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CreatorCrawl pricing and alternatives: YouTube channel API

CreatorCrawl's sitellms.txtBest YouTube channel API in 2026: pricing comparedCreatorCrawl: YouTube channel API alternatives

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91% complete: 10 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe rank 242 plans by price. 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 our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of CreatorCrawl's 4 plans
Call: GET /youtube/channel CreatorCrawl's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of CreatorCrawl's 18 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the channel from YouTube when you call the API.
  • 10 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes, Views.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits once, enough for 50 calls. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You call GET /youtube/channel. You send one of channelId, handle or url. The call returns the channel's details.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 16 years old. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

CreatorCrawl: YouTube channel API alternatives

The table starts with CreatorCrawl's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to CreatorCrawl's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

CreatorCrawl, $299 packHasData, $59 monthlyCaptapi, $72 yearlyProLevelMax, top-up, Pay per use, POST /v1/run, YouTube channel descriptionReefAPI, $15 monthly, Pro monthly, POST /youtube/v1/channel_about
$ per 1,000 channels$2.99$2.95$3.00$3.00$3.00
Completeness91%55%82%55%55%
Billingpay firstmonthlyyearlypay firstmonthly
Pay$299$59$72any amount$15
Enough for100,000 calls20,000 calls a month2,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for5,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 16 years oldanyoneanyone at least 18 years oldanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)anyone

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 2026-11-01.

  1. api.creatorcrawl.com/docs
  2. api.creatorcrawl.com/openapi.json
  3. creatorcrawl.com
  4. creatorcrawl.com/alternatives/rapidapi
  5. creatorcrawl.com/legal/terms-of-service
  6. creatorcrawl.com/llms.txt
  7. creatorcrawl.com/platforms/linkedin
  8. creatorcrawl.com/platforms/youtube
  9. creatorcrawl.com/scrapers/linkedin-api-pricing
  10. creatorcrawl.com/scrapers/linkedin-scraper

Product details

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

  • Bio
  • Photo
  • Links
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts
  • Likes
  • Views
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 90 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFetch a YouTube channel, subscriber count, total views, country, join date, and description.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use CreatorCrawl to: Build applications that display or analyze publicly available TikTok data, Conduct market research and competitive analysis, Power AI agents and automation workflows, Academic and journalistic research [...] You may not use CreatorCrawl to: Violate any applicable law or regulation, Scrape data for the purpose of harassing, stalking, or targeting individuals, Resell raw API access as your own service, Attempt to circumvent rate limits, credit systems, or access controls, Overload the service with requests intended to degrade performance, Access non-public or private TikTok data [...] You are responsible for how you use the data retrieved through our API, If you store TikTok data, you must comply with applicable data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits
Enough for50 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of channelId, handle or url
MethodGET
Path/youtube/channel
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 16 years old
The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, handle, name, bio, channel URL, profile picture, verified, verified type, subscribers, following, videos count, likes count, views count, website, private account, business account, category, language, region, location, joined, platform, next cursor, has more, total results, fetched at

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