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Upscrape pricing: YouTube channel API

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27% complete: 3 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe rank 275 plans by price. 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 our benchmark.
Plan: Free credits one of Upscrape's 5 plans
Call: POST /execute Upscrape's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of Upscrape's 33 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the channel from YouTube when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Followers, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 400 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire 60 days after issuance.
  • One call. You send input.url to POST /execute. You set capability to "youtube.channel.get" and the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering the terms. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Upscrape: YouTube channel API alternatives

Upscrape alternatives: every YouTube channel API provider ranked

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

Upscrape, $499 packSocialCrawl, £49 pack, Growth, POST /v1/youtube/channelsReefAPI, $1,200 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /youtube/v1/channelOmkar Cloud, $148 monthlylobstr.io, $4,800 yearly, Team, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper
$ per 1,000 channels$0.313$0.327$0.333$0.37$0.40
Completeness27%73%45%73%82%
Billingpay firstpay firstyearlymonthlyyearly
Pay$499£49$1,200$148$4,800
Enough for1,600,000 calls200,000 results300,000 calls a month400,000 calls a month1,000,000 results a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering the termsanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted partiesprofessionals, not consumers

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-03.

  1. docs.upscrape.com/docs/api/credits-and-limits.md
  2. docs.upscrape.com/docs/api/errors
  3. docs.upscrape.com/docs/platforms/linkedin/linkedin.profile.get
  4. docs.upscrape.com/docs/platforms/youtube/index.md
  5. docs.upscrape.com/docs/platforms/youtube/youtube.channel.get/index.md
  6. docs.upscrape.com/llms.txt
  7. upscrape.com
  8. upscrape.com/pricing
  9. upscrape.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Bio
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location, not in the answer
  • Verified, not in the answer
  • Followers
  • Following, not in the answer
  • Posts
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 500 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet a channel from its link, handle or ID: name, description, subscribers, video count, keywords and tabs.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataSubject to these terms and law, you may store, analyze, transform, combine, and use Output in workflows, reports, applications, and services for end users. [...] Output may contain third-party material, and Upscrape does not transfer ownership or grant a license in that material. [...] You may not use, facilitate, or permit use of the Service to: violate law, a court order, contract, or third-party right, harass, stalk, threaten, discriminate against, exploit, or harm a person, conduct unlawful surveillance or process personal data without a lawful basis, send spam, deceptive communications, or malicious code, collect sensitive information without authorization, circumvent access controls, authentication, limits, or security measures, interfere with, overload, damage, probe, or gain unauthorized access to a system, reverse engineer non-public code, systems, or methods, except where law prohibits this restriction, sell, sublicense, rent, or redistribute access to the Service or credentials, resell substantial unmodified Output as a standalone dataset, data broker service, or competing API without written permission, or misrepresent the source, accuracy, ownership, or endorsement of Output.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for400 calls
Expires60 days after issuance
Rate limit
Per second20
Concurrent3
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendcapability "youtube.channel.get", input.url, Content-Type header "application/json"
MethodPOST
Path/execute
About the plan
PlanFree credits
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering the terms
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, handle, subscribers, videos count, bio, family safe, tabs, channel ID, keywords, subscribers approximate, subscribers text, channel URL, vanity URL, videos count text

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