⚠ Not on our MRR leaderboard: TrustMRR MRR counts only its one subscription ($1,084), because almost all revenue is one-time credit packs. We show monthly cash instead.
⚠ Pay-as-you-go revenue can drop quickly if a few heavy API customers stop topping up; September was below August.
⚠ Scraping public platform data carries terms-of-service and legal risk from the platforms themselves.
⚠ The 70% profit margin on TrustMRR and the "about $12.5k/mo" Indie Hackers figure are founder-provided, not verified.
Timeline
- Apr 2026
Founded (UK), live in April; $370 verified revenue in the month - Jun 2026
$5,300 in the month - Aug 2026
$26,200 in the month - Sep 2026
$23,400 in the month; Indie Hackers interview ("about $12.5k/mo", self-reported) - Oct 2026
$47,000 in the month (about 2x September) - Nov 2 2026
$41,900 in the last 30 days (+56.2%); $117,000 all-time
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The story
SocialCrawl (socialcrawl.dev, UK and South Korea) sells structured public data from 69 platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Amazon, Polymarket and more) through one API key and one response format. It ships an MCP server and agent skills so AI agents can call it directly, plus AI-enriched search and "Prism" composite endpoints (socialcrawl.dev, read Nov 2, 2026). Co-founder Selene Lee told Indie Hackers it "began as a social media data scraper for AI agents".
Pricing (socialcrawl.dev/pricing, read Nov 2, 2026) is credits, not a subscription: 100 free credits, then one-time packs of Starter £15 (2,500 credits), Growth £49 (20,000) and Pro at just under £300 (150,000) that never expire, plus Enterprise on request. A standard call costs 1 credit. That is why its TrustMRR MRR is tiny ($1,100 from one subscription) while monthly cash is over $40,000: almost all revenue is top-ups.
Verified monthly revenue: $370 in April 2026 (its launch month), $680 in May, $5,300 in June, $12,800 in July, $26,200 in August, $23,400 in September and $47,000 in October 2026, about double September. Last-30-days revenue was $45,200 up 58.2% per TrustMRR (Nov 4, 2026), and $124,000 all-time.
The founders, Selene Lee (an Oxford neuroscience PhD) and Oscar Lee, told Indie Hackers on Sep 10, 2026 that they built four AI consumer products that failed before SocialCrawl, which was then making "about $12.5k/mo" (self-reported). Revenue figures are pulled from SocialCrawl's TrustMRR listing, which reads them directly from Stripe (last synced Nov 5, 2026, 4:23 AM CT); website visitors come from DataFast connected to the same listing.
Origin story
Founder-reported timeline. Not a verified claim about current revenue.
- Founded
- April 2026
- Started as
- Four failed AI consumer products (same founders) before SocialCrawl
- Pivot
- Began as a social media data scraper for AI agents; shipped MCP server + agent skills and pay-per-call credits.
Source: Indie Hackers: SocialCrawl founders (Sep 10, 2026) · read 2026-09-10 · how we label this
Costs & profit
Founder-reported Not processor-verified. We only show figures the founder published.
- Margin
- ~70% (on listing)
70% profit margin on TrustMRR is founder-provided, not verified.
Source: TrustMRR: SocialCrawl listing · 2026-11-03 · methodology
Our verdict
Hard
Selling data to AI agents is a real, growing market: every agent that researches people, brands or trends needs fresh social data. But a scraping API is an operations business. 69 platforms change and block scrapers constantly, rivals (Apify, Bright Data, EnsembleData) are large, and platform terms are a standing legal risk. The founders also had four failed products first.
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How SocialCrawl compares: AI SaaS
Every AI SaaS business on our leaderboard (verified revenue synced in the last 30 days), ranked by MRR. $/sub is our estimate (MRR ÷ active subscriptions).
| Business | MRR | Subs | $/sub |
|---|---|---|---|
 Postiz | $352,000 | 10,300 | $34 |
 Rezi | $241,000 | 10,000 | $24 |
 Cometly | $197,000 | 280 | $710 |
 GoMotion AI | $73,300 | 1,600 | $47 |
 Promptwise | $66,800 | 2,000 | $34 |
 Speel.co | $65,200 | 1,100 | $60 |
 Laper | $51,400 | 1,600 | $33 |
 traxy.ai | $51,300 | 240 | $210 |
 Vid.AI | $50,400 | 750 | $67 |
 VirtualJK | $48,500 | 93 | $520 |
 Rank Prompt | $42,300 | 220 | $200 |
 Kolbo.AI | $40,600 | 710 | $57 |
 Apiframe | $35,400 | 920 | $39 |
 SEObot | $33,400 | 490 | $68 |
 Lunchbreak | $31,500 | 1,900 | $17 |
 Audn.AI | $29,300 | 99 | $300 |
 Humanize AI Text (AE-intelligence) | $28,700 | 1,100 | $26 |
 WaLead AI | $25,100 | 270 | $92 |
| AI Interview Copilot | $24,600 | 710 | $35 |
 StoryShort | $21,200 | 380 | $56 |
 ChatDash | $17,800 | 100 | $180 |
 Heyron | $17,500 | 610 | $29 |
 QR Code AI | $14,900 | 1,500 | $10 |
 Glossa | $14,400 | 100 | $140 |
 notis.ai | $13,400 | 440 | $31 |
 NotFair | $13,100 | 110 | $120 |
 fastwrite.io | $12,300 | 570 | $22 |
 MagicSlides | $10,000 | 760 | $13 |
 SiteJourney | $9,100 | 590 | $16 |
 AI Designer | $8,400 | 290 | $29 |
 Visualizee.ai | $8,000 | 290 | $28 |
 Shannon AI | $7,500 | 720 | $11 |
 3D-AGENT | $6,600 | 250 | $27 |
 Blawgy | $5,100 | 31 | $170 |
 ThreadMaster | $4,700 | 930 | $5 |
 CaptureFlow | $4,600 | 7 | $650 |
 AutoSubtitles | $3,400 | 430 | $8 |
How they grew
- Built for AI agents from day one: an MCP server and agent skills, so agents can pull social data without custom scrapers. Verified source
- Pay-per-call credits instead of subscriptions: monthly cash went from $5.3k in June to $47k in October 2026 (verified). Verified source
Tools mentioned: Stripe · Next.js · TurboStarter (boilerplate) · MCP server · DataFast
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What they did (sourced) + research prompt
No playbook exists yet for SocialCrawl. We haven't sourced enough on SocialCrawl yet for credible sourced notes. We don’t invent steps. Sourced notes exist for 11 cases: Chatbase, PROSP, TypingMind, Photo AI, HeadshotPro, Vid.AI, VirtualJK, Postiz, GojiberryAI, SEObot, DataExpert.io.
- Rank Prompt: $52.5k / 30 days· Track and improve how your site shows up in AI search engines.
- PROSP: $128.0k MRR· AI-personalized LinkedIn outreach for agencies and sales teams.
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FAQ
What is SocialCrawl's revenue?
$45.2k / 30 days, TrustMRR, Nov 5 2026. Evidence: Verified (Receipts).
How much money does SocialCrawl make?
$45.2k / 30 days (TrustMRR, Nov 5 2026). Evidence label: Verified (Receipts). Last 30 days: $45,200; October 2026 revenue: $47,000; All-time revenue: $124,000; Subscription revenue (1 subscription; most sales are one-time credit packs): $1,100/mo; Website visitors, last 30 days: 42,000.
Is SocialCrawl's revenue verified?
Verified (Receipts): Payment-processor data (Stripe / RevenueCat) checked by us or a third-party verifier such as TrustMRR. Source: TrustMRR: SocialCrawl.
How long did SocialCrawl take to make its first dollar?
Apr 2026, its launch month ($366 verified) (Verified (Receipts)).
When did SocialCrawl start?
Apr 2026: Founded (UK), live in April; $370 verified revenue in the month.
Can I replicate SocialCrawl?
Our verdict: Hard. Selling data to AI agents is a real, growing market: every agent that researches people, brands or trends needs fresh social data. But a scraping API is an operations business. 69 platforms change and block scrapers constantly, rivals (Apify, Bright Data, EnsembleData) are large, and platform terms are a standing legal risk. The founders also had four failed products first.
What did SocialCrawl start as?
April 2026: Four failed AI consumer products (same founders) before SocialCrawl. Began as a social media data scraper for AI agents; shipped MCP server + agent skills and pay-per-call credits. Source: Indie Hackers: SocialCrawl founders (Sep 10, 2026) (founder-reported).
Is SocialCrawl profitable?
Founder-reported only (not verified): margin ~70% (on listing). See /methodology/#costs-origin.
Sources
- Verified dashboard TrustMRR: SocialCrawl: Revenue verified by TrustMRR via the payment processor API. TrustMRR figures update continuously; re-pull before quoting.
- Company site SocialCrawl pricing
- Company site SocialCrawl (about)
- Interview Indie Hackers: "This founder left academia, built four failed products, then hit $12.5k/mo." (Sep 10, 2026): Founder story, four failed AI products, $12.5k/mo (self-reported)
- Founder post Selene Lee on X: Q3 2026 wrap-up (Oct 7, 2026): 8,072,603 API requests in 90 days (self-reported)