# Datastreamer, $1,025 monthly: YouTube channel video API

> Datastreamer handles provider selection and data retrieval automatically. You define what you want, the platform determines how to get it.

Datastreamer's "Data Streams, 5,000 DVUs" plan for the YouTube channel video API costs $2.05 per 1,000 videos. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Datastreamer's docs list 4: Text, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We haven't run Datastreamer through [our YouTube channel video API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt) yet.
We rank 272 plans for YouTube channel video APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.07 or less per 1,000 videos. This plan costs less per 1,000 videos than 10% of the 272 plans.
[TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 videos. TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many videos as TranscriptYT's rate limit allows. [ScrapeUnblocker's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapeunblocker/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 videos a month: about $0.06.
[ShortsIntel's $10 pack (/creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos)](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/10-pack-top-up-10-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt) covers any number of videos. ShortsIntel's $10 pack costs more up front than TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan.
[ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapeunblocker/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt), [YouTube Data API (Google)](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/youtube-data-api-google/free-default-quota-get-youtube-v3-search/llms.txt) and [EveryInfra](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/everyinfra/10-pack/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel video API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly
- [YouTube channel video API in 2026: the best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt)
- Get it: https://datastreamer.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.platform.datastreamer.io/api/pipelines/{pipelineId}/components/{stepId}/jobs`
- API key: with the plan, on https://datastreamer.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.datastreamer.io/reference/datastreamerjobsapijobscreate-job?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Sold by: Datastreamer (https://datastreamer.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 videos: $2.05
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $1,025

## Charges

- Also pays for: Search API · Count API · from the same budget: Twitter/X · Threads · Facebook · Reddit · Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn · Auto Profiles

## Overage

- $ per 1,000 videos: $2.05
- Units cap: soft

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $205.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Datastreamer handles provider selection and data retrieval automatically. You define what you want, the platform determines how to get it.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Customer may only use Datastreamer Service as set forth herein. Customer also agree that the following actions shall constitute a material breach of our Agreement: Modifying, framing, rendering (or re-rendering), mirroring, truncating, injecting, filtering, reverse engineering, or changing our Services without Datastreamer's written consent, Violating the terms of any applicable DSLTs, [...] Accessing or using Datastreamer Services for purposes directly competitive with Datastreamer or a Data Partner, Disguising the origin of information transmitted to, from, or through our Services, [...] Using Datastreamer Services for any purpose in violation of any applicable law, [...]

## Plan

- Pay: $1,025
- You get: 5,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 5,000 pages a month

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: pipelineId, stepId, data_source "youtube_auto", job_type, query.platform "youtube", query.query_type "user", query.query. Optional: job_name, query.prioritization, max_documents, query.max_excess_documents, schedule, ready, label, tags
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/pipelines/{pipelineId}/components/{stepId}/jobs

## About the plan

- Plan: Data Streams, 5,000 DVUs
- Who can get it: an organization on a Standard account, a new Portal account starts on the read-only Standby tier, where Data Streams cannot be deployed or run

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

video URL, title, description, created at, language, view count, like count, comment count, author username, author name

## Datastreamer's plans (1)

- [Datastreamer, $1,025 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt): $2.05 per 1,000, 67% complete

## Datastreamer's calls (1)

- `POST /api/pipelines/{pipelineId}/components/{stepId}/jobs`: [Datastreamer, $1,025 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)

## Datastreamer's APIs (10)

- [Datastreamer: Facebook post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: Instagram post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: Reddit post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: Threads post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/threads-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: TikTok video API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: X post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: YouTube channel video API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)

## Datastreamer: YouTube channel video API alternatives

- [lobstr.io, $20 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Search Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/lobstr-io/20-monthly-starter-post-v1-runs-youtube-search-scraper/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ChannelCrawler, $5,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/channelcrawler/5000-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Scrape.ly, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrape-ly/999-monthly/llms.txt): $2.04 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/datablue/299-monthly/llms.txt): $2.08 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SocQ, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 83% 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://datastreamer.io/master-terms-of-services-and-policies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://datastreamer.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/docs/auto-source-selection-faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/docs/committed-usage-discounts-commits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/docs/data-volume-units?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/docs/getting-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/docs/platform-pricing-overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/docs/youtube-auto?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/reference/datastreamerjobsapijobscreate-job?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing