# Reduck, free: YouTube channel API

> Get a YouTube channel's stats and profile from a @handle, channel id (UC...) or channel URL.

Reduck's Starter plan for the YouTube channel API costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Reduck's docs list 2: Location, Followers.
We haven't run Reduck through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 556 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.207 or less per 1,000 channels. [135 YouTube channel API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) [YouTube Data API's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/youtube-data-api-google/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 90.9 out of 100.
[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.
[Socialinsider's $199 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/socialinsider/199-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of channels, and costs more up front than Poix's top-up from $5.
[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/reduck/free
- [YouTube channel API in 2026: the best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://reduck.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://mcp.reduck.ai/run`
- API key: with the plan, on https://reduck.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://reduck.ai/explore/scripts/reduck/youtube.com/get_channel?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: Reduck (https://reduck.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-12

## In the answer

- Completeness: 18%
- Location: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 1,382 other Reduck calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get a YouTube channel's stats and profile from a @handle, channel id (UC...) or channel URL.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You shall not: Violate any applicable law or third-party rights. Access computer systems without authorization or circumvent security measures. Collect or process sensitive personal data (health, financial, government IDs) without proper authorization. Send spam, distribute malware, or engage in fraud or phishing. Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Services. Overburden or interfere with our systems or networks. Sell, rent, or sublicense access to the Services. Scrape third-party websites in violation of their terms, or bypass rate limits, paywalls, or robots.txt directives. Create multiple Accounts to circumvent restrictions. Access other users' Accounts or data without authorization. Transmit harmful code, viruses, or malicious software through the Services. Attempt unauthorized access to Our systems, networks, or infrastructure. [...] Certain uses of the Services involve elevated risk and are prohibited, including but not limited to interactions with financial platforms (banking, investments, payments), social media accounts, e-commerce platforms, or any services where automated actions may trigger transactions, account restrictions, content publication, or irreversible operations. [...] You are solely responsible for complying with the terms of service and policies of third-party websites you access through the Services, and for ensuring you have the legal right to automate interactions with them. [...] strictly for your internal or personal use of the Services.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 4
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: script.host "youtube.com", script.slug "get_channel", script.handle "reduck", script.args.channel. Optional: browser
- Method: POST
- Path: /run

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or older with a Reduck account, no YouTube sign-in needed

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, handle, name, description, subscribers, subscribers text, video count, view count, joined, country, language, channel URL, avatar, RSS URL, is family safe, keywords, links

## Reduck's plans (4)

- [Reduck, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/reduck/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, live
- [Reduck, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/reduck/20-monthly/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, live
- [Reduck, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/reduck/100-monthly/llms.txt): 18% complete, live
- [Reduck, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/reduck/contact-us/llms.txt): 18% complete, live

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

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

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## Reduck: YouTube channel API alternatives

[Reduck alternatives: other YouTube channel API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/reduck-alternatives.txt)

We list Reduck's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Reduck in price per 1,000 channels. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [Reduck, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/reduck/20-monthly/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, live
- [KeyAPI, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/keyapi/59-monthly/llms.txt): $17.70 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [Janney AI, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/janney-ai/299-monthly/llms.txt): $19.933 per 1,000, 91% complete, live
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## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-12.

- https://docs.reduck.ai/core-concepts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://mcp.reduck.ai/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://reduck.ai/explore/scripts/reduck/linkedin.com/get_profile.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://reduck.ai/explore/scripts/reduck/youtube.com/get_channel.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://reduck.ai/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://reduck.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://reduck.ai/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing