Best Threads Scrapers Compared (2026): Prices, Success Rates, and What Each One Misses

There is still no official Threads API, so anyone doing brand monitoring, trend research, or audience analysis on Threads ends up choosing between scrapers — mostly on the Apify Store. The listings all promise roughly the same thing, so this page compares them on the numbers the Store actually publishes: price per delivered post, hidden start fees, 30-day run success, user counts, and ratings.

Disclosure up front: we publish one of the actors below (Threads Scraper). The numbers come from the Apify Store’s public API on 2026-07-27, every one of them is checkable on the linked listings, and we point out the cases where a competitor is the better choice.

TL;DR: If you want the cheapest per-post price with keyword search and no start fee, ours is currently the low-cost option at $1.00/1k. If you only need profile metadata, Apify’s own profile scraper is the highest-rated pick. If you want the most battle-tested generalist and don’t mind 2.5x the price, futurizerush is the most-used. Avoid paying a $20/1k rate for search results unless you have a specific reason.

The comparison (public Apify Store data, 2026-07-27)

Actor	Price / 1,000 posts	Start fee	30-day users	Run success (30d)	Rating	Modes
The Mine Works Threads Scraper	$1.00	none	36	90.0% (1,624/1,804)*	no reviews yet	profile, post, search, hashtag
futurizerush/meta-threads-scraper	$2.50	$0.02/run	827	90.0% (80,838/89,783)	3.5 (14 reviews)	profile, post, search
automation-lab/threads-scraper	$5.00	$0.02/run	480	99.7%	3.4 (6 reviews)	profile, post
igview-owner/threads-search-scraper	$20.00	$0.02/run	434	99.4%	4.4 (6 reviews)	search
apify/threads-profile-api-scraper	$5.00 (profiles)	none	356	97.7%	5.0 (6 reviews)	profiles only
watcher.data/search-threads-by-keywords	$8.00	none	310	99.7%	3.1 (8 reviews)	search
logical_scrapers/threads-post-scraper	$2.50	~none ($0.00005)	205	99.7%	4.1 (5 reviews)	post
pro100chok/threads-scraper-usage	$4.00	$0.001/run	126	99.9%	4.9 (5 reviews)	profile, post, replies

* Our 90.0% counts every timeout against us; the remainder is dominated by timed-out long runs, not hard failures (0 failed). A timed-out run that delivered no posts costs $0 — our billing only fires per delivered post.

Three honest observations about that table, including the ones that don’t favor us:

1. Several competitors complete runs more consistently than we do. automation-lab, watcher.data, logical_scrapers, and pro100chok all show 99%+ completed runs to our 90%. Some of that gap is workload shape — long multi-window search runs time out more than quick profile pulls — but the gap is real and we’re working on it. What we won’t do is charge you for it: a run that delivers nothing bills nothing.

2. Run success is not the same as data delivered. A “succeeded” run can return zero posts and still charge a start fee. That’s the quiet cost of the $0.02/run actors: schedule one hourly for a niche keyword and you pay ~$14.60/month before a single post arrives. If you’re building scheduled monitors, the no-start-fee actors (ours, apify’s, watcher.data’s) are structurally cheaper even before per-post prices.

3. The price spread is 20x for near-identical output. $1.00 to $20.00 per 1,000 posts for the same public data. The expensive listings aren’t hiding extra data — Threads’ public surface is the same for everyone. Pick on price, modes, and billing structure.

Which one should you actually use?

• Profile metadata at scale (follower counts, bios): apify/threads-profile-api-scraper. Highest rating in the category, first-party publisher, $5/1k profiles. We don’t beat it for that job.
• Most-used generalist with a track record: futurizerush/meta-threads-scraper — 827 users last month. You pay 2.5x our per-post price plus start fees, and its 3.5 rating suggests mixed experiences, but volume is volume.
• Cheapest per post, keyword + hashtag monitoring, no start fee: ours. Four input modes, full engagement fields (likes, replies, reposts, quotes), is_reply/is_repost flags, and per-post billing that skips empty runs entirely. The trade-off today: fewer users and no review history yet — judge it on a first run, which costs cents.
• Reply-tree analysis: pro100chok/threads-scraper-usage explicitly does replies and holds a 4.9 rating; we cover replies via a toggle but their reviews are better evidence than our claims.

Running a Threads monitor on a schedule

Whichever actor you choose, the setup is the same on Apify: save an input (e.g. search mode with your brand term), create a Schedule (hourly or daily), and wire the dataset to Sheets, Slack, or a webhook. Cost math for an hourly monitor returning ~5 new posts/hour:

• No-start-fee actor at $1/1k: ~$3.60/month
• $0.02-start-fee actor at $2.50/1k: ~$14.60 start fees + $9 posts = ~$23.60/month

That 6x difference is the start fee, not the headline price — the number worth checking on any listing before you schedule it.

Related reading

• Threads has no public API — what data you can get anyway — field-by-field breakdown of what’s collectable.
• Reddit data for market research after the API changes — the same monitoring playbook on Reddit.

Prices, ratings, and run stats are public Apify Store data captured 2026-07-27. They change; check listings before committing to volume. If you spot a number that’s gone stale, tell us at hello@themineworks.com and we’ll update the table.