# Algrow, $1 pack: Video search API

> Search everything on YouTube in one call — videos, channels, and playlists in the same result list, each tagged with its type.

Algrow's 3-day trial plan lets you call the video search API. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Algrow's docs list 5: Length, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
You pay $1 for 45 credits. You spend the credits on Algrow's other calls. This call is free for up to 9,000 calls in all.
We haven't run Algrow through [our video search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is a $1 pack. We rank 677 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.20 or less per 1,000 searches.
[TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as TranscriptYT's rate limit allows. [SerpBase's $3 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpbase/3-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $3.00.
[TranscriptYT's $45 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/45-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. TranscriptYT's $45 pack costs more up front than TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [TranscriptYT](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/79-monthly/llms.txt) are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/algrow/1-pack
- [Video search API in 2026: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://algrow.online/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.algrow.online/api/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://algrow.online/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://algrow.online/docs/api/youtube-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing#api-search
- Sold by: Algrow (https://algrow.online?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Length: ✓
- Channel: ✓
- Views: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Thumbnail: ✓

## Price

- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Repeat free: 24 hours
- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: GET /api/channels/search: 300 a day · GET /api/longform-channels/search: 300 a day · GET /api/viral-videos/search: 300 a day · GET /api/collabs/fastest-growing: 300 a day · GET /api/channel-trends: 200 a day · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/daily-analytics: 100 a day · POST /api/thumbnail-search: 40 a day · POST /api/generate-simple · POST /api/generate-image · POST /api/generate-video · POST /api/caption-remover · from the same budget: GET /api/channels/:channel_id/about · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/videos · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/playlists · POST /api/youtube-scraper · POST /api/youtube-scraper/thumbnails · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/youtube-recommends · GET /api/videos/:video_id/youtube-recommends · POST /api/video-comments · POST /api/channels/resolve · GET /api/channel-monetization/:channel_id

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search everything on YouTube in one call — videos, channels, and playlists in the same result list, each tagged with its type.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: 24 hours
- Use data: Allowed Without Asking: Your own work. Internal tools, personal projects and automation for your own team. Your own product, for your signed-in users. A user asks for data and your product shows the result to that user. You must credit Algrow as shown below. Needs Written Permission From Algrow: Public pages. Showing Algrow data on pages that anyone can open without signing in. [...] Passing the data on. Serving Algrow data through your own API, MCP server, feed, export or download. Building a copy. Keeping Algrow data for more than 24 hours, or refreshing a fixed list of channels on a schedule to build your own database. Selling the data. Selling Algrow data, or a dataset made from it, in any form. [...] A linked label. Show a visible “Powered by Algrow” label on every page or screen that shows Algrow data. The label must link to algrow.online. [...] Do not present Algrow data as your own.

## Plan

- Pay: $1
- You get: 45 credits
- Enough for: 9,000 calls, once
- Expires: 3 days

## Rate limit

- Per day: 3,000
- Per second: 0.5 (30 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: type, sort_by, upload_date, duration, published_within_days, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/search

## About the plan

- Plan: 3-day trial
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, search query, total results, returned results count, has more, video result type, video result ID, video result title, video result link, video result channel, video result channel ID, video result published time, video result formatted duration, video result duration seconds, video result view count, video result view count text, video result thumbnail, video result snippet, channels, playlists

## Algrow's plans (5)

- [Algrow, $1 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/algrow/1-pack/llms.txt): 83% complete, live
- [Algrow, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/algrow/25-monthly/llms.txt): $0.278 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Algrow, $45 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/algrow/45-monthly/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Algrow, $80 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/algrow/80-monthly/llms.txt): $0.222 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Algrow, $378 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/algrow/378-yearly/llms.txt): $0.175 per 1,000, 83% complete, live

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

- `GET /api/search`: [Algrow, $1 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/algrow/1-pack/llms.txt)

## Algrow's APIs (3)

- [Algrow: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/algrow/1-pack/llms.txt)
- [Algrow: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/algrow/1-pack/llms.txt)
- [Algrow: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/1-pack-3-day-trial-get-api-channels-channel-id-shorts/llms.txt)
- [Algrow: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /api/channels/:channel_id/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/1-pack-3-day-trial-get-api-channels-channel-id-videos/llms.txt)

## Algrow: video search API alternatives

- [PSB Proxy, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/psb-proxy/top-up/llms.txt): 0% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://algrow.online?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/api-keys?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/api/youtube-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/commercial-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing