# DataBlue, free: YouTube channel API

> Full YouTube channel profile by @handle or ID - name, subscriber count, total views, description, and channel-level stats.

DataBlue's YouTube channel API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. It returns 8 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Posts, Views.
We rank 127 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.15.
[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 [HasData](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/hasdata/249-monthly/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/free
- [Best YouTube channel API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.datablue.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.datablue.dev/v1/data/youtube/channel`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.datablue.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.datablue.dev/youtube-channel
- Sold by: DataBlue (https://www.datablue.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 43 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Full YouTube channel profile by @handle or ID - name, subscriber count, total views, description, and channel-level stats.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the Services to: Violate any law, regulation, or third-party right, including intellectual property, privacy, and data-protection laws, Collect, store, or process personal data in a manner that violates applicable law or the rights of data subjects, Send spam, malware, or unsolicited communications, or facilitate fraud, phishing, or deceptive practices, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, other accounts, or our systems, or probe, scan, or test their vulnerability without authorization, Resell, sublicense, or expose the raw Services as a competing API without our written permission, Exceed rate limits, circumvent usage metering, or place an unreasonable load on the infrastructure, or Use the Services to build profiles for unlawful surveillance, discrimination, or harassment. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your specific use of the data you obtain through the Services complies with the laws, regulations, and terms that apply to you and to the sources you target.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 125 calls

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.73 s

## The call

- You send: identifier, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: country, language
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/data/youtube/channel

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Service

## The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, time taken, channel ID, name, handle, bio, subscribers, subscribers text, subscribers count status, videos count, videos count text, videos count status, views count, views count text, views count status, joined, joined text, verified, profile picture, banner image, channel URL, country, keywords, RSS URL, family safe, external links, about complete, about stop reason

## DataBlue's plans (12)

- [DataBlue, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/29-monthly/llms.txt): $5.80 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/59-monthly/llms.txt): $2.622 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/149-monthly/llms.txt): $2.315 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/299-monthly/llms.txt): $2.08 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $699 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/699-monthly/llms.txt): $1.928 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $319 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/319-yearly/llms.txt): $5.317 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $649 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/649-yearly/llms.txt): $2.404 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $1,639 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/1639-yearly/llms.txt): $2.122 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $3,289 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/3289-yearly/llms.txt): $1.907 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $7,689 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/7689-yearly/llms.txt): $1.768 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [DataBlue, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/contact-us/llms.txt): 73% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/data/youtube/channel`: [DataBlue, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)

## DataBlue's APIs (5)

- [DataBlue: web scraping API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: web search API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: YouTube channel API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: YouTube channel video API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: SERP API pricing, 12 plans, GET /v1/data/google/serp, Google SERP Advanced](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/datablue/free-get-v1-data-google-serp-google-serp-advanced/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: SERP API pricing, 12 plans, GET /v1/data/google/serp, Google SERP Lite](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/datablue/free-get-v1-data-google-serp-google-serp-lite/llms.txt)

## DataBlue: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [Social Fetch, $379 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-fetch/379-pack/llms.txt): $1.648 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/fetchlayer/25-monthly/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [EnsembleData, $1,400 monthly, Platinum, GET /youtube/channel/detailed-info, Channel Detailed Info](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ensembledata/1400-monthly-platinum-get-youtube-channel-detailed-info-channel-detailed-info/llms.txt): $1.867 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [ScrapeCreators, $47 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt): $1.88 per 1,000, 73% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

- https://docs.datablue.dev/plans-credits
- https://docs.datablue.dev/rate-limits
- https://docs.datablue.dev/youtube-channel
- https://www.datablue.dev
- https://www.datablue.dev/apis
- https://www.datablue.dev/legal/terms-of-service
- https://www.datablue.dev/pricing