# FrameFetch, free: Video search API

> Search YouTube by keyword and get back up to 25 lightweight results — url, title, uploader, durationSec, thumbnail, views — with no login and no video download.

FrameFetch's video search API on its Free tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Length, Channel, Views, Thumbnail.
We haven't run FrameFetch through [our video search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 453 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.90 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Vimeo's $20 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/20-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.0037. Vimeo's $20 monthly plan covers up to 5,400,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 100 results.
[SerpKite](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-videos-bing-videos/llms.txt), [PrismCrawl](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/prismcrawl/10-pack-lite-post-v1-yahoo-videos-search/llms.txt) and [ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly/llms.txt) are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/framefetch/free
- [Video search API: 12 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://framefetch.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://framefetch.net/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://framefetch.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://framefetch.net/youtube-video-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: FrameFetch (https://framefetch.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Length: ✓
- Channel: ✓
- Views: ✓
- Thumbnail: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Most per search: 25
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Extract data from a video URL · Extract up to 10 video URLs in one call · Metadata + insights only · Transcript only · Frames only (requires a frames spec) · Subscribe to a channel — webhook on every new video

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search YouTube by keyword and get back up to 25 lightweight results — url, title, uploader, durationSec, thumbnail, views — with no login and no video download.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with the terms of the source platforms and applicable law, including copyright and data-protection rules.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $0.05
- Enough for: 25 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: limit, cache, platform
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, video result link, video result title, video result channel, video result duration seconds, video result thumbnail, video result view count, amount charged

## FrameFetch's plans (5)

- [FrameFetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/framefetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [FrameFetch, $1 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/framefetch/1-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [FrameFetch, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/framefetch/5-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [FrameFetch, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/framefetch/20-pack/llms.txt): $1.905 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [FrameFetch, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/framefetch/100-pack/llms.txt): $1.786 per 1,000, 67% complete

## FrameFetch's calls (1)

- `POST /v1/search`: [FrameFetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/framefetch/free/llms.txt)

## FrameFetch's APIs (1)

- [FrameFetch: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/framefetch/free/llms.txt)

## FrameFetch: video search API alternatives

- [ValueSERP, $175 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/valueserp/175-monthly/llms.txt): $1.75 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $900 monthly, Octo 500K, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/searchapi/900-monthly-octo-500k-get-api-v1-search-engine-bing-videos/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [KonbiniAPI, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/konbiniapi/99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [SerpWow, $9,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpwow/9000-monthly/llms.txt): $1.80 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 2026-11-05.

- https://framefetch.net/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://framefetch.net/impressum?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://framefetch.net/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://framefetch.net/mcp-video-data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://framefetch.net/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://framefetch.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://framefetch.net/youtube-video-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing