# TubeGrade, free: YouTube channel video API

> A channel’s recent, popular, or shorts uploads.

TubeGrade's Free plan for the YouTube channel video API costs $0.00 per 1,000 videos. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. TubeGrade's docs list 1: Analytics.
We haven't run TubeGrade through [our YouTube channel video API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 288 plans for YouTube channel video APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.066 or less per 1,000 videos. [See the best free YouTube channel video API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt)
[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/tubegrade/free
- [YouTube channel video API in 2026: the best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.tubegrade.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Request: Docs behind sign-up
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.tubegrade.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.tubegrade.com/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Sold by: TubeGrade (https://www.tubegrade.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Analytics: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 videos: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Channel Stats · Video Stats · Search · Get Transcript · Similar Thumbnails · Suggested Videos · Breakout Videos · Get Comments · Keyword Ideas · Find Outliers · Viral Formats · Channel Transcripts · Channel Thumbnails · Video Thumbnails · Similar Channels · YouTube Rankings · My Competitors

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A channel’s recent, popular, or shorts uploads.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the Service to break any law, infringe intellectual-property or privacy rights, violate the YouTube Terms of Service or any other third-party terms, harass, defame, or harm others, or upload, transmit, or generate malicious code or unlawful content. You must not scrape, harvest, or extract data from the Service at abusive volume, circumvent rate limits, credit limits, paywalls, or security controls, probe, overload, disrupt, or attack TubeGrade or any connected service, database, model, or provider, reverse engineer non-public systems, or use the Service to build, train, or operate a competing product. You must not resell, sublicense, or provide unauthorized access to the Service, share API keys or sessions beyond your account, or misrepresent your identity.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: about 33 pages

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Docs behind sign-up

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over, signing in with Google

## The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

view count, date, is short

## TubeGrade's plans (4)

- [TubeGrade, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/tubegrade/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [TubeGrade, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/tubegrade/top-up/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [TubeGrade, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/tubegrade/15-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [TubeGrade, $144 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/tubegrade/144-yearly/llms.txt): 17% complete

## TubeGrade's calls (1)

- Docs behind sign-up: [TubeGrade, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/tubegrade/free/llms.txt)

## TubeGrade's APIs (2)

- [TubeGrade: YouTube channel API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tubegrade/free/llms.txt)
- [TubeGrade: YouTube channel video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/tubegrade/free/llms.txt)

## TubeGrade: YouTube channel video API alternatives

- [ScrapeUnblocker, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapeunblocker/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [YouTube Data API (Google), free, Default quota, GET /youtube/v3/playlistItems](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/youtube-data-api-google/free-default-quota-get-youtube-v3-playlistitems/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [EveryInfra, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/everyinfra/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /youtube/v1/channel_shorts](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/reefapi/free-post-youtube-v1-channel-shorts/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Stophy, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/stophy/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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://www.tubegrade.com/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://www.tubegrade.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://www.tubegrade.com/support?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://www.tubegrade.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing