# Ayrshare, free: YouTube channel API

> Look up users' or companies' social media public information, such as followers, profile image, and websites for competitive analysis.

Ayrshare's 28-day free trial plan for the YouTube channel API costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Ayrshare's docs list 4: Photo, Followers, Posts, Views.
You get as many calls as you like.
We haven't run Ayrshare through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 462 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.994 or less per 1,000 channels. [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/ayrshare/free
- [YouTube channel API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.ayrshare.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.ayrshare.com/api/brand/byUser`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.ayrshare.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.ayrshare.com/docs/apis/listen/brand-user?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: Ayrshare (https://www.ayrshare.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 36%
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: 145 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Look up users' or companies' social media public information, such as followers, profile image, and websites for competitive analysis.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: Platform Terms Compliance: "You must follow the terms of all connected platforms and agree to be bound by each platform's terms, including the YouTube Terms of Service." Certain Restrictions: "The rights granted are subject to the following restrictions: (a) no licensing, selling, renting, leasing, transferring, assigning, distributing, hosting, or otherwise commercially exploiting the site or its content, (b) no modifying, creating derivative works of, disassembling, reverse compiling, or reverse engineering any part of the site, (c) no accessing the site to build a similar or competitive product, and (d) no copying, reproducing, distributing, republishing, downloading, displaying, posting, or transmitting any part of the site except as expressly authorized." (Terms of Service)

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: platforms "youtube", youtubeUser. Optional: Profile-Key header
- Method: GET
- Path: /brand/byUser

## About the plan

- Plan: 28-day free trial
- Who can get it: anyone with a linked YouTube account who enters a credit card or Stripe Link at checkout

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, description, channel URL, profile picture, subscribers, videos count, views count, joined, hidden subscriber count, made for kids, uploads playlist ID, privacy status, is linked, long uploads status

## Ayrshare's plans (6)

- [Ayrshare, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ayrshare/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 36% complete
- [Ayrshare, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ayrshare/149-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 36% complete
- [Ayrshare, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ayrshare/299-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 36% complete
- [Ayrshare, $599 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ayrshare/599-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 36% complete
- [Ayrshare, $5,988 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ayrshare/5988-yearly/llms.txt): no limit, 36% complete
- [Ayrshare, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ayrshare/contact-us/llms.txt): 36% complete

## Ayrshare's calls (1)

- `GET /brand/byUser`: [Ayrshare, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ayrshare/free/llms.txt)

## Ayrshare's APIs (5)

- [Ayrshare: Bluesky profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/ayrshare/free/llms.txt)
- [Ayrshare: Facebook page API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/ayrshare/free/llms.txt)
- [Ayrshare: Instagram profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/ayrshare/free/llms.txt)
- [Ayrshare: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/ayrshare/free/llms.txt)
- [Ayrshare: YouTube channel API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ayrshare/free/llms.txt)

## Ayrshare: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [YouTube Data API (Google), free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/youtube-data-api-google/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Litescrape, free, 5 free calls](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/litescrape/free-5-free-calls/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [TrueScrape, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/truescrape/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, free, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/lobstr-io/free-post-v1-runs-youtube-channel-scraper/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [AIsa, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/aisa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete

## 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.

- https://www.ayrshare.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.ayrshare.com/docs/_llms/en/documentation.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.ayrshare.com/docs/apis/listen/brand-user.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.ayrshare.com/docs/apis/listen/overview.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.ayrshare.com/docs/apis/overview.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.ayrshare.com/docs/help-center/account/do-i-need-to-enter-a-credit-card-to-get-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.ayrshare.com/docs/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.ayrshare.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.ayrshare.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.ayrshare.com/terms/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing