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Phyllo alternative for follower counts

Phyllo and Metrika both put social media data behind a developer API, which is roughly where the similarity ends. Phyllo is a platform: consent flows, several data families, hundreds of millions of profiles. Metrika is a utility: one endpoint that tells you the public counts for a handle.

What Phyllo is built for

Phyllo serves products that need social data at depth: apps where creators connect their accounts and share permissioned, first-party data, and products that screen or analyse public creator profiles at scale. If you are building creator fintech, influencer tooling, or anything that needs demographics and engagement across dozens of platforms, that is the territory it covers.

Where Metrika fits instead

Sometimes the requirement is a single number. A follower counter on a landing page, an audience-size column in a CRM, a weekly sanity check on the brand accounts you care about. For that, integrating a platform is overkill, and Metrika is deliberately small enough to finish before lunch: one bearer token, one request shape, JSON back.

bash 
$ curl -X POST https://metrika.run/api/v1/resources/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"resources": [{"platform": "instagram", "type": "account", "identifier": "natgeo"}, {"platform": "tiktok", "type": "account", "identifier": "nasa"}]}'

There is nothing to trigger and nobody to onboard. We collect datapoints into a snapshot that is refreshed daily, and your request reads the latest value, each one stamped with collected_at so you know exactly how fresh it is.

When Phyllo is the better choice

The moment you need more than counts, you have outgrown Metrika. Audience demographics, engagement rates, data a creator consents to share, platforms beyond our seven: none of that is in Metrika. We hold follower counts everywhere, following counts on Instagram, TikTok, and X, and verified status everywhere except LinkedIn, and that is the honest whole of it.

Getting started

Create a free account, generate an API key, and you can make up to 500 API requests per month at no cost, no credit card required. The docs cover authentication and the datapoints available per platform, and pricing covers what the free tier includes.

Get started with Metrika

Create a free account and start pulling social media datapoints in minutes. The free tier includes 500 requests per month, no credit card required.

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