An API-to-API comparison
InsightIQ API vs
Influencers.club API
A side-by-side comparison of the InsightIQ (Phyllo) API and the Influencers.club API: published pricing, documented credit costs, endpoint coverage and the data each one returns per creator. No dashboard features, no campaign suites — just what you can call from code.
Updated August 2026
InsightIQ API vs Influencers.club API: the short answer
InsightIQ sells public data at an unpublished price. Its homepage says the data is collected and aggregated from social platforms, websites and crowdsourcing; its developer docs credit a “network of data partners.” Its published plan comparison lists API access only in the Enterprise column, which is custom-priced — no per-call, per-profile or per-month API price appears on the pricing page, in the developer docs, or in the 26,000-line OpenAPI spec — and there is no credit unit to price against, because production usage is metered per call on specific routes and quoted after a sales conversation. The Connect SDK is a separate product: a customer embeds it so its own creators link an account individually, covering Identity and Engagement across seven platforms in production, Audience on three, Comments on two, Publish on TikTok and Income on YouTube — per connected creator, not as an index.
Influencers.club is one credit pool, from $208/month as published. Cancel monthly, 10 free production credits to test with no card. 340M+ creator profiles, every one carrying contact data. One credit returns the full profile, validated email, sponsored-post history, linked accounts on other platforms and audience analytics; tiered calls price a validated email with core profile at 0.2 credits and audience analytics alone at 0.8, with discovery at 0.01 and vetting at 0.03. Twenty-one endpoint groups cover discovery, enrichment, batch, reverse email lookup and campaign monitoring with webhooks — six full-profile platforms, 47 via linked identities.
The honest trade. InsightIQ wins LinkedIn professional discovery — Influencers.club enriches LinkedIn profiles but does not search them yet — and ships comment purchase-intent and TikTok trend endpoints under the same contract. Its documented TikTok index is deeper today. Everything about working with creator data at scale — contactable creators (340M+ profiles with contact data against no published contact count), published pricing, cost per record, what one call returns, validated contact data, discovery depth from the API, audience data down to sub-niche, cross-platform resolution, campaign tracking via API, time to first production call — favours Influencers.club.
Data at scale, priced in the open
340M+ creator profiles, every one carrying contact data — InsightIQ publishes no contact count. One credit returns profile, validated email, sponsored-post history, linked accounts and audience analytics; tiered slices from 0.2 credits. Discovery from the API on six full-profile platforms with 90+ documented filters and matched-filter vetting, 47 platforms via linked identities. Audience data goes deeper — credibility histograms, reachability, and engaged-audience interests down to sub-niche (32 interests, 413 sub-niches). Every price published, a trial key on signup, priority support, an MCP server, and a public page documenting where the data comes from.
LinkedIn discovery, TikTok trends, TikTok depth
LinkedIn professional discovery is a dedicated API; Influencers.club enriches LinkedIn profiles but does not search them yet. TikTok trend endpoints (hashtags, videos, creators) and comment purchase-intent analytics ship under the same contract. Documented TikTok index depth is ahead of Influencers.club’s today, above a 2,000-follower floor.
Where they split
LinkedIn creator search, TikTok trend endpoints, comment purchase-intent, or an OAuth connect flow for your own creators — InsightIQ’s family. Contactable creators at scale, cross-platform resolution, campaign tracking by webhook, deeper audience data, and a per-call price you can model before a sales call — Influencers.club. Latency is the other split: an un-indexed InsightIQ profile is a retry at 20 minutes to 24 hours; Influencers.club returns it on request.
The InsightIQ and Influencers.club APIs at a glance
This page compares APIs only. InsightIQ also sells a dashboard product on monthly plans (search seats, tracked posts); those quotas are not API access — its own plan table marks the API as Enterprise-only.
What does the InsightIQ API cost?
InsightIQ does not publish an API price — access is Enterprise-only and quoted through sales; the Influencers.club API is published from $208 per month with a credit cost for every endpoint. One vendor publishes a credit cost for every endpoint. The other publishes none — not per call, not per profile, not per month.
InsightIQ: the pricing page says “We build custom plans based on your usage, so you only pay for what you need.” The published monthly tiers are the dashboard; in the plan comparison, the API row is marked available only on Enterprise. No per-call, per-profile or per-month API price is published anywhere. Self-serve signup gets you staging credentials with 10 test credits, but production has no credit unit at all: usage is metered per call on specific API routes, and the rate for a route is quoted after a sales conversation. No per-call rate for any route appears in the pricing page, the developer docs or the 26,000-line OpenAPI spec. What you pay is whatever you negotiate. The one unit figure buyers report (July 2026) is roughly $0.50 per analysed profile — second-hand, from buyers rather than from any InsightIQ document.
Influencers.club: from $208/month on the Pro plan, as published. Cancel monthly, and 10 free production credits with no card before you pay anything.
Published first-year API cost (entry plan, twelve months)
| Detail | Influencers.club API | InsightIQ API |
|---|---|---|
| Cost of entry | ||
| Entry price = your minimum first commitment | From $208/mo on the Pro plan, as published | Not published — quote only; the API is Enterprise-only |
| API price list published | Yes — every endpoint | No |
| Monthly billing available | Yes | Not published — terms are set in the contract |
| Self-serve to production | Trial key on signup, no card; paid plans via the pricing page | Self-serve registration issues staging credentials (10 API credits) and a billable production mode; production rates are not published and the API is listed only under the Enterprise plan |
| Free evaluation | 10 production credits, no card | 10 test credits, staging environment only |
| Unit economics | ||
| Billing unit | Credits — one pool across every endpoint | No credit unit — metered per call on specific routes, priced by quote |
| Cost per credit | As low as $0.23 on Pro, as published | n/a — per-call rate not published; ~$0.50 per analysed profile as reported by buyers |
| Tiered pricing per record slice | 0.2 email · 0.8 audience · 1 full | Not published — per-route rates undisclosed |
| Credits roll over | Yes | n/a — no credit unit |
| Charged for failed requests | No — per successful result | Not published |
The same job, priced both ways
Influencers.club — one call, published pricePOST /public/v1/creators/enrich/handle/full/ → profile + metrics → validated email → audience gender / age / location → language + niche → credibility + reachability → growth + posting frequency → monetization flags → sponsored posts + past sponsors (IG) → linked accounts on other platforms
InsightIQ — one call, unpublished pricePOST /v1/social/creators/profiles/analytics
→ profile + metrics
→ contact_details — 26 contact types,
{type, value} strings as-found;
no validation field on any
→ audience demographics
→ sponsorship rate estimate + GMV range What endpoints do the InsightIQ and Influencers.club APIs offer?
Influencers.club documents 19 endpoint groups from one key and one credit pool; InsightIQ documents two API families. InsightIQ’s public spec spans two families — public data and the Connect SDK; the public-data side is what compares here. Influencers.club runs everything from one key and one credit pool.
| Endpoint | Influencers.club API | InsightIQ API |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery | ||
| Filtered creator search | Yes — six platforms, 0.01 cr per creator returned | Yes — Instagram, YouTube, TikTok; up to 500 results per its docs |
| Matched filter values each creator returns why it matched — vet from the search response | Yes — 0.03 cr/creator, replaces base rate; resolved bands for posting frequency, growth and income, creator-signal booleans | A filter_match object per result — matched audience and creator values with percentages |
| Documented search filters | 90+ across six platforms, plus 50+ has_* presence booleans | 57 (61 documented request fields) |
| Natural-language / AI search | Yes — AI keyword/niche search, all six platforms | semantic_search filter, YouTube only |
| Similar / lookalike creators | Yes — 0.01 cr per creator returned | Yes — creator + audience lookalikes |
| Audience overlap between creators | Dedicated endpoint, 1 cr per request | Yes, async |
| Exclusion lists | Yes | Not in the spec |
| LinkedIn / professional discovery | Enrichment yes — full and raw profile by handle; LinkedIn is not in Discovery yet | Dedicated API Unique |
| Enrichment | ||
| Full profile by handle | Yes — 1 credit, everything included (11 enrichment platforms; audience block on the six full-profile platforms) | Yes — profile analytics report, one profile per request |
| Email + core profile only | Yes — 0.2 cr, validated | contact-info endpoint — as-found strings |
| Audience analytics only lookalikes included | Yes — 0.8 cr | No — inside the profile report only |
| Reverse lookup from an email | Yes — 0.05 cr, synchronous | Yes — async batch email-lookup |
| Connected socials from a handle | Yes — 0.5 cr, 6 seed platforms | No |
| Batch enrichment | Yes, per-entity billing | Bulk search-export yes; analytics one profile per request |
| Creator email in the response | Included — validated before delivery | As-found strings, 26 contact types — no validation field |
| Monitoring & content | ||
| Campaign objects via API | Create, update, pause, archive Unique | Not in the public spec — no campaign paths |
| Creator-activity webhooks new posts, bio changes, follower milestones pushed to you | Yes Unique | Job-completion only on public data; post events require a connected creator |
| Aggregated campaign metrics (EMV, ER) | Yes Unique | No — zero EMV references in the spec |
| Creator posts | Yes — recent posts with metrics, 0.03 cr | Yes — public content APIs |
| Comments & comment replies | Per post (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube), 0.03 cr | Yes, + comment analytics |
| Account & developer experience | ||
| Auth options | API keys + OAuth PKCE | HTTP Basic |
| Programmatic API key management | Yes | Dashboard only |
| Service health endpoint | No — credits/usage endpoint only | Status page |
| Docs served as Markdown for LLMs | Yes — llms.txt + .md pages | No — llms.txt returns 404 |
| MCP server | Yes Unique | No |
What data does each API return per creator?
The question that matters: how much of a creator record arrives in a single response, and can you act on it without a second system?
One Influencers.club credit returns the profile, validated email, growth and posting trends, an income estimate, monetization signals, niche, sponsored posts with past sponsors, the creator’s linked accounts on other platforms, and the full audience block down to engaged-audience sub-niche. InsightIQ’s profile analytics report returns the profile and metrics, audience demographics, contact details as unvalidated strings, and two modelled fields — a sponsorship rate estimate and a GMV range. No validated email, no accounts on other platforms, no income estimate, no audience sub-niche.
| Data point | Influencers.club API | InsightIQ API |
|---|---|---|
| Identity & reach | ||
| Followers, engagement rate, avg views | Yes, exact | Yes — discovery rounds follower values in the filter |
| Follower growth trend | Yes | Yes — monthly reputation history |
| Public bio, link in bio, description text | Searchable | Returned |
| Account type classification | Yes | Platform account type |
| Cross-platform | ||
| Connected accounts on other platforms | Linked accounts across 47 platforms Unique | No |
| Filter by presence on another platform has_youtube, has_patreon, has_shopify — 50+ in total | Yes Unique | No |
| Commercial signals | ||
| Validated email | Validated before delivery | As-found only — no validation field in the schema |
| Income / earnings | Estimated range (min/max), per profile | Not in the data products — OAuth income is Phyllo SDK, YouTube only, per connected creator |
| Sponsorship pricing estimates no published methodology or accuracy figure | No | Per post type, with explanations |
| Creator GMV estimate coverage not stated — no figure for how many creators it is computed on | No | Range, Instagram |
| Sponsored post history | In full enrichment (Instagram; TikTok returns them too, not yet in the reference) | Sponsored posts + performance vs organic |
| Monetization flags TikTok Shop, YouTube monetization | Yes | TikTok Shop products via separate endpoints |
| Content | ||
| Recent posts with metrics | Yes | Latest 150 posts stored |
| Per-post EMV and engagement rate | Yes, calculated | Engagement rate yes; no EMV |
Does the InsightIQ API include audience demographics?
Both audience blocks ship inside the profile report. Influencers.club’s carries more.
InsightIQ returns countries, cities, gender-by-age, languages, interests, brand affinity, a four-class audience composition (Instagram only), credibility score with band, and lookalikes.
Influencers.club returns that core and more — gender-by-age cross-tab, city-level geo, languages, interests with affinity scores, brand affinity, credibility score with class and histograms, four-class composition, reachability buckets — and classifies the engaged audience’s interests down to sub-niche: 32 interests, 413 sub-niches. Audience overlap is a separate endpoint on both sides — 1 credit here, price not published there.
| Data point | Influencers.club API | InsightIQ API |
|---|---|---|
| Gender, age + cross-tab, location, language | Yes — city-level geo | Yes — city-level geo |
| Creator niche | 2-layer taxonomy (class + sub-class) | Top interests |
| Engaged-audience interests what the people who engage actually care about | 32 interests, 413 sub-niches Unique | Flat interest list |
| Audience credibility | Score + class + histograms | Score + band |
| Composition breakdown | Four classes | Four classes, Instagram only |
| Audience reachability | 4 bucket distribution | Not in schema |
| Brand affinity | Yes | Yes |
| Audience overlap between creators | Dedicated endpoint, 1 cr | Yes, async |
InsightIQ API vs Influencers.club: campaign tracking and monitoring
InsightIQ tracks campaigns in its dashboard only — its 26,000-line public spec contains no campaign object, no EMV, no per-creator campaign metrics. On its public-data products its webhooks fire only when an async job finishes — a search export, a report, an email lookup. Post-level events exist, but only for creators who have individually connected an account through the Connect SDK. What it does offer via API: Boolean content search with insights and per-content estimated reach — Influencers.club covers the same ground with content keyword search across six platforms and per-post comment and content details.
Influencers.club tracks campaigns in the dashboard and ships the same tracker as endpoints. Create a campaign, add creators by handle, and detected posts push to your webhook. All of it billed at 0.3 credits per distinct creator per day:
- Per-creator metrics — posts, views, engagement, ER, EMV, 7-day trend
- Aggregated campaign overview, plus a content feed with per-post EMV and top-performer flags
- Webhooks for new posts, bio changes, link-in-bio changes and follower milestones
- Estimated reach, an AI-written performance report, CSV export — included in the same rate
| Capability | Influencers.club API | InsightIQ API |
|---|---|---|
| Campaign as an API object | Create, update, pause, archive | Not in the public spec |
| Post detection pushed by webhook | Yes | Job-completion only on public data |
| Per-creator campaign metrics | Posts, views, ER, EMV, trend | No |
| Aggregated overview + CSV export | Yes | No |
| Estimated reach | Per campaign | Per content item, async |
| Content search / social listening | Keyword search across captions, tweets, video titles and descriptions (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Twitch); per-post comments and content details | Boolean content search + insights |
| TikTok trends | No | Hashtags, videos, creators |
| Cost | 0.3 cr per creator per day, published | Not published |
How many creators does each API cover?
InsightIQ’s developer docs put its public index at 200M+ creators — 130M Instagram, 100M TikTok, 8M YouTube — indexed only above a 2,000-follower floor. Its marketing pages carried 250M+ and 450M+ simultaneously, 400M+ on its own pricing page, and 220M+ on getphyllo.com. The table below uses the developer-docs figures because those are the ones published alongside a per-platform breakdown.
The Influencers.club figures are its own, and are not audited by any third party. In the chart, the solid bar is what Discovery returns today — profiles carrying contact data — and the dashed extension is what is rolling into Discovery in the current expansion. Where a vendor publishes no number, the bar says so.
Discoverable profiles by platform (millions)
Which API is better: InsightIQ or Influencers.club?
Scored on API capability only, out of 5 per category. Dashboard features are excluded on both sides.
Influencers.clubInsightIQPick the Influencers.club API when
- You want a price before a sales call — every endpoint cost is published, entry is from $208/month as published, and 10 free production credits need no card.
- You are running data at scale and need to control cost per record: 0.01 to discover, 0.03 to vet, 0.2 for a validated email, 0.8 for audience, 1 for the full record.
- You will actually contact the creators — emails are validated by a third-party verifier before delivery, not returned as-found strings.
- You need contactable creators at scale — 340M+ profiles, every one carrying contact data — and a creator’s whole footprint: linked accounts across 47 platforms, X/Twitter, Twitch and OnlyFans included.
- You want audience data that goes past demographics: credibility histograms, reachability, and engaged-audience interests classified to sub-niche.
- You want campaign tracking with EMV delivered by webhook, without building an aggregation layer.
- You are building for LLM or agent consumption and want an MCP server and Markdown docs.
Pick the InsightIQ API when
- You want LinkedIn / professional creator discovery — a dedicated API. Influencers.club enriches LinkedIn profiles but does not search them yet.
- You need comment purchase-intent analytics or TikTok trend endpoints (hashtags, videos, creators) — no Influencers.club equivalent.
- Documented TikTok index depth today is the constraint — 100M+ against 23.4M discoverable.
- An Enterprise sales cycle and unpublished pricing are acceptable for your procurement.
Where each falls short
Influencers.club API: no OAuth/Connect layer — if you need creators to link accounts inside your own app, that is an SDK product (the company’s Phyllo brand), not a data API. No sponsorship-rate or GMV estimate fields. No LinkedIn discovery yet (LinkedIn enrichment only), no TikTok trend endpoints, no comment purchase-intent classification. A smaller documented TikTok base today (23.4M contactable against their 100M+), with 149M active TikTok creators rolling into Discovery.
InsightIQ API: production API access is a sales conversation with no published price for anything and no credit unit — usage is metered per call on specific routes at a quoted rate — and no published count of creators who have completed an OAuth connect. Emails are as-found strings — 26 contact types in the schema, a validation field on none of them. No cross-platform identity resolution in the public spec; other-platform handles appear only as as-found contact strings. Nothing indexed under 2,000 followers; un-indexed profiles take 20 minutes to 24 hours. No campaign object or EMV in the public spec, no creator-activity webhooks on public data. Its OAuth layer returns data only for creators who individually complete a connect inside a customer’s own app — per creator, not as a searchable index. The documented search index covers Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, with LinkedIn sold as a separate API; Twitch is searchable via Twitch-specific filters in its creator-search spec, X/Twitter is named on its homepage but carries no documented search filter, and OnlyFans appears only as a waitlist entry on getphyllo.com/coverage. No published MCP server; docs.insightiq.ai/llms.txt returns 404.
InsightIQ API vs Influencers.club API: FAQ
Is Phyllo the same company as InsightIQ?
Does InsightIQ publish API pricing?
Can I try each API before paying?
How many creators can each API actually search?
Are the emails validated?
Is InsightIQ’s data opt-in?
Which API supports campaign tracking?
Which API has better audience analytics?
Does either API do natural-language search?
Can I get creator income data?
Which creator API works with LLMs and AI agents?
Can I use both APIs together?
How this comparison was put together
Every InsightIQ claim on this page comes from its published documentation, pricing pages, marketing sites and public OpenAPI specification, re-verified against live pages on 6 August 2026; Influencers.club figures come from influencers.club/pricing, influencers.club/our-data, docs.influencers.club and its live API. Quoted sentences are reproduced verbatim from those pages on that date. Scope is API capability only; dashboard features are excluded on both sides. Where InsightIQ’s marketing and developer documentation disagree on database size, this page cites the developer documentation, because that is what the API serves. InsightIQ publishes no API pricing at all and sells no credit unit — production usage is metered per call and quoted; the single unit figure shown is marked as reported by buyers (July 2026) and will vary by deal. The statement that InsightIQ publishes no count of creators with contact details reflects a check of insightiq.ai, its creator-search pages and its developer FAQ on 18 August 2026.
Database figures are self-reported by each vendor and independently audited by nobody. Public-profile audience demographics from any vendor in this category are statistical estimates. Modelled fields on either side — sponsorship rates, GMV, income ranges, credibility — are published without methodology or accuracy figures by both vendors, and this page notes it for both.
Two things this page deliberately does not assert: how many creators have completed an OAuth connect with InsightIQ, because that number is not public and it is not estimated here; and any LinkedIn profile count of its own, for the same reason — InsightIQ’s 1.2M+ LinkedIn figure is that company’s published number, quoted as published.
This page is published by Influencers.club, so read the scoring with that in mind. InsightIQ wins adjacent products outright, and its LinkedIn discovery has no equivalent here. If something here is out of date or wrong, send a correction and it will be logged with a date.
Sources
- InsightIQ homepage — data sourcing statement, 250M+ and 450M+ figures — insightiq.ai
- InsightIQ pricing — insightiq.ai/pricing
- InsightIQ developer docs and OpenAPI specification — docs.insightiq.ai
- Phyllo — Connect SDK and the 220M+ figure — getphyllo.com
- Influencers.club API overview — influencers.club/influencer-api
- Influencers.club MCP — influencers.club/creator-mcp
- Influencers.club pricing — influencers.club/pricing
- Influencers.club data sourcing — influencers.club/our-data
- Influencers.club API documentation — docs.influencers.club
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