Pricing, explained
What an influencer background check costs. And what drives the number.
The honest comparison is in hours, not vendor quotes. Here is where the cost of a check comes from, what manual vetting really involves, and what the flat $29.99 CreatorScore check includes.
Updated September 2026 · Prices in USD; EUR shown at checkout
The short answer
A CreatorScore Social Background Check costs $29.99 per creator, for either tier — Quick on public content, or Verified with the creator’s OAuth authorisation — with no subscription and no minimum. The price covers the full available history of the accounts you submit: captions, video transcripts, on-screen text, images and posts recovered from web archives, grouped into ten categories with the evidence attached to each finding. It does not include a score or ongoing monitoring; those are separate products. Doing the same work by hand is priced in days of reading and watching, not dollars.
What drives the cost
Four things make a check expensive. None of them is the reading.
Video. A catalogue of a few thousand posts is an afternoon of scrolling. The same creator’s video is hundreds of hours of runtime, and the sentence that matters is spoken, not captioned. Any check that prices video by the hour watched is pricing itself out of thoroughness, which is why manual reviews sample it or skip it.
Depth. Reading the last hundred posts is cheap. Reading back to the first post is not — and the first post is where the risk lives, written before the creator had an audience or anything to lose.
Languages. A creator who posts in Portuguese or Tagalog costs a manual reviewer either a translator or a translation tool that flattens the register. Running detection in the original language is a fixed engineering cost, not a per-creator one — which is why it is included rather than billed.
Deleted content and the public record. Comparing archive captures against a live profile, and chasing an allegation through to its outcome, is research — the kind that is billed by the hour when a person does it and that an automated check does once, for every creator.
Manual cost
What vetting by hand actually costs: a worked example.
We will not quote other vendors' prices — they are rarely published and vary by scope. The arithmetic of a thorough manual read is enough.
Take a mid-sized creator with about 4,000 posts across their accounts. At roughly ten seconds per post — read the caption, glance at the image, move on — that is around eleven hours of reading before anyone has watched a video, opened a web archive or searched a court record. Add the video at 1× speed and the total runs to days. Agencies and screening firms that do this work price it accordingly, by the hour or by the report, and most of the cost is labour.
The practical consequence is that manual checks are shallow by necessity. They sample a recent window, skip audio, skip other languages and never look at deleted content — not because reviewers are careless but because the full read does not fit a budget. The step-by-step guide lays out each of those steps so you can see exactly where the hours go.
What $29.99 includes
Quick and Verified, side by side.
Same price, same depth of analysis. The only difference is whether the creator takes part.
| Quick | Verified | |
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| Price | $29.99, one payment | $29.99, one payment |
| Creator participation | None. Public content only, no notification sent. | Required. The creator connects their accounts through each platform's OAuth. |
| What is read | Full public history of the accounts you submit, on up to eleven platforms. | First-party content the creator authorised, at the same depth. |
| Video transcripts, on-screen text, frame analysis | Yes | Yes — Verified is not a lighter analysis |
| Deleted content via web archives | Yes | Yes |
| Audience data scraped | No comments are analysed | No scraping of audience data at all |
| Evidence stored so links do not expire | Yes | Yes |
| Output | Categorised findings with evidence. No score. | Categorised findings with evidence. No score. |
The same price applies whether you order through the dashboard, the public API or the MCP, and there are no volume tiers to negotiate: background checks stay flat while the scoring and monitoring products carry the volume discounts on the pricing page. A check that cannot complete is refunded, not delivered empty.
Choose Verified when the creator is already in conversation with you and the deal is worth the ask — an ambassador role, a regulated category, significant spend. It gives you a consented, first-party read you can tell the creator you ran. Choose Quick when you are still deciding whether to approach them at all. Neither produces a score; both return a categorised report with evidence — the product page lists the supported platforms. If what you actually need is a number kept current over time, that is a different product — see background check vs monitoring.
Social Background Check
$29.99. One creator, every platform, the whole history.
No subscription, no seat, no minimum. Findings grouped into ten categories with evidence, a per-account statement of what was read, and recovered deletions with their capture dates. Order one in the dashboard or by API.
- Quick or Verified — $29.99 per check, no subscription
- Findings with evidence, in the original language
- Deleted content recovered from web archives
- No score. A categorised report, not a number
Common questions
How much does an influencer background check cost?
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With CreatorScore, $29.99 per creator for either tier — Quick on public content or Verified with creator authorisation — with no subscription, seat or minimum. Manual alternatives are priced by the hour or by the report and are rarely published; the honest way to compare is in hours, and a full-depth manual read of a mid-sized catalogue is days of work.
Why is Verified the same price as Quick?
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Because the analysis is the same depth. The difference is whether the creator takes part, not how hard the check looks: Verified runs on first-party content the creator authorised through OAuth and never scrapes audience data, while Quick reads public content with no participation. Pricing them identically removes the temptation to pick the cheaper one when the situation calls for the consented one.
When is the Verified tier worth choosing?
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When the creator is already in conversation with you and the relationship is worth the ask — an ambassador deal, a regulated category, a campaign with significant spend. Verified gives you a consented, first-party read you can show the creator you ran, which is a very different conversation from one they discover later. Choose Quick when you are still deciding whether to approach someone.
Are there volume discounts on background checks?
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No — the price is flat per creator at any volume, and the same price applies through the dashboard, the public API and the MCP. Volume discounts on CreatorScore apply to the scoring and monitoring products, which are priced per creator per month and listed on the pricing page.
Does the price include monitoring or a score?
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No, and deliberately. A background check is a one-time, full-history inspection that returns categorised findings with evidence; it produces no number. Continuous monitoring and the CreatorScore itself are separate products with their own per-creator pricing. The background check vs monitoring explainer covers which you need and when you genuinely want both.
What happens if the check fails to run?
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You are not charged for a report you did not receive. A check that cannot complete — because every submitted account is private or unreachable, for example — is refunded rather than delivered as an empty result. A completed report that read only part of a catalogue says so, per account and per category, instead of presenting the gap as a clean result.
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