# Osint, free: Telegram channel API

> To 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.

Osint's Free account plan for the Telegram channel API costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. We check each provider's docs for 5 fields. Osint's docs list 4: Bio, Photo, Verified, Followers.
We haven't run Osint through [our Telegram channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-telegram-channel-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-telegram-channel-api.txt)
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) 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. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly-pro-get-v1-social-media-telegram-channel-preview-channel/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 channels a month: about $2.72.
[ScrapeAtlas](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrapeatlas/249-pack/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt) and [InsightSocial](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/insightsocial/9-99-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Telegram channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/osint/free
- [Telegram channel API: the 3 best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-telegram-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://osint.foundation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://osint.foundation/api/v1/telegram-username/{handle}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://osint.foundation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://osint.foundation/telegram-lookup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: Osint (https://osint.foundation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 80%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: To 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 data: no limit
- Use data: Use 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 get: 3 credits a day
- Enough for: 3 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/telegram-username/{handle}

## About the plan

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

## Osint's plans (7)

- [Osint, free](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/osint/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [Osint, $4.20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/osint/4-20-pack/llms.txt): $84.00 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [Osint, $29.99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/osint/29-99-pack/llms.txt): $29.99 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [Osint, $99.99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/osint/99-99-pack/llms.txt): $9.999 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [Osint, $699 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/osint/699-pack/llms.txt): $1.398 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [Osint, $1,999 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/osint/1999-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [Osint, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/osint/contact-us/llms.txt): 80% complete

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

- `GET /v1/telegram-username/{handle}`: [Osint, free](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)

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- [Osint: Facebook page API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: GitHub profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/github-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: Instagram profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: business verification API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: domain WHOIS API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: IP company lookup API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: local business search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: phone validation API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: reverse email lookup API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: Snapchat profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/snapchat-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: Telegram channel API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: TikTok profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)

## Osint: Telegram channel API alternatives

- [ScrapeIO, free](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 20% complete
- [Crawlora, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/crawlora/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Scrappa, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrappa/1000-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [Telemetr.io, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/telemetr-io/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [AIsa, $19 monthly, Builder, GET /apis/v1/tikhub/telegram/web/batch_channel_info](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/aisa/19-monthly-builder-get-apis-v1-tikhub-telegram-web-batch-channel-info/llms.txt): $0.253 per 1,000, 80% complete

## 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.

- https://osint.foundation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- https://osint.foundation/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- https://osint.foundation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- https://osint.foundation/telegram-lookup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- https://osint.foundation/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing