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API.SH pricing: GitHub repository API

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$0.00per 1,000 repositoriesWe haven't run API.SH through our GitHub repository API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 116 plans for GitHub repository APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.236 or less per 1,000 repositories. See the best free GitHub repository API plan.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 repositories: $0.022. Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 repositories a month: about $2.72.Scrappa, Litescrape and Pushbuild are the best GitHub repository API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest API.SH plan for that many repositories. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of API.SH's 8 plans
Call: GET /github/v1/repository API.SH's only call for this API
API: GitHub repository API one of API.SH's 99 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 10 fields on our checklist. Description, Language, Topics, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Watchers, Open issues, Owner.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits don't roll over.
  • One call. You send url to GET /github/v1/repository. The call returns the repository's details.
  • Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

API.SH: GitHub repository API alternatives

API.SH alternatives: other GitHub repository API providers by price

The table starts with API.SH's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 repositories closest to API.SH's.

API.SH, $50 monthlyScrapall, $499 packAnysite, $1,199 monthlyScrappa, pay as you goReefAPI, $50 monthly
$ per 1,000 repositories$1.00$0.998$0.999$1.00$1.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%90%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlypay as you gomonthly
Pay$50$499$1,199per call$50
Enough for50,000 calls a month500,000 calls1,200,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for50,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email addressanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyone 18 or overanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

  1. api.sh
  2. api.sh/docs/billing
  3. api.sh/docs/errors
  4. api.sh/docs/github-repository
  5. api.sh/legal/acceptable-use
  6. api.sh/legal/terms
  7. api.sh/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Description
  • Language
  • Topics
  • License
  • Dates
  • Stars
  • Forks
  • Watchers
  • Open issues
  • Owner
Price
$ per 1,000 repositories$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 6,019 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGitHub repository (with languages and latest release)
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not: resell or provide raw access to the Service as a competing API without our written agreement, attempt to get around credits, limits or security, interfere with the Service or other customers, reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows, or use the Service in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Expiresunused credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendurl
MethodGET
Path/github/v1/repository
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email address
The 39 fields the plan's answer can hold

repository ID, name, full name, owner, repository URL, description, homepage, language, topics, license, license name, stars, forks, watchers, open issues, size, default branch, is fork, archived, is template, visibility, created at, updated at, pushed at, node ID, private, mirror URL, disabled, owner ID, owner type, owner picture, owner URL, subscribers, network count, has issues, has projects, has wiki, languages, latest release

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