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FetchLayer pricing and alternatives: YouTube channel API

FetchLayer's sitellms.txtBest YouTube channel API in 2026

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73% complete: 8 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe rank 127 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 HasData are the best YouTube channel API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of FetchLayer's 10 plans
Call: POST /youtube/channel FetchLayer's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of FetchLayer's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the channel from YouTube when you call.
  • 8 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Posts, Views.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 30 credits, enough for 30 calls.
  • One call. You send channel to POST /youtube/channel. The call returns the channel's details.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

FetchLayer: YouTube channel API alternatives

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

FetchLayer, $1,400 monthlySocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, POST /v1/youtube/channelslobstr.io, $4,800 yearly, Team, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel ScraperHasData, $2,490 yearlyTikHub, top-up from $15,000
$ per 1,000 channels$0.013$0.266$0.40$0.692$0.833
Completeness73%73%82%55%73%
Billingmonthlypay firstyearlyyearlypay first
Pay$1,400£299$4,800$2,490$15,000
Enough for108,864,000 calls a month1,500,000 results1,000,000 results a month300,000 calls a month18,000,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyone 18 or overprofessionals, not consumersanyoneanyone 18 or over (or of legal age where they live), for lawful internal business purposes, not in a US-embargoed country or on a US restricted-party list, onboarded by TikHub on request with the company's name, address and contact

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 2026-10-29.

  1. fetchlayer.dev/
  2. fetchlayer.dev/acceptable-use
  3. fetchlayer.dev/documentation/youtube/endpoints/channel
  4. fetchlayer.dev/llms.txt
  5. fetchlayer.dev/pricing
  6. fetchlayer.dev/terms

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, 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: 223 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA channel’s profile and about info by ID, @handle or URL: description, subscriber count (rounded by YouTube), exact total views and video count, country, join date, verification, images and links.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataIts Acceptable Use Policy: "You Must Not Use FetchLayer To" violate any law, regulation, court order, or third-party right, collect or process personal data in a way that is unlawful, unfair, deceptive, or disproportionate, stalk, harass, threaten, dox, profile, or otherwise target individuals for harmful purposes, build or support unlawful surveillance, unlawful monitoring, or harmful intelligence gathering about private individuals, make or support decisions about housing, employment, credit, insurance, education, healthcare, public benefits, or similar regulated outcomes without an appropriate legal basis and all required safeguards, scrape or analyze data about minors, health, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, political opinions, or other sensitive categories without a lawful basis and appropriate protections, bypass authentication, paywalls, robots controls, rate limits, or technical access controls that are not intended for public access, republish, syndicate, mirror, or redistribute verbatim copyrighted third-party content (such as full Reddit posts or comments) to end consumers without appropriate rights, use scraped content to create a competing product that substitutes for the original source platform, use the service to distribute malware, spam, credential theft, or phishing content, attempt to reverse engineer, break, overload, or interfere with the service or its infrastructure, train machine learning or AI models on content obtained through FetchLayer without independently verifying that you have appropriate rights or a valid legal basis to do so, resell, sublicense, or operate a competing extraction service on top of FetchLayer unless we have expressly allowed it in writing. Its terms: "It is not permitted to republish, syndicate, or redistribute the original creative expression of third-party content without appropriate rights. You must not use FetchLayer to create a competing publication or mirror of the source platform's content."
Plan
Pay$0
You get30 credits
Enough for30 calls
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendchannel
MethodPOST
Path/youtube/channel
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, handle, channel URL, name, bio, country, joined, subscribers, subscribers text, views count, videos count, verified, family safe, keywords, profile picture, banner image, external links

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