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38 TranscriptAPI alternatives in 2026

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Other providers sell YouTube channel APIs like TranscriptAPI's. EnsembleData costs $4.44 per 1,000 channels, Captapi $4.50 and SociaVault $4.83.

YouTube channel API alternatives

On our TranscriptAPI plan pages, we compare each TranscriptAPI plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 channels first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 channels
EnsembleData, $100 monthly, Wood, GET /youtube/channel/detailed-info, Channel Detailed Info$4.44
Captapi, $9 monthly$4.50
SociaVault, $29 pack$4.83
CreatorCrawl, $99 pack$4.95
API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, POST /v1/batch$5.00
Influship, pay as you go, MPP$10.00
Spidra, $5 pack, 500 credit top-up, POST /batch/scrape$10.00
Virlo, top-up from $10$10.00
KeyAPI, $189 monthly$11.34
Scrape Everything, contact usnot published
TrueScrape, contact usnot published
Upscrape, contact usnot published

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YouTube channel video API alternatives

On our TranscriptAPI plan pages, we compare each TranscriptAPI plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 videos first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 videos
Captapi, free$0.00
Scrappa, free$0.00
YouTube Data API (Google), free, Default quota, GET /youtube/v3/search$0.00
lobstr.io, free, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Search Scraper$0.00
Serpent API, top-up from $500$0.0002
Zapi, Rp399,000 monthly$0.00074
Anysite, $1,199 monthly$0.001
ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /youtube/v1/channel_shorts$0.0017
SocialKit, $39 monthly$0.043
Monocrawl, $299 monthly$0.044
Crawlora, $9 monthly$0.045
Scrape Everything, $39 pack$0.052
EnsembleData, $800 monthly$0.107
SocialCrawl, £49 pack$0.109
Spidra, $35 pack, 5,000 credit top-up, POST /batch/scrape$0.117
ScrapeCreators, contact usnot published

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Video search API alternatives

On our TranscriptAPI plan pages, we compare each TranscriptAPI plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 searches first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 searches
Anspire, top-up, Standard Search, domestic, region_mode 0, Pay as you go$4.49
Pullbay, $49 monthly, Builder, GET /duckduckgo/videos$4.50
Search1API, $19 monthly, Basic, POST /search, Search, full$4.56
SerpWow, $1,200 monthly$4.80
AIsa, top-up from $10$5.00
AnyCrawler, $20 monthly$5.00
Brave Search API, top-up from $5$5.00
Automatio, $18 monthly$10.00
SerpApi, $150 monthly, Production, GET /search, Bing Videos API$10.00
Virlo, top-up from $10$10.00
YepAPI, top-up$10.00
Piloterr, contact usnot published
PrismCrawl, contact us, Custom, POST /v1/google/short-videosnot published
Scrapall, contact usnot published
Ujeebu, contact usnot published

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