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Scavio pricing and alternatives: GitHub repository API

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100% complete: all 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields
$0.00per 1,000 repositoriesWe rank 10 plans by price. AnyAPI's pay as you go plan costs the least per 1,000 repositories: $1.20.
Plan: Free one of Scavio's 11 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/github/repo Scavio's only call for this API
API: GitHub repository API one of Scavio's 47 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the repository from GitHub when you call the API.
  • All 10 key fields we check. Description, Language, Topics, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Watchers, Open issues, Owner.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits, enough for 50 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send a repository's github.com URL or owner/name as url to POST /api/v1/github/repo. The call returns the repository's details.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scavio: GitHub repository API alternatives

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

Scavio, $4,788 yearlyAnyAPI, free trial keyCaptapi, $9 monthly
$ per 1,000 repositories$1.995$0.00$4.50
Completeness100%100%100%
Billingyearlyfreemonthly
Pay$4,788$0$9
Enough for200,000 calls a monthabout 41 calls, once2,000 calls a month
Freshnessliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone 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 2026-10-30.

  1. scavio.dev
  2. scavio.dev/docs/github-repo
  3. scavio.dev/docs/rate-limits
  4. scavio.dev/docs/search-api
  5. scavio.dev/github-api
  6. scavio.dev/llms.txt
  7. scavio.dev/pricing
  8. scavio.dev/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
Price
$ per 1,000 repositories$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 391 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA repository's stars, forks, open issues, watchers, license, topics, primary language, default branch, and creation and last-push timestamps.
Data
Freshnesslive
Use dataYou agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party rights. Scrape, redistribute, or resell raw search results as a competing search API service. Circumvent rate limits, authentication mechanisms, or other technical restrictions. Send automated queries designed to overload or degrade the Service. Use the Service for any activity that could cause harm to minors. Transmit malware, viruses, or any destructive code through API requests. Misrepresent your identity or the source of API requests. [...] Search results returned by the API originate from third-party platforms. You are responsible for complying with those platforms' terms of service when using the data.
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits
Enough for50 calls
Rate limit
Concurrent1
The call
You sendurl (a repository's github.com URL or owner/name)
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/github/repo
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

full name, owner, description, homepage, stars, forks, open issues, watchers, language, topics, license, default branch, size, archived, is fork, created at, updated at, pushed at, response time

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