Social Blade

Overview

Social Blade turns public profile data into performance analytics across major social networks. It suits creators, streamers, and brands tracking accounts or researching peers; businesses can also use its API. Its wide coverage and discovery tools are useful, but history is capped and API lookups consume prepaid credits.

Key features

Social Blade compiles public data from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, and Facebook. Charts show trends, estimated earnings, and future projections, giving users a way to compare a profile’s trajectory over time. These estimates are indicators, not a replacement for account-owner reporting.

Top lists can be browsed by category, country, and performance ranking, making them useful for discovering accounts as well as following familiar ones. Custom reports filter for matching users and export to Excel. YouTube report cards are downloadable PDFs, but they are limited to that network.

Tabular history ranges from 14 days on Free to 365 days on Platinum. YouTube historical data has a separate maximum of three years. That can support longer-term YouTube review, but users who need extensive tabular history across their workflow will need a paid tier, and even the top plan does not extend tabular history beyond a year.

The REST API provides public statistics, historical performance data, rankings, and top lists for supported platforms. Lookup costs depend on profile and platform, while each page of 100 top-list results costs 20 credits. Silver and higher include monthly Business API credits, but those allowances do not remove the prepaid-credit model. cURL and Node.js client libraries help developers get started; ongoing or broad API use should account for usage costs.

Pricing

Social Blade is freemium, with annual subscriptions priced in USD. Free works for occasional monitoring: it allows five favorites per platform, top 100 lists, and up to 14 days of tabular data. Its short history and smaller lists make it a limited choice for sustained research.

• Free: free. Five favorites per platform, top 100 lists, and up to 14 days of tabular data.
• Bronze: $59.99 a year, billed annually ($5.00 / mo). It raises the cap to 15 favorites per platform and top 250 lists, adds one YouTube report card per month, and allows up to 30 days of table data. It suits light monitoring and occasional report-card use.
• Silver: $149.99 a year, billed annually ($12.50 / mo). It includes 25 favorites per platform, top 500 lists, 10 YouTube report cards per month, up to 60 days of table data, and 5 Business API credits per month. This is the first tier with included API credits.
• Gold: $599.99 a year, billed annually ($50.00 / mo). It includes 100 favorites per platform, top 1,000 lists, 50 report cards per month, up to 180 days of table data, and 20 Business API credits per month. It suits heavier tracking and reporting needs, at a substantial price step over Silver.
• Platinum: $1,439.99 a year, billed annually ($120.00 / mo). It raises those limits to 500 favorites per platform, top 5,000 lists, 100 report cards per month, up to 365 days of table data, and 50 Business API credits per month. It is aimed at large monitoring workloads, though its included credits still do not make API use unlimited.

Paid tiers add capacity in favorites, rankings, reports, and history; report-card quotas apply to YouTube. The API’s profile-and-platform pricing and 20-credit top-list page charge remain important considerations even for subscribers.

Platforms

Social Blade supports web, Android, and iOS, with API access for business use. Its data spans five networks: YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, and Facebook.

Who it's for

Social Blade is a sensible fit for creators and streamers who want public-facing trend context, and for brands researching accounts across networks. Researchers can use its filtered reports and ranked lists for discovery. Businesses that need to integrate public statistics into their own systems can consider the API, provided its prepaid-credit costs suit their usage. It is less suitable for anyone who needs deep tabular history without a subscription or extensive API calls without usage-based budgeting.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Coverage across five major social platforms supports cross-network profile research.
• Pros: Ranked lists, filters, and Excel exports combine discovery with report-building workflows.
• Pros: A free tier allows basic tracking without a subscription.
• Cons: Free tabular history stops at 14 days, limiting retrospective analysis unless you upgrade.
• Cons: Report cards are YouTube-only, which narrows their usefulness for multi-network reporting.
• Cons: API lookups rely on prepaid credits, including a 20-credit charge per 100-result top-list page.

Alternatives

Choose Iconosquare if a workflow centered on a small number of profiles, scheduled posts, and a month of analytics history better fits: its free plan supports one user and 10 posts per month per profile, and it also offers a free trial.

Fanpage Karma is another option for users who want a free dashboard covering owned and competitor profiles: its free plan includes one user, one brand, five owned and five competitor profiles, 50 posts per month, and 30 days of dashboard history. It also offers a free trial.

Consider Hopper HQ Hashtag Generator for hashtag-focused work rather than broad profile analytics; its free Instagram Hashtag Generator requires no sign-up or login.

ViralDashboard is an alternative for users seeking social-profile management, scheduled posts, and AI credits; its free-plan terms include three social profiles, one brand, 30 scheduled posts per month, and 100 AI credits per month.

For TikTok-specific account and hashtag tracking, Exolyt offers a free Basic plan with one tracked TikTok account, one hashtag, and one influencer campaign.

Pixalera may suit users who want a free social channel with limited scheduled posting and AutoDM capacity; its free plan includes one channel, three scheduled posts per month, and 25 AutoDM messages per month.

Social Status is worth considering for users who prioritize exportable reports: its free plan includes one plan quota, one month of data history, and report exports.

RPSync is a free, open-source alternative for users who prefer a self-hosted option.

Browse more options in Social Media Analytics Software.

Verdict

Social Blade is a strong choice for creators, streamers, and brands that value cross-network public analytics, ranked discovery, and flexible reporting. Its free tier is a practical entry point, while higher subscriptions expand tracking and history. Choose another tool if you need more than a year of tabular history or want API access without prepaid-credit costs.