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Best video search API in 2026

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PrismCrawl, SerpBase and SerpKite are the best video search API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 9 providers and rank all 9 by score. For the three we score highest, we show each one's top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 searches cost. We rank 223 plans by price. PrismCrawl's $500 pack (/v1/yandex/videos/search) costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.17.

Every video search API provider we score, ranked

  1. PrismCrawl, $500 pack, Scale: Overall score 82.4, Data score 97, $0.17 per 1,000 searches
  2. SerpBase, $100 monthly: Overall score 79.1, Data score 93, $0.25 per 1,000 searches
  3. SerpKite, $300 pack, Pro: Overall score 77.2, Data score 77, $0.60 per 1,000 searches
  4. FlashData, $499 monthly, Pro: Overall score 70.3, Data score 94, $0.599 per 1,000 searches
  5. SERPHouse, $49.99 monthly, Regular: Overall score 69.4, Data score 90, $0.625 per 1,000 searches
  6. Serply, $375 pack: Overall score 69.3, Data score 92, $0.75 per 1,000 searches
  7. Serper, $375 pack: Overall score 69.0, Data score 93, $0.75 per 1,000 searches
  8. Autom, $375 pack, Standard: Overall score 67.2, Data score 91, $0.75 per 1,000 searches
  9. MapleSerp, $340 monthly: Overall score 65.1, Data score 93, $0.68 per 1,000 searches

  1. #1 PrismCrawl: Video search API

    PrismCrawl, $500 pack, Scale

    It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Length, Snippet, Thumbnail.

    Overall score
    82.4
    $ per 1,000
    $0.17
    Price score
    88
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find nothing: $0.17
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 223
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 searches than this plan: 0
    Data score
    97
    Cost to get started score
    65
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $500
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 125 other calls
    Performance score
    5
    • This call's median time on 30 October 2026, minus the baseline: 7.901 s
    • SerpKite, Bing Videos, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.385 s
    • On 30 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 searches as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.9695 out of 1 on those 20 searches. That gives this plan a Data score of 97 out of 100.

  2. #2 SerpBase: Video search API

    SerpBase, $100 monthly

    It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Length, Date, Thumbnail.

    Overall score
    79.1
    $ per 1,000
    $0.25
    Price score
    77
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find nothing: $0.25
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 223
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 searches than this plan: 26
    Data score
    93
    Cost to get started score
    73
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $100
    Bundle score
    98
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 46 other calls
    Performance score
    16
    • This call's median time on 30 October 2026, minus the baseline: 2.368 s
    • SerpKite, Bing Videos, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.385 s
    • On 30 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 searches as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.9343 out of 1 on those 20 searches. That gives this plan a Data score of 93 out of 100.

  3. #3 SerpKite: Video search API

    SerpKite, $300 pack, Pro

    It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Length, Date, Channel, Snippet, Thumbnail.

    Overall score
    77.2
    $ per 1,000
    $0.60
    Price score
    69
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find nothing: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 223
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 searches than this plan: 78
    Data score
    77
    Cost to get started score
    69
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $300
    Bundle score
    95
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Google News · Google Images · Google Maps · Google Places · Google Place Details · Google Reviews and 15 more
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 30 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.385 s
    • SerpKite, Bing Videos, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.385 s
    • On 30 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 searches as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.7677 out of 1 on those 20 searches. That gives this plan a Data score of 77 out of 100.

The Data score on video search APIs

This score, out of 100, shows how many of a search's videos match the words we searched. We count the first 10 videos of each search. We read each video's page after the run. The score is the percent of videos whose title or description has the words we searched. A video whose page is gone counts as wrong. If the provider sends fewer than 10 videos, we count each missing video as wrong. We leave out a video whose site refused us, or whose page shows no title or description. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer searches than the benchmark has.

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