Best live streaming data APIs, 2026Every main way to get Twitch, Kick and Rumble data.Twitch’s and Kick’s official APIs, Rumble’s Live Stream API and the main streaming data and analytics APIs, compared on what they return, how they charge and how you connect.
An editorial comparison of what each vendor publishes, checked 25 Sept 2026. Monocrawl is ours and listed first. How we compared
What are you building?
Channels, live status, videos and clips from Twitch, Kick and Rumble in your productA data API that reads public data on request. They differ most in which platforms they cover and how they charge. Twitch’s and Kick’s own APIs fit apps built on their platforms.
Viewership history and rankings for sponsorships and market researchAn analytics API that keeps its own history. Streams Charts covers nine platforms, Rumble included; Social Blade returns Twitch follower history.
Search, comments and transcripts of Rumble videosAn option that searches Rumble and reads each video’s comments. Monocrawl also returns a transcript when the video has captions.
An AI agent that looks up streamers, clips and videosAn option with its own MCP server and tools for this data, so the agent can call it directly.
Chat bots, overlays and alerts for your own channelThe platforms’ own APIs: Twitch’s official API with EventSub, Kick’s Public API with webhooks, and Rumble’s Live Stream API.
11options compared
3with an MCP server
6free to start
40sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Four routes
Twitch’s official API and Kick’s Public API serve apps built on each platform, under developer agreements that limit how long you store data. Rumble’s Live Stream API covers your own channel. Data and analytics APIs read public data, or their own history, with one API key.
Twitch API
Kick Public API
Rumble Live Stream API
Monocrawl and the vendors below
What they return
Which platforms each option lists on its own pages, what it returns and how you connect. Historical stats means stored viewership or follower history.
| Streaming data | Connect | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | Twitch | Kick | Rumble | Channels | Live streams | Videos and VODs | Clips | Historical stats | Chat | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | – | – | Our API | |||||||||
| Twitch APIOfficial, Twitch | – | – | – | – | 12345 | |||||||
| Kick Public APIOfficial, Kick | – | – | – | – | – | – | 678910 | |||||
| Rumble Live Stream APIOfficial, your own channel | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1112 | |||||
| ApifyStreaming scraper actors | – | – | 1314151617 | |||||||||
| Bright DataScraper APIs | – | – | – | 18192021 | ||||||||
| EnsembleDataSocial data API | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 222324 | ||||
| ScrapingBeeWeb scraping API | – | – | – | – | 25262728 | |||||||
| Social BladeSocial statistics API | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2930 | ||||
| SociaVaultSocial data API | – | – | – | – | 3132333435 | |||||||
| Streams ChartsStreaming analytics API | – | – | – | 3637383940 | ||||||||
Pricing
A request, a result, a record and a unit are not the same size, and allowances reset on different schedules. Price your own workload with each vendor.
One key and one response format across 70+ platforms, with monitors for alerts.
Monthly plans
No published price for the API. You register an app and call it with an OAuth token.
Calls draw on a bucket of points per app each minute; most cost 1 point.
Worth knowingIts developer agreement allows caching data for 24 hours, and bars re-syndicating or selling it without Twitch’s permission.
No published price
No published price for the API. You create an app in your Kick account’s developer settings.
Unverified apps can hold 1,000 chat message subscriptions; verified apps 10,000.
Worth knowingWebhooks deliver chat messages, follows and subscriptions from any channel whose user ID you supply.
No published price
No published price for the API. You create your private URL in your Rumble account.
Rumble says it needs no authentication, so share the URL only with trusted services.
Worth knowingMade for overlays and alerts: live stream fields, chat and rants fill only while you are live.
No published price
$3.45 per 1,000 Twitch channels on the free plan
From $1.80 on higher plans. Kick channels are $15 per 1,000 and Rumble results $1.50. Starter plan $19 a month.
Worth knowingThree community actors, one per platform; each sets its own price per result.
$5 of usage a month
$1.50 per 1,000 records, pay as you go
Studio scrapers are $1.50 per 1,000 page loads. $499 a month includes 384,000 records.
Worth knowingReady-made Twitch scrapers find live streams by search term or category; for Kick and Rumble, its AI builds the scraper.
5,000 records or page loads a month
$100 a month for 1,500 units a day
A follower count costs 1 unit; a search costs 1 unit per page of about 15 results. Units reset daily at 00:00 UTC.
Worth knowingTwo Twitch endpoints: keyword search across videos, channels and games, and a channel’s follower count.
