AdSpy vs Minea: prices, networks and who each fits

AdSpy vs Minea comes down to depth or breadth. As of 12 Nov 2026, AdSpy is one plan, $149 a month, for searching Facebook and Instagram ads with deep filters. Minea has three plans from $49 to $199 a month and mixes ad search with product and shop discovery. Its pricing page confirms Facebook ads only, and lists Snapchat, Pinterest and TikTok as coming soon.

Every price and label below comes from each vendor's own page, read on 12 November 2026. Ad tools change their pricing pages often, so check the date before you pay.

AdSpy vs Minea at a glance

AdSpy is a single deep search tool for Facebook and Instagram ads. Minea is a product-and-ad discovery tool with three price steps, where the higher steps buy more AI credits and more tracked shops, not more ad networks. The table puts both side by side, row by row, as of 12 Nov 2026.

Sources: AdSpy's homepage and Minea's pricing page, both read 12 Nov 2026.

What does AdSpy cost, and what do you get?

As of 12 Nov 2026, AdSpy, a Facebook and Instagram ad-search database, sells one plan at $149 a month, and its homepage promises "virtually unlimited usage for just $149 per month!" It calls this an introductory offer that "will not be the same for long!" but gives no end date. The page mentions no free plan and no trial.

For that price you get one database, which AdSpy describes as a collection of "Facebook and Instagram ads". What sets it apart is how far the filters go. From AdSpy's own feature list, you can:

• search by ad text, URL or page name
• search inside the comments people leave on ads
• sort and filter by likes, media type, last-seen date and the longest-running ads
• see an estimated audience by location, gender and age range
• look up ads by affiliate network, affiliate ID or offer ID
• filter by the technology a landing page uses

AdSpy also says it gets past cloakers to show the real landing page. The affiliate and offer-ID lookups suggest who AdSpy is built for: people running offers across many advertisers, who need to sort a huge pile of Facebook ads fast.

What does Minea cost, and what do you get?

Minea, a product-and-ad discovery tool, has three plans, as of 12 Nov 2026 on Minea's pricing page: Starter at $49 a month ($39 paid quarterly), Premium at $99 ($79 paid quarterly) and Business at $199 ($158 paid quarterly). The page shows an "Annual" tab but no annual price on it.

The plans differ in limits, not in kind. Starter includes product listing, shop listing, a brand tracker, notifications, daily niche lists, and AI ad analysis and AI transcripts with a monthly cap. Premium makes product and shop listing and brand tracking unlimited, lets you track 10 shops and raises the AI caps. Business lifts most limits to unlimited. Every paid plan comes with a free .Store domain.

Minea's homepage leans into the shop side of the job. Its feature labels include "10 Winning Products, Every Day", "One Screenshot to Endless Creatives" for finding ads from a single screenshot, and "Create a Shopify Store Fast". It also lists shop-tracking insights on traffic, revenue, top ads and the apps a shop uses, plus supplier search, saved collections and workspaces.

So Minea starts from "what should I sell?" and gets to ads from there. AdSpy starts from the ad.

Does Minea cover TikTok ads yet?

Not by its own pricing page. On 12 Nov 2026 that page lists "All Facebook ads" with no tag, and "Snapchat, Pinterest, TikTok ads (coming soon)". The three plan cards name no network at all. So the safe read today is that Minea is a Facebook ad tool with three more networks promised.

Minea's homepage, read the same day, says something different. It has a plan-comparison area with "Meta ads listing" and "TikTok ads listing", no plan named beside either. And it runs a customer quote saying Minea gives "Facebook, Pinterest, and even TikTok ads from a single platform." The homepage's meta description says Minea tracks all ads across all networks.

Here is how we checked. We read Minea's pricing page, then re-read it looking only for which networks carry the "coming soon" tag. Then we read the homepage for any network named there. The two pages disagree, and nothing on either says which one is current. We can't tell you that TikTok works, and we can't tell you it doesn't. If TikTok or Pinterest ads are the reason you'd pick Minea, ask Minea before you pay, or search a known TikTok advertiser on your first day and see what comes back.

What does a year of each cost?

Neither tool shows an annual price, so the fair comparison is 12 months at the monthly price. A year of AdSpy is $1,788. A year of Minea runs from $588 on Starter to $2,388 on Business. AdSpy's one plan costs $600 more a year than Minea Premium.

Prices from each vendor's own page as of 12 Nov 2026; yearly figures are our arithmetic, 12 × the monthly price.

AdSpy has no ladder: you pay $149 or you don't use it. Minea's top plan is about 4 times its entry plan, and the extra money buys AI credits and tracked shops, not new networks. So most founders comparing the two are really choosing between AdSpy and Minea Starter or Premium, and the gap is $1,200 or $600 a year.

How would each tool help you pick a product to test?

Minea helps you find the product; AdSpy helps you study the ads once you have one. Minea's daily product lists and shop listing lead from an idea to the shops and Facebook ads behind it. AdSpy's ad-text search, longest-running sort and comment search give a finer read of the ads, but you bring the idea.

Say you sell pet supplies, and you want to add one new product before the holidays. This is a made-up case, not a real store, to show where each tool fits.

With Minea, you would start from its daily product lists and shop listing, find a few products that keep showing up, look at the shops selling them, then open their Facebook ads.

With AdSpy, you would search ad text for the product type, filter for the longest-running ads, and read the comments to see what buyers ask about. You get a much finer view of the ads.

Neither path tells you how the rival you already worry about is doing. That needs a tool that follows a named rival's store, not the open ad market — see ecvision below.

Who should pick AdSpy?

Pick AdSpy if your work is mostly reading Facebook and Instagram ads at volume. It suits a media buyer or affiliate who needs comment search, audience estimates, affiliate-ID lookups or landing-page technology filters. Minea's pricing page lists none of those. For that reader, $149 a month (as of 12 Nov 2026) for one deep tool is the straight answer.

Don't let the lower price talk you out of AdSpy. If you'd use those filters every week, Minea Starter is not the cheaper version of AdSpy. It is a different tool.

Who should pick Minea?

Pick Minea if you are deciding what to sell, and ads are one input among several. Its daily product lists, shop tracking and store-building help fit a dropshipper or a new DTC brand. At $49 a month as of 12 Nov 2026, it is the cheaper way in, and Premium's 10 tracked shops cover a short list of rivals.

Go in knowing two things. Its pricing page confirms Facebook ads only. And the steps up mostly buy more AI analysis, so start on Starter and move up only when you hit a cap. If neither tool fits, our full list of AdSpy alternatives, free and paid checks eight more options with dated prices.

Where does ecvision differ from both?

ecvision is not an ad search tool. You name your rivals, and ecvision shows each named rival's Meta ads next to that rival's own catalogue and prices. Starter and Growth both list "Every ad they run on Meta" and "Catalogue, prices and social accounts", so a rival's ads, catalogue and prices sit in one place.

Plans, from ecvision's own pricing as of 12 Nov 2026:

• Free, $0: "Your store plus 5 rivals, read for 7 days from setup", with the "Ads page, eight newest creatives withheld".
• Starter, $20 a month: "Your store plus 5 rivals", "3 months of history", "Every ad they run on Meta".
• Growth, $60 a month: "Your store plus 10 rivals", "6 months of history", "Scan as often as daily".

Priced the same way as the AdSpy and Minea table, 12 × the monthly price: a year of ecvision Starter is $240, and a year of Growth is $720.

So the job is different. AdSpy and Minea help you search across many advertisers. ecvision follows the few you already name. If your question is "what is my rival selling, at what price, and what are they running ads for this week?", that is the job ecvision's plans are built for. If your question is "what ads are out there?", use AdSpy or Minea. You can also see how ecvision reads a rival's store before you pick a plan.

For more options beyond these two, see our roundup of Shopify spy tools.

Before you pay: a short checklist

1. Write down the question you need answered. Ads across the market points to AdSpy or Minea. One rival's ads, products and prices points to ecvision.
2. If you need comment search, audience estimates or affiliate lookups, AdSpy is the one that lists them.
3. If you need TikTok, Pinterest or Snapchat ads, check with Minea first. Its pricing page says "coming soon" as of 12 Nov 2026.
4. Price the year, not the month: $1,788 for AdSpy, $588 to $2,388 for Minea.
5. Re-check both pricing pages on the day you buy. AdSpy calls its own price an introductory offer.