treg.to / Use cases / Social
4 providers · from $0.001 per found · $0.000 markup

Find creators by keyword on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X

Search each platform's own user index by keyword and get back profiles with follower counts, bios and links, so your agent can shortlist creators instead of you scrolling. Each platform is served by its own providers; the comparison below is per platform, because an Instagram search and a YouTube search are different jobs, not alternatives.
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8 of 10 endpoints on this page are live-verified against the provider.
compared on this page
Just One APIScrapeCreatorsScrapeCreatorsTikHubTikHubTikHub
The economics

What 100 of these actually costs

the wide end
$1.48
Just One API, the dearest here, for the same 100
→
you pay
$0.10
100 × $0.001 at TikHub, metered per call

Subscription figures are provider list prices recorded in treg.to’s own catalog grid; per-call prices are what treg.to charges today, with $0.000 added.

Try it

What’s the best way to ask ChatGPT?

1Set your agent up, once
in your agent's chat
set up treg — https://treg.to/llms.txt
2Ask for the job
the prompt
Using treg, find 20 TikTok creators posting about home espresso with between 50k and 500k followers. Show me the price first, then give me handles, follower counts and bios.
works in
ChatGPTClaudeClaude CodeCodexCursorGemini CLI

Why this prompt works

Name the platform

Each platform has its own index. "Creators" alone makes the agent guess.

Give a keyword, not a topic

These are keyword searches over profiles, not semantic search.

Ask for the fields you want

Follower count, bio and link come back; say so and you get a table.

Filter after, not during

Follower ranges are your filter on the results, not a search parameter.

Why treg.to

Why go through treg.to

One key, not 9 accounts

treg.to holds the provider keys. Neither you nor the agent sees them.

Price before the call

The provider's own rate, $0.000 markup, from a prepaid balance.

No subscription, no seats

Charged per call. $1.00 free per new team, no card to start.

Your own keys are free

Already pay Hunter? Register it and those calls are never metered.

Switch by changing a word

Another provider is a different word in the prompt, not a new integration.

Nothing to integrate

No SDK, no OAuth dance per vendor, no seats.

Behind the scenes

What ChatGPT sees before it calls

treg.to does not choose for you. It hands ChatGPT this comparison, with the price shown before any call, and ChatGPT picks. Or you tell it how: "cheapest", "most reliable", "the one that takes what I have", or a provider by name.

Which is cheapest?

Cheapest per found

TikHubTikHub at $0.001 · TikTok

Cheapest per call

ScrapeCreatorsScrapeCreators at $0.00188 · Instagram

Cheapest per result

X (Twitter) at $0.01 · X (Twitter)

Those units are not interchangeable: one call can return many results, so compare on the unit you will actually be billed in.

Which is the most reliable?

ProviderSuccessMedianSample
TikHubTikHub100%805ms15 calls
ScrapeCreatorsScrapeCreators100%10.2s122 calls
Measured on treg.to traffic: real calls, real inputs, and sample sizes differ by provider. Live reliability, not a controlled benchmark.

How do they compare?

Instagram

ProviderPriceAcceptsSuccess rateVerified
ScrapeCreatorsScrapeCreators$0.00188 per callquery, cursor100% (122 calls)2026-07-28
TikHubTikHub$0.002 per foundkeyword, query, rank_token (3 calls)2026-07-28

TikTok

ProviderPriceAcceptsSuccess rateVerified
TikHubTikHub$0.001 per foundkeyword, offset, count, user_search_follower_count, user_search_profile_type, user_search_other_pref100% (15 calls)2026-07-28
ScrapeCreatorsScrapeCreators$0.00188 per callquery, cursor, trim (3 calls)unverified
Just One APIJust One API$0.0148 per foundkeyword, cursor, searchId (1 calls)2026-07-28

X (Twitter)

ProviderPriceAcceptsSuccess rateVerified
X (Twitter)$0.01 per resultquery, max_results, next_token (1 calls)unverified

YouTube

ProviderPriceAcceptsSuccess rateVerified
TikHubTikHub$0.001 per foundchannel_id, search_query, language_code, country_code, continuation_token, keyword (2 calls)2026-07-28

Run one

the cheapest verified call
treg call tikhub.x.tiktok-app-v3-fetch-user-search-result --query keyword=Cat --query offset=0 --query count=5

Swap the id for any provider above. All 10 endpoints behind this job, with their parameters and captured responses, are on the Instagram, TikTok, X (Twitter), YouTube shelf.

How these numbers are made

PricesEach provider’s own published rate, converted to US dollars for one chargeable event of the unit they bill in. treg.to adds $0.000. Where a provider bills in credits, the conversion uses the rate on their public pricing page, last checked 2026-07-28.
Success ratetreg.to’s own served calls over the last 30 days: 2xx counts as a success, 5xx and timeouts as a failure. A 4xx is excluded, because it usually means the caller sent bad parameters and one bad query should not make a healthy endpoint look broken.
What this is notA controlled benchmark. These are real calls with real inputs, so sample sizes and the difficulty of what was asked differ by provider. Treat the rates as live reliability, not a like-for-like test.
VerifiedThe date treg.to last called the endpoint end to end and confirmed the shape of its response and the price it charged.
The detail

What actually differs

Follower ranges are not a search filter on any of these platforms.

Providers return keyword matches and your agent filters them, so ask for more results than you need.

A keyword search matches handles, display names and bios, not video or caption text.

To find creators by what they posted, search posts or hashtags instead and take the authors.

Coverage differs per platform, not per provider: TikTok and Instagram indexes are deep, X's user search is shallow, and YouTube's channel search is keyword-literal.

Background

What does a creator search API return?

A creator search endpoint queries a platform's own user directory for a keyword and returns matching profiles: handle, display name, follower count, bio, verification and profile link. It is the discovery half of influencer research. Engagement rates, contact details and audience demographics are separate jobs on separate endpoints.

Questions

Before you start

Can I find creators by follower count?

Not directly. These endpoints search by keyword; ask your agent for a larger result set and let it filter on the follower counts that come back.

Does this give me their email?

No. Contact details are a separate job. Some creator bios carry a business email, and the people enrichment endpoints can resolve a work address from a name and company.

Which platform should I search?

The one your audience uses. The comparison below shows who serves each platform and what a search costs there; treg.to does not pick a platform for you.

Is this the official API?

For most of these platforms it is a data provider reading the public index, not the platform's own API. Each row names the provider and links its documentation.