# CreatorDB, top-up from $40: YouTube channel API

> Retrieve the profile information of a specified YouTube creator, including metadata such as subscriber count, account type, language, hashtags, and more.

CreatorDB's YouTube channel API on its Free plan. It costs $80.00 per 1,000 channels. It returns 8 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Posts, Views.
We haven't run CreatorDB through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 340 plans we rank by price cost $1.92 per 1,000 channels or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 channels than 8% of the 340 plans.
[Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.01.
[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 [lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly-team-post-v1-runs-youtube-channel-scraper/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/creatordb/top-up-from-40
- [YouTube channel API: 13 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://creatordb.app/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://apiv3.creatordb.app/youtube/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://creatordb.app/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.creatordb.app/api-reference/youtube/get-profile-information?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: CreatorDB (https://creatordb.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 channels: $80.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 46 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve the profile information of a specified YouTube creator, including metadata such as subscriber count, account type, language, hashtags, and more.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $40
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 500 calls
- Expires: 1 year

## Rate limit

- Per second: 100
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: one of channelId or uniqueId, fields
- Method: POST
- Path: /youtube/profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 32 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, handle, name, category breakdown, profile picture, bio, verified, has sponsors, has member-only content, country, language, second language, languages, videos count, subscribers, views count, follower growth, hashtags, topics, niches, external links, last publish time, related channels, last refreshed at, has business email, is podcast, is agency represented, joined, success, credits used, credits remaining, request ID

## CreatorDB's plans (5)

- [CreatorDB, top-up from $40](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/creatordb/top-up-from-40/llms.txt): $80.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, stored
- [CreatorDB, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/creatordb/79-monthly/llms.txt): $50.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, stored
- [CreatorDB, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/creatordb/249-monthly/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, stored
- [CreatorDB, $749 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/creatordb/749-monthly/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, stored
- [CreatorDB, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/creatordb/contact-us/llms.txt): 73% complete, stored

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

- `POST /youtube/profile`: [CreatorDB, top-up from $40](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/creatordb/top-up-from-40/llms.txt)

## CreatorDB's APIs (6)

- [CreatorDB: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/creatordb/top-up-from-40/llms.txt)
- [CreatorDB: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/creatordb/top-up-from-40/llms.txt)
- [CreatorDB: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/creatordb/top-up-from-40/llms.txt)
- [CreatorDB: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/creatordb/top-up-from-40/llms.txt)
- [CreatorDB: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/creatordb/top-up-from-40/llms.txt)
- [CreatorDB: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/creatordb/top-up-from-40/llms.txt)

## CreatorDB: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [StableSocial, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $60.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [InsightSocial, $2 pack, 250 credits, GET /v1/youtube/channel](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/insightsocial/2-pack-250-credits-get-v1-youtube-channel/llms.txt): $80.00 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Fanpage Karma, $3,750 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/fanpage-karma/3750-monthly/llms.txt): $375.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored
- [OutlierKit, $1,999 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/outlierkit/1999-yearly/llms.txt): $416.458 per 1,000, 73% complete, stored

## 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.

- https://creatordb.app/influencer-data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://creatordb.app/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.creatordb.app/api-reference/youtube/get-profile-information?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.creatordb.app/api-v3/api-credit-usage?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.creatordb.app/api-v3/api-v3.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.creatordb.app/api-v3/data-methodology.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.creatordb.app/api-v3/error-code.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.creatordb.app/api-v3/field-and-item-costs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.creatordb.app/api-v3/introduction.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing