# UAPI, free, Visitor free credits: GitHub repository API

> Need to fetch the core metadata of a GitHub repository quickly? This endpoint returns the repository's key data in a single call — ideal for project listings, statistics, and analytics use cases.

UAPI's Visitor free credits plan for the GitHub repository API costs $0.00 per 1,000 repositories. We check each provider's docs for 10 fields. UAPI's docs list 9: Description, Language, Topics, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Watchers, Open issues.
We haven't run UAPI through [our GitHub repository API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 130 plans for GitHub repository APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.321 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) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 repositories: $0.022. [UAPI's CNY 4.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/uapi/cny-4-90-pack/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 repositories a month: about $0.73.
[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/uapi/free-visitor-free-credits
- [GitHub repository API: the 11 best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt)
- Get it: https://uapis.cn/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://uapis.cn/api/v1/github/repo`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://uapis.cn/en/docs/api-reference/get-github-repo?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Sold by: UAPI (https://uapis.cn?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 90%
- Description: ✓
- Language: ✓
- Topics: ✓
- License: ✓
- Dates: ✓
- Stars: ✓
- Forks: ✓
- Watchers: ✓
- Open issues: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 78 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Need to fetch the core metadata of a GitHub repository quickly? This endpoint returns the repository's key data in a single call — ideal for project listings, statistics, and analytics use cases.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 禁止非法利用： 您不得利用UAPI提供的接口从事任何非法用途或不正当竞争行为。例如，不得利用接口获取的数据进行钓鱼、垃圾邮件发送、网络攻击等 [...] 禁止商业牟利行为： [...] 平台接口仅供您自用或在您的应用中使用，未经我们书面许可，您不得将本服务进行再出售或提供给未经授权的第三方使用。[...] 允许的使用场景： [...] 您可以在您的商业产品中使用UAPI获取的数据，但需合理标注数据来源 [...] 禁止的使用场景： 禁止直接将UAPI接口重新包装后，作为您自己的收费接口或收费服务对外提供 [...] 禁止将UAPI能力作为您产品中的直接转售内容，向第三方再次销售、分发或开放 [...] 此外，如果您在您的产品或服务中使用了UAPI的数据或功能，应当以合理方式注明来源，不得歪曲或抹去数据中的版权标识。

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,500 credits a month
- Enough for: 750 calls a month
- Expires: resets on the 1st of each month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 4
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: repo
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/github/repo

## About the plan

- Plan: Visitor free credits
- Who can get it: anyone, with no sign-up (the quota is counted per IP address)

## The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

full name, description, homepage, default branch, primary branch, default branch SHA, visibility, archived, disabled, is fork, language, topics, license, stars, forks, open issues, watchers, pushed at, created at, updated at, languages, collaborators, maintainers, latest release

## UAPI's plans (5)

- [UAPI, free, Visitor free credits](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/uapi/free-visitor-free-credits/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 90% complete
- [UAPI, free, Signed-in free credits](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/uapi/free-signed-in-free-credits/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 90% complete
- [UAPI, CNY 4.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/uapi/cny-4-90-pack/llms.txt): $0.073 per 1,000, 90% complete
- [UAPI, CNY 24.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/uapi/cny-24-90-pack/llms.txt): $0.074 per 1,000, 90% complete
- [UAPI, CNY 49.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/uapi/cny-49-90-pack/llms.txt): $0.06 per 1,000, 90% complete

## UAPI's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /api/v1/github/repo`: [UAPI, free, Visitor free credits](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/uapi/free-visitor-free-credits/llms.txt)

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## UAPI: GitHub repository API alternatives

- [Thordata, free](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/thordata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 20% complete
- [Zapi, Rp129,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/zapi/rp129000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.036 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Peekalink, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/peekalink/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.069 per 1,000, 70% complete
- [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

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

- https://uapis.cn/en/docs/api-reference/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://uapis.cn/en/docs/api-reference/get-github-repo?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://uapis.cn/en/docs/getting-started/fair-use-and-rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://uapis.cn/en/docs/getting-started/privacy-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://uapis.cn/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://uapis.cn/index.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://uapis.cn/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://uapis.cn/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing