Pricing
Facebook ad spy tool pricing
Pricing runs from $0 to $149 a month at entry. Three of the ten publish a free level — the Meta Ad Library, BigSpy and Spytrend — paid access starts at $39.99 for one channel, and the ceiling on a standard plan is $499. Each figure comes from the vendor's own page.
Articles
13 articles on what ad spy tools cost and what replaces them, every figure read from the vendor’s own page.
What each plan costs and what the entry level carries
What replaces a tool, and what you lose by leaving it
When Meta’s free library is not enough
What every tool charges to get in
Ten tools, sorted by what it costs to open an account. “Entry” is the cheapest level a vendor publishes, including free ones; “ceiling” is the highest standard plan on the same page. Where a vendor sells channels separately, the entry price buys one channel, not the product.
Ten ad spy tools, sorted by what it costs to open an account
entry price against the ceiling on the same page · read 1 November 2026| # | Tool | Entry | Ceiling | vs $149 | What the entry level gives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 |  Meta Ad Library | $0 | $0 | Live ads only; no spend, run length or targeting published | |
| 02 |  BigSpy | $0 | $499 | Free plan: Facebook, 5 searches and 20 creative downloads a day | |
| 03 |  Spytrend | $0 | $79 | Starter free forever: ads at least three months old | |
| 04 |  Anstrex | $39.99 | $89.99 | One module — InStream (TikTok); Native and Pops are separate | |
| 05 |  Minea | $49 | $199 | Starter; $39 a month if paid quarterly | |
| 06 |  TrendTrack | €49 | €159 | Starter; €41 quarterly, €34 annual | |
| 07 |  PiPiADS | $49 | $1,999 | Basic lists at $69, $49 on a standing discount; 30,000 credits | |
| 08 |  PowerAdSpy | $69 | $399 | Facebook and Instagram only — 2 of its 11 networks | |
| 09 |  AdPlexity | $149 | $249 | One channel module, billed per module | |
| 10 |  AdSpy | $149 | $149 | The single plan; no free tier, no cheaper level |
Spytrend — spytrend.com/pricing, plain HTML, read with a normal request, read 1 November 2026.
AdSpy — adspy.com, single plan stated on the home page; no separate pricing page, read 1 November 2026.
BigSpy — bigspy.com, pricing page serves an empty shell that never fills; tiers read on the home page, read 1 November 2026.
Anstrex — anstrex.com, prices sit on the home product cards; /pricing returns 404, read 1 November 2026.
AdPlexity — adplexity.com/pricing, plain HTML; adplexity.io is a separate product and is not the tool listed here, read 1 November 2026.
The board is flatter than it looks. Four of the ten entry prices sit within twenty dollars of each other, so the cheapest tool is rarely the cheapest answer to a question — what separates them is how much of the product the entry level carries. Anstrex is the lowest paid entry on the board at $39.99 and buys one channel; PowerAdSpy asks $69 and delivers two of its eleven networks; BigSpy asks the same $69 and opens three of its eleven channels.
Three tools on the board publish a free level
Free means different things on each. Only one of the three is a plan with published caps rather than a trial that expires.
BigSpy — a plan, not a trial
Five searches and twenty creative downloads a day, no card and no stated expiry, with paid access from $69 a month.
Spytrend — Starter, free forever
Ads at least three months old. $79 a month opens fresh ads and search by domain, keyword, Pixel ID or advertiser across all verticals; browsing by vertical covers one category, $50 for each further one.
Meta Ad Library — free, but it forgets
First-party and free, but it drops commercial ads once the advertiser stops them, and publishes no spend, run length or targeting.
Credits, not flat access
One vendor in this category sells credits rather than time, so its sticker price is not its monthly bill.
PiPiADS Basic tier lists at $69 and runs at $49 on a standing flash discount, and carries 30,000 credits; Advanced lists at $159 and runs at $99 with 100,000. Credits are spent one per record returned and twenty per detail view, so a heavy research month costs more than the sticker price and a light month costs less.
Flat-rate tools make the monthly bill predictable instead: AdSpy at $149, for example, charges the same whatever the volume of research.
What the $49 to $99 band buys
The crowded part of the ladder. Four tools, four different questions — not the same question at four prices.
Minea — $49
Adds Shopify product data, with shops from Premium at $99, and publishes more than 10 million ads; Snapchat, Pinterest and TikTok are still marked coming soon on its pricing page.
TrendTrack — €49
Publishes 5 million top-selling stores and over 250 million ads, adding 2 to 3 million a day, with the store traffic, products, reviews and email flows alongside its ads.
PowerAdSpy — $69
Reaches Quora, Reddit and LinkedIn that nobody else here covers, but those sit on its $399 plan: the $69 entry buys Facebook and Instagram only.
Spytrend — $79
An archive of 1.4 billion ads going back to 2018, joined per owner by pixel, domain, Page ID and IP — the only one in this band that reconstructs a competitor’s whole history.
Questions
Asked the way buyers ask them, answered from the figures above.
How much do Facebook ad spy tools cost per month?
Between $0 and $149 to get in, and up to $499 on a standard top plan. Three tools on the board publish a free level; paid access starts at $39.99 (Anstrex, one channel), runs through $49 (Minea, TrendTrack, PiPiADS discounted) and $69 (BigSpy, PowerAdSpy), and tops out at $149 for AdSpy’s single plan.
Which Facebook ad spy tools have a free trial?
PiPiADS publishes a trial of 500 credits with no card. Two tools do better than a trial with a standing free plan: BigSpy at five searches a day on Facebook, and Spytrend’s Starter tier, free forever for ads at least three months old. AdSpy, AdPlexity, Anstrex and PowerAdSpy publish no free level at all. Minea and TrendTrack publish no free plan either; a free sign-up opens a limited account on each: ad search with shop data locked on Minea, the Shops tab on TrendTrack.
Do ad spy tools publish monthly and annual plans?
TrendTrack publishes monthly, quarterly and annual prices side by side (€49, €41, €34 on Starter); Minea publishes monthly and quarterly ($49 and $39); PowerAdSpy monthly and yearly ($69 or $27 a month on Basic). AdSpy, AdPlexity and Anstrex publish a monthly price only.
What do TikTok ad spy tools cost?
PiPiADS is the TikTok specialist and starts at $49 on its standing discount, sold as 30,000 credits. Anstrex covers TikTok through its InStream module at $39.99. Spytrend carries TikTok alongside Facebook and Instagram on one $79 account rather than as a separate module, and PowerAdSpy reaches TikTok only on its $399 plan.
Which ad spy tool is best value for an agency?
It depends on how many channels and seats the agency runs. PowerAdSpy at $399 is the only tool here covering eleven networks including LinkedIn and Quora; BigSpy’s $399 Scale plan gives five seats; AdSpy’s $149 single plan carries no seat tier at all.
Are ad spy tools and the Meta Ad Library the same thing?
No. The Meta Ad Library is Meta’s own free archive of live ads, and it drops ordinary ads shown outside the EU and UK once they stop. Ad spy tools are third-party products that keep them, add search across advertisers, and charge for it.