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Manifold pricing: YouTube channel API

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64% complete: 7 of the 11 fields on our checklistSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run Manifold through our YouTube channel API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 462 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.994 or less per 1,000 channels. See the best free YouTube channel API plan.Poix's top-up from $5 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.002. Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 channels a month: about $2.72.YouTube Data API (Google), Litescrape and TrueScrape are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Manifold plan for that many channels. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Manifold's 7 plans
Call: POST /mcp Manifold's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of Manifold's 34 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 24 hours old. You get channels from Manifold's copy of YouTube.
  • 7 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Bio, Links, Contact, Verified, Followers, Posts, Views.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 250 credits a month, enough for 250 calls. Unused credits expire at the monthly reset, not rolled over.
  • One call. You send id and params.arguments.handle to POST /mcp. You set jsonrpc to "2.0", method to "tools/call" and params.name to "youtube_get_channel". The call returns the channel's details.
  • Who can get it: anyone using it for business, aged 18 or over, no card needed. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Manifold: YouTube channel API alternatives

Manifold alternatives: other YouTube channel API providers by price

The table starts with Manifold's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to Manifold's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

Manifold, $249 monthlyKeyAPI, $189 monthlylobstr.io, $960 yearly, Pro, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper, fullJanney AI, $2,388 yearlySocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, GET /v1/youtube/profile/full
$ per 1,000 channels$12.45$11.34$12.00$13.267$13.291
Completeness64%36%82%91%73%
Billingmonthlymonthlyyearlyyearlypay first
Pay$249$189$960$2,388£299
Enough for20,000 calls a monthabout 16,666 calls a monthabout 6,666 results a month15,000 results a month30,000 calls
Freshness24 hourslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone using it for business, aged 18 or overanyoneprofessionals, not consumersanyone who signs up for an account for their own influencer marketing, except a competitor (a business that sells creator discovery, creator data, creator CRM or campaign management software)anyone 18 or over

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

  1. manifoldmcp.com/docs/authentication.md
  2. manifoldmcp.com/docs/credits.md
  3. manifoldmcp.com/docs/limits.md
  4. manifoldmcp.com/docs/plans.md
  5. manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/youtube.md
  6. manifoldmcp.com/mcp/linkedin.md
  7. manifoldmcp.com/pricing.md
  8. manifoldmcp.com/terms.md

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Bio
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Links
  • Contact
  • Location, not in the answer
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following, not in the answer
  • Posts
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat free24 hours
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 111 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOne YouTube channel: subscribers, total views and when it joined.
Data
Freshness24 hours
Keep datano limit
Use data[7.3] You may use the results the Service returns for your internal business purposes, including in reports and materials you produce for your own clients, subject to Section 5. [...] [5.1] You must use the Service lawfully, and only in ways that a reasonable person would consider fair to us, to our data providers and to the people whose data the Service returns. In particular, you must not: (a) use the Service to send unsolicited messages, or to build or enrich lists of people for unsolicited marketing, in breach of the UK GDPR, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, the CAN-SPAM Act, or any other law that applies to you or to the people you contact, (b) resell, sublicense, redistribute or publicly release the data the Service returns as a dataset or database, or use the Service to build a product whose purpose is to make that data available to others, (c) use the data to discriminate unlawfully, to stalk, harass or intimidate anyone, or for any purpose that is harmful, deceptive or unlawful, (d) use the Service to determine a person's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or any similar benefit, or for any purpose regulated by consumer reporting or credit reference laws, (g) reverse engineer, decompile or copy the Service, or use it to build a competing service, (i) use the Service in breach of the terms of a platform, website or data provider, where those terms apply to you.
Plan
Pay$0
You get250 credits a month
Enough for250 calls a month
Expiresat the monthly reset, not rolled over
Rate limit
Per second2
Concurrent5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendjsonrpc "2.0", id, method "tools/call", params.name "youtube_get_channel", params.arguments.handle
MethodPOST
Path/mcp
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone using it for business, aged 18 or over, no card needed
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, bio, verified, subscribers, videos count, views count, links, website, email, topics

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