# LurkAPI, free: Telegram channel API

> A public channel's name, bio, photo, exact subscriber count and media counts.

LurkAPI's Telegram channel API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. It returns 3 of the 5 key fields we check: Verified, Followers, Posts.
We 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](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly-max-get-v1-social-media-telegram-channel-lookup-username/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.022.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/lurkapi/free
- Get it: https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/telegram/channel`
- API key: with the plan, on https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://lurkapi.com/docs/telegram/channel?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: LurkAPI (https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 60%
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 channels: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 87 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A public channel's name, bio, photo, exact subscriber count and media counts.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 hour
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Fair 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 get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/telegram/channel

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## LurkAPI's plans (4)

- [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 60% complete, 1 hour
- [LurkAPI, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/lurkapi/9-pack/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 60% complete, 1 hour
- [LurkAPI, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/lurkapi/59-pack/llms.txt): $0.59 per 1,000, 60% complete, 1 hour
- [LurkAPI, $225 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/lurkapi/225-pack/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 60% complete, 1 hour

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

- `GET /v1/telegram/channel`: [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt)

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## LurkAPI: Telegram channel API alternatives

- [Zapi, Rp49,000 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/social-media:telegram-channel/lookup/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly-pro-get-v1-social-media-telegram-channel-lookup-username/llms.txt): $0.109 per 1,000, 60% complete, 30 minutes
- [TrueScrape, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/truescrape/500-pack/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 80% complete, live
- [TikHub, top-up from $15,000](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/tikhub/top-up-from-15000/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape Everything, $449 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrape-everything/449-pack/llms.txt): $0.898 per 1,000, 80% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs/linkedin/profile.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs/telegram/channel.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing