glim.sh pricing: Telegram channel API

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60% complete: 3 of the 5 key fields we checkSee the 5 fields

$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run glim.sh through our Telegram channel API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 106 plans for Telegram channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.394 per 1,000 channels or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.022.

Plan: Free credit one of glim.sh's 3 plans

Call: POST /api/v1/telegram/get glim.sh's only call for this API

POST /api/v1/telegram/getFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Telegram channel API one of glim.sh's 10 APIs

About this item

Live. You get the channel from Telegram when you call the API.
3 of the 5 key fields we check. Bio, Verified, Followers.
Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit, enough for 200 calls.
One call. You send ref to POST /api/v1/telegram/get. You can also send query, before, after, limit, include_comments and comment. The call returns the channel's details.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

glim.sh: Telegram channel API alternatives

glim.sh alternatives: every Telegram channel API plan compared

The table starts with glim.sh's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to glim.sh's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

	glim.sh, pay as you go	DataXAPI, top-up from $50	Social Fetch, $59 pack	SocialCrawl, £49 pack	ProLevelMax, top-up, Pay per use, POST /v1/run, Telegram channel messages
$ per 1,000 channels	$5.00	$2.00	$2.36	$3.267	$5.10
Completeness	60%	80%	80%	80%	60%
Billing	pay as you go	pay first	pay first	pay first	pay first
Pay	per call	$50	$59	£49	any amount
Enough for	as many as you pay for	25,000 calls	25,000 calls	20,000 calls	as many as you pay for
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet: x402 on Base, Solana or Monad, or MPP on Tempo	developers and business users with the legal capacity their use requires	anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it	anyone 18 or over	anyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

Product details

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

Bio
Photo, not in the answer
Verified
Followers
Posts, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 channels	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Search tweets with advanced query operators - body param is query · Fetch a tweet with thread context, or a user profile · Search Reddit posts by keyword query · Fetch a Reddit post with comments, subreddit feed, or user · Run a semantic web search with ranked results · Fetch a web page as clean extracted content · Search GitHub repos, conversations, discussions, or code · Fetch GitHub repo metadata, files, PRs, issues, or discussions · Search Amazon product listings · Fetch Amazon product details by ASIN · Fetch a cleaned YouTube transcript · Search Telegram channels and indexed public posts · Search tweets (paginated) - body param is q, not query · Fetch multiple tweets by id (comma-separated ids) · Fetch replies to a tweet · Fetch quote tweets of a tweet · Fetch users who retweeted a tweet · Fetch the full thread context of a tweet · Fetch the attached Twitter article of a tweet · Fetch a single tweet by id · Search Twitter user profiles by keyword · Check the follow relationship between two users · Fetch multiple users by id (comma-separated ids) · Fetch a user's recent tweets · Fetch a user's mentions timeline · Fetch a user's followers · Fetch the accounts a user follows · Fetch a user's verified followers · Fetch a single user profile by @handle or id · Fetch tweets from a list · Fetch the member profiles of a Twitter list · Fetch trending topics (by WOEID) · LLM chat completion (OpenAI-compatible, streaming supported) · Anthropic Messages API compatible LLM inference (streaming supported)

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	A channel ref (`@handle` or t.me URL) returns channel info + recent posts.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	no limit
Use data	No unlawful use, and no use that violates the rights of others. Data is retrieved from publicly available sources on your behalf. You are responsible for how you use it, including compliance with the source platforms' terms and applicable law. No attempts to disrupt, overload, or reverse the service's payment gating.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	$1
Enough for	200 calls

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	ref. Optional: query, before, after, limit, include_comments, comment
Method	POST
Path	/api/v1/telegram/get

About the plan
Plan	Free credit
Who can get it	anyone who signs in at glim.sh/app with an email code: new accounts get $1 of free calls

The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, bio, subscribers, verified, link