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ReefAPI pricing and alternatives: GitHub repository API

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90% complete: 9 of the 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields
$0.00per 1,000 repositoriesWe rank 29 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 repositories: $0.15.
Plan: Free one of ReefAPI's 11 plans
Call: POST /github/v1/repo ReefAPI's only call for this API
API: GitHub repository API one of ReefAPI's 66 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the repository from GitHub when you call the API.
  • 9 of the 10 key fields we check. Description, Language, Topics, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Watchers, Open issues.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send owner and repo to POST /github/v1/repo. The call returns the repository's details.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ReefAPI: GitHub repository API alternatives

The table starts with ReefAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 repositories closest to ReefAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

ReefAPI, $1,200 yearlyScrapeCreators, $497 packBright Data, $499 monthlyScavio, $4,788 yearlyCaptapi, $9 monthly
$ per 1,000 repositories$0.333$0.994$1.30$1.995$4.50
Completeness90%100%60%100%100%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlyyearlymonthly
Pay$1,200$497$499$4,788$9
Enough for300,000 calls a month500,000 calls384,000 results a month200,000 calls a month2,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone legally able to enter into a binding agreementanyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanonanyoneanyone at least 18 years old

GitHub repository API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. reefapi.com
  2. reefapi.com/_next/static/chunks/app/pricing/page-560e08c02e869119.js
  3. reefapi.com/docs
  4. reefapi.com/docs/github
  5. reefapi.com/docs/github.md
  6. reefapi.com/pricing
  7. reefapi.com/refunds
  8. reefapi.com/terms

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, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 repositories$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 3,551 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchrepository metadata
Data
Freshnesslive
Use dataYou are solely responsible for how you use the data you retrieve and for ensuring your use complies with all applicable laws, third-party terms, and the rights of others (including data-protection, intellectual-property, and anti-spam laws) in your jurisdiction and your users'. You will not use the Service to break the law, infringe rights, send spam, or build a competing bulk-redistribution product. [...] Don't attempt to circumvent authentication, rate limits, or credit metering, don't probe, scan, or stress the Service except your own account within posted limits. [...] Where a source requires attribution, we surface it in the response meta, honor it.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendowner, repo
MethodPOST
Path/github/v1/repo
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

full name, description, stars, forks, watchers, open issues, language, topics, license, default branch, created at, updated at, pushed at

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