Who has the most followers on YouTube?
As of 2026-07-16, the channel with the most subscribers on YouTube is MrBeast (@mrbeast), with 508 million subscribers, the leader ranked live across 16 of the world's biggest YouTube channels via the SocialCrawl API.
Last updated July 16, 2026
The numbers, right now
Last updated July 16, 2026
MrBeast
Most followed
508,000,000
Followers
16
Accounts ranked
Live top 10
| Rank | Name | Followers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MrBeast | 508,000,000 |
| 2 | T-Series | 313,000,000 |
| 3 | Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes | 202,000,000 |
| 4 | SET India | 189,000,000 |
| 5 | Vlad and Niki | 150,000,000 |
| 6 | Stokes Twins | 142,000,000 |
| 7 | ✿ Kids Diana Show | 138,000,000 |
| 8 | Zee Music Company | 122,000,000 |
| 9 | Goldmines | 110,000,000 |
| 10 | PewDiePie | 110,000,000 |
How we compute this
SocialCrawl reads the public subscriber count for a curated basket of the world's largest YouTube channels via the API endpoint /v1/youtube/channel, then ranks them by subscriber count. The basket mixes individual creators, like MrBeast and PewDiePie, with brand and media channels, like T-Series and Cocomelon. 16 channels were ranked on 2026-07-16. This is a leaderboard among the largest known channels, not an exhaustive scan of all of YouTube. Subscriber counts are read live, never estimated.
- Source endpoints
- /v1/youtube/channel
- Sample size
- 16
- Computed
- 2026-07-16
Run this yourself
One API call returns the same live feed we sampled. Drop in your key and go.
curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/youtube/channel?handle=@mrbeast" \
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