InsightIQ sells creator data two ways: a searchable public database, and a consent API where creators connect their own accounts. As APIs, both start the same way: with a sales conversation. Here is what the alternatives cost per 1,000 profiles, and when InsightIQ is still the right call.
TL;DR
The short answer: for TikTok creator search, the Tokfluence API at $9.80 per 1,000 profiles, with live crawling when a niche is thin. For three platforms on a published price, CreatorDB. For consented data, Phyllo.
Why people look: InsightIQ shows no prices, and API access starts with an email to its support team.
The number: 33% of the creators in our index with 1,000+ followers have fewer than 2,000, below the floor of InsightIQ's creator search.
The caveat: if you need data a creator has to consent to, such as income or first-party audience demographics, InsightIQ does something no public-data index can.
How we put this together
Prices were read from each vendor's own pricing page in October 2026, CreatorDB and Influencers.club from screenshots. InsightIQ and Phyllo publish no prices, so their cells say so rather than guess. We found too few public reviews of InsightIQ to weigh, so its section works from its own site and docs.
Every price is converted to the same unit, 1,000 profiles, with the maths in the table. What counts as a "profile" differs by vendor, so the table says that too. We build one of the tools on this page, so read the "pick InsightIQ instead if" lines.
Why do teams look for InsightIQ alternatives?
Mostly because they cannot get a number. InsightIQ's data is broad and its consent product is genuinely rare, but the path to a price runs through a call.
No price on the pricing page. insightiq.ai/pricing shows a form headed "First, let's ensure insightIQ fits your needs; then we'll talk billing" and says "We bill you based on infra costs". An older plan grid is still in the page source, hidden from visitors, and in it API access sat on the custom Enterprise tier only.
API access by email. The developer docs end with "To access our API please send a mail to support@insightiq.ai." You cannot generate a key and test a query on your own.
Two products under one name. The docs describe a consent gateway ("Using Phyllo, developers can get access to creators' ... consented data"), while the marketing site sells a public database. Know which of the two you need before you book the call.
Inconsistent coverage figures. The homepage says 450M+ creators; the FAQ on the same page says over 400 million. Creator search covers accounts "with >2k followers".
insightiq.ai/pricingWhat a visitor sees at insightiq.ai/pricing, captured October 2026: a call booking form and no prices. That is why every InsightIQ cell in the tables below says "Not published".
What InsightIQ gets right
The consent side is the part competitors cannot copy, and it is worth being clear about before you switch.
Creator-consented data. Identity and content data from connected accounts on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Twitch, Facebook and Substack, per its docs.
Income data. Creator earnings from YouTube, straight from the platform, with more platforms listed as coming soon.
Multi-platform search. Instagram, YouTube and TikTok in one creator search API.
A free creator search on the website, to try the database before talking to anyone.
No price on the pricing page.
API access starts with an email to support.
Creator search starts above 2,000 followers.
Database "updated every two weeks", by its own description.
docs.insightiq.aiInsightIQ's developer docs, captured October 2026. Note the "by Phyllo" under the logo and the last line: API access is requested by email.
InsightIQ alternatives at a glance, priced per 1,000 profiles
Read in October 2026. Price per 1,000 assumes you use the plan's full allowance; unused credits make the real figure higher. The "one profile" column matters: a raw lookup of a handle you already know is not the same product as a creator found by filtered search.
Tool
Best for
What one profile is
Entry price
Per 1,000 profiles
Tokfluence API
TikTok creator search with a published price
A creator found by filtered search, with stats and public contact email
$49 / month
$9.80$49 / 5,000 credits, 1 credit = 1 profile
InsightIQ
Reference: the tool you are replacing
Public profile or creator-consented data
Not published
Not publishedPricing page is a "Schedule a Call" form
Phyllo
Creator-consented first-party data
Data from an account the creator connected
Quote only
Not published"Customized plans", free sandbox
CreatorDB
Cheapest published multi-platform API
A full creator profile (2 credits)
$79 / month
$20 to $502 credits x $0.025 (Pro) to $0.010 (Enterprise)
Influencers.club
Multi-platform enrichment by handle
A full enrichment by handle (1 credit)
$208 / month
From $2301 credit x "as low as $0.23"
Modash API
Enterprise multi-platform discovery
An influencer report (1 credit)
$10,000 / year
Not publishedAnnual contract, credit allowance not on the page
ScrapeCreators
Raw lookups of handles you already have
One live profile request, no filtered search
$47 one-off
$0.99 to $1.88$47 / 25,000 or $497 / 500,000 credits
Tokfluence row: the API runs on its own plan, separate from the app. Agency ($199 a month) bundles the app, the API and the MCP server at $9.95 per 1,000, and the Discovery Service ($499 a month for 100,000 credits) adds our team running the searches for you. Full plans are on the pricing page.
The 6 best InsightIQ alternatives, compared
1
Tokfluence API and MCP
TikTok creator data, priced per profile, with live crawling on demand
Who it is for
Developers and agencies whose product or workflow is about TikTok creators: finding them, qualifying them and reaching them. If you went to InsightIQ for a creator search API and stalled at the sales call, this is the closest like-for-like swap.
Pricing
API-only plans are self-serve: Growth is $49 a month for 5,000 profile credits ($9.80 per 1,000 profiles) and Pro is $99 a month for 10,000 ($9.90 per 1,000). Agency is $199 a month for 20,000 credits shared between the dashboard, the API and the MCP server ($9.95 per 1,000), with unlimited searches. The app has a free plan, no card needed. If you would rather not run the searches yourself, the Discovery Service ($499 a month, 100,000 credits) has our team run them and hand-filter the lists.
Where it beats InsightIQ
The price is on the website and the API key is self-serve. InsightIQ asks you to email support for API access.
Live crawling from the chat. When a niche is thin, the MCP server starts a crawl of TikTok for it (250 credits) and the new creators are searchable a few hours later. Nothing on InsightIQ's site describes an equivalent.
Smaller creators. Our search starts at 1,000 followers; InsightIQ's creator search starts above 2,000. 33% of the creators in our index with 1,000+ followers sit between 1,000 and 1,999. Applied to the 16.6 million creators with 1,000+ followers in our index on 8 September 2026 (33% x 16.6M), that is at least 5.5 million TikTok creators below InsightIQ's floor. It is a floor: TikTok has more accounts than we have crawled.
Public contact emails come back in the search response itself. There is no separate reveal call to pay for.
A hosted MCP server, so Claude, Cursor or any MCP client can search the index, build lists and launch crawls in plain language.
Pick InsightIQ instead if you need deep Instagram audience data from the same API, or creator-consented data such as income or audience demographics pulled straight from a connected account. We do neither on the standard plans; on-demand Instagram crawling is available as a custom plan.
TokfluenceThe developer dashboard: monthly credits, API keys and a ledger of every call. Each creators.search line costs one credit. Signing up and creating a key takes minutes, with no sales call.The same index from the app: a plain-language query turns into filters and returns creators with follower count, engagement rate and contact email on each row.
2
Phyllo
Best for creator-consented data
Who it is for
Product teams who want the consent-based half of InsightIQ: creators connect their own accounts, and you read their first-party data. InsightIQ's developer docs are branded "insightIQ by Phyllo" and say "Using Phyllo, developers can get access to creators' ... consented data".
Pricing
Not published. The pricing page says "we offer customized plans" and offers a quote. A free sandbox is available at dashboard.getphyllo.com.
Where it beats InsightIQ
A free sandbox you can build against before talking to sales.
The same consent model (a Connect SDK where the creator links an account), sold under the Phyllo name and pointed at developers.
Broad platform list: the pricing page names 20+ social platforms.
Pick InsightIQ instead if what you wanted was the searchable public creator database and the dashboard. That is InsightIQ's product, not Phyllo's.
3
CreatorDB
Cheapest published multi-platform API
Who it is for
Teams that need YouTube, Instagram and TikTok in one API and want a price before a call.
Pricing
Published and credit-based: Pro $79 a month for 3,160 credits, Premium $249 for 12,450, Enterprise $749 for 74,900, or pay as you go at $0.04 a credit. A full creator profile is 2 credits, so 1,000 profiles cost $50 on Pro and $20 on Enterprise. Plan credits expire at the end of the month.
Where it beats InsightIQ
Every number is public: plans, credit rates and per-call costs.
The app, the API and an MCP server are on every paid plan.
Monthly billing, no sales call to start.
Pick InsightIQ instead if coverage size is the deciding factor. CreatorDB claims 30M+ creators across three platforms; InsightIQ claims 400M+.
4
Influencers.club
Best for enrichment across many networks
Who it is for
Teams who already have handles or emails and want them enriched with profile data and contacts across networks.
Pricing
Pro (API and dashboard) starts at $208 a month; Starter (dashboard only) at $140. Credits go "as low as $0.23" on Pro. A full enrichment by handle is 1 credit, so 1,000 full profiles start at $230. Discovery rows are 0.01 credit each. 10 free credits to test.
Where it beats InsightIQ
Published starting prices and a self-serve start.
340M+ creators claimed, with API access on the Pro plan and an MCP integration.
Enrichment by email, which an index-first API rarely offers.
Pick InsightIQ instead if you need consented first-party data. Influencers.club is built on public data.
5
Modash API
Enterprise multi-platform discovery
Who it is for
Larger platforms that need Instagram, TikTok and YouTube discovery behind one contract and can sign for a year.
Pricing
The Discovery API "starts at $16,200 yearly" and the Raw API at $10,000 yearly. No monthly or pay-as-you-go plans. Credit costs per action are published (an influencer report is 1 credit) but the credit allowance is not, so we cannot work out a price per 1,000.
Where it beats InsightIQ
A published starting price, which InsightIQ does not show.
380M+ profiles claimed, with unused credits rolling over while the contract runs.
Pick InsightIQ instead if you need consented data, or the first-year commitment is too large for a test.
6
ScrapeCreators
Best for raw lookups by handle
Who it is for
Developers who already know which creators they want and only need fresh public data for them.
Pricing
$47 one-off for 25,000 credits ($1.88 per 1,000 requests) or $497 for 500,000 ($0.99 per 1,000). "1 credit === 1 request (for most endpoints)" and "Credits never expire".
Where it beats InsightIQ
The lowest price per request on this page, with no subscription.
Live data at request time across 38+ platform APIs.
Pick InsightIQ instead if you need to find creators you do not know yet. ScrapeCreators fetches profiles you name; it does not filter a database by audience or engagement.
How do you replace InsightIQ with the Tokfluence API?
If your use case is TikTok creator search, you can have results in your own code the same afternoon. Three steps:
Create a key. Pick an API plan at developers.tokfluence.com and generate a key. It starts with tkf_live_ and goes in the Authorization header.
Search. Call the creator search with your keyword and filters (followers, engagement, country, hashtags, brand mentions, contact email). Each profile returned costs one credit.
Fill the gaps live. On Agency or above, connect the MCP server (developers.tokfluence.com/mcp) to Claude or Cursor. When a search comes back thin, ask it to crawl the niche: 250 credits, and the new creators are searchable a few hours later. This is the part no index-only API on this page offers.
InsightIQ figures are quoted from insightiq.ai and docs.insightiq.ai, read in October 2026.
InsightIQ
Tokfluence
Price on the website
No. The pricing page is a "Schedule a Call" form
Yes. API from $49 / month
Price per 1,000 profiles
Not published
$9.80 (Growth), $9.90 (Pro), $9.95 (Agency)
Getting an API key
"To access our API please send a mail to support@insightiq.ai"
Self-serve, at developers.tokfluence.com
Smallest creator in search
Above 2,000 followers
1,000 followers
Crawl a niche on demand
Not described on their site
Yes, from the chat: 250 credits, searchable a few hours later
Hosted MCP server
None published
Yes, OAuth sign-in
Creator-consented data (Connect SDK)
Yes: identity, engagement, audience, income
No
Platforms
Instagram, YouTube, TikTok search; more via Connect
TikTok, with linked Instagram and YouTube handles
Database size claimed
400M+ and 450M+, both on insightiq.ai
15M+ TikTok creators
The consent row is a real loss: we do not ask creators to connect accounts. The last two rows are differences of scope. Every competitor we have broken down this way is on the platform comparisons hub.
Which InsightIQ alternative should you pick?
Start from the data you actually need, not the size of the database.
TikTok creators, found by filters: the Tokfluence API, or Agency if you also want the app and the MCP server.
A niche nobody has indexed: Tokfluence's MCP server, which crawls it live.
Three platforms on a published price: CreatorDB.
Enriching handles or emails you already hold: Influencers.club, or ScrapeCreators for raw lookups.
Consented data with a sandbox first: Phyllo.
Stay on InsightIQ if
Your product needs creators to connect their accounts, for identity checks, income or first-party audience data.
You want public search and consented data from one vendor and one contract.
You are happy to agree a custom price for both.
The verdict
InsightIQ is two products. The consent API is the rare one, and if your product depends on creators connecting their accounts, stay with it or look at Phyllo, which shares its docs. Nothing else on this page does that.
If what you needed was a creator search API, the trade is simpler. For TikTok, Tokfluence gives you a self-serve key, a price of $9.80 per 1,000 profiles, creators from 1,000 followers up, and a crawler you can point at any niche the index is missing. For three platforms on a published price, CreatorDB is the honest pick. For the wider field, see the best influencer marketing APIs.
Frequently asked questions
What is InsightIQ?
InsightIQ sells creator data two ways. Its public side is a creator database and search across Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, available as a dashboard and as APIs. Its consent side is a Connect SDK: a creator links their own account and you read their identity, content, audience and, on some platforms, income data. Its developer docs are branded "insightIQ by Phyllo".
Is InsightIQ the same as Phyllo?
They share the same developer documentation. docs.insightiq.ai carries the "insightIQ by Phyllo" logo and says "Using Phyllo, developers can get access to creators' ... consented data", and Phyllo's own site links to the same docs. We have not seen a public statement of the corporate relationship, so we describe what the docs show and no more.
How much does InsightIQ cost?
InsightIQ does not show prices. In October 2026 insightiq.ai/pricing displayed a form headed "First, let's ensure insightIQ fits your needs; then we'll talk billing" and said "We bill you based on infra costs". The page source still contains an older plan grid, hidden from visitors, in which API access was reserved for the custom Enterprise tier.
What is the cheapest InsightIQ alternative?
For raw lookups of handles you already have, ScrapeCreators at $0.99 to $1.88 per 1,000 requests. For filtered TikTok creator search, the Tokfluence API at $9.80 per 1,000 profiles ($49 a month for 5,000). For a multi-platform profile API, CreatorDB at $20 to $50 per 1,000 full profiles.
Does Tokfluence have consent-based creator data like InsightIQ?
No. Tokfluence indexes public TikTok profiles and does not ask creators to connect their accounts. If your product needs data only a connected account can give, such as income or first-party audience demographics, InsightIQ or Phyllo is the right category.
What each Tokfluence creator record contains, field by field, is on the influencer database page.
Free forever, no card. The card is asked only at checkout.
Disclaimer The data Tokfluence provides is not authorized or verified by TikTok. We are gathering data from the TikTok website not an API.Tiktok does not endorse the data being shared. We are not an official partner of TikTok.
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