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Grounder Video search API pricing

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0% complete: none of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Grounder through our video search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 711 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.316 or less per 1,000 searches. 185 video search API plans on our price sheet are free. Scrappa has a free plan with 500 calls a month. Scrappa is the best video search API in our benchmark.TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches, with no charge per call. You get as many searches as TranscriptYT's rate limit allows. SerpBase's $3 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $3.00.TranscriptYT's $45 pack covers any number of searches, and costs more up front than TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan.Scrappa, TranscriptYT and SerpScraper.dev are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Grounder plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Grounder's 2 plans
Call: POST /v1/search Grounder's only call for this API
API: Video search API one of Grounder's 5 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • Returns none of the 6 fields on our checklist: Length, Date, Channel, Views and 2 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 requests a day.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. You set features to "video-search" and the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the videos that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Grounder: video search API alternatives

Grounder alternatives: other video search API providers by price

The table starts with Grounder's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Grounder's.

Grounder, top-up from $5ByCrawl, $9 monthlysocially, $19 packTrends MCP, $19 monthlyTrendsConnector, $19 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$19.00$18.00$19.00$19.00$19.00
Completeness0%100%100%50%50%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstmonthlymonthly
Pay$5$9$19$19$19
Enough foras many as you pay for500 calls a month1,000 calls1,000 calls a month1,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknown30 minutesunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone 18 or older with a Google, GitHub or Apple account whose email address is verifiedanyoneanyone with an accountanyone aged 18 or over with a Trends MCP account (sign up with an email and an 8-digit code, no card)anyone aged 18 or over with a TrendsConnector account

Sources

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

  1. grounder.net
  2. grounder.net/docs/api
  3. grounder.net/docs/api/search
  4. grounder.net/docs/drop-in
  5. grounder.net/docs/providers
  6. grounder.net/docs/routing
  7. grounder.net/openapi.json
  8. grounder.net/pricing
  9. grounder.net/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Length, not in the answer
  • Date, not in the answer
  • Channel, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Thumbnail, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search · Tavily request format · Brave request format · Claude Desktop's custom web search · Search (news) · Search (image-search) · Search (page-text)
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchVideos from the web that the request asks for by name (a video, clip, footage or trailer), each with its page, length, creator and date.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataDon't use Grounder to: break the law, or infringe or violate anyone's rights, get around the free allowance, rate limits or other limits, including by opening extra accounts, resell or redistribute access to the service, or offer its results as a search service of your own, without our written permission, disrupt, overload or attack the service, or test its security without our permission, work out how Grounder decides where a search goes, or build a competing router with it, send searches that break a search provider's terms.
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 requests a day
Enough for50 calls a day
Rate limit
Per second2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, features "video-search", Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: top_k, filters.domains, filters.recency, filters.language, filters.publisher_ids, filters.article_types, filters.temporal_sensitivity, include_text, text_max_chars, requested_provider, providers, realtime, routing_settings, profile, workspace, context.user_location, context.user_time_zone, urls
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or older with a Google, GitHub or Apple account whose email address is verified
The 48 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, request ID, workspace, root query ID, features, routing policy, provider call provider, provider call status, provider call latency, provider call result count, provider call mode, provider call results requested, provider call unique result count, provider call fresh result count, provider call cost units, provider call cost unit, provider call features, live data call provider, live data call status, live data call latency, live data call result count, live data call mode, live data call results requested, live data call unique result count, live data call fresh result count, live data call cost units, live data call cost unit, live data call features, citation request, latency, cached, licensed result count, cost in dollars, response count, historical count known, counting started at, result ID, rank, provider, found by, licensed, licensed basis, promoted, result features, page URL, video length, creator, published date

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