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Anakin pricing and alternatives: YouTube channel API

Anakin's sitellms.txtBest YouTube channel API in 2026: pricing compared

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18% complete: 2 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe rank 173 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.15.YouTube Data API (Google), Litescrape and lobstr.io are the best YouTube channel API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Starter one of Anakin's 30 plans
Call: POST /v1/wire/task Anakin's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of Anakin's 28 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 300 credits, enough for 150 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send params.channel_id to POST /v1/wire/task. You set action_id to "yt_channel". You can also send webhook_url. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or older, for professional, commercial or business use. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Anakin: YouTube channel API alternatives

The table starts with Anakin's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to Anakin's.

Anakin, $7,236 yearlyHasData, $16,600 yearlyReefAPI, $112.50 quarterly, Ultra quarterly, POST /youtube/v1/channellobstr.io, $960 yearly, Pro, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel ScraperFetchLayer, $400 monthly
$ per 1,000 channels$0.744$0.692$0.75$0.80$0.80
Completeness18%55%45%82%73%
Billingyearlyyearlyquarterlyyearlymonthly
Pay$7,236$16,600$112.50$960$400
Enough for810,000 calls a month2,000,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month100,000 results a month500,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownlivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or older, for professional, commercial or business useanyoneanyoneprofessionals, not consumersanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)

Every YouTube channel API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

  1. anakin.io/docs/documentation/pricing
  2. anakin.io/docs/documentation/rate-limits
  3. anakin.io/docs/social-media/platforms/linkedin
  4. anakin.io/docs/social-media/platforms/youtube
  5. anakin.io/docs/social-media/pricing
  6. anakin.io/pricing
  7. anakin.io/terms

Product details

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

  • Bio
  • Photo
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location, not in the answer
  • Verified, not in the answer
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Following, not in the answer
  • Posts, not in the answer
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 5,352 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns channel details including name, description, avatar, banner, and keywords.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou must not (and must not attempt to): use the Services for unlawful, harmful, or fraudulent activities, violate or infringe any third party's rights (including IP, privacy, publicity, or trade secret rights), collect, process, or disclose personal data or sensitive data (e.g., health, financial, government identifiers) without a valid legal basis and all required notices/consents, use the Services to facilitate malware, phishing, credential theft, exploitation, or unauthorized access, interfere with or disrupt Targets or the Services (including excessive load, denial-of-service, or evasion of rate limits), probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our systems, bypass our access controls, or attempt to circumvent our safety or usage enforcement, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, underlying ideas, or algorithms of the Services (except to the limited extent prohibited by law), resell, rent, or provide access to the Services to third parties as a service bureau, time-sharing, or managed service without our written permission, use the Services to build, benchmark, or improve a competing product or service, or to train models primarily intended to compete with the Services, create multiple Accounts to evade limits, enforcement, pricing, or plan restrictions. [...] you own your Output as between you and us, subject to third-party rights (Targets may own or control content, and you may need licenses/permissions). [...] You grant Anakin (and our affiliates, contractors, and subprocessors) a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, cache, reproduce, process, transmit, display, modify (for formatting/processing), and otherwise use Customer Content and Output to: provide, operate, and maintain the Services, prevent or address security issues, abuse, fraud, and operational incidents, comply with law and enforce these Terms, perform analytics, debugging, quality assurance, and service improvement, and train and improve our systems, including models, heuristics, classifiers, extractors, and related technology.
Plan
Pay$0
You get300 credits
Enough for150 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second0.33
Concurrent5
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendaction_id "yt_channel", params.channel_id. Optional: webhook_url
MethodPOST
Path/v1/wire/task
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone 18 or older, for professional, commercial or business use
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, name, bio, channel URL, profile picture, banner image, keywords

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