# Social Blade, $50 pack: YouTube channel API

> 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.

Social Blade's YouTube channel API on its Getting Started: 100 Credits plan. It costs $500.00 per 1,000 channels. It returns 6 of the 11 key fields we check: Photo, Links, Location, Followers, Posts, Views.
We haven't run Social Blade through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.01.
[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 [lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly-team-post-v1-runs-youtube-channel-scraper/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-blade/50-pack
- [YouTube channel API: 13 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://socialblade.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://matrix.sbapis.com/b/youtube/statistics`
- API key: with the plan, on https://socialblade.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://socialblade.com/developers/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing#youtube
- Sold by: Social Blade (https://socialblade.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 55%
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 channels: $500.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- 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

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## In their words

- 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.

## Data

- 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.

## Plan

- 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

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: history, allow-stale
- Method: GET
- Path: /youtube/statistics

## About the plan

- 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

## Social Blade's plans (8)

- [Social Blade, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-blade/50-pack/llms.txt): $500.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Social Blade, $250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-blade/250-pack/llms.txt): $500.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Social Blade, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-blade/500-pack/llms.txt): $500.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Social Blade, $1,250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-blade/1250-pack/llms.txt): $250.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Social Blade, $1,875 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-blade/1875-pack/llms.txt): $250.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Social Blade, $149.99 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-blade/149-99-yearly/llms.txt): $2,499.833 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Social Blade, $599.99 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-blade/599-99-yearly/llms.txt): $2,499.958 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Social Blade, $1,439.99 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-blade/1439-99-yearly/llms.txt): $2,399.983 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours

## Social Blade's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /youtube/statistics`: [Social Blade, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-blade/50-pack/llms.txt)

## Social Blade's APIs (5)

- [Social Blade: Facebook page API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/social-blade/50-pack/llms.txt)
- [Social Blade: Instagram profile API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/social-blade/50-pack/llms.txt)
- [Social Blade: TikTok profile API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/social-blade/50-pack/llms.txt)
- [Social Blade: Twitch profile API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/social-blade/50-pack/llms.txt)
- [Social Blade: YouTube channel API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-blade/50-pack/llms.txt)

## Social Blade: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [lobstr.io, $20 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper, full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/lobstr-io/20-monthly-starter-post-v1-runs-youtube-channel-scraper-full/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/youtube/profile/full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/socialcrawl/15-pack-starter-get-v1-youtube-profile-full/llms.txt): $40.005 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [StableSocial, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $60.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [DataSpider, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/dataspider/5-pack/llms.txt): $500.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, live

## 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.

- https://socialblade.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://socialblade.com/developers/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://socialblade.com/info/developer-terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://socialblade.com/products/subscription?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing