COMPARISON / CHECKED 23 OCTOBER 2026
TrendsFast vs SocialCrawl: trend intelligence API or raw social data API
A dated, factual comparison. SocialCrawl returns raw posts from dozens of platforms; TrendsFast returns trends ranked for a niche with their evidence. Which fits which job, with published prices.
ANSWER FIRST
The short answer
They sit at different layers. SocialCrawl is a raw data API: you ask a platform for posts, profiles or search results and get them back in one schema, from dozens of platforms. TrendsFast is a trend intelligence API: it has already collected and ranked the posts and searches, and answers “what is trending in my niche” with the evidence attached. If you want the raw material, SocialCrawl. If you want the answer, TrendsFast.
The facts, checked on 23 October 2026
SocialCrawl: It lists 69 platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Threads, Pinterest, Facebook, Bluesky, Google Search and Hacker News. Yes, REST. A standard call is 1 credit; universal search is 20. MCP: Yes (npx socialcrawl-mcp); the pricing cards list it on Growth and above. Pricing: One-time credit packs, priced in GBP: £15 for 2,500 credits, £49 for 20,000, £299 for 150,000. Credits do not expire. Free: 100 credits once, no card.
TrendsFast: X, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, Google Search, Hacker News, collected daily into one retained index. A Global read costs 1 credit, a Niche read 3 and an Ask 5; rereading a saved result is free. $10 buys 500 credits once, plans start at $29 a month, and a verified account gets 100 free credits. REST and an authenticated MCP server share one balance.
SocialCrawl’s prices are listed in pounds as one-time packs; ours are in dollars. Check https://www.socialcrawl.dev/pricing before deciding.
The same question, asked of both
Ask “what is trending for indie SaaS founders this week”. With SocialCrawl you choose the platforms and queries, page through the posts, and then decide yourself which ones matter, which are duplicates and which are actually growing. That is full control, and it is work: the ranking, deduplication and relevance are yours to build and maintain.
With TrendsFast one Niche call returns items already ranked against that niche as core, adjacent or global, each with its source link, observation time, measured values and a signal such as popular now or rising, plus the channels the read could not see.
Where SocialCrawl is stronger, and where we are
SocialCrawl is better at breadth and freshness on demand: it lists 69 platforms and fetches when you call, while TrendsFast reads 7 channels on a daily schedule. If you need LinkedIn, Threads, Pinterest or a specific profile right now, it is the better tool.
TrendsFast is better when the output has to be a judgement: which of today’s posts matter for this niche, which grew between two readings, and what the evidence is. A channel it could not observe is reported as unavailable rather than as an empty list, and growth is claimed only from two comparable readings.
When to choose the other one
Choose SocialCrawl if you are building your own analysis pipeline, need many platforms, or need data the moment you ask. Choose TrendsFast if your agent or product needs ranked trends for a niche with sources it can show, without building the pipeline. Some teams use both: raw data for their own models, TrendsFast for the daily read.