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API.SH pricing: Telegram channel API

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60% complete: 3 of the 5 fields on our checklistSee the 5 fields

$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run API.SH through our Telegram channel API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 129 plans for Telegram channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.372 or less per 1,000 channels. See the best free Telegram channel API plan.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.022. Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 channels a month: about $2.72.ScrapeAtlas, Scrappa and InsightSocial are the best Telegram channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest API.SH plan for that many channels. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of API.SH's 8 plans
Call: GET /telegram/v1/channel API.SH's only call for this API
API: Telegram channel API one of API.SH's 99 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 5 fields on our checklist. Verified, Followers, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits don't roll over.
  • One call. You send handle to GET /telegram/v1/channel. The call returns the channel's details.
  • Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

API.SH: Telegram channel API alternatives

API.SH alternatives: other Telegram channel API providers by price

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

API.SH, $50 monthlyScrappa, pay as you goSandBase, top-upTrueScrape, $100 packCyberWareX, $25 monthly
$ per 1,000 channels$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00
Completeness60%80%100%80%20%
Billingmonthlypay as you gopay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$50per callany amount$100$25
Enough for50,000 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay for100,000 calls25,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownlivelive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email addressanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 and legally able to enter a contractanyoneanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

  1. api.sh
  2. api.sh/docs/billing
  3. api.sh/docs/errors
  4. api.sh/docs/telegram-channel
  5. api.sh/legal/acceptable-use
  6. api.sh/legal/terms
  7. api.sh/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Bio, not in the answer
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Posts
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freenever
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 6,258 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchPublic Telegram channel
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not: resell or provide raw access to the Service as a competing API without our written agreement, attempt to get around credits, limits or security, interfere with the Service or other customers, reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows, or use the Service in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Expiresunused credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendhandle
MethodGET
Path/telegram/v1/channel
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email address
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

handle, username, channel URL, title, verified, description, photo URL, subscribers, photos count, videos count, files count, links count, type, preview available

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