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Social Fetch pricing and alternatives: YouTube channel API

Social Fetch's sitellms.txtBest YouTube channel API in 2026

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73% complete: 8 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe rank 127 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.15.YouTube Data API (Google), Litescrape and HasData are the best YouTube channel API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Social Fetch's 12 plans
Call: GET /v1/youtube/channel Social Fetch's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of Social Fetch's 29 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the channel from YouTube when you call.
  • 8 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Posts, Views.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 100 calls.
  • One call. You call GET /v1/youtube/channel. Every input is optional: channelId, handle, url.
  • Who can get it: anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Social Fetch: YouTube channel API alternatives

The table starts with Social Fetch's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to Social Fetch's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Social Fetch, $2,430 yearlyHasData, $119 monthlyAnysite, $549 monthlyBright Data, $499 monthlyFetchLayer, $100 monthly
$ per 1,000 channels$1.35$1.19$1.292$1.30$1.333
Completeness73%55%73%64%73%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$2,430$119$549$499$100
Enough for150,000 calls a month100,000 calls a month425,000 calls a month384,000 results a month75,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanonanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)

Every YouTube channel API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. socialfetch.dev
  2. socialfetch.dev/
  3. socialfetch.dev/docs/api/v1/youtube/channel/get.mdx
  4. socialfetch.dev/docs/credits.mdx
  5. socialfetch.dev/docs/errors.mdx
  6. socialfetch.dev/llms.txt
  7. socialfetch.dev/openapi.json
  8. socialfetch.dev/pricing
  9. socialfetch.dev/pricing.mdx
  10. socialfetch.dev/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Bio
  • Photo
  • Links
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following, not in the answer
  • Posts
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freenever
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 263 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet YouTube channel details by channel id, handle, or URL.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to: Use the Services in violation of applicable law. Use outputs to harass, surveil, discriminate against, or harm individuals or groups. Send spam, manipulate platforms, or engage in deceptive or fraudulent activity. Infringe intellectual property or other rights of third parties. Attempt to access non-public data, bypass rate limits or technical controls, or probe our systems in ways that could harm availability or security. Resell or redistribute the Services in ways that misrepresent their source, or use them to build a substantially similar competing API without our written consent. [...] On any plan you may incorporate Social Fetch data outputs into your own products and services, present them under your own brand without attribution to us, and supply them to your own customers. You may not share or resell API keys or other access credentials, expose the Social Fetch API itself as a like-for-like API, or build a substantially similar competing API. This gives you no right beyond what we hold ourselves in the underlying data: the terms of the source platforms, restrictions that apply to us and applicable law, including data-protection law, still apply, and you remain responsible for how your own customers use what you supply. [...] Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Services for your internal business purposes or to power your applications for your end users, in each case as intended.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 calls
Rate limit
Concurrent200
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: channelId, handle, url
MethodGET
Path/v1/youtube/channel
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

lookup status, request ID, credits consumed, channel ID, channel URL, name, username, profile picture, bio, subscribers, videos count, views count, joined, country, social links, banner image, verified

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