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Decodo pricing and alternatives: YouTube channel API

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64% complete: 7 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe rank 185 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.15.YouTube Data API (Google), Litescrape and lobstr.io are the best YouTube channel API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Decodo's 9 plans
Call: POST /v1/scrape Decodo's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of Decodo's 10 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the channel from YouTube when you call the API.
  • 7 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Followers, Posts, Views.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 5,000 requests.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/scrape. You set target to "youtube_channel". You can also send headless, parse and limit. The call returns the channel's details.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Decodo: YouTube channel API alternatives

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

Decodo, $1,499 monthlyOmkar Cloud, $48 monthlylobstr.io, $500 monthly, Team, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel ScraperFetchLayer, $500 monthlyReefAPI, $450 quarterly, Enterprise quarterly, POST /youtube/v1/channel
$ per 1,000 channels$0.50$0.48$0.50$0.50$0.50
Completeness64%73%82%73%45%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthlyquarterly
Pay$1,499$48$500$500$450
Enough for2,998,000 calls a month100,000 calls a month1,000,000 results a month1,000,000 calls a month300,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted partiesprofessionals, not consumersanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)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 2026-10-31.

  1. decodo.com/legal/license-agreement
  2. decodo.com/web-data-api/pricing
  3. help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-billing
  4. help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-introduction
  5. help.decodo.com/docs/web-scraping-api-targets
  6. help.decodo.com/docs/web-scraping-api-youtube-channel

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, not in the answer
  • Followers
  • Following, not in the answer
  • Posts
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 100 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe youtube_channel template is built to obtain key metrics (subscribers, views, video counts), metadata, and a list of videos.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataa non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable limited license to access and use the System for personal, research and your own legitimate commercial purposes [...] certain content may not be recorded, reproduced, used, distributed or displayed without the written permission of the right holders and affected parties [...] you agree not to use the System to infringe any applicable laws or third party rights, including privacy and intellectual property rights and not to engage in any Prohibited Activities
Plan
Pay$0
You get5,000 requests
Enough for5,000 calls
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendtarget "youtube_channel", query. Optional: headless, parse, limit
MethodPOST
Path/v1/scrape
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, channel ID, name, profile picture, bio, subscribers, videos count, views count, joined, country, external links, latest videos

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