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CreatorRiver pricing: YouTube channel API, POST /creators/{creatorId}/unlock

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18% complete: 2 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields

$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run CreatorRiver through our YouTube channel API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 389 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.667 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.
Type a number to see the cheapest CreatorRiver plan for that many channels. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of CreatorRiver's 9 plans
Call: POST /creators/{creatorId}/unlock one of CreatorRiver's 3 calls
API: YouTube channel API one of CreatorRiver's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 11 key fields we check. Location, Followers.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 200 calls. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send creatorId to POST /creators/{creatorId}/unlock. The call returns the channel's details.
  • Who can get it: anyone with an account, once per person or organization. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

CreatorRiver: YouTube channel API alternatives

CreatorRiver alternatives: other YouTube channel API providers by price

The table starts with CreatorRiver's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to CreatorRiver's.

CreatorRiver, $990 yearly, Scale yearly, POST /creators/{creatorId}/unlockHasData, $59 monthlyMonocrawl, $59 pack, 20,000 credits, GET /v1/youtube/profileCreatorCrawl, $299 packCaptapi, $72 yearly
$ per 1,000 channels$2.946$2.95$2.95$2.99$3.00
Completeness18%55%82%91%82%
Billingyearlymonthlypay firstpay firstyearly
Pay$990$59$59$299$72
Enough for336,000 calls a year20,000 calls a month20,000 calls100,000 calls2,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveunknownlivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneactive paid subscribersanyone at least 16 years oldanyone at least 18 years old

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

  1. creatorriver.com/api/v1/openapi.json
  2. creatorriver.com/llms.txt
  3. creatorriver.com/pricing
  4. creatorriver.com/terms-of-service

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, not in the answer
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Verified, not in the answer
  • Followers
  • Following, not in the answer
  • Posts, not in the answer
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freeno limit
Start fee$0.00
Also pays forFind creators by description and filters · Find creators like one you already have · from the same budget: Reveal a creator’s email for a campaign · Email a creator
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchUnlocks the creator and returns the full profile with handle, profile link and recent video titles and links.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities while using Creator River: Unauthorized access to or distribution of our proprietary code and templates. Reselling or redistributing Creator River templates without authorization. Interfering with or disrupting the security or performance of the service. Using the service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. Attempting to bypass any security features of the service. Collecting creator data in bulk by automated means, or reselling or redistributing creator profiles, contacts or search results.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for200 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendcreatorId
MethodPOST
Path/creators/{creatorId}/unlock
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with an account, once per person or organization
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, name, country, language, followers, average views, engagement rate, topics, audience countries, recent posts, post price estimate, has business email, handle, channel URL

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