsapi.com/docs/quickstart)