# TranscriptAPI, free: YouTube channel API

> Fetch a channel's profile: title, @handle, verified flag, subscriber/video-count text, description, keywords, tags, thumbnails, banners, and the tabs the channel exposes.

TranscriptAPI's YouTube channel API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. TranscriptAPI's docs list 4 of the 11 key fields we check: Photo, Verified, Followers, Posts.
We haven't run TranscriptAPI through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 389 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.667 per 1,000 channels or less.
[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/transcriptapi/free
- [YouTube channel API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://transcriptapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/channel/info`
- API key: with the plan, on https://transcriptapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://transcriptapi.com/docs/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing#channel-info
- Sold by: TranscriptAPI (https://transcriptapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 36%
- Photo: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: YouTube Transcript · Video Metadata · Search Endpoint · Search Within Channel · Channel Videos (Paginated) · Channel Playlists · Channel Posts · Channel Sections · Playlist Endpoint

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch a channel's profile: title, @handle, verified flag, subscriber/video-count text, description, keywords, tags, thumbnails, banners, and the tabs the channel exposes.

## Data

- Freshness: 5 minutes
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree NOT to: Violate any laws, regulations, or third-party rights, Use the Service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, Overload or interfere with the Service infrastructure, Use automated tools to abuse, spam, or overload the Service, Resell or redistribute the Service without explicit written permission, Access data or systems without authorization, Use the Service to collect personal information without consent, Transmit viruses, malware, or other malicious code, Impersonate others or misrepresent your affiliation [...] transcript data is sourced from YouTube and subject to YouTube's terms and applicable copyright laws [...] You may use transcripts in your own commercial product, subject to YouTube's terms.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls, once
- Expires: 90 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channel
- Method: GET
- Path: /youtube/channel/info

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, title, handle, verified, subscribers text, videos count text, description, keywords, tags, family safe, profile picture sizes, banner image sizes, tabs

## TranscriptAPI's plans (5)

- [TranscriptAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/transcriptapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, 5 minutes
- [TranscriptAPI, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/transcriptapi/5-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, 5 minutes
- [TranscriptAPI, $10 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/transcriptapi/10-yearly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, 5 minutes
- [TranscriptAPI, $54 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/transcriptapi/54-yearly/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 36% complete, 5 minutes
- [TranscriptAPI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/transcriptapi/contact-us/llms.txt): 36% complete, 5 minutes

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

- `GET /youtube/channel/info`: [TranscriptAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/transcriptapi/free/llms.txt)

## TranscriptAPI's APIs (3)

- [TranscriptAPI: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/transcriptapi/free/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /youtube/channel/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-latest/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /youtube/channel/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-videos/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptAPI: video search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /youtube/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-search/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptAPI: video search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt)

## TranscriptAPI: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [EnsembleData, $100 monthly, Wood, GET /youtube/channel/detailed-info, Channel Detailed Info](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ensembledata/100-monthly-wood-get-youtube-channel-detailed-info-channel-detailed-info/llms.txt): $4.444 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Captapi, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/captapi/9-monthly/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [SociaVault, $29 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/sociavault/29-pack/llms.txt): $4.833 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [CreatorCrawl, $99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/creatorcrawl/99-pack/llms.txt): $4.95 per 1,000, 91% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://transcriptapi.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://transcriptapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://transcriptapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing