# Influship, free: YouTube channel API

> Fetch fresh YouTube channel data including subscriber count, video count, and total views.

Influship's YouTube channel API on its Starter credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. Influship's docs list 6 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Location, Followers, Posts, Views.
We haven't run Influship through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.01.
[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/influship/free
- [YouTube channel API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.influship.com/concepts/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.influship.com/v1/raw/youtube/channel/{handle}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.influship.com/concepts/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.influship.com/api-reference/live-scraping/get-live-youtube-channel?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: Influship (https://influship.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 55%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: AI-Powered Creator Search · Autocomplete Search · Ingest a Creator On Demand · Get Creator by ID · Find Similar Creators · Score Campaign Fit · Lookup Creator Emails · Get Profile by Platform and Username · Batch Lookup Profiles · Get Posts · Get Live Instagram Profile · Get Live Instagram Post · Get Live Instagram Posts · Get Instagram Post Transcript · Get Instagram Post Transcripts · Get YouTube Video Details · Get YouTube Video Transcript · Get YouTube Channel Transcripts · Search YouTube · Get YouTube Search Suggestions · Get TikTok Videos in a Batch · Get TikTok Transcripts in a Batch · Get Live TikTok Profile · List Live TikTok Profile Videos · Get Live TikTok Video · List Live TikTok Video Comments · List Live TikTok Comment Replies · Get TikTok Video Captions · Get TikTok Sound Details · Search TikTok Users · Search TikTok Videos · Get TikTok Hashtag Videos · Get TikTok Music Videos · Get TikTok Video Transcript

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch fresh YouTube channel data including subscriber count, video count, and total views.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to: Use the Service to harass, stalk, threaten, or send unsolicited bulk messages to creators or anyone else. Scrape, crawl, or programmatically extract data from the Platform beyond what the Platform’s interface and any documented API expressly allow. Resell, sublicense, or redistribute Creator Data obtained through the Service as a standalone dataset or data product. Circumvent rate limits, access controls, or authentication mechanisms. Use the Service for any purpose that violates applicable law, including anti-spam, data protection, and intellectual property laws. Reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code of any part of the Service, except where applicable law prohibits this restriction. Create multiple accounts to abuse trials, circumvent usage limits, or evade a suspension.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits
- Enough for: about 2,777 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle. Optional: include_videos, video_limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/raw/youtube/channel/{handle}

## About the plan

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

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, handle, name, bio, profile picture, banner image, country, keywords, subscribers, subscribers text, videos count, views count, fetched at

## Influship's plans (5)

- [Influship, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/influship/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Influship, pay as you go, MPP](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-mpp/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Influship, pay as you go, Usage-based credits](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-usage-based-credits/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Influship, pay as you go, x402](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-x402/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Influship, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/influship/contact-us/llms.txt): 55% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/raw/youtube/channel/{handle}`: [Influship, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)

## Influship's APIs (6)

- [Influship: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)
- [Influship: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)
- [Influship: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)
- [Influship: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/raw/instagram/profile/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-raw-instagram-profile-username/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/profiles/{platform}/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-profiles-platform-username/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/raw/instagram/profile/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-raw-instagram-profile-username/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-posts/llms.txt)

## Influship: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [DataBlue, $7,689 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/7689-yearly/llms.txt): $1.768 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [KonbiniAPI, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/konbiniapi/99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 45% complete, live
- [DataXAPI, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/dataxapi/100-pack/llms.txt): $1.818 per 1,000, 55% 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

## 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.

- https://docs.influship.com/api-reference/live-scraping/get-live-youtube-channel?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.influship.com/concepts/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.influship.com/concepts/quotas-and-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.influship.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.influship.com/openapi/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://influship.com/developers/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.influship.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing