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Social data API for developers and AI agents, $23K in 30 days

SocialCrawl gives developers, data teams, and AI agents one API for structured public social data across multiple platforms. Its $23K in the last 30 days is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

SocialCrawl is a unified data API for developers, data teams, and AI agents. Its site says: “SocialCrawl is a unified data API that gives developers, data teams and AI agents structured data from 67 platforms.”

Its features include Universal Search, MCP integration, SDKs, typed responses, retries, and rate-limit handling. It also offers: “Brand monitoring, sentiment analysis, trend detection, competitive intel: all from one query against 67 platforms.”

How it charges

The product's price could not be identified on the pages we read. SocialCrawl offers 100 free credits without a credit card and provides API documentation for developers, data teams, and AI agents.

Month by month

Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.

MonthRevenue (USD)
2026-04$366
2026-05$684
2026-06$5,295
2026-07$12,765
2026-08$26,192
2026-09$23,374

Where customers come from

The site provides an API documentation page and an interactive schema explorer. It also has an MCP server page, installable skills for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, development and product articles, and an onboarding skill for autonomous agents.

What stands out

SocialCrawl lists 631 API endpoints across 67 platforms, 100 free credits, SDKs in six languages, and no monthly cap. A single request can contain up to 1,000 items. Each key allows 600 requests a minute and 50 concurrent requests. It recorded $23,374 in the last 30 days, verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of 2026-09-30.

From the official site

SocialCrawl is a unified data API that gives developers, data teams and AI agents structured data from 67 platforms.
Brand monitoring, sentiment analysis, trend detection, competitive intel: all from one query against 67 platforms.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

SocialCrawl's $23K in the last 30 days is higher than 97% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Social Media” category (541 projects) it is higher than 97% (category median $152). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view is that this needs real work. The buyer is a developer, data team, or AI-agent builder that needs structured public data through one interface. Distribution would have to come from developer channels, documentation, integrations, and direct outreach to teams building data workflows.

The hard parts include platform access, reliable data structures, request limits, retries, SDK maintenance, documentation, and customer support. Public-data collection also brings regulatory and policy questions, while established developer tools and competing APIs add pressure on distribution and product trust.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

The product puts several platform capabilities behind one API and adds integration layers for developers and AI agents. The clearest lesson is to package a technical product around the workflow its buyers need, then support it with documentation, SDKs, examples, and a direct path to the first successful request.

Sources

  1. SocialCrawl official website, fetched October 1, 2026
  2. SocialCrawl pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
  3. SocialCrawl about page, fetched October 1, 2026
  4. TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure

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