# GetYouTubeTranscript, free: YouTube channel API

> Channel details (title, handle, subscribers, video count, description, avatar) plus its 15 newest uploads.

GetYouTubeTranscript's Free plan for the YouTube channel API costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. GetYouTubeTranscript's docs list 2 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Followers, Posts.
We haven't run GetYouTubeTranscript through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 440 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.99 per 1,000 channels or less. [See the best free YouTube channel API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
[Poix's top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/poix/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-batch-channels/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.002.
[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/getyoutubetranscript/free
- [YouTube channel API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://getyoutubetranscript.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://getyoutubetranscript.com/api/v1/channel/latest`
- API key: with the plan, on https://getyoutubetranscript.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://getyoutubetranscript.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: GetYouTubeTranscript (https://getyoutubetranscript.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 18%
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Get a YouTube video transcript · List a video's caption languages · Search YouTube videos or channels · Resolve a channel handle/URL to a channel ID · List every video in a playlist · Search within one channel's videos · List every video a channel has uploaded · List a channel's playlists · List a channel's community posts · Get a channel's banner and avatar · Get the videos YouTube suggests next to a video · Get a video's estimated likes and dislikes · Queue transcripts for up to 100 videos

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Channel details (title, handle, subscribers, video count, description, avatar) plus its 15 newest uploads.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 hour
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to, and not to permit others to: Use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of YouTube's own terms of service, Circumvent, or attempt to circumvent, rate limits, credit metering, or access controls, Resell, sublicense, or provide the Service (or access to your API key) to third parties as a standalone competing product, Use the Service to build a dataset for training a model that directly competes with the Service, without our written permission, Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service or its underlying infrastructure, Misrepresent transcripts or data obtained from the Service as your own original content in a way that infringes the rights of the original video's creator. [...] API keys are personal to your account and must not be shared, sold, or exposed in client-side or publicly accessible code. [...] Transcripts, titles, thumbnails, and other metadata returned by the Service originate from YouTube and belong to their respective creators and rightsholders.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channel
- Method: GET
- Path: /channel/latest

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, name, handle, description, links, subscribers, videos count, avatar, latest videos

## GetYouTubeTranscript's plans (6)

- [GetYouTubeTranscript, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 hour
- [GetYouTubeTranscript, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/getyoutubetranscript/5-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 hour
- [GetYouTubeTranscript, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/getyoutubetranscript/19-monthly/llms.txt): $2.533 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 hour
- [GetYouTubeTranscript, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/getyoutubetranscript/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.96 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 hour
- [GetYouTubeTranscript, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/getyoutubetranscript/99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.65 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 hour
- [GetYouTubeTranscript, $54 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/getyoutubetranscript/54-yearly/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 hour

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

- `GET /channel/latest`: [GetYouTubeTranscript, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free/llms.txt)

## GetYouTubeTranscript's APIs (3)

- [GetYouTubeTranscript: YouTube channel API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free/llms.txt)
- [GetYouTubeTranscript: YouTube channel video API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free/llms.txt)
- [GetYouTubeTranscript: video search API pricing, 6 plans, GET /channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free-get-channel-search/llms.txt)
- [GetYouTubeTranscript: video search API pricing, 6 plans, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free-get-search/llms.txt)

## GetYouTubeTranscript: 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
- [Scrapall, $45 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapall/45-pack/llms.txt): $1.667 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
- [DataXAPI, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/dataxapi/500-pack/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 55% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://getyoutubetranscript.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://getyoutubetranscript.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://getyoutubetranscript.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://getyoutubetranscript.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://getyoutubetranscript.com/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing