# Peekalink, free: GitHub repository API

> A GITHUB_REPOSITORY link type corresponds to a repository hosted on GitHub. Alongside standard preview attributes (title, description, image), GITHUB_REPOSITORY links provide a rich set of repository-specific data—such as star counts, forks, issues, contributors, and topics—making it easy to integrate open-source insights into your application.

Peekalink's Free plan for the GitHub repository API costs $0.00 per 1,000 repositories. We check each provider's docs for 10 fields. Peekalink's docs list 7: Description, Topics, Stars, Forks, Watchers, Open issues, Owner.
We haven't run Peekalink through [our GitHub repository API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt)
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 repositories: $0.022. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 repositories a month: about $2.72.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-github-repository/llms.txt) and [Pushbuild](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/pushbuild/top-up/llms.txt) are the best GitHub repository API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/peekalink/free
- [GitHub repository API: the 11 best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.peekalink.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.peekalink.io/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.peekalink.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.peekalink.io/api-reference/link-preview/get-a-link-preview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Sold by: Peekalink (https://peekalink.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 70%
- Description: ✓
- Topics: ✓
- Stars: ✓
- Forks: ✓
- Watchers: ✓
- Open issues: ✓
- Owner: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 repositories: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A GITHUB_REPOSITORY link type corresponds to a repository hosted on GitHub. Alongside standard preview attributes (title, description, image), GITHUB_REPOSITORY links provide a rich set of repository-specific data—such as star counts, forks, issues, contributors, and topics—making it easy to integrate open-source insights into your application.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Permissible Use: You agree not to use the Service for unlawful purposes or in ways that violate others' rights. You will not submit or request previews of links that contain malicious content, violate intellectual property rights, or violate any local, state, national, or international law.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 36,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 36,000 calls a month
- Expires: hourly: "new requests will be temporarily blocked until the next hour begins"

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.014
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: link. Optional: accept-language, source, forceNewSnapshot, forceNewSnapshotRecursive
- Method: POST
- Path: /

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old ("You must be at least 18 years old to use Peekalink")

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, owner, description, stars, contributors count, watchers, forks, open issues, pull request count, languages, topics

## Peekalink's plans (7)

- [Peekalink, free](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/peekalink/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 70% complete
- [Peekalink, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/peekalink/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.136 per 1,000, 70% complete
- [Peekalink, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/peekalink/149-monthly/llms.txt): $0.103 per 1,000, 70% complete
- [Peekalink, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/peekalink/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.069 per 1,000, 70% complete
- [Peekalink, $504 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/peekalink/504-yearly/llms.txt): $0.117 per 1,000, 70% complete
- [Peekalink, $1,248 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/peekalink/1248-yearly/llms.txt): $0.072 per 1,000, 70% complete
- [Peekalink, $4,188 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/peekalink/4188-yearly/llms.txt): $0.049 per 1,000, 70% complete

## Peekalink's calls (1)

- `POST /`: [Peekalink, free](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/peekalink/free/llms.txt)

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## Peekalink: GitHub repository API alternatives

- [Zapi, Rp129,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/zapi/rp129000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.036 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [upAPI, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/upapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 90% complete, live
- [Litescrape, top-up from $10, Usage-based, GET /api/github/repository](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-github-repository/llms.txt): $0.15 per 1,000, 70% complete
- [Crawlora, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/crawlora/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 90% complete

## 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.

- https://api.peekalink.io/mintlify?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/api-reference/link-preview/get-a-link-preview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/in-depth/error-handling?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/supported-link-types/github-repository?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://peekalink.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://www.peekalink.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing