# YTAPI, free: YouTube channel API

> Search YouTube, list a channel's uploads or playlists, and page through any playlist. No Google Cloud project and no YouTube Data API quota.

YTAPI's Free plan for the YouTube channel API costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. YTAPI's docs list 5 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers.
We haven't run YTAPI through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) 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.](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.
[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/ytapi/free
- [YouTube channel API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://ytapi.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.ytapi.dev/v1/channels/{id}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://ytapi.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.ytapi.dev/channels/get?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: YTAPI (https://ytapi.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 45%
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search YouTube, list a channel's uploads or playlists, and page through any playlist. No Google Cloud project and no YouTube Data API quota.

## Data

- Freshness: 30 days
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: These 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 get: 200 credits
- Enough for: 200 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per day: 100
- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: id
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/channels/{id}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## YTAPI's plans (5)

- [YTAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 30 days
- [YTAPI, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ytapi/9-pack/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 45% complete, 30 days
- [YTAPI, $29 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ytapi/29-pack/llms.txt): $2.90 per 1,000, 45% complete, 30 days
- [YTAPI, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ytapi/79-pack/llms.txt): $1.58 per 1,000, 45% complete, 30 days
- [YTAPI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ytapi/contact-us/llms.txt): 45% complete, 30 days

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

- `GET /v1/channels/{id}`: [YTAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt)

## YTAPI's APIs (4)

- [YTAPI: search autocomplete API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt)
- [YTAPI: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt)
- [YTAPI: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt)
- [YTAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/channels/{id}/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/ytapi/free-get-v1-channels-id-latest/llms.txt)
- [YTAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/channels/{id}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/ytapi/free-get-v1-channels-id-videos/llms.txt)

## YTAPI: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [HProxy, top-up from $3](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/hproxy/top-up-from-3/llms.txt): $1.49 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [Scrape Everything, $39 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrape-everything/39-pack/llms.txt): $1.56 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [Anysite, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/anysite/300-monthly/llms.txt): $1.579 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-fetch/79-monthly/llms.txt): $1.58 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $192 yearly, Starter, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/lobstr-io/192-yearly-starter-post-v1-runs-youtube-channel-scraper/llms.txt): $1.60 per 1,000, 82% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://docs.ytapi.dev/channels/get?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.ytapi.dev/credits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.ytapi.dev/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.ytapi.dev/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://ytapi.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://ytapi.dev/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://ytapi.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://ytapi.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing