Kakao pricing: video search API
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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Kakao through our video search API benchmark yet.Half of the 453 plans we rank by price cost $0.90 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan and 1 other tie for the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 453 plans.SerpKite, PrismCrawl and ScrapeUnblocker are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free quotas Kakao's only plan
Call:
GET / Kakao's only call for this APIAPI: Video search API one of Kakao's 3 APIs
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Length, Date, Channel, Thumbnail.
- Nothing to pay. You get 30,000 requests a day.
- One call. You send
querytoGET /. You can also sendv2/ search/ vclip sort,pageandsize. The call returns the videos that match. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Kakao: video search API alternatives
Kakao alternatives: every video search API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planKakao, free | SerpKite, free, POST /v1/videos, Bing Videos | PrismCrawl, free credits, POST /v1/yandex/videos/search | ScrapeUnblocker, free | SerpBase, free credits, POST /google/videos/search | FrameFetch, free | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 67% | 83% | 100% | 83% | 50% | 67% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | €0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | 30,000 calls a day | 1,000 calls a month | 100 calls | 500 calls, once | 500 calls | 25 calls |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | live | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | Kakao Developers members with an app, game applications and websites, game-related applications and websites, and virtual asset-related services are restricted from using the Service | anyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked) | anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreement | anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.") | anyone | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Length
- Date
- Channel
- Views, not in the answer
- Snippet, not in the answer
- Thumbnail
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Most per search | 450 |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Search web document · Search image · Search blog · Search book · Search cafe |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Returns video search results for the query from video platforms such as YouTube. |
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| Keep data | Cache data Kakao provided for purposes other than improving user's environment in the app, or failing to retain the data with the most recently updated data |
|---|---|
| Use data | Besides the violations and examples of violations specified in this Agreement, you shall not allow any third party, including your end user, to conduct any of the following activities. [...] Sell, trade or resell Kakao Platform Services for unauthorized commercial purposes [...] Cache data Kakao provided for purposes other than improving user's environment in the app, or failing to retain the data with the most recently updated data [...] Copy, reproduce, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, input into a search engine or directory, or otherwise use or provide to others any information (e.g., data, secret key, access token, etc.) obtained through the Service or Kakao Developers without prior approval from Kakao, provided, however, that, such information may be shared with agents under a confidentiality agreement [...] Use the service in excess of the provision limit outlined in Article 6 (e.g., daily quota, monthly quota, MAU limit), provided, however, that the daily quota may be exceeded when using paid services |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 30,000 requests a day |
| Enough for | 30,000 calls a day |
| Per day | 30,000 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | query. Optional: sort, page, size |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /v2/search/vclip |
| Plan | Free quotas |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | Kakao Developers members with an app, game applications and websites, game-related applications and websites, and virtual asset-related services are restricted from using the Service |
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold
total results, pageable results, is last page, video result title, video result link, video result published date, video result duration seconds, video result thumbnail, video result channel