ChannelCrawler pricing: YouTube channel API, POST /
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$24.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run ChannelCrawler through our YouTube channel API benchmark yet.Half of the 440 plans we rank by price cost $1.99 per 1,000 channels or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 channels than 12% of the 440 plans.Poix's top-up from $5 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.002.YouTube Data API (Google), Litescrape and lobstr.io are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: 100 credits one of ChannelCrawler's 4 plans
- $24 pack, 100 credits100 credits$24.00 per 1,000
- $900 pack, GrowthGrowth$18.00 per 1,000
- $5,000 pack, ScaleScale$10.00 per 1,000
- Contact us, Bulk creditsBulk credits
Call:
POST /, Channel Discovery one of ChannelCrawler's 2 calls for this APIPOST /, Channel Discovery$24 pack, 100 credits$24.00 per 1,000v1/ channels/ search POST /, Channel Discovery, full$24 pack, 100 credits$240.00 per 1,000v1/ channels/ search
API: YouTube channel API one of ChannelCrawler's 2 APIs
About this item
- A copy at most 1 day old. You get channels from ChannelCrawler's copy of YouTube.
- 4 of the 11 fields on our checklist. 3 are in the plan's price: Links, Followers, Views. 1 costs extra: Contact.
- A pack you buy once. You pay $24 for 100 credits, enough for 1,000 results. Calls stop once your credits run out.
- One call. You call
POST /. Every input is optional.v1/ channels/ search - Who can get it: anyone aged 16 or over. Keep data: limited-term licence, no period stated. Use data: with conditions.
ChannelCrawler: YouTube channel API alternatives
ChannelCrawler alternatives: other YouTube channel API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 channels. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.
| This planChannelCrawler, $24 pack, 100 credits, POST /v1/channels/search, Channel Discovery | KeyAPI, $59 monthly | Janney AI, $299 monthly | lobstr.io, $192 yearly, Starter, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper, full | Influencers.club, $208 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 channels | $24.00 | $17.70 | $19.933 | $24.00 | $24.96 |
| Completeness | 36% | 36% | 91% | 82% | 55% |
| Billing | pay first | monthly | monthly | yearly | monthly |
| Pay | $24 | $59 | $299 | $192 | $208 |
| Enough for | 1,000 results | about 3,333 calls a month | 15,000 results a month | about 666 results a month | about 8,333 calls a month |
| Freshness | 1 day | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone aged 16 or over | anyone | anyone who signs up for an account for their own influencer marketing, except a competitor (a business that sells creator discovery, creator data, creator CRM or campaign management software) | professionals, not consumers | 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 2026-11-07.
- channelcrawler.com/api
- channelcrawler.com/insights/insights/channelcrawler-downloads-explained-emails-summaries-and-credits
- channelcrawler.com/insights/youtube-channel-search-api-find-channels-with-filters-real-time-lookup-channelcrawler
- channelcrawler.com/pages/tos
- docs.channelcrawler.com/api-reference/channels-search
- docs.channelcrawler.com/getting-started/authentication
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, not in the answer
- Links
- Contactcosts more
- Location, not in the answer
- Verified, not in the answer
- Followers
- Following, not in the answer
- Posts, not in the answer
- Likes, not in the answer
- Views
| $ per 1,000 channels | $24.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | result |
| Billing | pay first |
| Extra fields | email: +$216.00 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Priority Channel Resolve · Channels — Videos · Channels — Timestamps |
| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Full channel search with 70+ filters. Get channel data, URLs, emails, engagement metrics, social handles and more. |
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| Freshness | 1 day |
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| Keep data | limited-term licence, no period stated |
| Use data | [...] we grant to you a limited-term, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, worldwide licence for the Permitted Use only, to: 5.1.1 access and view the Data and create Derived Data, 5.1.2 store the Data and Manipulated Data on the Customer System, and 5.1.3 distribute the Data and Manipulated Data to the Authorised User using a Customer System to access the Site or Data. 5.2 Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Service, you shall not: 5.2.1 use the Data (wholly or in part) in your products or services, or 5.2.2 redistribute the Data (wholly or in part). [...] Permitted Use: business analytical use only (which shall not include the use of the Data and Manipulated Data by, or for the benefit of, any person other than you or your employees). [...] Unauthorised Use: any use of the Data which is not a Permitted Use. This includes, but is not limited to, selling the Data to third parties or making the Data available to the public or any person who is not a Customer User. [...] The Customer agrees to use the Services in good faith for the purposes that they are provided and the Customer shall not or attempt to do any of the following. [...] 6.3.2 Resell or repurpose its access to the Site or the Services without our prior written consent. |
| Pay | $24 |
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| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 1,000 results |
| Batch | 10,000 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | nothing required. Optional: channel_ids, imports_include, external_url, external_url__contains, exclude_channel_ids, imports_exclude, ai_category, language, country, q, total_subscribers_min, engagement_last_videos, engagement_rate_min, has_email, include_email, sort, limit, cursor |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/channels/search |
| Plan | 100 credits |
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| Who can get it | anyone aged 16 or over |
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold
channel ID, channel URL, name, handle, subscribers, views count, category, social links, average views, average engagement rate, uploads per week, growth stats, has email, next cursor, credits consumed