50 units a day
$19 a month for 75,000 API credits
A request costs 5 credits with JavaScript rendering, its default, and 75 with its stealth proxy. Prices exclude VAT.
Worth knowingSend a Twitch or Rumble URL and get the rendered page back, or JSON from AI extraction rules you write.
1,000 free credits
$50 for 100 credits, bought before use
A Twitch channel with 30 days of history costs 1 credit; up to 10 years, 5. From $0.25 a credit at 5,000 credits.
Worth knowingA channel you look up stays free to query again for 30 days, and Twitch history goes back up to 10 years.
Free test calls on Social Blade’s own accounts
$29 for 6,000 credits, one time
A Twitch call costs 1 credit. Credits never expire.
Worth knowingFour Twitch endpoints, for profiles, videos, schedules and clips, each costing 1 credit.
50 credits
$199 a month for 500 credits, billed monthly
One channel or broadcast costs 1 credit, a ranked list 5. Top-up credits never expire.
Worth knowingKeeps its own history: Twitch since June 2019, Kick since December 2022 and Rumble since June 2023.
One free top-100 Twitch list, and free sample responses
Try a call
The same kind of request on Twitch, Kick and Rumble, in cURL, TypeScript or Python, with the recorded responses for Ninja’s Twitch channel, xQc’s “MonkaW” clip on Kick and a Rumble search for “funny cats”. No Twitch or Kick developer app and no Rumble account.
GET /v1/twitch/profilecurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/twitch/profile?handle=ninja" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"
Ninja
@ninja
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Twitch channel2 creditsTwitch videos2 creditsTwitch clip2 creditsTwitch stream schedule2 credits
Kick clip2 credits
Rumble search2 creditsRumble comments2 creditsRumble transcript5 credits2.1sMedian response in our benchmark. 22 September 2026 catalogue benchmark. Median of recorded endpoint timings across 636 operations with a successful HTTP response. Includes network time; individual requests vary.
Questions
Twitch publishes no price for its official API. You need a Twitch account with two-factor authentication and a registered app, and calls draw on a bucket of points per app each minute. Most data APIs let you start free: Monocrawl gives 1,000 credits every month, Bright Data 5,000 records a month, Apify $5 of usage a month, ScrapingBee 1,000 credits, SociaVault 50 credits and EnsembleData 50 units a day.
Not without the platform’s written permission. Both developer agreements let you cache content for 24 hours without sharing it, prohibit re-syndicating API data and bar selling or licensing it. Both also list marketing services and campaign analysis among the uses that need a separate agreement and an approval process.
Yes. Kick’s Public API uses OAuth 2.1, and an app access token reads public channels, live streams with viewer counts, categories and users. Apps can post chat messages, and webhooks deliver chat messages, follows and subscriptions from the channels you subscribe to. Its API reference lists no clip or video endpoints: Monocrawl returns a Kick clip from its URL, and Apify’s community actor reads Kick profiles, VODs and clips.
Rumble documents a Live Stream API for creators: a private URL with their own followers, subscribers, live stream stats, chat and rants. Its Advertising Center API returns an advertiser’s own statistics. Both cover only your own account. For public Rumble data, Monocrawl searches videos, lists a channel’s videos and returns a video’s details, comments and transcript; Apify and Streams Charts also list Rumble data.
Streams Charts keeps its own records of hours watched and viewers: Twitch since June 2019, Kick since December 2022 and Rumble since June 2023, at 1 credit per channel or broadcast. Social Blade returns a Twitch channel’s daily follower history, up to 10 years for 5 credits. Monocrawl returns a channel’s current followers and live viewers, and its videos, past broadcasts included, with view counts.
Monocrawl, Apify and SociaVault publish their own MCP servers with tools for this data, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly; SociaVault’s covers Twitch. Bright Data’s and ScrapingBee’s MCP servers have only general scraping tools, and Streams Charts publishes a Claude Code skill for its API.
Method
What’s includedTwitch’s and Kick’s official APIs and Rumble’s Live Stream API, plus widely used streaming data and analytics APIs that list Twitch, Kick or Rumble data on their own pages, publish their pricing or offer a trial, and come up across Twitch, Kick and Rumble API searches and comparison lists.
What we comparedWhich platforms each vendor lists, what streaming data it returns, and its pricing, free allowance and access, read on its own pages. “Best” here means worth comparing, not a ranking from tests: we have not run their APIs.
About MonocrawlMonocrawl is our product and is listed first. Its details come from our live plans and catalogue.
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