# upAPI, free: GitHub repository API

> Fetch metadata (stars, forks, topics, license, dates) for a public GitHub repository via the REST API.

upAPI's GitHub repository API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 repositories. upAPI's docs list 9 of the 10 key fields we check: Description, Language, Topics, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Watchers, Open issues.
We haven't run upAPI through [our GitHub repository API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/github/21-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrappa/50-pack/llms.txt), [GitHub](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/github/21-monthly/llms.txt) and [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-github-repository/llms.txt) are the best GitHub repository API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/upapi/free
- [GitHub repository API: the 11 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt)
- Get it: https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.upapi.io/github-repo.get`
- API key: with the plan, on https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://upapi.io/apis/developer-tools/github-repo?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Sold by: upAPI (https://upapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## 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

- Repeat free: 5 minutes
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 112 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch metadata (stars, forks, topics, license, dates) for a public GitHub repository via the REST API.

## Data

- 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."

## Plan

- 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

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: owner, repo
- Method: POST
- Path: /github-repo.get

## About the plan

- 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

## upAPI's plans (4)

- [upAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 90% complete, live
- [upAPI, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/upapi/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.29 per 1,000, 90% complete, live
- [upAPI, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/upapi/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.198 per 1,000, 90% complete, live
- [upAPI, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/upapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 90% complete, live

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

- `POST /github-repo.get`: [upAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt)

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## upAPI: 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
- [ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/reefapi/1200-yearly/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 90% complete, live
- [ChocoData, $100 monthly, Custom $100, POST /api/v1/{site}/batch](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/chocodata/100-monthly-custom-100-post-api-v1-site-batch/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 40% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrapingdaddy/400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## 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.

- https://upapi.io/apis/developer-tools/github-repo?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/apis/social-media/linkedin-get-profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/docs/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing