What Keyapi.ai does

KeyAPI operates a unified social media API platform that exposes data from 20+ global platforms — including TikTok, Instagram, Twitter/X, YouTube, Threads, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon, Pinterest, Google, Snapchat, Discord, Twitch, Telegram, and Bluesky — through a single REST API secured by Bearer-token authentication. Endpoints cover profiles, posts, analytics, videos, comments, transcripts, and commerce signals, with a 99.9% uptime SLA and sub-500ms latency targets. The product is positioned around an "AI Agent First" architecture: native Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration exposes 229+ tools across 11 platforms, and KeyAPI Skills packages these capabilities as natural language workflows for AI agents including Claude, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Continue, and OpenClaw. Historical depth is powered in part by EchoTik archives extending up to 1,000 days, supporting use cases such as creator analytics, brand monitoring, and dataset acquisition.

The company monetizes through credit-based subscriptions (Free, Basic at $189/month, Pro at $439/month, Ultra at $779/month), custom Enterprise contracts for larger buyers, and dataset sales delivered as one-time or recurring shipments to S3, Azure, GCS, or via webhooks, with offered datasets reaching up to 1B records. Free analytics tools act as a top-of-funnel acquisition surface, and a GitHub presence (EchoSell/keyapi-skills) supports developer relations-led distribution. Target segments span individual developers, AI and ML builders, marketing and operations teams, and research or enterprise intelligence buyers needing aggregated social and commerce data; KeyAPI is private and self-funded, with no disclosed headcount, financing events, or named customer logos.

Name

Keyapi.ai

Legal name

KeyAPI

Website

https://keyapi.ai

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

KeyAPI provides a unified REST API giving developers, AI builders, and data teams single-key access to social and commerce data from 20+ global platforms, supplemented by datasets, MCP tools, and natural language Skills for AI workflows.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Media Data API Platform

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

Keywords

• Social media APIs
• Unified data API
• AI agent integration
• Web data scraping
• Social intelligence datasets

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. API Credit Subscriptions: Subscription-based pricing with tiered credit allocations. Customers choose monthly, quarterly, or yearly billing. Credits are granted each period and reset on renewal. Higher tiers include priority support, AI Agent endpoints, rate limit boosts, and SLA guarantees.
2. Usage-Based Credits: Credits-based consumption model where API calls consume credits from allocated pool. Different endpoints may consume different credit amounts. Volume-based pricing available for Enterprise tier with custom credit volumes tailored to customer traffic.
3. Enterprise Custom Contracts: Custom pricing for Enterprise customers requiring higher quotas, dedicated SLA, or custom contracts. Volume-based pricing tailored to traffic. Includes dedicated account manager, custom SLA & uptime guarantees, custom integrations & endpoints, and invoice/wire transfer billing.
4. Dataset Sales: One-time or recurring dataset purchases. Pricing based on volume of records (100K-500K tier base $150 plus $2.00 per 1K records). Refresh cadence options include one-time, monthly (save 80%), quarterly (save 50%), or semi-annual (save 25%). Delivery to customer S3, Azure Blob, GCS, or via API/Webhook.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

KeyAPI provides a single, unified REST API that grants access to data from 20+ global social media and commerce platforms (TikTok, Instagram, Twitter/X, YouTube, Threads, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon, Pinterest, Google, Snapchat, Discord, Twitch, Telegram, Bluesky) using one API key. The platform delivers profiles, posts, analytics, videos, comments, transcripts, and commerce signals, complemented by ready-to-use datasets, free analytics tools, and native MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations for AI agents. It targets developers, AI/ML builders, and automation engineers with credit-based subscriptions, 99.9% uptime SLA, and sub-500ms average latency.

Product overview

KeyAPI is an AI-ready unified social media API platform providing single-API-key access to 20+ global platforms. The core offering is the Unified Social Media API, complemented by platform-specific APIs (TikTok with 73 endpoints, Instagram 31, Twitter/X 30, YouTube 17, Reddit 24, LinkedIn 24, Amazon 19, Facebook 10, Pinterest 6, Google 13, Threads 10). Additional products include ready-to-use Social Media Datasets with up to 70M records, Social Analytics Tools (free tools for transcript extraction, creator analysis, video metrics), MCP Integration for AI agents (229+ tools via Streamable HTTP), and KeyAPI Skills for Claude/OpenClaw/Codex. The platform targets developers, AI builders, and automation engineers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• KeyAPI Unified Social Media API Core unified REST API platform that provides single-key access to 20+ global social media platforms for profiles, posts, analytics, videos, comments, transcripts, and commerce signals. Authentication via Bearer token with no SDK required. Targets developers, AI agents, and automation systems. Includes 99.9% uptime SLA and sub-500ms average latency.
• Social Media Datasets Ready-to-use, pre-processed, deduplicated social media datasets for AI/ML training, academic research, and enterprise intelligence. Includes TikTok Shop Creator Index, Video Engagement Database, Influencer Daily Tracking, Product Trend Tracking, Shop Store Catalog, Product Rankings History, Live Stream Sessions, and Product Catalog. Supports JSON, CSV, and Parquet formats with up to 300 fields per record and one-time or recurring (monthly, quarterly, semi-annual) refresh cadence.
• Social Analytics Tools Free web-based analytics tools for quick social media insights without API integration. Includes TikTok Transcript Extractor, TikTok Creator Analysis, TikTok Video Comment Analysis, TikTok Video Metrics, X Profile Analyzer, Threads Profile Analyzer, Instagram Reels Analyzer, Instagram Post Comment Analysis, and Reddit Post Comment Analysis.
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) Integration Native MCP server implementation using Streamable HTTP with JSON-RPC 2.0, exposing 229+ tools across 11 social media platforms. Enables AI agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Continue, LangChain, AutoGen, custom agents) to fetch live social data directly within conversation loops without leaving the agent context.
• KeyAPI Skills Pre-built natural language data skills for AI agents that wrap API documentation lookup, endpoint selection, parameter building, request execution, and response parsing into natural-language workflows. Covers 11 platforms including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X, Amazon, LinkedIn, Reddit, Threads, Facebook, Pinterest, and Google. Available for Claude, OpenClaw, and Codex; distributed via GitHub (EchoSell/keyapi-skills).

Quantifiable outcome

• Start building in under 60 seconds with instant API key generation
• +3 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration12 records

AI capability5 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Modash: Modash offers an influencer and social data API with cross-platform creator search, profile analysis, and audience insights. It competes with KeyAPI's TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube influencer data endpoints, particularly for marketing teams and agencies.
• ScraperAPI: ScraperAPI offers proxy-based web scraping APIs targeting developers and businesses needing structured data from social platforms and e-commerce sites. It is a comparable developer-first API alternative to KeyAPI's unified social media offering.
• Apify: Apify is a web scraping and data extraction platform offering a marketplace of scrapers ("Actors") and APIs for social platforms. It directly competes with KeyAPI in unified social data access, though Apify is more general-purpose (any website) while KeyAPI focuses on social media and AI-agent workflows.
• Bright Data: Bright Data operates one of the largest commercial data collection networks, providing proxy infrastructure and pre-collected datasets. It overlaps with KeyAPI on social media and e-commerce data delivery, targeting enterprise buyers and AI training datasets.
• Phyllo: Phyllo provides a unified Creator Economy API giving access to public data and engagement metrics across platforms like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitch. It targets creators, agencies, and platforms — directly comparable to KeyAPI's developer-facing multi-platform social API.
• Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub): Zyte provides web data extraction tools, APIs, and managed scraping services. It competes with KeyAPI in social/e-commerce data APIs and dataset delivery, with a longer-standing enterprise reputation in the data collection space.

Emerging players

• Socialinsider: Socialinsider is a social media analytics and benchmarking platform with cross-platform reporting for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube. It overlaps with KeyAPI's analytics endpoints but delivers a packaged SaaS experience rather than raw API access.
• EchoTik: EchoTik is a TikTok-focused analytics and data platform whose historical data engine (up to 1,000 days of trend tracking) powers KeyAPI's datasets. It is both a data supplier to KeyAPI and a partial competitor on TikTok-specific analytics endpoints.

Others

• Diffbot: Diffbot provides web knowledge APIs (articles, products, discussions) using AI-based extraction. It is thematically adjacent to KeyAPI on structured web/social data APIs and dataset licensing for AI training pipelines.
• People Data Labs: People Data Labs provides large-scale B2B and social profile datasets delivered via API or bulk file. It is adjacent to KeyAPI on dataset-style delivery and LinkedIn/social profile coverage, but focused on people/identity data rather than social content analytics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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