upAPI pricing: GitHub repository API
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$0.00per 1,000 repositoriesWe haven't run upAPI through our GitHub repository API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 102 plans for GitHub repository APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.357 per 1,000 repositories or less.GitHub's $21 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 repositories. GitHub's $21 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many repositories as GitHub's rate limit allows.Scrappa, GitHub and Litescrape are the best GitHub repository API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of upAPI's 4 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $29 monthlyStarter$0.29 per 1,000
- $99 monthlyPro$0.198 per 1,000
- $499 monthlyScale$0.10 per 1,000
Call:
POST / upAPI's only call for this APIAPI: GitHub repository API one of upAPI's 20 APIs
- SERP API
POST /bing-serp.get - SERP API
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POST /google-serp.get - SERP API
POST /google-search.post - Bluesky profile API
- GitHub profile API
- GitHub repository API
- Search autocomplete API
- Local business reviews API
- Local business search API
- Hacker News search API
- Instagram post API
- LinkedIn profile API
- LinkedIn people search API
- LinkedIn job details API
- LinkedIn job search API
- TikTok profile API
- Tech stack API
- Web scraping API
- Job posting details API
- Job postings API
POST /upwork-jobs-search.get - Job postings API
POST /wellfound-browse-jobs.post - Company enrichment API
- Instagram profile API
POST /instagram-get-user-by-id.post - Instagram profile API
POST /instagram-get-user-profile.post
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 a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. The quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month.
- One call. You send
ownerandrepotoPOST /. The call returns the repository's details.github-repo.get - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
upAPI: GitHub repository API alternatives
upAPI alternatives: other GitHub repository API providers by price
The table starts with upAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 repositories closest to upAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| upAPI, $499 monthly | Zapi, Rp129,000 monthly | ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly | ChocoData, $100 monthly, Custom $100, POST /api/v1/{site}/batch | ScrapingDaddy, $400 monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 repositories | $0.10 | $0.036 | $0.333 | $0.50 | $0.80 |
| Completeness | 90% | 100% | 90% | 40% | 100% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | yearly | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | $499 | Rp129,000 | $1,200 | $100 | $400 |
| Enough for | 5,000,000 calls a month | 200,000 calls a month | 300,000 calls a month | 200,000 results a month | 500,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone | anyone | anyone | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.
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
| $ per 1,000 repositories | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Repeat free | 5 minutes |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 112 other calls |
| Units cap | hard |
|---|
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Fetch metadata (stars, forks, topics, license, dates) for a public GitHub repository via the REST API. |
|---|
| Freshness | live |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | "You agree not to use the Services to: break the law, infringe anyone's rights, or help someone else do so, transmit malware, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services or any upstream provider without authorization, exceed, evade, or interfere with rate limits, plan quotas, or other technical or usage restrictions, including by sharing or rotating keys to do so, resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services or your API access except as we expressly allow, place an unreasonable load on, disrupt, or degrade our infrastructure or that of any upstream provider, violate the terms, policies, or rate limits of any upstream API you reach through the gateway, send data you have no lawful right to send, or route sensitive data through an endpoint not intended for it, or misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person or organization." "[...] your use of it is also subject to that provider's own terms and policies, which we do not control." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 1,000 credits a month |
| Enough for | 1,000 calls a month |
| Expires | the quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month |
| Per second | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | owner, repo |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /github-repo.get |
| Plan | Free |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone |
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold
full name, repository URL, description, homepage, language, topics, license, stars, forks, watchers, open issues, default branch, is fork, archived, created at, updated at, pushed at, is template, fetched at