# YTAPI, free: Search autocomplete API

> Returns autocomplete strings for a partial query. Use this for search-as-you-type UIs. This endpoint is free.

YTAPI's Free plan for the search autocomplete API costs $0.00 per 1,000 queries. YTAPI's docs list none of the 4 fields on our checklist: Type, Relevance, Description and Image.
You get 200 credits. You spend the credits on YTAPI's other calls. This call is free for up to 3,000 calls a month.
We haven't run YTAPI through [our search autocomplete API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-search-autocomplete-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 330 plans for search autocomplete APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 queries or less. [See how many search autocomplete API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-search-autocomplete-api.txt)
[Pixel Tools's ₽99 (about $1) pack](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/pixel-tools/99-pack-guru-for-99-rubles-get-api-podskazkigoogle/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 queries: $0.017.
[SERPHouse](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/serphouse/49-99-monthly/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [Autom](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/autom/375-pack/llms.txt) are the best search autocomplete API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/ytapi/free
- [Search autocomplete API: the 3 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-search-autocomplete-api.txt)
- Get it: https://ytapi.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-autocomplete-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.ytapi.dev/v1/search/suggestions`
- API key: with the plan, on https://ytapi.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-autocomplete-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.ytapi.dev/search/suggestions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-autocomplete-api-pricing
- Sold by: YTAPI (https://ytapi.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-autocomplete-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

- $ per 1,000 queries: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Extract transcript · Get transcript · Get full video info · Get most replayed moments · Get video comments · Get playlist · Get channel · Get channel latest videos · List channel videos · List channel playlists · Search YouTube · Submit batch job

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns autocomplete strings for a partial query. Use this for search-as-you-type UIs. This endpoint is free.

## Data

- Freshness: 30 days
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: These Terms give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to call the API and to use the dashboard for your own applications. [...] Transcripts, titles, and other YouTube material remain subject to the rights of their owners and to YouTube’s terms. [...] Do not present the Service, or data from it, as an official YouTube product. [...] You will not: break the law, or help someone else break it, use the Service to harass, dox, or harm a person, send card-testing, credential-stuffing, or other attack traffic, bypass a security control, probe the Service as an open proxy, or overload it in a way that is not a good-faith measurement with your own key and credits, resell or white-label the Service without our written permission, share an API key publicly.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 200 credits
- Enough for: 3,000 calls a month
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per day: 100
- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: hl, gl
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search/suggestions

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

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

seed keyword, suggestion query, suggestion position

## YTAPI's plans (5)

- [YTAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, 30 days
- [YTAPI, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/ytapi/9-pack/llms.txt): 0% complete, 30 days
- [YTAPI, $29 pack](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/ytapi/29-pack/llms.txt): 0% complete, 30 days
- [YTAPI, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/ytapi/79-pack/llms.txt): 0% complete, 30 days
- [YTAPI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/ytapi/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete, 30 days

## YTAPI's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/search/suggestions`: [YTAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt)

## YTAPI's APIs (4)

- [YTAPI: search autocomplete API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt)
- [YTAPI: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt)
- [YTAPI: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt)
- [YTAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/channels/{id}/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/ytapi/free-get-v1-channels-id-latest/llms.txt)
- [YTAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/channels/{id}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/ytapi/free-get-v1-channels-id-videos/llms.txt)

## YTAPI: search autocomplete API alternatives

- [SERPHouse, free](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/serphouse/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Autom, free](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/autom/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Anysite, free](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/anysite/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Zapi, free](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/zapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 25% complete, 10 minutes
- [JustSerpAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/justserpapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://docs.ytapi.dev/credits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-autocomplete-api-pricing
- https://docs.ytapi.dev/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-autocomplete-api-pricing
- https://docs.ytapi.dev/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-autocomplete-api-pricing
- https://docs.ytapi.dev/search/suggestions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-autocomplete-api-pricing
- https://ytapi.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-autocomplete-api-pricing
- https://ytapi.dev/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-autocomplete-api-pricing
- https://ytapi.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-autocomplete-api-pricing
- https://ytapi.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-autocomplete-api-pricing