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Monocrawl pricing and alternatives: YouTube channel API, GET /v1/youtube/channels

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55% complete: 6 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe rank 266 plans by price. Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.01.YouTube Data API (Google), Litescrape and lobstr.io are the best YouTube channel API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Monocrawl's 13 plans
Call: GET /v1/youtube/channels one of Monocrawl's 4 calls for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of Monocrawl's 49 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 6 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Location, Followers, Posts, Views.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 150 credits once, enough for 18,750 results. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send ids to GET /v1/youtube/channels. You can also send hl. The call returns the details of each channel you send.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a verified, non-disposable email. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: with conditions.

Monocrawl: YouTube channel API alternatives

The table starts with Monocrawl's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to Monocrawl's.

Monocrawl, $7,668 yearly, Business (annual), GET /v1/youtube/channelsAnyAPI, free trial keySerpent API, top-up from $1,000FetchLayer, $1,400 monthlyScrapingdog, $300,000 yearlyLitescrape, top-up from $10
$ per 1,000 channels$0.013$0.00$0.01$0.013$0.114$0.15
Completeness55%55%55%73%55%73%
Billingyearlyfreepay firstmonthlyyearlypay first
Pay$7,668$0$1,000$1,400$300,000$10
Enough for50,000,000 results a monthabout 111 calls, once100,000,000 calls108,864,000 calls a month220,000,000 calls a month66,667 calls
Freshnessunknownunknownliveliveunknownunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyoneanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyoneanyone

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 2026-11-02.

  1. monocrawl.com
  2. monocrawl.com/docs/credits
  3. monocrawl.com/docs/endpoint-pricing
  4. monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/linkedin/profile
  5. monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/youtube/channels
  6. monocrawl.com/docs/rate-limits
  7. monocrawl.com/legal/public-data
  8. monocrawl.com/openapi.json
  9. monocrawl.com/pricing

Product details

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

  • Bio
  • Photo
  • Links, not in the answer
  • 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
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 650 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchBatch channel lookup — one normalized record per id, unknown/terminated ids are reported in `missing`.
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use dataCustomer responsibilities, its Public data page: "Establish and document a lawful purpose and data-protection basis for your own collection, enrichment, storage, combination, disclosure and decision-making. [...] Use proportionate retention and security, avoid collecting unnecessary personal information, and do not republish a raw response merely because it was technically retrievable. Respect platform terms and third-party intellectual-property or contractual restrictions that apply to you. Do not attempt to turn public endpoints into access to private, deleted, paywalled or access-controlled material."
Plan
Pay$0
You get150 credits
Enough for18,750 results, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per day300
Per second10
Concurrent50
Batch250
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendids. Optional: hl
MethodGET
Path/v1/youtube/channels
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a verified, non-disposable email
The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, handle, name, channel URL, bio, country, subscribers, hidden subscriber count, views count, videos count, uploads playlist ID, profile picture, banner image, joined, keywords, profile picture sizes, success, credits used, credits remaining, request ID, from cache, fetched at, platform

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