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LurkAPI 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 LurkAPI 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 credits one of LurkAPI's 4 plans
Call: GET /v1/telegram/channel LurkAPI's only call for this API
API: Telegram channel API one of LurkAPI's 37 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 hour old. You get channels from LurkAPI's copy of Telegram.
  • 3 of the 5 key fields we check. Verified, Followers, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 100 calls.
  • One call. You send handle to GET /v1/telegram/channel. The call returns the channel's details.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

LurkAPI: Telegram channel API alternatives

LurkAPI alternatives: every Telegram channel API plan compared

The table starts with LurkAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to LurkAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.

LurkAPI, $225 packZapi, Rp49,000 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/social-media:telegram-channel/lookup/{username}TrueScrape, $500 packTikHub, top-up from $15,000Scrape Everything, $449 pack
$ per 1,000 channels$0.45$0.109$0.80$0.833$0.898
Completeness60%60%80%100%80%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$225Rp49,000$500$15,000$449
Enough for500,000 calls25,000 calls a month625,000 calls18,000,000 calls500,000 calls
Freshness1 hour30 minuteslivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone 18 or over (or of legal age where they live), for lawful internal business purposes, not in a US-embargoed country or on a US restricted-party list, onboarded by TikHub on request with the company's name, address and contactanyone 18 or over who can enter a binding contract

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.

  1. lurkapi.com
  2. lurkapi.com/docs.md
  3. lurkapi.com/docs/linkedin/profile.md
  4. lurkapi.com/docs/telegram/channel.md
  5. lurkapi.com/pricing.md
  6. lurkapi.com/terms

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
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 87 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA public channel's name, bio, photo, exact subscriber count and media counts.
Data
Freshness1 hour
Keep datano limit
Use dataFair use: Don't try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service. Don't share or resell your API keys. Building your own products on top of LurkAPI is fine. Don't use LurkAPI to harass people or for anything illegal. [...] LurkAPI returns publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it, including the privacy and data protection laws that apply to you.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 calls
Rate limit
Per second5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendhandle
MethodGET
Path/v1/telegram/channel
About the plan
PlanFree credits
Who can get itanyone
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, title, description, photo URL, verified, subscribers, photos count, videos count, files count, links count, channel URL

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