# Peekalink, free: YouTube channel API

> A YOUTUBE_USER link type represents a YouTube channel or user page. Beyond the baseline preview fields (title, description, image), YOUTUBE_USER links provide additional metadata about the channel, such as the username, subscriber count, total views, and upload frequency.

Peekalink's Free plan for the YouTube channel API costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Peekalink's docs list 5: Photo, Verified, Followers, Posts, Views.
We haven't run Peekalink through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) 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.](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. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 channels a month: about $2.72.
[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 [TrueScrape](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/truescrape/500-pack/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/peekalink/free
- [YouTube channel API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.peekalink.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.peekalink.io/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.peekalink.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.peekalink.io/api-reference/link-preview/get-a-link-preview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: Peekalink (https://peekalink.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 45%
- Photo: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A YOUTUBE_USER link type represents a YouTube channel or user page. Beyond the baseline preview fields (title, description, image), YOUTUBE_USER links provide additional metadata about the channel, such as the username, subscriber count, total views, and upload frequency.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Permissible Use: You agree not to use the Service for unlawful purposes or in ways that violate others' rights. You will not submit or request previews of links that contain malicious content, violate intellectual property rights, or violate any local, state, national, or international law.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 36,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 36,000 calls a month
- Expires: hourly: "new requests will be temporarily blocked until the next hour begins"

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.014
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: link. Optional: accept-language, source, forceNewSnapshot, forceNewSnapshotRecursive
- Method: POST
- Path: /

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old ("You must be at least 18 years old to use Peekalink")

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

handle, name, description, subscribers, videos count, views count, joined, family safe, verified, channel ID, channel URL, profile picture, banner image

## Peekalink's plans (7)

- [Peekalink, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/peekalink/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Peekalink, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/peekalink/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.136 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Peekalink, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/peekalink/149-monthly/llms.txt): $0.103 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Peekalink, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/peekalink/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.069 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Peekalink, $504 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/peekalink/504-yearly/llms.txt): $0.117 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Peekalink, $1,248 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/peekalink/1248-yearly/llms.txt): $0.072 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Peekalink, $4,188 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/peekalink/4188-yearly/llms.txt): $0.049 per 1,000, 45% complete

## Peekalink's calls (1)

- `POST /`: [Peekalink, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/peekalink/free/llms.txt)

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- [Peekalink: YouTube channel API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/peekalink/free/llms.txt)

## Peekalink: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [ScrapeIO, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete
- [Serpent API, top-up from $100](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-100/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Monocrawl, $19 pack, 5,000 credits, GET /v1/youtube/channels](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/monocrawl/19-pack-5000-credits-get-v1-youtube-channels/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Zapi, Rp129,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/zapi/rp129000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.036 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [TubeLab, $348 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tubelab/348-yearly/llms.txt): $0.067 per 1,000, 45% complete

## 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.

- https://api.peekalink.io/mintlify?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/api-reference/link-preview/get-a-link-preview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/in-depth/error-handling?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/supported-link-types/youtube-user?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://peekalink.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.peekalink.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing