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ShortsIntel pricing: YouTube channel API

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91% complete: 10 of the 11 fields on our checklistSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run ShortsIntel through our YouTube channel API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 440 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.99 per 1,000 channels or less. 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.YouTube Data API (Google), Litescrape and lobstr.io are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest ShortsIntel plan for that many channels. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Starter Grant one of ShortsIntel's 5 plans
Call: GET /creators/{platform}/{handle} ShortsIntel's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of ShortsIntel's 11 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 24 hours old. You get channels from ShortsIntel's copy of YouTube.
  • 10 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Bio, Photo, Contact, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes, Views.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits once, enough for about 166 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 90 days.
  • One call. You send handle to GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}. You set platform to "youtube". You can also send include, videos_from, cursor, wait, max_credits and estimate. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone who signs up. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ShortsIntel: YouTube channel API alternatives

ShortsIntel alternatives: other YouTube channel API providers by price

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

ShortsIntel, $10 packCaptapi, $275 packDataBlue, $29 monthlyCreatorCrawl, $29 packlobstr.io, $4,800 yearly, Team, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper, full
$ per 1,000 channels$6.00$5.50$5.80$5.80$6.00
Completeness91%82%73%91%82%
Billingpay firstpay firstmonthlypay firstyearly
Pay$10$275$29$29$4,800
Enough forabout 1,666 calls50,000 calls5,000 calls a month5,000 callsabout 66,666 results a month
Freshness24 hourslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who signs upanyone at least 18 years oldanyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Serviceanyone at least 16 years oldprofessionals, not consumers

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. shortsintel.com
  2. shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/authentication-and-limits
  3. shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/pricing-and-estimates
  4. shortsintel.com/openapi.v1.json
  5. shortsintel.com/pricing
  6. shortsintel.com/terms
  7. shortsintel.com/youtube-shorts-api

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
  • Location
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts
  • Likes
  • Views
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Research a niche · Refresh a research's videos · Run a Creator Breakdown · Search videos by keyword · Look up a video by URL · Look up a video by id · Analyse a video · Score a video against its creator · Read a video's comments · Read a comment's replies · Page a creator's stored videos · Look up a hashtag's trend · Page a hashtag's videos · Look up a sound's trend · Page a sound's videos · Sample a keyword search · Search ad libraries · Look up a Meta Ad by id · Get a TikTok Ad · Look up an advertiser profile · Start tracking a target · Run a tracker cycle now · Set or clear a tracker's focus · Preview a focus on a tracker
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA channel by handle or channel id: subscribers, total views, country, a baseline and its Shorts.
Data
Freshness24 hours
Keep datano limit
Use dataDerived works are permitted. You may analyse, transform, combine and build on the API output, and you may distribute and commercialise the results [...] Reselling the raw data is not permitted. You may not: resell, sublicense, redistribute or otherwise make available the raw records or bulk API output as a data product, feed, export or dataset, whether for a fee or free of charge, republish raw records in bulk, or mirror, replicate or reconstruct the ShortsIntel corpus or any substantial part of it, including by systematic enumeration of the API, use the API or its output to build, train or operate a substitute for the Service, or a competing short-form video data service, use the output to identify, target, profile, score or make decisions about individual people, including creators and commenters, or to enable anyone else to do so, remove, obscure or misrepresent the provenance of data obtained through the Service where you are permitted to display it. Upstream restrictions pass through. [...] Where those providers or platforms impose restrictions on the use, retention or redistribution of that data, those restrictions apply to you as well
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough forabout 166 calls, once
Expires90 days
Rate limit
Per second1
Concurrent10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendplatform "youtube", handle. Optional: include, videos_from, cursor, wait, max_credits, estimate
MethodGET
Path/creators/{platform}/{handle}
About the plan
PlanStarter Grant
Who can get itanyone who signs up
The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, channel ID, handle, name, profile picture, subscribers, bio, verified, videos count, likes count, following, links, joined, country, business account, views count, contact email, email source, median views, average engagement rate, uploads per week, p90 views, baseline confidence, baseline sample size

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