# Algrow, $1 pack: YouTube channel API

> Everything from a channel's About page in one call — name, description, subscriber and view counts, country, language, join date, topics, social links, trailer, banner, and more.

Algrow's 3-day trial plan lets you call the YouTube channel API. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Algrow's docs list 6: Photo, Links, Location, Followers, Posts, Views.
You pay $1 for 45 credits. You spend the credits on Algrow's other calls. This call is free for up to 9,000 calls in all.
We haven't run Algrow through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) yet.
This plan is a $1 pack. We rank 510 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 channels.
[Poix's top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/poix/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-batch-channels/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.002. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 channels a month: about $2.72.
[Socialinsider's $199 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/socialinsider/199-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of channels. Socialinsider's $199 monthly plan costs more up front than Poix's top-up from $5.
[YouTube Data API (Google)](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/youtube-data-api-google/free/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [TrueScrape](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/truescrape/500-pack/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/algrow/1-pack
- [YouTube channel API in 2026: the best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://algrow.online/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.algrow.online/api/channels/:channel_id/about`
- API key: with the plan, on https://algrow.online/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://algrow.online/docs/api/channel-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing#api-channels-channel-id-about
- Sold by: Algrow (https://algrow.online?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 55%
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Repeat free: 24 hours
- Also pays for: GET /api/channels/search: 300 a day · GET /api/longform-channels/search: 300 a day · GET /api/viral-videos/search: 300 a day · GET /api/collabs/fastest-growing: 300 a day · GET /api/channel-trends: 200 a day · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/daily-analytics: 100 a day · POST /api/thumbnail-search: 40 a day · POST /api/generate-simple · POST /api/generate-image · POST /api/generate-video · POST /api/caption-remover · from the same budget: GET /api/channels/:channel_id/videos · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/playlists · GET /api/search · POST /api/youtube-scraper · POST /api/youtube-scraper/thumbnails · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/youtube-recommends · GET /api/videos/:video_id/youtube-recommends · POST /api/video-comments · POST /api/channels/resolve · GET /api/channel-monetization/:channel_id

## In their words

- Their pitch: Everything from a channel's About page in one call — name, description, subscriber and view counts, country, language, join date, topics, social links, trailer, banner, and more.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: 24 hours
- Use data: Allowed Without Asking: Your own work. Internal tools, personal projects and automation for your own team. Your own product, for your signed-in users. A user asks for data and your product shows the result to that user. You must credit Algrow as shown below. Needs Written Permission From Algrow: Public pages. Showing Algrow data on pages that anyone can open without signing in. [...] Passing the data on. Serving Algrow data through your own API, MCP server, feed, export or download. Building a copy. Keeping Algrow data for more than 24 hours, or refreshing a fixed list of channels on a schedule to build your own database. Selling the data. Selling Algrow data, or a dataset made from it, in any form. [...] A linked label. Show a visible “Powered by Algrow” label on every page or screen that shows Algrow data. The label must link to algrow.online. [...] Do not present Algrow data as your own.

## Plan

- Pay: $1
- You get: 45 credits
- Enough for: 9,000 calls, once
- Expires: 3 days

## Rate limit

- Per day: 3,000
- Per second: 1.67 (100 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channel_id
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/channels/:channel_id/about

## About the plan

- Plan: 3-day trial
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, channel ID, name, handle, description, channel URL, country, country name, default language, profile picture, banner image, subscribers, subscribers text, views count, views count text, videos count, videos count text, average views per video, joined, joined text, privacy status, made for kids, hidden subscriber count, keywords, topic categories, featured video, uploads playlist ID, tabs, has email, social links, available countries

## Algrow's plans (5)

- [Algrow, $1 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/algrow/1-pack/llms.txt): 55% complete, live
- [Algrow, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/algrow/25-monthly/llms.txt): $0.278 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Algrow, $45 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/algrow/45-monthly/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Algrow, $80 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/algrow/80-monthly/llms.txt): $0.222 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Algrow, $378 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/algrow/378-yearly/llms.txt): $0.175 per 1,000, 55% complete, live

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

- `GET /api/channels/:channel_id/about`: [Algrow, $1 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/algrow/1-pack/llms.txt)

## Algrow's APIs (3)

- [Algrow: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/algrow/1-pack/llms.txt)
- [Algrow: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/algrow/1-pack/llms.txt)
- [Algrow: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/1-pack-3-day-trial-get-api-channels-channel-id-shorts/llms.txt)
- [Algrow: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /api/channels/:channel_id/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/1-pack-3-day-trial-get-api-channels-channel-id-videos/llms.txt)

## Algrow: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [Lucydomi, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/lucydomi/top-up/llms.txt): 55% complete, live
- [ZenRows, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/zenrows/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): 27% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://algrow.online?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/api-keys?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/api/channel-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/commercial-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing