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Virlo pricing: YouTube channel API

Virlo's sitellms.txtYouTube channel API: 13 providers compared on price and dataVirlo: YouTube channel API alternatives

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73% complete: 8 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$10.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run Virlo through our YouTube channel API benchmark 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 20% of the 340 plans.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 the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Pay as you go one of Virlo's 2 plans
Call: GET /v1/raw/{platform}/creator/{handle} Virlo's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of Virlo's 8 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the channel from YouTube when you call the API.
  • 8 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
  • A balance you top up. You pay $10 or more. You spend the whole balance on calls.
  • One call. You send handle to GET /v1/raw/{platform}/creator/{handle}. You set platform to "youtube". The call returns the channel's details.
  • Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Virlo: YouTube channel API alternatives

Virlo alternatives: every YouTube channel API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 channels. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planVirlo, top-up from $10SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, POST /v1/prism/profilesSpidra, $5 pack, 500 credit top-up, POST /batch/scrapeKeyAPI, $189 monthlylobstr.io, $960 yearly, Pro, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper, full
$ per 1,000 channels$10.00$8.001$10.00$11.34$12.00
Completeness73%73%73%36%82%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstmonthlyyearly
Pay$10£15$5$189$960
Enough foras many as you pay for2,500 results500 resultsabout 16,666 calls a monthabout 6,666 results a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or overanyone 18 or overanyone on a Starter, Builder or Pro plananyoneprofessionals, 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 2026-11-05.

  1. api.virlo.ai/openapi.json
  2. dev.virlo.ai/docs/credits.md
  3. dev.virlo.ai/docs/rate-limits.md
  4. dev.virlo.ai/docs/raw.md
  5. dev.virlo.ai/pricing
  6. virlo.ai/developers
  7. virlo.ai/legal/acceptable-use
  8. virlo.ai/legal/terms-of-service
  9. virlo.ai/pricing

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, not in the answer
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts
  • Likes
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$10.00
Percall
Billingpay first
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 154 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA creator's profile and counts right now.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataAPI access is licensed per workspace. You may not share API keys across organizations, resell raw API access, or operate the API as a substitute service that competes with Virlo. Paying API customers receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable license to incorporate API responses into their own applications, internal analyses, dashboards, and end-user products. [...] You will not use the API to build a competing product to Virlo, to train machine-learning models for the purpose of replicating Virlo's analytics, or to circumvent the terms of any third-party platform from which the data was collected. [...] You agree not to: Scrape, resell, sublicense, or redistribute Virlo's data outputs, intelligence reports, or any platform content to third parties without prior written consent from Red Lab, LLC, except as expressly permitted under a paid API license. [...] You may not use Virlo data to harass individual creators, dox private individuals, run unsolicited mass outreach in violation of CAN-SPAM or equivalent laws, or to facilitate activity that violates the third-party platform's own community guidelines.
Plan
Pay$10
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per day10,000
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendplatform "youtube", handle
MethodGET
Path/v1/raw/{platform}/creator/{handle}
About the plan
PlanPay as you go
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, platform, handle, name, bio, profile picture, channel URL, verified, website, subscribers, following, likes count, videos count

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