# Poix, free: Video search API

> Find videos by keyword, location, channel, or category with a single API call.

Poix's Free plan for the video search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Poix's docs list 4 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Date, Channel, Snippet, Thumbnail.
We haven't run Poix through [our video search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 622 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.20 per 1,000 searches or less. [See how many video search API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
[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.
[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), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/139-monthly/llms.txt) and [TranscriptYT](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt) are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/poix/free
- [Video search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://poix.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.poix.io/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://poix.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.poix.io/api-reference/search/get-search-results?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Poix (https://poix.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Date: ✓
- Channel: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Thumbnail: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Get search suggestions · Get popular videos · Get related videos · Get batch videos · Get batch channels · Get channels details · Get videos details · Get playlist items · Get video captions · Get comment threads · Get comment replies · Get audio files list · Get video files list · Get captions files list · Get thumbnails files list

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find videos by keyword, location, channel, or category with a single API call.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: Poix grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to access and use the Services for your personal, non-commercial use. You agree to use the Services in a manner that is lawful, ethical, and in accordance with these Terms. You shall not: Use the Services for any unlawful purpose or to violate any laws in your jurisdiction, Engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Services, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Services or any other systems or networks connected to the Services, Use any robot, spider, crawler, scraper, or other automated means to access the Services, Harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of other users from the Services, Impersonate or attempt to impersonate Poix, a Poix employee, another user, or any other person or entity. You agree to be bound by YouTube's Terms of Service.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $1
- Enough for: about 492 pages

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, channelId, channelType, maxResults, order, pageToken, publishedAfter, publishedBefore, regionCode, relevanceLanguage, safeSearch, topicId, type, eventType, location, locationRadius, videoCaption, videoCategoryId, videoDefinition, videoDimension, videoDuration, videoEmbeddable, videoLicense, videoPaidProductPlacement, videoSyndicated, videoType
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 13 years old with a Google or GitHub account (under 18 needs a parent or guardian's permission)

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

video result type, video result ID, video result published date, video result published time, video result title, video result description, video result channel ID, video result channel title, video result live broadcast content, video result thumbnail, next cursor, previous cursor, region code, total results, returned results count

## Poix's plans (3)

- [Poix, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/poix/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Poix, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/poix/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $2.03 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Poix, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/poix/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete

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

- `GET /search`: [Poix, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/poix/free/llms.txt)

## Poix's APIs (3)

- [Poix: search autocomplete API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/poix/free/llms.txt)
- [Poix: video search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/poix/free/llms.txt)
- [Poix: YouTube channel API pricing, 3 plans, POST /batch/channels](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/poix/free-post-batch-channels/llms.txt)
- [Poix: YouTube channel API pricing, 3 plans, GET /channels](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/poix/free-get-channels/llms.txt)

## Poix: video search API alternatives

- [Stophy, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/stophy/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [API.SH, top-up from $15, Pay-as-you-go, GET /bing/v1/videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/api-sh/top-up-from-15-pay-as-you-go-get-bing-v1-videos/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [SerpApi, $36,550 monthly, Cloud 18M, GET /search, Bing Videos API](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpapi/36550-monthly-cloud-18m-get-search-bing-videos-api/llms.txt): $2.031 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Piloterr, $2,688 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/piloterr/2688-yearly/llms.txt): $2.036 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://api.poix.io/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.poix.io/api-reference/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.poix.io/api-reference/search/get-search-results.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.poix.io/dashboard/tokens?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.poix.io/guides/search/search-by-keyword?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.poix.io/limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.poix.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://poix.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://poix.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://poix.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing