# ScrapeAtlas, free: Telegram channel API

> Read public Telegram channel and group metadata, descriptions, avatars and audience counts. Optionally include photo, video, file and link inventory. The channel and profile routes are equivalent.

ScrapeAtlas's Telegram channel API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. It returns all 5 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Verified, Followers, Posts.
We rank 61 plans by price. [Scrappa's $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrappa/500-pack/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 channels: $0.238.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrapeatlas/free
- Get it: https://scrapeatlas.com/linkedin-api
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/telegram/channel`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapeatlas.com/linkedin-api
- Its API docs: https://scrapeatlas.com/docs/platforms/telegram/channel
- Sold by: ScrapeAtlas (https://scrapeatlas.com)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 372 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Read public Telegram channel and group metadata, descriptions, avatars and audience counts. Optionally include photo, video, file and link inventory. The channel and profile routes are equivalent.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: While you comply with these terms, you may access ScrapeAtlas for lawful research, internal operations, and applications you build for your users. This permission is limited, non-exclusive and subject to your account's applicable limits. It does not transfer ownership of our software, branding or documentation. [...] Obtain any permissions, notices and lawful basis required for your collection, storage, analysis and distribution of that content, and comply with applicable source-platform terms. Contact us before reselling access to ScrapeAtlas itself or offering an unmodified proxy of our API as a competing service. Do not use ScrapeAtlas to break the law, infringe rights, commit fraud, distribute spam, deceive people, or facilitate harassment, stalking or doxxing. Do not build biometric-identification databases, re-identify anonymized people, or profile individuals using sensitive personal characteristics. Unlawful surveillance or discriminatory decision-making is prohibited. Do not use the service to bypass source-platform login requirements, paywalls or access restrictions, or continue access you are not authorized to undertake. Do not request private messages or login-restricted information, supply stolen credentials, defeat our authentication or usage limits, create accounts to exploit allowances, or interfere with service security or availability. These terms do not restrict rights that applicable law makes non-waivable. We may investigate suspected misuse and restrict access when reasonably necessary to protect people or the service.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 4
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

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

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreement, a business's account holder must be authorized to bind it

## The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, status, request ID, fetched at, warnings, username, link, type, name, bio, profile picture, verified, subscribers, member count, online count, photos count, videos count, files count, links count

## ScrapeAtlas's plans (5)

- [ScrapeAtlas, free](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrapeatlas/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ScrapeAtlas, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrapeatlas/19-pack/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ScrapeAtlas, $89 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrapeatlas/89-pack/llms.txt): $1.78 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ScrapeAtlas, $249 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrapeatlas/249-pack/llms.txt): $1.245 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ScrapeAtlas, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrapeatlas/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete

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

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

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## ScrapeAtlas: Telegram channel API alternatives

- [Scrappa, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [TikHub, $55 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/tikhub/55-monthly/llms.txt): $1.11 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ProLevelMax, top-up, Pay per use, POST /v1/run, Telegram info for several channels](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/prolevelmax/top-up-pay-per-use-post-v1-run-telegram-info-for-several-channels/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 60% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, $2,430 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/social-fetch/2430-yearly/llms.txt): $1.35 per 1,000, 80% complete, live
- [UnifAPI, top-up, Pay-as-you-go](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/unifapi/top-up-pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 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 2026-11-01.

- https://scrapeatlas.com
- https://scrapeatlas.com/docs
- https://scrapeatlas.com/docs/platforms/telegram/channel
- https://scrapeatlas.com/linkedin-api
- https://scrapeatlas.com/terms