YouTube Data API (Google) alternatives

By Wayne Hamadi, founder of Datacircle. Last updated: November 6, 2026

The best YouTube Data API (Google) alternatives for YouTube channel APIs: Litescrape, lobstr.io and Scrappa, by our benchmark of October 29, 2026.

YouTube channel API alternatives

YouTube Data API (Google) is #1 of the 13 providers we rank.

Rank	Provider and plan	Overall score	Accuracy score	$ per 1,000 channels
2	Litescrape, top-up from $10	85.5	89	$0.15
3	lobstr.io, $500 monthly, Team	80.7	94	$0.50
4	Scrappa, $10 pack	72.6	57	$0.303
5	HasData, $249 monthly	65.1	97	$0.83
6	ScrapeCreators, $497 pack	64.6	97	$0.994
7	Captapi, $9 monthly	64.3	97	$4.50
8	SociaVault, $399 pack	60.1	97	$1.995
9	DataBlue, $59 monthly	56.9	88	$2.622
10	Bright Data, top-up	54.9	86	$1.50
11	Supadata, $297 monthly	53.6	63	$0.99
12	AnyAPI, top-up from $10	50.2	42	$0.45
13	EnsembleData, $400 monthly, Silver	43.1	55	$2.424

YouTube Data API (Google) is #1 of the 13 providers we rank.

Rank	Provider and plan	Overall score	Accuracy score	$ per 1,000 videos
2	Scrappa, $25 pack	65.0	46	$0.0097
3	lobstr.io, $500 monthly, Team	63.4	76	$0.033
4	Captapi, $9 monthly	58.3	62	$0.045
5	Bright Data, top-up	50.0	94	$1.50
6	SociaVault, $29 pack	49.5	89
7	ScrapeCreators, $47 pack	49.3	89
8	EnsembleData, $200 monthly	43.2	59	$0.133
9	HasData, $59 monthly	42.8	70
10	Social Fetch, $14 pack	41.8	67
11	Litescrape, top-up from $10	41.0	61
12	AnyAPI, top-up from $10	30.7	34
13	DataBlue, $59 monthly	29.6	28	$2.622