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Best GitHub repository API in 2026

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Scrappa, Litescrape and ScrapeCreators are the best GitHub repository API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 5 providers and rank all 5 by score. For the three we score highest, we show each one's top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 repositories cost. We rank 38 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 repositories: $0.15.

Every GitHub repository API provider we score, ranked

  1. Scrappa, $500 pack: Overall score 87.6, Data score 91, $0.238 per 1,000 repositories
  2. Litescrape, top-up from $10, Usage-based: Overall score 75.9, Data score 35, $0.15 per 1,000 repositories
  3. ScrapeCreators, $497 pack: Overall score 64.6, Data score 63, $0.994 per 1,000 repositories
  4. AnyAPI, top-up from $10: Overall score 57.8, Data score 49, $1.20 per 1,000 repositories
  5. Parse, $300 monthly: Overall score 40.4, Data score 61, $45.00 per 1,000 repositories

  1. #1 Scrappa: GitHub repository API

    Scrappa, $500 pack

    It returns all 10 key fields we check: Description, Language, Topics, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Watchers, Open issues, Owner.

    Overall score
    87.6
    $ per 1,000
    $0.238
    Price score
    95
    • $ per 1,000 repositories the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 38
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 repositories than this plan: 2
    Data score
    91
    Cost to get started score
    65
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $500
    Bundle score
    100
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 2,423 other calls
    Performance score
    51
    • This call's median time on 31 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.677 s
    • Litescrape, GitHub Repository, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.347 s
    • On 31 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 repositories as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.9149 out of 1 on those 20 repositories. That gives this plan a Data score of 91 out of 100.

  2. #2 Litescrape: GitHub repository API

    Litescrape, top-up from $10, Usage-based

    It returns 7 of the 10 key fields we check: Description, Language, Topics, Dates, Stars, Forks, Open issues.

    Overall score
    75.9
    $ per 1,000
    $0.15
    Price score
    100
    • $ per 1,000 repositories the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 38
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 repositories than this plan: 0
    Data score
    35
    Cost to get started score
    93
    • How you pay: a top-up you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $10
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 190 other calls
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 31 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.347 s
    • Litescrape, GitHub Repository, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.347 s
    • On 31 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 repositories as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.3549 out of 1 on those 20 repositories. That gives this plan a Data score of 35 out of 100.

  3. #3 ScrapeCreators: GitHub repository API

    ScrapeCreators, $497 pack

    It returns all 10 key fields we check: Description, Language, Topics, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Watchers, Open issues, Owner.

    Overall score
    64.6
    $ per 1,000
    $0.994
    Price score
    62
    • $ per 1,000 repositories the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 38
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 repositories than this plan: 11
    Data score
    63
    Cost to get started score
    65
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $497
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 198 other calls
    Performance score
    45
    • This call's median time on 31 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.765 s
    • Litescrape, GitHub Repository, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.347 s
    • On 31 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 repositories as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.6293 out of 1 on those 20 repositories. That gives this plan a Data score of 63 out of 100.

The Data score on GitHub repository APIs

This score, out of 100, shows how much of a repository's record a provider's call returns. We ask for each public repository by its owner and name. A provider that takes the repository's GitHub address gets the address in place of the owner and name. We compare the providers' answers. For each repository, we count the parts the answer held, such as the stars and the license. We divide that count by the number of parts any provider's answer held for that repository. We don't count a provider's value when two other providers agree on a different value. We skip a provider's 0 when two other providers give a count above 0. A live repository changes between calls. We don't check a count above 0, the last push, the update time, the languages or the recent commits against the other providers' answers. When we compare a provider with the others, a provider with two calls counts as one provider. We leave out a part we can work out from the owner and the name, such as the repository's web address. We leave out a part that is the same on every repository we called. We average each repository's share over all repositories. Each repository counts the same. A repository the call didn't find counts as 0. We compare a provider that ran on fewer repositories with the other providers on those same repositories. A provider can't score higher by running only on easy repositories. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer repositories than the benchmark has.

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