Tool reviewmedia buyer software
The largest searchable database of Facebook and Instagram ads
By Dana Rourke, Lead reviewer. Reviewed by Campaign Buyer Editorial. Updated 8 September 2026.
Our verdict
AdSpy is the pick if you research Facebook and Instagram ads seriously and want to search by page, offer, affiliate network or landing page.
When the job is to reverse-engineer what is working on Facebook and Instagram, AdSpy has the deepest archive and the sharpest filters. You can drill in by page, ad copy, reactions, country, offer id and even landing-page technology, which is exactly how an affiliate or dropshipper finds a proven angle before spending on it. Nothing else here matches its Meta depth.
The pricing is simple and flat at $149/mo, with no per-seat math to worry about.
Know its edges. It covers Facebook and Instagram only, so native buyers need Anstrex instead. At $149/mo it earns its cost when competitor research is a weekly habit. And it stops at search: turning your finds into swipe files or briefs your team can build from is a job for Foreplay. AdSpy ranks first here for pure Meta intelligence, which is what most paid-social affiliates actually need.
The archive is deep, but affiliates and dropshippers report that some results feel stale or show products that are already saturated by the time they appear. The consistent advice is to treat what AdSpy surfaces as patterns and angles to validate, not proof of a currently scaling campaign.
“clunky and expensive”
“a little stale sometimes”
Media buyers cite AdSpy's comment search as a specific reason to use it, mining ad comments for objections, hooks and pain points that feed new creative.
“Adspy for comment mining”
At a flat $149 a month AdSpy is described as expensive and only worth keeping if you research competitors weekly or can tie one good angle to more than the subscription cost.
“clunky and expensive”
We read the threads before we ranked. Here is where the sentiment above comes from, at links you can open.
“clunky and expensive”
“a little stale sometimes”
“Adspy for comment mining”
Plans from $149/mo.
One flat plan at $149 a month, whoever logs in, with close to unlimited searching. There is no free trial. A full refund is available only within 24 hours of purchase.
Prices as of 24 September 2026
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AdSpy is the pick if you research Facebook and Instagram ads seriously and want to search by page, offer, affiliate network or landing page.
Written by
Dana Rourke
Lead reviewer
Dana Rourke is the lead reviewer at Campaign Buyer. She owns the tracker and attribution coverage: reading what long-term users report about each tool, checking its documentation and pricing, and verifying prices with the vendor before writing the verdict. Keeping the rankings honest mostly means writing down what the top pick gets wrong, so she does that first.
Last checked 2026-09-08