# TubeGrade, free: YouTube channel API

> Full stats + growth for any channel by id, @handle, or URL.

TubeGrade's Free plan for the YouTube channel API costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. TubeGrade's docs list 5: Bio, Location, Followers, Posts, Views.
We haven't run TubeGrade through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 510 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 channels. [See the best free YouTube channel API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
[Poix's top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/poix/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-batch-channels/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.002. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 channels a month: about $2.72.
[Socialinsider's $199 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/socialinsider/199-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of channels. Socialinsider's $199 monthly plan costs more up front than Poix's top-up from $5.
[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 [TrueScrape](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/truescrape/500-pack/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tubegrade/free
- [YouTube channel API in 2026: the best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.tubegrade.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: Docs behind sign-up
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.tubegrade.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.tubegrade.com/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: TubeGrade (https://www.tubegrade.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 45%
- Bio: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Video Stats · Search · Get Transcript · Similar Thumbnails · Suggested Videos · Breakout Videos · Get Comments · Keyword Ideas · Find Outliers · Viral Formats · Channel Videos · Channel Transcripts · Channel Thumbnails · Video Thumbnails · Similar Channels · YouTube Rankings · My Competitors

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Full stats + growth for any channel by id, @handle, or URL.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the Service to break any law, infringe intellectual-property or privacy rights, violate the YouTube Terms of Service or any other third-party terms, harass, defame, or harm others, or upload, transmit, or generate malicious code or unlawful content. You must not scrape, harvest, or extract data from the Service at abusive volume, circumvent rate limits, credit limits, paywalls, or security controls, probe, overload, disrupt, or attack TubeGrade or any connected service, database, model, or provider, reverse engineer non-public systems, or use the Service to build, train, or operate a competing product. You must not resell, sublicense, or provide unauthorized access to the Service, share API keys or sessions beyond your account, or misrepresent your identity.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 20 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Docs behind sign-up

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over, signing in with Google

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, handle, bio, country, joined, subscribers, views count, videos count, average views per video, average video duration, follower growth, views growth, subscriber ranking, subscriber country ranking, links

## TubeGrade's plans (4)

- [TubeGrade, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tubegrade/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [TubeGrade, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tubegrade/top-up/llms.txt): 45% complete
- [TubeGrade, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tubegrade/15-monthly/llms.txt): $150.00 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [TubeGrade, $144 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tubegrade/144-yearly/llms.txt): $120.00 per 1,000, 45% complete

## TubeGrade's calls (1)

- Docs behind sign-up: [TubeGrade, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tubegrade/free/llms.txt)

## TubeGrade's APIs (2)

- [TubeGrade: YouTube channel API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tubegrade/free/llms.txt)
- [TubeGrade: YouTube channel video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/tubegrade/free/llms.txt)

## TubeGrade: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [ChannelCrawler, $5,000 pack, Scale, POST /v1/channels/search, Channel Discovery, full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/channelcrawler/5000-pack-scale-post-v1-channels-search-channel-discovery-full/llms.txt): $100.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, 1 day
- [Juicer, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/juicer/499-monthly/llms.txt): $111.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [InsightSocial, $13 pack, 5,000 credits, GET /v1/youtube/profile/full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/insightsocial/13-pack-5000-credits-get-v1-youtube-profile-full/llms.txt): $130.00 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Influencer Hero, $32,500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/influencer-hero/32500-pack/llms.txt): $130.00 per 1,000, 9% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://www.tubegrade.com/@bestdoc?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.tubegrade.com/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.tubegrade.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.tubegrade.com/support?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.tubegrade.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing