Social Blade pricing: YouTube channel API
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$500.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run Social Blade through our YouTube channel API benchmark yet.Half of the 340 plans we rank by price cost $1.92 per 1,000 channels or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 channels than 4% of the 340 plans.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 the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Getting Started: 100 Credits one of Social Blade's 8 plans
- $50 packGetting Started: 100 Credits$500.00 per 1,000
- $250 packGetting Started: 500 Credits$500.00 per 1,000
- $500 packGetting Started: 1,000 Credits$500.00 per 1,000
- $1,250 packGetting Started: 5,000 Credits$250.00 per 1,000
- $1,875 packGetting Started: 7,500 Credits$250.00 per 1,000
- $149.99 yearlySilver membership$2,499.833 per 1,000
- $599.99 yearlyGold membership$2,499.958 per 1,000
- $1,439.99 yearlyPlatinum membership$2,399.983 per 1,000
Call:
GET / Social Blade's only call for this APIAPI: YouTube channel API one of Social Blade's 5 APIs
About this item
- A copy at most 24 hours old. You get channels from Social Blade's copy of YouTube.
- 6 of the 11 key fields we check. Photo, Links, Location, Followers, Posts, Views.
- A pack you buy once. You pay $50 for 100 credits, enough for 100 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
- One call. You send
querytoGET /. You can also sendyoutube/ statistics historyandallow-stale. The call returns the channel's details. - Who can get it: anyone with a Social Blade account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Social Blade: YouTube channel API alternatives
Social Blade alternatives: every YouTube channel API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 channels. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.
| This planSocial Blade, $50 pack | lobstr.io, $20 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper, full | SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/youtube/profile/full | StableSocial, pay as you go | DataSpider, $5 pack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 channels | $500.00 | $30.00 | $40.005 | $60.00 | $500.00 |
| Completeness | 55% | 82% | 73% | 73% | 45% |
| Billing | pay first | monthly | pay first | pay as you go | pay first |
| Pay | $50 | $20 | £15 | per call | $5 |
| Enough for | 100 calls | about 666 results a month | 500 calls | as many as you pay for | 10 calls |
| Freshness | 24 hours | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone with a Social Blade account | professionals, not consumers | anyone 18 or over | anyone 18 or over who can form a binding contract with Merit, not in a jurisdiction where use is prohibited, paying by x402 or MPP from a wallet | anyone with an email address they are allowed to use |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Bio, not in the answer
- Photo
- Links
- Contact, not in the answer
- Location
- Verified, not in the answer
- Followers
- Following, not in the answer
- Posts
- Likes, not in the answer
- Views
| $ per 1,000 channels | $500.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | pay first |
| Repeat free | 30 days |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | from the same budget: TikTok Creator Statistics · Twitch Creator Statistics · Facebook Creator Statistics · Instagram Creator Statistics · YouTube Top List · TikTok Top List · Twitch Top List · Facebook Top List · Instagram Top List |
| Units cap | hard |
|---|
| Their pitch | This endpoint takes as input a channel id, username, or handle (supply the @ in your request) and returns a great amount of information about the channel. |
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| Freshness | 24 hours |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Data retrieved by the Social Blade API is for Your use only. You are not authorized to resell or license the data, use the data as part of any other products or services, or offer a service similar to Social Blade. Data may be shared publicly (in a blog post for example) but credit must be given to Social Blade. [...] Licensee shall not, under any circumstances repackage or resell the Services, or any part thereof, API or Service Data. [...] Licensee shall not make any modifications to any Service Data, other than as reasonably necessary to modify the formatting of such Service Data for License’s Use. |
| Pay | $50 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 100 calls |
| Expires | after 6 months with no credits used, 10% of unused credits expire each month for 5 months, and any remaining credits at the one-year anniversary of the account being inactive |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query. Optional: history, allow-stale |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /youtube/statistics |
| Plan | Getting Started: 100 Credits |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone with a Social Blade account |
The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold
success, credits remaining, channel ID, username, custom username, name, handle, joined, category, country, profile picture, banner image, channel URL, Facebook link, X link, Instagram link, social links, videos count, subscribers, views count, follower growth, views growth, made for kids, Social Blade verified, Social Blade grade, rankings, daily statistics