Why Brands Look for Modash Alternatives
We have used Modash. It is genuinely good, and if you need Instagram you should probably buy it. What follows is the honest case for the other choice.
- Modash is $199/month and meters what you can look at. Essentials caps you at 300 profile views and 150 email unlocks a month.
- Tokfluence is $99/month with unlimited profile views and unlimited search. One plan, no credits, no seat fees, and a permanent free tier.
- We are the most extensive TikTok platform on the market. TikTok is not one of three platforms we cover. It is the whole product.
- No outreach inbox, on purpose. We integrate with the tools you already use, including an MCP server so Claude can query the index directly.
- Missing creator? We crawl for you. Your list comes back in 30 minutes to an hour.
What Brands Run Into With Modash
Almost nobody leaves Modash because the product is bad. They leave because of the meter. You are already paying $199 a month, and you are still doing arithmetic about how many creators you are allowed to open this week.
The complaints that come up again and again:
- The credit maths. Profile views are capped, so the more carefully you research, the faster you run out.
- The caps bite during the work you bought the tool for. 300 profile views sounds like plenty until you actually run a campaign with it.
- The outreach half never quite lands. Read the public reviews and you find team after team exporting to their own email tool instead.
In practice that turns into:
- Rationing your own research, because checking a profile properly costs a credit
- Building shortlists on follower count, because that number is free to look at
- Hitting the email unlock ceiling mid-campaign and waiting for the month to roll over
- Paying per seat to give a colleague access
- Running outreach in Gmail anyway, so the inbox you paid for goes unused
- Being told a creator is not in the index, with no path from there
What Modash does well
- Three platforms. TikTok, Instagram and YouTube in one tool. We only do TikTok.
- Genuinely large index across those three platforms.
- Payments and affiliate management built into the Performance plan.
- Strong reputation. 4.9 on G2, and the product earns it.
- Mature enterprise tier, with custom tracking domains and procurement support.
Where it starts to hurt
- Credit-based pricing on profile views. It meters the exact activity discovery consists of.
- Tight monthly caps. 300 profile views and 150 email unlocks on the $199 plan.
- Per-seat pricing. 2 seats on Essentials, 5 on Performance.
- Outreach is the weakest part of the product. Reviews consistently describe the inbox as bolted on.
- No path when a creator is not indexed. If they are not in the database, that is the end of the answer.
Modash vs Tokfluence at a Glance
| Modash Essentials | Modash Performance | Tokfluence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $199 | $499 | $99 |
| Creator search | Included | Included | Unlimited |
| Profile data views | 300 / month | 800 / month | Unlimited |
| Verified email reveals | 150 / month | 400 / month | 10,000 / month |
| Seats | 2 | 5 | No seat pricing |
| Free plan | 14-day trial | 14-day trial | Permanent free plan |
| Platforms | TikTok, Instagram, YouTube | TikTok, Instagram, YouTube | TikTok |
| On-demand crawling | No | No | Yes, 30 to 60 min |
| MCP / AI assistant access | No | No | Yes |
Modash pricing from modash.io/pricing, September 2026. Enterprise starts at $14,700 per year.
What About API Access?
Both of us sell API access separately from the platform, and this is where the two companies look least alike. Modash treats it as enterprise: $10,000 a year to start, $16,200 for Discovery, and a call with sales before you can touch it. Ours is a signup form and $49 a month.
| Modash API | Tokfluence API | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $10,000 / year (Raw API) | $49 / month |
| Discovery API | $16,200 / year | Included |
| Billing | Annual contract | Monthly, cancel any time |
| Self-serve signup | No, book a call | Yes |
| Free testing | Testing credits on request | Free plan on the platform |
| Semantic search | AI Search, enterprise tier | Included from $49 |
| Contact emails | Included | Included on every profile |
| Platforms | TikTok, Instagram, YouTube | TikTok |
Modash API pricing from modash.io/api, September 2026. Tokfluence API plans: Growth $49/month for 5,000 profile credits, Pro $99/month for 10,000. Full detail on the TikTok API page.
Which mostly decides who gets to build anything. A developer can have our API returning creator data this afternoon. The other route starts with a meeting and a commitment about seventeen times larger, which is a very different conversation to have with your finance team.
Why Tokfluence Is the Best Alternative to Modash
Five things, roughly in the order people bring them up when they switch.
One Plan at $99, No Credit Maths
One paid plan. $99 a month. Nothing to compare, nothing to top up.
For reference, Modash runs $199 a month for 2 seats and 300 profile views, $499 for 5 seats and 800 views, and Enterprise opens at $14,700 a year. Three tiers to work out before you have looked at a single creator.
- One price, published, no sales call required
- No per-seat charges as the team grows
- No credit packs, top-ups or rollover rules to track
- A permanent free plan, not a 14-day trial
Unlimited Search and Unlimited Profile Views
Search and profile views are unlimited on both plans, including the free one.
This is the difference that actually changes how you work. Discovery is mostly looking. Twenty creators worth briefing usually means opening a couple of hundred profiles, and under a 300-view cap that is your whole month gone. The real cost is not the money, it is that you start checking fewer creators properly.
- Unlimited creator search on the free and paid plans
- Unlimited profile data views on the paid plan
- Unlimited saved lists
- 10,000 verified email reveals a month, a ceiling most teams never reach
Integrations Instead of a Half-Built Inbox
We do not have an outreach inbox, and we are not planning one.
Modash does, and going by the reviews it is the weakest thing they ship. We would only have built a worse version of the tool you are already using, so we export cleanly instead and get out of the way.
- MCP server, so Claude and other assistants query the creator index directly and build a shortlist in conversation
- CSV export that lands clean in a sequencer, CRM or spreadsheet
- Public API for teams that want the data in their own stack
- Your outreach stays in Gmail, Lemlist, HubSpot or wherever it already works
- A done-for-you outreach service if you would rather hand the whole workflow over
The Most Extensive TikTok Platform on the Market
TikTok is not one of three platforms we cover. It is the whole product, and the depth shows.
You do not have to guess keywords to use it. In the clip below, the query is typed in plain English, "UK women over 40 years talking about menopause", and Tokfluence turns that sentence into structured filters: country, gender, age signals and topic. The search returns 98 matching TikTok creators, each with follower count, engagement rate and average views, ready to filter further or export. The typing is sped up four times; the search and the results run at real speed.
- Filter by niche, country, follower band, engagement rate, hashtags, mentions, verified status, contact email and cross-platform links
- Sort on any of them, then export
- Audience analysis to check followers are real and in the right country before you brief anyone
- Campaign tracking on posts, views and cost-per-view
- Original research published from the index, including median engagement rate by follower tier across 1,500 sampled creators
Breadth versus depth is the honest framing. Modash spans more platforms. Nobody goes deeper into TikTok than we do.
If a Creator Is Missing, We Go and Get Them
Every other tool here can only hand back what it already has. If your niche is thin, that is the end of the conversation.
We just go and crawl it. Ask for something we are light on and the list lands back with you in 30 minutes to an hour.
- On-demand crawling of niches, hashtags and creator sets
- Results in 30 to 60 minutes, not "submit a request and wait"
- The index grows around what customers actually search for
Modash vs Tokfluence: Which Platform Is Right for You?
Choose Modash if
- Your campaigns run on Instagram or YouTube. This is the decisive one. Three platforms beats one, and no pricing advantage fixes a platform you do not cover.
- You want discovery and outreach in a single window.
- You need built-in payments or affiliate management.
- You need SSO, custom tracking domains and procurement paperwork.
Choose Tokfluence if
- TikTok is where your campaigns actually live.
- You are tired of counting profile views on a $199 plan.
- Your outreach already works somewhere else and you want clean data feeding it.
- You want an AI assistant querying the creator index directly.
- You need creators who are not in anyone's index yet.
Final Verdict
If you need Instagram and YouTube, buy Modash. We are not going to pretend otherwise to win a signup we would lose again in month two.
If the campaign is TikTok, we think this is the better buy, and the free plan means you do not have to take our word for it. Run your normal discovery against our index for an afternoon. If the creators you would actually book are not in there, you have lost nothing but the afternoon.
Start free, no cardFrequently Asked Questions
Is Tokfluence cheaper than Modash?
Yes, about half. $99 a month against $199, and there is a free plan that does not expire rather than a 14-day trial.
Does Tokfluence cover Instagram and YouTube?
No. TikTok only, and that is a deliberate choice rather than a gap we are working on. If Instagram matters to you, Modash is the better buy.
How many creators are in the Tokfluence index?
Over 15 million, and it grows around what people actually search for. If someone is missing we will crawl for them, usually inside the hour.
Does Tokfluence limit how many profiles I can view?
No. Look at as many as you like. The only thing we count is verified email reveals, and 10,000 a month is not a ceiling most teams find.
Can I use Tokfluence with Claude or other AI assistants?
Yes. We publish an MCP server, so you can ask Claude for the shortlist and it queries the index directly rather than you clicking through it.
Do I need to talk to sales?
No. The price is on the site, signup is self-serve, and the free plan does not ask for a card.