Influencer Database Comparison: 10 Tools, Real Prices

This compares them on the four things that decide whether one works for you: what it actually costs, whether you can get an email you can filter on, whether there is an API you can buy without a sales call, and how many platforms it really covers.

Everything below was verified on 1 October 2026 against each vendor's own pages, linked inline. Sizes are self-reported in every case. Where a vendor publishes no price, that is stated rather than filled in with a guess.

The table

Why the size numbers are nearly useless

The spread here runs from 500,000 to 380 million, and the big numbers are the least informative.

Most of a large index is not addressable. A 227-million or 380-million profile count includes every public account the crawler found. The overwhelming majority are private individuals who will never do brand work. The number you need is how many match your brief and carry a contact, and nobody advertises that.

Several vendors contradict themselves on their own sites. Modash says "380m+" on its database and API pages while "350M+" is still live on its homepage and free tool, and its per-platform breakdown (Instagram 85M, TikTok 291M, YouTube 16M) sums to 392M, above its own headline. Influencity says "over 300M profiles" in body copy and "more than 350 million" in the FAQ of the same page. Influship's product pages say 10M+ while its own 2026 blog post says 5M+. Social Cat says 500K+ on two pages and "over 100,000 manually vetted" on a third.

Opt-in pools are not comparable to scraped indexes. Collabstr's 1.2M+ and Social Cat's 500K are creators who signed up, which means intent is confirmed but the pool is smaller by construction. Modash explicitly needs no creator opt-in. Comparing 1.2M opt-in against 380M scraped is a category error in both directions.

Coverage is uneven where it matters. An index can be enormous and still thin on, say, Spanish-language home-fitness creators in the 20,000 to 80,000 band. Size is a global claim; your brief is a local one.

The only size metric worth anything: take a brief you have already run by hand, express it as filters, and count the results that are genuinely on-brief and contactable. We laid out that test in what to look for in a creator database.

Two pricing traps worth knowing before you buy

Influencity's cheapest tier cannot export. Its live plan data shows Discover at $198 a month or $1,900 a year, Professional at $398 or $3,816, and Business at $1,398 or $13,420. The trap is that Discover billed monthly has CSV and PDF export disabled entirely and allows one user, while the same tier billed annually turns both on and doubles the result allowance from 2,500 to 5,000 per period. Annual tiers here carry materially larger allowances than monthly ones at the same name, which is unusual and easy to miss because the pricing page renders nothing at all to a crawler.

Collabstr's real cost is the stacked fee, not the subscription. Pro is $249 a month billed annually ($299 monthly) and Premium $333 billed annually ($399 monthly), with Enterprise "Starting at $1000/month on an annual contract". But the subscription is the smaller number. Their FAQ states it plainly: "Free and Pro plans charge a 10% fee on each order. Premium reduces that to 5%. Creators pay a separate 15% fee on their payout." So the platform takes roughly 25% of the creator's rate on Free and Pro, and about 20% on Premium, on top of whatever you pay monthly. Campaigns are gated to Pro and above, and chatting with a creator before hiring is too.

The two that will not tell you what they cost

Worth separating out, because it changes how you evaluate.

Upfluence publishes no dollar figure anywhere. Its pricing page states that "Upfluence pricing is modular and custom-quoted" and, importantly, "our minimum contract is 12 months". A trial happens only "after an initial call". Third-party estimates range from roughly $478 to $5,000+ a month and contradict each other, so treating any of them as Upfluence's price would be inventing a number.

HypeAuditor is effectively the same: its pricing page is a request-demo flow with no figure. Third-party reports cluster around $299 to $499 a month but disagree on the model (per account versus per user). Its API is "a separate paid service" reachable only through sales.

Both have genuinely strong products. HypeAuditor has the deepest audience data in this set, filtering on city, age, gender, ethnicity, language, education, marital status, interests and income, plus the category-benchmark fraud detection in its Audience Quality Score. Upfluence has the best-documented filter logic, including Should/Must/Must-not keyword matching and brand-safety thresholds.

But a 12-month minimum with an unpublished price is a procurement decision, not a tool purchase. If you need to test something next week, start elsewhere.

Emails: the field that decides most of this

A shortlist of 500 perfect creators you cannot contact is a research project. "Includes contact info" covers three quite different things, so be specific about which one you are buying.

Genuinely filterable, with real email data:

• Influencers.club is the strongest here and the sharpest competitor on this axis. It advertises verified emails for its whole database, with both handle-to-email and reverse email-to-creator lookup, and exports carry 40+ data points. Email is the core selling point rather than a side feature. The catch is that the $140 Starter tier caps results at 5 per search, which cripples discovery until you reach the $208 API tier.
• Modash exposes hasContactDetails and has an "Email is publicly available" toggle even in its free tool. But unlocks are hard-capped at 150 a month on Essentials and 400 on Performance, and profile-data export draws from the same counter. Modash is explicit about why: "We limit email unlocks… to protect influencers from receiving exploitative offers and spam." That is a defensible position and a real constraint on volume outbound.
• Upfluence has a "Show only creators with emails" filter, restricted to publicly listed addresses, and auto-removes bounces.
• Influencity lets you "find influencers with emails or phone numbers" as a filter.

Email exists but is not a search filter:

• Heepsy meters outreach emails per plan, from 300 to 6,000 a month, so contact is clearly in-product. Whether email is a filter and whether raw addresses export is not stated on either its pricing or search page, so treat that as unverified.
• Influship has no email in the search product at all. It exists only as a paid API call at $0.05 per creator, and you cannot filter on it.
• FeedSpot inverts the model entirely: emails are the payload, delivered as CSV, masked on public pages. Not a filter, the product.

No emails at all: Collabstr and Social Cat. Both are deliberate walled gardens where contact happens through in-platform chat. Nothing reaches your CRM. That is a reasonable design for a managed marketplace and a dealbreaker if you run outbound.

For reference, the filterable version of this on the Roster API is has_email=true, one of 14 filters on a single endpoint, because the extracted email is a stored field rather than parsed at read time:

curl "https://api.ugcroster.com/v1/creators/search" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer rsk_your_key_here" \
  -G -d niche=beauty -d state=TX \
  -d follower_min=50000 -d follower_max=200000 \
  -d engagement_min=0.03 -d has_email=true \
  -d sort=engagement -d limit=100

APIs: only three you can actually buy today

Six vendors have an API. Three of those need a sales conversation, and one needs an annual contract paid by bank transfer.

Self-serve, published per-call pricing:

• Influship is the most transparent in the entire set. 500 free starter credits, no card, $0.01 per credit, every endpoint priced (search 25 credits plus 2 per creator, lookalike 1.5 per creator, email lookup 5 per creator), published rate limits, and failed 4xx/5xx calls not charged. Self-serve key, MCP server documented. The limitation is scope: the web app is Instagram-only, with YouTube and TikTok on the API only.
• Influencers.club publishes docs and credit costs and requires the $208/mo Pro tier. Note its own two pages disagree on enrichment cost (1 credit versus 0.8), and no rate limits are published.
• Roster is self-serve from api.ugcroster.com/keys: a profile read is 1 credit, a filtered search returning up to 100 records is 10 credits, on plans of $98 for 25,000 credits, $398 for 150,000 and $998 for 500,000.

Sales-gated or contract-only:

• Modash deserves credit for publishing API prices at all, which almost nobody does: Discovery API "Starts at $16,200/yearly" and Raw API "Starts at $10,000/yearly", with a full credit table. But it is annual-only, accepts bank transfers, and its own FAQ answers "Can I access the API with a platform plan? No." That is a $10,000-a-year floor before you write a line of code.
• HypeAuditor has public docs and an MCP server at mcp.hypeauditor.com, but no published price and a Client ID obtained through sales.
• Upfluence publishes token ratios (500 search results cost 1 token, 5 full profiles cost 1 token) but not the dollar price of a token, and access runs through an account manager.

No API: Collabstr, FeedSpot (its documented API is for its RSS reader, which is an easy trap), Social Cat, and Heepsy as far as can be verified.

Platform coverage, which is narrower than the marketing

Nobody covers everything, and the gaps are specific:

• Modash: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube only
• Influencity: its FAQ says Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, though its nav markets Twitch, contradicting itself
• Social Cat: Instagram and TikTok only, the biggest scope gap here
• Influship: Instagram in the app; Instagram, YouTube and TikTok on the API
• Heepsy: the only one in this set with LinkedIn in its core index, alongside Instagram, TikTok and YouTube
• Upfluence: six platforms in the UI but only Instagram, TikTok and YouTube on the API
• Influencers.club: the widest, including OnlyFans, plus a 47-platform social graph for connected-profile discovery
• Roster: Instagram and TikTok only, which is a real limitation worth stating plainly

If you advertise on YouTube, a product whose headline count is dominated by TikTok is not covering your platform just because the total is large.

Changes in 2026 worth knowing

• Modash acquired Promoty, confirmed on Modash's blog, 12 March 2026.
• Kolsquare acquired Storyclash, announced 20 January 2026, now "Storyclash by Kolsquare".
• inBeat removed its self-serve creator database. Its own notice says it shut down "some free tools & certain features of the database" while "the agency side will remain completely unaffected". No date is given, so treat the timing as unverified.
• Influencity appears to have repriced. Its live plan data returns $198, $398 and $1,398 monthly and $1,900, $3,816 and $13,420 yearly, while third-party pages still quote $168/$348/$698. No announcement found, so the change date is unverified.

Picking one

The UGC Roster API exposes creator search, briefs, campaigns and payouts behind one key at UGCRoster: /v1/creators/search finds them, /v1/briefs briefs them, /v1/contracts papers it, /v1/shipments tracks product, /v1/deliverables tracks assets, /v1/content tracks what published, /v1/payouts pays them, /v1/webhooks tells your system when any of it moves. Docs at api.ugcroster.com/docs, reference at api.ugcroster.com/reference.

Related: where to find UGC creators, what to look for in a creator database, the influencer database API guide, and if you are comparing raw-data vendors instead, how creator data APIs compare.

FAQ

What is the best influencer database?

There is no single best one, because these ten products are not the same category. For the cheapest real filter set, Heepsy at $69/mo annual. For verified emails at volume, Influencers.club. For the largest index with published pricing, Modash. For the deepest audience demographics, HypeAuditor, if you accept that it publishes no price. For a managed marketplace with usage rights included, Social Cat. Decide on cost, email filterability, API access and platform coverage rather than on profile counts.

How much does an influencer database cost?

Verified entry prices on 1 October 2026: Influship $50/mo, Heepsy $69/mo annual, Social Cat $99/mo, Influencers.club $140/mo ($208 with API), FeedSpot $150/mo, Influencity $198/mo, Modash $199/mo annual, Collabstr Pro $249/mo annual. HypeAuditor and Upfluence publish no price at all, and Upfluence states a 12-month minimum contract. Free tiers exist at Heepsy, Influship, Collabstr and Modash's ungated search tool.

Which influencer databases are free?

Collabstr is the most genuinely usable without signing up: logged out you see result counts, creator cards with city, bio, rating and exact package prices, though follower counts are masked. Modash runs an ungated free search tool with real filters including an email-availability toggle. FeedSpot's ranked lists are public with emails masked. Heepsy has a perpetual free plan at 500 results a month, and Influship a free tier of 3 searches a month, but both require signup.

Do influencer databases include email addresses?

It varies more than the marketing suggests. Influencers.club, Modash, Upfluence and Influencity let you filter on email availability, though Modash caps unlocks at 150 to 400 a month. Heepsy meters outreach emails without clearly confirming filterability. Influship has no email in search, only a paid API lookup. FeedSpot sells emails as the product itself. Collabstr and Social Cat provide none at all, by design, since contact happens in-platform.

Which influencer database has an API?

Six do, but only three are self-serve. Influship publishes per-endpoint credit pricing at $0.01 per credit with a no-card free tier, Influencers.club publishes docs and requires its $208/mo tier, and Roster is self-serve from its keys page. Modash publishes API prices but is annual-only from a $10,000/yr floor and not accessible on a platform plan. HypeAuditor and Upfluence both have public docs with no published price and sales-gated access. Collabstr, FeedSpot and Social Cat have none.

Is a bigger influencer database better?

No, and the headline numbers are the least useful figure on any of these pages. Large indexes count every public account found, and most are private individuals who will never do brand work. Several vendors also contradict their own stated sizes across pages. What matters is how many profiles match your actual brief and carry a usable contact, which no vendor advertises. Test with a brief you have already run manually and measure contactable yield.