API.SH pricing: YouTube channel API
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$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run API.SH through our YouTube channel API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 351 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.78 per 1,000 channels or less.Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.01.YouTube Data API (Google), Litescrape and lobstr.io are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of API.SH's 8 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $15Pay-as-you-go$2.00 per 1,000
- $50 monthlyMonthly $50$1.00 per 1,000
- $100 monthlyMonthly $100$1.00 per 1,000
- $250 monthlyMonthly $250$1.00 per 1,000
- $500 monthlyMonthly $500$1.00 per 1,000
- $1,000 monthlyBusiness$1.00 per 1,000
- Contact usCustom deal
Call:
GET / API.SH's only call for this APIAPI: YouTube channel API one of API.SH's 33 APIs
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- Reddit post API
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- X post API
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- YouTube channel API
- YouTube channel video API
- Web scraping API
GET /web/ v1/ page - Web scraping API
GET /web/ v1/ extract
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 4 of the 11 key fields we check. Photo, Location, Verified, Followers.
- Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits don't roll over.
- One call. You send
channeltoGET /. The call returns the channel's details.youtube/ v1/ channel - Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
API.SH: YouTube channel API alternatives
API.SH alternatives: every YouTube channel API provider ranked
The table starts with API.SH's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to API.SH's.
| API.SH, $50 monthly | lobstr.io, $100 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper | Scrappa, pay as you go | Apinoa, top-up from $20 | UnifAPI, top-up, Pay-as-you-go | Decodo, $19 monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 channels | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Completeness | 36% | 82% | 64% | 73% | 73% | 64% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | pay as you go | pay first | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | $50 | $100 | per call | $20 | any amount | $19 |
| Enough for | 50,000 calls a month | 100,000 results a month | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 19,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | live | unknown | unknown | unknown | live |
| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address | professionals, not consumers | anyone 18 or over | anyone | anyone | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Bio, not in the answer
- Photo
- Links, not in the answer
- Contact, not in the answer
- Location
- Verified
- Followers
- Following, not in the answer
- Posts, not in the answer
- Likes, not in the answer
- Views, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 channels | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 6,019 other calls |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | YouTube channel |
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| Keep data | no limit |
|---|---|
| Use data | You may not: resell or provide raw access to the Service as a competing API without our written agreement, attempt to get around credits, limits or security, interfere with the Service or other customers, reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows, or use the Service in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 1,000 credits a month |
| Enough for | 1,000 calls a month |
| Expires | unused credits don't roll over |
| Concurrent | no limit |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | channel |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /youtube/v1/channel |
| Plan | Free |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address |
The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold
channel ID, handle, title, description, channel URL, keywords, profile picture, subscriber count, handle display, verified, subscribers text, video count, video count text, avatar, banner, header description, links, attribution, RSS URL, owner URLs, is family safe, available countries, tags, canonical URL, noindex, unlisted, tabs, featured video, view count, views text, videos text, country, joined, joined date