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YTAPI pricing: YouTube channel API

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45% complete: 5 of the 11 fields on our checklistSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run YTAPI through our YouTube channel API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 440 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.99 per 1,000 channels or less. See the best free YouTube channel API plan.Poix's top-up from $5 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.002.YouTube Data API (Google), Litescrape and lobstr.io are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest YTAPI plan for that many channels. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of YTAPI's 5 plans
Call: GET /v1/channels/{id} YTAPI's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of YTAPI's 4 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 30 days old. You get channels from YTAPI's copy of YouTube.
  • 5 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits, enough for 200 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send id to GET /v1/channels/{id}. The call returns the channel's details.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

YTAPI: YouTube channel API alternatives

YTAPI alternatives: other YouTube channel API providers by price

The table starts with YTAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to YTAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old. We also show the HProxy plan. Its price is farther from the price of YTAPI's cheapest paid plan.

YTAPI, $79 packHProxy, top-up from $3Scrape Everything, $39 packAnysite, $300 monthlySocial Fetch, $79 monthlylobstr.io, $192 yearly, Starter, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper
$ per 1,000 channels$1.58$1.49$1.56$1.579$1.58$1.60
Completeness45%64%36%73%73%82%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstmonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$79$3$39$300$79$192
Enough for50,000 callsabout 2,013 calls25,000 calls190,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month10,000 results a month
Freshness30 dayslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into a binding contract under German lawanyone 18 or over who can enter a binding contractanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itprofessionals, 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 2026-11-07.

  1. docs.ytapi.dev/channels/get
  2. docs.ytapi.dev/credits/
  3. docs.ytapi.dev/llms-full.txt
  4. docs.ytapi.dev/pricing/
  5. ytapi.dev/
  6. ytapi.dev/legal/terms
  7. ytapi.dev/openapi.json
  8. ytapi.dev/pricing

Product details

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

  • Bio, not in the answer
  • Photo
  • Links
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following, not in the answer
  • Posts, not in the answer
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freenever
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Extract transcript · Get transcript · Get full video info · Get most replayed moments · Get video comments · Get playlist · Get channel latest videos · List channel videos · List channel playlists · Search YouTube · Submit batch job
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch YouTube, list a channel's uploads or playlists, and page through any playlist. No Google Cloud project and no YouTube Data API quota.
Data
Freshness30 days
Keep datano limit
Use dataThese Terms give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to call the API and to use the dashboard for your own applications. [...] Transcripts, titles, and other YouTube material remain subject to the rights of their owners and to YouTube’s terms. [...] Do not present the Service, or data from it, as an official YouTube product. [...] You will not: break the law, or help someone else break it, use the Service to harass, dox, or harm a person, send card-testing, credential-stuffing, or other attack traffic, bypass a security control, probe the Service as an open proxy, or overload it in a way that is not a good-faith measurement with your own key and credits, resell or white-label the Service without our written permission, share an API key publicly.
Plan
Pay$0
You get200 credits
Enough for200 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per day100
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendid
MethodGET
Path/v1/channels/{id}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, name, handle, description, subscriber count, subscribers text, video count, channel URL, country, verified, profile picture, banner image, external links, tabs

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