Social Blade

Social Blade gathers public profile information from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, and Facebook and turns it into analytics on trends and performance. Its charts include estimated earnings and future projections, while top lists can be browsed by category, country, and performance ranking. Custom reports use filters to find matching users and can be exported to Excel. Downloadable report cards are available for YouTube only. The free plan includes five favorites per platform, top 100 lists, and up to 14 days of tabular history; YouTube historical data is limited to three years. Paid annual plans extend these allowances, from Bronze at $59.99 a year to Platinum at $1,439.99 a year. For business use, its REST API provides public statistics, historical performance data, rankings, and top lists for supported platforms. API lookups use prepaid credits. Social Blade is available on Android, iOS, web, and through API access.

Social Blade combines profile analytics, filtered reports, and top lists across five networks. Its free plan offers a way to start, while longer history and API use have stated limits or credit requirements.

Social Blade suits content creators, streamers, and brands looking to follow public profile trends across supported networks. Business customers can use custom reports or the API for statistics and rankings.

Social Blade is a public-profile analytics service covering five major social networks. It is best suited to creators, streamers, brands, and businesses that need cross-network rankings or monitoring rather than private account management. The free tier is a useful starting point, but serious historical analysis and API work require paid access or prepaid credits.

Overview

Founded as a project in 2008 and incorporated in 2012, Social Blade collects and organizes public data from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, and Facebook. Its focus is measurement and discovery: users can follow performance trends, investigate comparable accounts, and find profiles through ranked lists. Because the service works with public statistics, it is more useful for competitive viewing and audience research than for reporting metrics that only an account owner can access.

Key features

Charts include statistics such as estimated earnings and future projections. Those figures help frame a profile's direction, but they should be treated as indicators rather than definitive financial or performance records.

Top lists are filterable by category, country, and performance ranking. That makes Social Blade a practical prospecting tool for finding accounts, while the number of results depends on the plan. Custom reports apply filters to matching users and can be exported to Excel, which suits spreadsheet-based comparison. Downloadable report cards are provided as PDFs for YouTube only, so teams tracking other networks cannot use the same snapshot format.

History is the main constraint. Free users get up to 14 days of tabular data, while paid tiers extend that window from 30 to 365 days. YouTube historical data has a separate maximum of three years. The REST API exposes public statistics, historical performance, rankings, and top lists for supported platforms. Lookups use prepaid credits priced per profile and platform, and a page containing 100 top-list results costs 20 credits. cURL and Node.js client libraries reduce the development setup, but recurring API collection needs credit budgeting.

Pricing

Social Blade is freemium, with five favorites per platform, top-100 lists, and 14 days of tabular data at no cost. That is enough for occasional monitoring, not sustained archival work.

• Bronze: $59.99 a year, billed annually ($5.00 per month equivalent). It raises favorites to 15 per platform, expands lists to 250, adds one YouTube report card per month, and provides 30 days of table data. It fits an individual with a modest watchlist.
• Silver: $149.99 a year, billed annually ($12.50 per month equivalent). With 25 favorites, top-500 lists, 10 monthly YouTube report cards, 60 days of table data, and five Business API credits per month, it is the first tier aimed at light business use.
• Gold: $599.99 a year, billed annually ($50.00 per month equivalent). It delivers 100 favorites, top-1,000 lists, 50 report cards monthly, 180 days of table data, and 20 API credits monthly for larger monitoring programs.
• Platinum: $1,439.99 a year, billed annually ($120.00 per month equivalent). Its 500 favorites, top-5,000 lists, 100 monthly report cards, 365 days of table data, and 50 API credits target organizations with broad watchlists. It still does not extend tabular history beyond one year.

The annual plans trade a lower monthly equivalent for yearly billing. API usage beyond included credits requires prepaid credits, so the subscription price is not the full cost for heavy integrations.

Platforms

Social Blade offers web access plus Android and iOS apps. An API is available for supported-platform data, with cURL and Node.js client libraries documented for developers.

Who it's for

Creators and live streamers can use rankings, projections, and report cards to follow their own public footprint or compare peers. Brands benefit from cross-network discovery and filtered Excel reports when researching potential partners. Business customers that need programmatic public statistics can use the API, provided prepaid-credit consumption fits their workflow. It is a weaker choice for anyone needing unrestricted long-term tables, private account metrics, or non-YouTube report cards.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Five-network coverage supports cross-platform research; category, country, and performance lists aid discovery; filtered reports export to Excel; YouTube PDFs make sharing straightforward; API access includes rankings and historical performance.
• Cons: Free tabular history lasts only 14 days; even Platinum tops out at 365 days, with YouTube capped separately at three years; report cards are YouTube-only; API calls consume prepaid credits, including 20 credits per 100-result top-list page.

Alternatives

For a broader shortlist, see Social Media Analytics Software.

Iconosquare is a freemium Android, iOS, and web option with a free tier limited to one user, 10 posts per month per profile, and one month of analytics history; choose it when those publishing and history limits fit better.

Fanpage Karma offers Android, API, and web access with a free plan for one user and brand, five owned and five competitor profiles, 50 posts monthly, and one dashboard with 30 days of history; it suits smaller profile sets.

Hopper HQ Hashtag Generator is a freemium Android, iOS, and web tool; pick it when hashtag generation is the primary need.

Rival IQ is a paid Android, API, iOS, and web service whose Drive plan starts at $239 a month with 10 tracked companies and six months of history; choose it for a higher-cost competitive-monitoring setup.

Mondo Metrics is a freemium analytics service with plans starting at $1,000 a month and a demo requirement.

Facelift Cloud is a paid, trial-available suite with unlimited users on its listed tiers and custom pricing.

Sprout Social is a paid Android and iOS product; its Essentials plan is $79 a month with annual billing, per-seat pricing, and five social profiles.

Oktopost is a paid Android, API, iOS, and web platform with custom-priced plans starting at one marketing user.

Verdict

Choose Social Blade if you need public analytics, ranked discovery, and cross-network monitoring with a free entry point. Look elsewhere if your work depends on long, unrestricted history, broader report-card coverage, or predictable high-volume API costs.