- Clockworks' TikTok Scraper is the main Apify TikTok Actor: $3.70 per 1,000 results on the Free plan, $3.00 on Starter and $1.70 on Business, platform usage included.
- A 1,000-video hashtag pull costs $0.30 with API Dojo's Actor, $1.00 to $3.00 with Clockworks' Hashtag Scraper and $1.70 to $3.70 with the main TikTok Scraper.
- Apify's MCP server at mcp.apify.com can expose clockworks/tiktok-scraper as a tool, billed at the same per-result prices.
- Apify's main TikTok Actors return page data such as videos, profiles and comments, with schedules and CSV exports, but not TikTok search volume or TikTok Shop sales estimates.
- TokConnect returns TikTok's own search counts from Creator Search Insights (7-day searches, trends, content gaps) plus videos, comments, caption transcripts, Shop listings and TikTok Shop sales estimates, in its research agent or inside ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor through its MCP server. The free plan has 50 credits once, no card.
The Apify TikTok scraper most people mean is TikTok Scraper by Clockworks, and it costs $3.70 per 1,000 results on Apify's free plan, $3.00 on Starter and $1.70 on Business. Use Apify for bulk collection and CSV exports. Use TokConnect when you need TikTok's own search counts, which the main Apify TikTok Actors don't return. Ask in the research agent, or connect it to ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor. Pulling 1,000 videos for one hashtag costs between $0.30 and $3.70 depending on which Actor and which Apify plan you use, with Apify's platform usage included.
TokConnect reads TikTok Creator Search Insights (7-day search volume, trends, content gaps) and has 34 MCP tools for public videos, creators, comments, caption transcripts, hashtags, sounds, TikTok Shop listings with lifetime units sold, and TikTok Shop sales estimates. Apify prices and usage come from Apify's own Store pages.
Apify TikTok scraper vs TokConnect at a glance
| Question | Apify TikTok Actors | TokConnect |
|---|---|---|
| What it returns | Videos, profiles, comments, music, hashtags, optional video files and subtitles | Creator Search Insights topics with 7-day search volume, trend series and content-gap signal; video, creator, hashtag and sound search; comments and transcripts where TikTok has captions; profiles; TikTok Shop US listings with lifetime units sold and reviews; TikTok Shop sales estimates with the creators behind them |
| TikTok search volume | No | Yes, TikTok's own 7-day counts |
| How you pay | Per result. Clockworks TikTok Scraper: $0.0037 to $0.0017 per result by plan | 1 credit per lookup (failed lookups free). Paid plans from $34.99 a month for 600 credits, billed yearly. REST API on every paid plan. |
| Free allowance | $5 of usage a month | 50 credits once, no card |
| Bulk runs of thousands of items | Yes, built for it | By paging |
| Scheduling and dataset export | Yes: cron schedules, JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and more | Through your script or agent |
| Other platforms | Instagram, YouTube, X, Google Maps and thousands more Actors | TikTok only |
| AI apps | MCP server at mcp.apify.com | A web chat, or any MCP client such as ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor through mcp.tokconnect.com |
Sources: Apify Store pages, Apify pricing, Apify docs and TokConnect pricing, 28 September 2026 and 5 October 2026. Facts file.
Which Apify TikTok scrapers are there?
A Store search for "tiktok" matched 4,979 Actors on 28 September 2026, most of them small. The ones with real usage come from two makers. Clockworks publishes a family of TikTok Actors that share one engine and differ by input. API Dojo publishes a cheaper single Actor with stricter input rules.
| Actor (maker) | Input | Users, last 30 days | Per 1,000, Free plan | Per 1,000, Starter | Per 1,000, Business |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok Scraper (Clockworks) | Hashtags, profiles, search queries, video URLs | 25,823 | $3.70 | $3.00 | $1.70 |
| TikTok Data Extractor (Clockworks) | Hashtags, keyword searches, profile and video URLs | 4,497 | $3.00 | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| TikTok Hashtag Scraper (Clockworks) | Hashtags | 1,572 | $3.00 | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| TikTok Profile Scraper (Clockworks) | Profiles | 6,627 | $3.00 | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| TikTok Comments Scraper (Clockworks) | Video URLs or usernames | 4,632 | $1.25 | $1.00 | $0.50 |
| Tiktok Scraper (Pay Per Result) (API Dojo) | Keywords and TikTok URLs, 10 posts minimum | 1,673 | Limited | $0.30 | $0.30 |
Prices and 30-day users are from the Apify public API, 5 October 2026 (snapshot); prices were unchanged from 28 September. Starter carries Apify's Bronze Store discount and Business carries Gold. Facts file.
Clockworks' main TikTok Scraper is the heavyweight: 308,239 users all time and 12.9 million public runs in the 30 days to 5 October 2026. Each result is one video with text, createTime, playCount, diggCount, shareCount, commentCount, collectCount, authorMeta, musicMeta, videoMeta, hashtags, mentions and flags such as isAd and isSponsored. Video files, subtitles, comments and follower lists are paid add-ons.
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How is Apify TikTok scraper pricing worked out?
Every Actor above uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay a fixed amount per result. The Clockworks and API Dojo Store pages both say you are not charged for platform usage on top. The price per result drops as your Apify plan goes up, because each paid plan carries a Store discount tier.
| Apify plan | Monthly price | Usage included | Store discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $5 | None |
| Starter | $19 | $19 | Bronze |
| Scale | $199 | $199 | Silver |
| Business | $999 | $999 | Gold |
Source: apify.com/pricing, monthly billing.
Two things change the bill. Add-ons are charged per result too: on the free plan a date filter, search sorting or video download adds $1.30 per 1,000 to the main TikTok Scraper, and transcripts cost $0.048 per started minute. The main Actor also charges $0.001 per run start. You can set a maximum charge per run, and Apify's docs say you are never billed for results past that cap.
What does 1,000 #pickleball videos cost?
| Route | Cost for 1,000 videos | Catch |
|---|---|---|
| Clockworks TikTok Scraper, Free plan | $3.70 | Fits inside the $5 free allowance once a month |
| Clockworks TikTok Scraper, Starter | $3.00 | Plus the $19 plan |
| Clockworks Hashtag Scraper, Starter | $2.00 | Hashtag input only |
| Clockworks TikTok Scraper, Business | $1.70 | Plus the $999 plan |
| API Dojo TikTok Scraper | $0.30 | Free users capped at 5 runs of 10 items a month |
Published prices multiplied out. The $0.001 run fee is left out. Workings.
On raw price per video, API Dojo wins by a wide margin. Clockworks costs more and gives you more add-ons and the larger user base. For 100,000 videos a month, a per-result Actor on a discounted plan is the saner choice.
How reliable are Apify's TikTok scrapers?
The makers publish their own limits, and they are worth reading before you plan a job.
- Clockworks TikTok Scraper: 99.2% of its public runs in the 30 days to 5 October 2026 succeeded, per Apify's public API. Its page says TikTok limits popular sorting to about 400 to 500 videos per profile, and that comment counts may differ from what TikTok shows on posts with thousands of comments.
- API Dojo's Actor says each query or start URL must fetch at least 10 posts and single post URLs are not allowed. Its description claims a 98% success rate; Apify's public API showed 95.8% of its runs succeeding in the 30 days to 5 October 2026, with most of the rest aborted.
A succeeded run means the Actor finished. It does not promise it found every video you asked for, so check the row count against what you requested.
TikTok's Terms of Service prohibit extracting data from the platform by automated means without TikTok's written permission, and TikTok describes its countermeasures in How we combat unauthorized data scraping. Personal data rules apply to what you store. TokConnect is read-only: it uses public data and never logs in to your TikTok account. Our TikTok scraper guide covers the legal side in full.
Does Apify have an MCP server?
Yes. Apify runs a hosted MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com over Streamable HTTP, with OAuth or an Apify API token, and publishes the code under an MIT licence on GitHub. By default it exposes search-actors, fetch-actor-details and call-actor, so an agent can find a TikTok Actor, read its input schema and run it.
You can also turn one Actor into its own tool with https://mcp.apify.com?tools=clockworks/tiktok-scraper. The agent then calls the scraper directly and reads results with get-dataset-items. You pay the same per-result prices as any other run, so an agent that asks for 5,000 videos gets billed for 5,000 videos. Set a maximum charge per run.
What does TokConnect give you that a scraper does not?
A scraper collects what is on a TikTok page. It cannot tell you how many people searched for something, because TikTok never prints that on a public page. The number lives in Creator Search Insights, in the TikTok app and at tiktok.com/csi behind a login, with no export and no API. TokConnect reads it. Here is one call for the same keyword we priced, typed searches only:
| Typed search | Searches, last 7 days | Videos matched |
|---|---|---|
| atp pickleball | 231,830 | 639 |
| pro pickleball | 124,137 | 917 |
| PickleBallers | 55,294 | 1,397 |
Data: TikTok Creator Search Insights via TokConnect topic search, 20 records. Searches are TikTok's 7-day global figure. Snapshot.
People search for the pro tour more than for anything generic, and "atp pickleball" has the fewest videos per search of the three. A video count of 0 would flag a content gap; none of these three is one. What search volume means covers the metrics.
The other 17 records were topic groups TikTok generates, such as "pickleball shots and techniques", each with a figure that pools many related searches (2.6 million to 4.8 million here).
A second call on 28 September 2026, video search with a count of 5, returned the top pickleball videos: 1.0 million to 9.4 million views each, two of them posted in 2026. Each video came back with views, likes, comments, shares, saves, posting time, length and caption. That is fewer fields than Clockworks returns. No music block, no hashtag array, no ad flag.
Search TikTok topics for "pickleball" and list the typed searches (not TikTok's topic groups) with 7-day search volume and video count. Flag any with zero videos. Then pull the 20 most-liked pickleball videos from the last month and tell me which topics have searches but few videos.
Run the same check for your own niche, with the Shop side added:
For [your niche], list the typed TikTok searches with 7-day search volume and video count, flag any with zero videos, then rank the top 10 [your niche] products on TikTok Shop US by estimated revenue over the last 30 days with units and creator count.
Run it for dog toys, then your niche →
Apify or an Apify alternative for TikTok: job by job
The same jobs, side by side. Apify cells come from Apify's Store pages and docs.
| Your job | Apify TikTok Actors | TokConnect |
|---|---|---|
| Archive every video under 50 hashtags, every week | Schedules, datasets and per-result pricing | Paged calls from your script or agent |
| Download video files | Paid add-on on Clockworks | Captions and transcripts instead of files |
| TikTok plus Instagram, YouTube and X | Separate Actors per platform, one account and billing | TikTok only |
| A CSV of 10,000 comments | Comments Scraper at $1.00 per 1,000 on Starter, CSV export | Comments and replies, page by page |
| Find what people search for in a niche, and where videos are missing | Not returned | TikTok's own 7-day search counts and content gaps |
| Answer quick TikTok questions in an AI chat | An Actor run through mcp.apify.com, billed per result | Small calls in ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor or the research agent |
| Check whether one product is trending on TikTok | Not returned | Typed searches, the 30-day series and top videos in a few calls (free version: the product trend checker) |
| See what a TikTok Shop product sells, and who sells it | Not in the main TikTok Actors' fields | Shop Analytics: estimated revenue and units for TikTok Shop US over a date range, plus the creators behind the sales. On 20 October 2026 the top pickleball paddle, the CORE Reaction Pro (16mm), made an estimated $41.49K from 943 units in the 30 days to 18 October, sold by 228 creators (snapshot) |
| See a TikTok Shop product's listing and reviews | TikTok Shop Actors from smaller makers in Apify's Store | The product tool: price, stock, the lifetime units-sold count TikTok shows, rating and reviews |
5 October 2026 (Apify) and 20 October 2026 (TokConnect). Facts file.
For TikTok research, TokConnect is the pick: TikTok's own search counts, content gaps, TikTok Shop sales estimates and fast answers inside your AI. The free plan has 50 credits once, no card. Teams that already collect TikTok pages at volume use it to decide which hashtags and products are worth collecting.
For prices and limits side by side, see TokConnect vs Apify, Apify alternatives and Apify pricing. To build on the data, read the REST API docs or see TokConnect for developers.
For the wider picture, HasData vs Apify vs TokConnect adds HasData's prices, every TikTok MCP server compared puts Apify's MCP beside the rest and lists TokConnect's 34 tools, every TikTok API option covers the official routes, and exporting TikTok comments compares comment tools.
How we got these numbers
Apify prices, plan tiers, 30-day users and run outcomes come from Apify's public API and Store pages, from 28 September 2026 and again on 5 October 2026; Apify plan prices from apify.com/pricing. The 1,000-video costs are published per-result prices multiplied out, without the $0.001 run fee.
TikTok figures were pulled through TokConnect: topic search for "pickleball" (20 records) on 5 October 2026, video search (5 results) on 28 September 2026, and Shop product ranking for "pickleball paddle" (30 days to 18 October 2026) on 20 October 2026. Search counts are TikTok's global 7-day "search popularity" from Creator Search Insights.
We separate typed searches from TikTok's topic groups with our house rule: a record is a group if its 7-day figure is 5,000,000 or more, or 1,000,000 or more with the week's first daily reading under 5% of its last, or it sits in TikTok's Featured Content, or its wording describes a group. Data: Apify actors, 5 October, price facts, pickleball searches, 28 September demo, TokConnect tool catalog.
Key statistics
Apify's Clockworks TikTok Scraper costs $3.70 per 1,000 results on Apify's free plan, $3.00 on Starter and $1.70 on Business.
25,823 Apify users ran the Clockworks TikTok Scraper in the 30 days to 5 October 2026, across 12,906,633 public runs, 99.2% of which succeeded.
API Dojo's TikTok Scraper on Apify charges $0.30 per 1,000 posts, the lowest per-result price among the main Apify TikTok Actors on 5 October 2026, with at least 10 posts per query.
All 5 statistics
"atp pickleball" was searched 231,830 times on TikTok in the 7 days to 5 October 2026, with 639 videos matched to it; the main Apify TikTok Actors don't return that search count.
17 of the 20 records TikTok returned for "pickleball" on 5 October 2026 were topic groups it generates; only 3 were typed searches.
Frequently asked questions
How much does the Apify TikTok scraper cost?
Clockworks' TikTok Scraper charges per result: $3.70 per 1,000 on Apify's Free plan, $3.00 on Starter ($19 a month), $2.30 on Scale and $1.70 on Business, plus $0.001 per run start. Add-ons such as date filters or video downloads cost extra per result.
Is the Apify TikTok scraper free?
Partly. Apify's Free plan includes $5 of usage a month, which covers about 1,350 results from Clockworks' TikTok Scraper at $3.70 per 1,000. API Dojo's cheaper Actor limits free users to 5 runs a month of 10 items each.
What is the cheapest TikTok scraper on Apify?
Of the widely used ones, API Dojo's Tiktok Scraper (Pay Per Result) at $0.30 per 1,000 posts, on a paid Apify plan. It needs at least 10 posts per query and does not accept single post URLs. Clockworks' Actors cost more but have far more users and more add-ons.
Does Apify have a TikTok scraper API?
Yes, in effect. Every Actor, including the TikTok ones, can be run through Apify's REST API and SDKs for JavaScript and Python, and results land in a dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel. It is a scraper behind an API, not an official TikTok API; see our TikTok API guide for the official routes.
Can I use the Apify TikTok scraper with Claude or ChatGPT?
Yes. Apify's MCP server at mcp.apify.com works with MCP clients, and adding ?tools=clockworks/tiktok-scraper exposes that Actor as a tool. Runs are billed at the normal per-result price, so set a maximum charge per run before an agent starts one.
What is a good Apify alternative for TikTok?
TokConnect. It returns TikTok's own search counts and content gaps, public videos, comments, transcripts where TikTok has captions, and TikTok Shop sales estimates, answered in ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor or the research agent. On 20 October 2026 it showed the top pickleball paddle on TikTok Shop US, the CORE Reaction Pro, at an estimated $41.49K from 943 units in 30 days. Start free, no card. Paid plans from $34.99 a month, billed yearly.
Sources and data
- TikTok Scraper by Clockworks (Apify Store)
- TikTok Hashtag Scraper by Clockworks (Apify Store)
- TikTok Comments Scraper by Clockworks (Apify Store)
- Tiktok Scraper (Pay Per Result) by API Dojo (Apify Store)
- Apify pricing
- Actors in Store: pricing models and maximum charge (Apify docs)
- Apify MCP server (Apify docs)
- apify/apify-mcp-server (GitHub)
- Schedules (Apify docs)
- Dataset storage and export formats (Apify docs)
- TikTok Terms of Service
- How we combat unauthorized data scraping of TikTok (TikTok Privacy)
- TokConnect pricing
- Apify TikTok Actors: users and prices (Apify public API, 5 October 2026)
- Apify TikTok Actor stats, 5 October 2026 (snapshot)
- Pickleball typed searches, 5 October 2026 (snapshot)
