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Osint pricing: Telegram channel API

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80% complete: 4 of the 5 fields on our checklistSee the 5 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run Osint 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 Osint plan for that many channels. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free account one of Osint's 7 plans
Call: GET /v1/telegram-username/{handle} Osint's only call for this API
API: Telegram channel API one of Osint's 13 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 4 of the 5 fields on our checklist. Bio, Photo, Verified, Followers.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 3 credits a day, enough for 3 calls.
  • One call. You send handle to GET /v1/telegram-username/{handle}. The call returns the channel's details.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Osint: Telegram channel API alternatives

Osint alternatives: other Telegram channel API providers by price

The table starts with Osint's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to Osint's. We also show the ScrapeIO plan. Its price is farther from the price of Osint's cheapest paid plan.

Osint, $1,999 packScrapeIO, freeCrawlora, $499 monthlyScrappa, $1,000 packTelemetr.io, $499 monthlyAIsa, $19 monthly, Builder, GET /apis/v1/tikhub/telegram/web/batch_channel_info
$ per 1,000 channels$0.20$0.00$0.20$0.20$0.25$0.253
Completeness80%20%100%80%80%80%
Billingpay firstfreemonthlypay firstmonthlymonthly
Pay$1,999$0$499$1,000$499$19
Enough for10,000,000 calls100 calls, once2,500,000 calls a month5,000,000 calls2,000,000 calls a month75,000 results a month
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over who can enter a binding contract, with an email-verified accountanyone, free credits once per personanyoneanyone 18 or overanyone with a Telemetr.io-linked Telegram accountanyone 13 or over (a parent or guardian standing for a younger user who can't contract alone)

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. osint.foundation
  2. osint.foundation/openapi.yaml
  3. osint.foundation/pricing
  4. osint.foundation/telegram-lookup
  5. osint.foundation/terms

Product details

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

  • Bio
  • Photo
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Posts, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchTo check a Telegram username without the app, enter it with or without the @, or paste a t.me link: you see whether it’s a person, bot, channel or group, with the public name, bio, photo and audience size Telegram shows for it - no Telegram account needed.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataUse the service only for lawful purposes, such as security research, fraud prevention, due diligence, journalism, investigations and checking your own exposure [...] You must not use the service, or anything it returns, to: stalk, harass, threaten, dox or intimidate anyone, [...] make decisions about a person’s employment, housing, credit or insurance, or discriminate against anyone, commit or facilitate fraud, identity theft or any other crime, resell or republish raw results as a competing dataset or service without our written permission, get around rate limits, credit metering or account restrictions, scrape the website instead of using the API, or repeatedly send input the service cannot process, attack, probe or overload the service or its infrastructure.
Plan
Pay$0
You get3 credits a day
Enough for3 calls a day
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendhandle
MethodGET
Path/v1/telegram-username/{handle}
About the plan
PlanFree account
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over who can enter a binding contract, with an email-verified account
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

found, type, username, name, bio, profile picture, subscribers, member count, online count, verified, preview available

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