SocialCrawl vs SociaVault
SocialCrawl ships a normalized schema across 21 platforms, an MCP server on the MCP Registry, and a Visual Explorer. SociaVault's edge is SV-Score. Pick based on what you're building.
21 platforms. One schema. One auth header. `npx socialcrawl-mcp` works in Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
Works with 21 platforms
TikTok·
Instagram·
YouTube·
Facebook·
X·
LinkedIn·
Reddit·
Threads·
Pinterest·
Twitch·
Truth Social·
Snapchat·
Kick·TikTok Shop·
Amazon Shop·
Linktree·
Komi·
Pillar·
lnk.bio·Facebook Ads·
Google Ads·LinkedIn Ads·Google Search·UUtilityTikTok·Instagram·YouTube·Facebook·X·LinkedIn·Reddit·Threads·Pinterest·Twitch·Truth Social·Snapchat·Kick·TikTok Shop·Amazon Shop·Linktree·Komi·Pillar·lnk.bio·Facebook Ads·Google Ads·LinkedIn Ads·Google Search·UUtilityTikTok·Instagram·YouTube·Facebook·X·LinkedIn·Reddit·Threads·Pinterest·Twitch·Truth Social·Snapchat·Kick·TikTok Shop·Amazon Shop·Linktree·Komi·Pillar·lnk.bio·Facebook Ads·Google Ads·LinkedIn Ads·Google Search·UUtilityTikTok·Instagram·YouTube·Facebook·X·LinkedIn·Reddit·Threads·Pinterest·Twitch·Truth Social·Snapchat·Kick·TikTok Shop·Amazon Shop·Linktree·Komi·Pillar·lnk.bio·Facebook Ads·Google Ads·LinkedIn Ads·Google Search·UUtilityWhat is the difference between SocialCrawl and SociaVault?
SocialCrawl is a unified social data API for developers and AI agents. SociaVault is a credit-pack scraping API with an authenticity-scoring moat (SV-Score). Same auth header, different philosophies about schema, agents, and who the API is for.
Unified schema
One field name across 21 platforms. Write one parser, not 13.
MCP server
`npx socialcrawl-mcp` on the MCP Registry. Works in Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf.
Visual Explorer
Paste any URL, see rich cards and export as code. No API key needed to browse.
How does SocialCrawl compare to SociaVault, feature by feature?
Fifteen dimensions side by side. Prices and claims cite SociaVault's own pricing page and docs, fetched 2026-04-22.
| Feature | SocialCrawl | SociaVault |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms & coverage | ||
| Real social platforms | 21 | 13 in API docs sidebar; '25+' homepage claim padded with 5 link-in-bio stubs (Linktree, Linkbio, Komi, Pillar, Amazon Shop) |
| Endpoints in one API | 108 | Not published as a single count |
| Schema & data quality | ||
| Normalized response schema | Enforced at the @repo/social-api gateway — one followerCount across all platforms | Claimed 'guaranteed schema' in their vs-ScraperAPI post, but the actual API mirrors each upstream platform; camelCase on the homepage example vs snake_case in TikTok Shop docs |
| Computed fields (engagement_rate, estimated_reach, content_category, language) | On every response, documented in the OpenAPI spec | Partial — engagement_rate appears on some profile endpoints; no standardized enrichment layer |
| URL path consistency | GET /v1/{platform}/{resource} across every endpoint | Two different base paths in live surfaces: homepage cURL hits /v1/user/tiktok; docs cURL hits /v1/scrape/tiktok/profile; also swaps ?username= for ?handle= |
| Agent readiness | ||
| MCP server | npx socialcrawl-mcp — listed on the MCP Registry, published on npm | Not listed on the MCP Registry, not on npm, not on Smithery, not in official docs. A founder-maintained personal GitHub repo exists but isn't officially packaged |
| Skills bundle (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf) | npx skills add socialcrawl/skills — published on skills.sh and ClawHub | None |
| Typed SDKs | Not yet — both sides are tied here | Not yet — docs offer cURL, JavaScript, Python, PHP snippets only; no published npm or PyPI package |
| Non-technical tooling | ||
| Visual Explorer | Paste any social URL and see rich cards, sortable tables, JSON/CSV export, and 'copy as code' — no API key required to browse | Form-based endpoint playground returning raw JSON; no paste-a-URL flow, no export, no rich cards |
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | 100 credits on signup, no card | 50 credits, no card, credits never expire |
| Growth tier per-credit cost | ~£0.00196/credit (£49 for 25,000 credits) ≈ $0.0025/credit | $0.0040/credit ($79 for 20,000 credits) — around 60% more expensive at this tier |
| Credit expiration | Credits tied to billing period on subscription tiers | Credits never expire — a real advantage for periodic workloads |
| Trust signals | ||
| Named customer logos on homepage | Platform logo marquee on homepage | None — '200+ businesses served' claim with zero customer logos or named case studies |
| G2 reviews | Pursuing listing | 1 review, 5.0/5 as of April 2026 |
| Internationalization | ||
| Locales + hreflang | English and Korean (/ko/) with hreflang alternate tags | English only, USD only, no hreflang, no language switcher |
| Transparency | ||
| Public status page + changelog | Yes | status.sociavault.com + /changelog + /compliance (hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) + 14-day refund — a strong transparency stack |
Platforms & coverage
Real social platforms
Endpoints in one API
Schema & data quality
Normalized response schema
Computed fields (engagement_rate, estimated_reach, content_category, language)
URL path consistency
Agent readiness
MCP server
Skills bundle (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf)
Typed SDKs
Non-technical tooling
Visual Explorer
Pricing
Free tier
Growth tier per-credit cost
Credit expiration
Trust signals
Named customer logos on homepage
G2 reviews
Internationalization
Locales + hreflang
Transparency
Public status page + changelog
Why does one normalized schema matter more than a bigger platform count?
Because every new JSON shape is a new parser, and every parser is a place bugs live. SociaVault's homepage returns camelCase; their TikTok Shop docs return snake_case with TikTok-native fields. That's not one API — it's thirteen.
- SocialCrawl enforces the schema at the gateway. `followerCount` is `followerCount` — Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, same field. You write one parser.
- Computed fields (`engagement_rate`, `estimated_reach`, `content_category`, `language`) arrive pre-calculated on every response.
- SociaVault's own URL paths disagree: homepage hits `/v1/user/tiktok`, docs hit `/v1/scrape/tiktok/profile`. The product hasn't unified its own surface.
- Retrofitting normalization into a credit-pack API is genuinely hard. It's a day-one design call — SocialCrawl made it.
If your team writes one parser per platform today, normalized schema collapses 13 integration paths into 1.
Does SociaVault have an MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, or Windsurf?
Not officially. As of 2026-04-22, SociaVault has no MCP server on the MCP Registry, on npm, on Smithery, or in their docs. A personal GitHub repo (`olamide-olaniyan/sociavault-mcp`) from SociaVault's founder exists, but it isn't packaged as a first-party product.
- `npx socialcrawl-mcp` is live on the MCP Registry and on npm. Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, and Windsurf discover it automatically.
- A Skills bundle (`npx skills add socialcrawl/skills`) extends coverage to Codex, Gemini CLI, and 40+ more agent runtimes.
- An MCP tool that returns normalized + enriched fields lets the agent reason — platform-raw JSON burns tokens on parsing.
- Not building with agents? SociaVault's docs, cURL snippets, and playground are perfectly fine.
Teams coding in Cursor, Claude Code, or Windsurf go from zero to real social-data queries inside the chat loop with one command.
npx socialcrawl-mcpListed on MCP RegistryMCP Registry · npm · Smithery · skills.sh
npx sociavault-mcpNot on MCP Registry, npm, or Smitherypersonal GitHub only · not registered
How does SociaVault pricing compare per credit?
At Growth tier, SociaVault is ~60% more expensive per credit: $0.0040 vs ~$0.0025. The gap narrows at Pro, and at Enterprise SociaVault's $0.0020/credit undercuts SocialCrawl on high volumes.
- Most teams live in Growth (10–30k credits/month). That's where SocialCrawl's per-credit price matters most — and it's significantly cheaper.
- Starter: $0.0048 vs ~$0.0035. Pro: roughly at par. Enterprise: SociaVault wins at 200k+/month.
- SociaVault's credits don't expire — a real advantage if you run one monthly campaign then sleep for six months.
Price your real workload, not the headline number. In the 10–30k credits/month band, SocialCrawl is the decisive call.
SocialCrawl
$0.0025
per credit
SociaVault
$0.0040
per credit
Growth tier, verified 2026-04-22
Can I explore SociaVault or SocialCrawl data before writing code?
With SocialCrawl, yes. Paste any social URL and see rich cards, sortable tables, JSON/CSV export, and 'copy as code' snippets — no API key needed to browse. SociaVault's form-based playground returns raw JSON, which is fine for devs already in their docs.
- The Explorer opens the non-technical half of the buying committee — PMs, analysts, strategists — to the same data developers see.
- One Slack link replaces a week of 'can we actually get this data?'
- Every Explorer query turns into a cURL, JavaScript, or Python snippet you can paste into a repo.
See your data before writing a single line. That's usually enough to decide if the API fits.
fetch("/v1/...")Is SociaVault available in Korean or other languages?
As of 2026-04-22, SociaVault is English-only and USD-only — no hreflang, no Korean surface. SocialCrawl ships English and Korean at `/ko/` with hreflang cross-references, written natively rather than translated.
- The Korean MCP audience is real. DataForSEO shows 5,400 monthly searches for 'MCP 서버' in South Korea.
- Localized pricing and docs change the internal sell from 'here's a great API' to 'here's an API I can actually propose.'
- Korean copy follows Toss/Channel.io conventions, not machine translation from English.
- Building for English-only markets? This genuinely doesn't matter.
Teams with Korean users replace a 'later, maybe' localization project with one URL (`/ko/`).
SocialCrawl · Locales shipped
SociaVault
classification accuracy · 0.89 AUC-ROC
What about SociaVault's SV-Score authenticity index?
SV-Score is SociaVault's real edge. It's a 0–100 composite across six signals, trained on 5,000 labeled accounts, validated on 100,000 accounts and 120M data points — 92.4% classification accuracy, 0.89 AUC-ROC. If influencer authenticity is your core product, this is a legitimate reason to pick SociaVault.
- SocialCrawl doesn't ship a pre-computed authenticity score. We ship the primitives your agent can reason over: `engagement_rate`, `estimated_reach`, `content_category`, follower deltas.
- Your model, not a vendor's — tradeoff is you bring your own scoring logic, upside is you own the logic.
- SociaVault's Labs work (Fake Follower Study 2026, Engagement Benchmarks 2026 across 350K+ accounts) is genuinely strong and quotable.
How much does SociaVault cost versus SocialCrawl at each tier?
Credit packs (SociaVault) vs monthly subscription tiers (SocialCrawl). Both use credit-metered endpoints with an X-API-Key header. Prices as of 2026-04-22 from each vendor's pricing page.
cheaper per credit
~60% per credit
Growth tier, verified 2026-04-22
Two honest asymmetries: (1) SociaVault's credits never expire, which is a real advantage for periodic workloads; (2) SocialCrawl's monthly subscription includes the Explorer, MCP server, and Skills bundle, which SociaVault doesn't ship. Price the full stack, not just the per-credit math.
See full pricingWho is SocialCrawl built for?
SocialCrawl is built for agency CTOs, AI agent developers, and internationally-staffed teams who treat the API as infrastructure, not a one-off scrape.
Choose SocialCrawl if:
- Agency CTOs shipping multi-platform productsIntegrating Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Threads into one dashboard. One normalized schema across 21 platforms replaces six parsers.
- AI agent builders in Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf`npx socialcrawl-mcp` gets you tool-calling in 30 seconds. Normalized schema + computed fields let the agent reason, not parse.
- Non-technical teammates who need to see data firstPMs, strategists, analysts paste a URL and see results before briefing engineering. One Slack link replaces a week of 'can we actually get this data?'
- Teams shipping in Korean (or planning to)Native Korean at `/ko/` with hreflang. The only unified social API in this category that speaks it.
- Buyers with a mixed-skill buying committeeAn Explorer link shortens the internal sell from 'do we trust this vendor' to 'yes, I can see what we'll get.'
Choose SociaVault if:
SociaVault is the right call for three specific teams, and we want to name them clearly rather than pretend there aren't any.
- You're building an influencer-authenticity productIf SV-Score is the input your product is built around, SociaVault gives you a pre-computed, methodologically-defensible index without building a fraud model in-house.
- You want USD credit packs that never expirePeriodic campaigns — quarterly brand sweep, monthly influencer audit — fit a pay-once model better than a subscription. 14-day refund de-risks the first purchase.
- You value content authority and research credibilitySociaVault's Labs studies (Fake Follower Study 2026, Engagement Benchmarks 2026) are quotable, backlinked, and real. If vendor-as-thought-leader matters to your buying committee, they've done the work.
Still evaluating? If you're scraping fewer than 5 platforms a month with working Python scripts, neither tool is worth switching to yet. Bookmark this page — come back when your pipeline breaks or your first AI-agent project makes normalized schema non-negotiable.
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