# SiteCheck, pay as you go: Telegram channel API

> Public Telegram channel from its t.me/s preview page: title, description, subscriber/photo/video/link counts, and the latest ~20 posts with text, view count text and time. Only public channels that show a preview, private chats and groups are not returned.

SiteCheck's x402 pay per call plan for the Telegram channel API costs $2.00 per 1,000 channels. We check each provider's docs for 5 fields. SiteCheck's docs list 3: Bio, Followers, Posts.
We haven't run SiteCheck through [our Telegram channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-telegram-channel-api.txt) yet.
We rank 130 plans for Telegram channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.394 or less per 1,000 channels. This plan costs less per 1,000 channels than 35% of the 130 plans.
[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.
[TrueScrape](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/truescrape/500-pack/llms.txt), [ScrapeAtlas](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrapeatlas/249-pack/llms.txt) and [FetchGoblin](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/fetchgoblin/top-up-from-5/llms.txt) are the best Telegram channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/sitecheck/pay-as-you-go
- [Telegram channel API: the 7 best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-telegram-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/api/social/telegram-channel`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing#/paths/~1api~1social~1telegram-channel
- Sold by: SiteCheck (https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=telegram-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 channels: $2.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Public Telegram channel from its t.me/s preview page: title, description, subscriber/photo/video/link counts, and the latest ~20 posts with text, view count text and time. Only public channels that show a preview, private chats and groups are not returned.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Business use only: SiteCheck is offered to businesses, developers and professionals for use in their trade, business or profession. It is not offered to consumers. [...] SiteCheck is not a consumer reporting agency. You must not use results as a factor in decisions about a person's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or similar purposes under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act or comparable laws. Content in results that belongs to a source remains that source's. You are responsible for making sure that your use, storage and redistribution of results complies with the law (including copyright, database rights and data protection law) and with the terms of the original source. [...] Do not use SiteCheck for anything unlawful, to harass, track, stalk or discriminate against any person, to build profiles of individuals without a lawful basis, or to infringe anyone's rights. Do not attack, overload, scan for weaknesses or try to bypass payment, rate limits or other controls, and do not use the service to attack or overload third-party sources. Do not use SiteCheck if you are, or act for, a person subject to sanctions, or from a country or region where the service or the payment would be prohibited.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channel
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/social/telegram-channel

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 acting for business purposes (not a consumer), not a person subject to sanctions or from a region where the service or the payment would be prohibited, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC (x402)

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, bio, subscribers, photos count, videos count, links count

## SiteCheck's plans (1)

- [SiteCheck, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/sitecheck/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 60% complete

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

- `GET /api/social/telegram-channel`: [SiteCheck, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/sitecheck/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

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## SiteCheck: Telegram channel API alternatives

- [ScrapeIO, $47 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrapeio/47-pack/llms.txt): $1.88 per 1,000, 20% complete
- [ScrapeAtlas, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrapeatlas/19-pack/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 100% complete
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## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

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