# API for Agents, free: YouTube channel API

> YouTube channel data as JSON: subscribers, total views, video count, country and description.

API for Agents's Free credit plan for the YouTube channel API costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. API for Agents's docs list 8 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Posts, Views.
We haven't run API for Agents through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 441 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.99 per 1,000 channels or less. [See the best free YouTube channel API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
[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.
[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/api-for-agents/free
- [YouTube channel API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://apiforagents.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/youtube`
- API key: with the plan, on https://apiforagents.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/youtube/channel-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: API for Agents (https://apiforagents.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 73%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: 24 hours
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 121 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: YouTube channel data as JSON: subscribers, total views, video count, country and description.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may not use the service to collect data from pages that require a login, to contact people who have asked not to be contacted, or to break any platform's terms or any law that applies to you. One account per person or company.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $0.10
- Enough for: about 222 results, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 10

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: op "channels", subjects. Optional: estimateOnly, maxUsd, freshness
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/youtube

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credit
- Who can get it: anyone, one $0.10 trial per address and 3 per network per day while the day's trial budget lasts

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

handle, channel ID, name, bio, profile picture, banner image, country, verified, joined, external links, subscribers, videos count, views count, channel URL, canonical handle

## API for Agents's plans (2)

- [API for Agents, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/api-for-agents/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [API for Agents, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/api-for-agents/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 73% complete

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

- `POST /v1/youtube`: [API for Agents, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/api-for-agents/free/llms.txt)

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## API for Agents: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [AnyAPI, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/anyapi/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [LurkAPI, $225 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/lurkapi/225-pack/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 64% complete, 6 hours
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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 2026-11-08.

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