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TranscriptAPI pricing: video search API, GET /youtube/channel/search

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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 TranscriptAPI through our video search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 502 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.Vimeo's $20 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Vimeo's $20 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Vimeo's rate limit allows.Scrappa, SerpScraper.dev and Crawlora are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest TranscriptAPI plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of TranscriptAPI's 5 plans
Call: GET /youtube/channel/search one of TranscriptAPI's 2 calls for this API
API: Video search API one of TranscriptAPI'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, Channel, Views, Thumbnail.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 100 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 90 days.
  • One call. You call GET /youtube/channel/search. You send one of channel and q, or continuation. The call returns the videos that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

TranscriptAPI: video search API alternatives

TranscriptAPI alternatives: other video search API providers by price

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

TranscriptAPI, $54 yearly, Annual, GET /youtube/channel/searchAnspire, top-up, Standard Search, domestic, region_mode 0, Pay as you goPullbay, $49 monthly, Builder, GET /duckduckgo/videosSearch1API, $19 monthly, Basic, POST /search, Search, fullSerpWow, $1,200 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$4.50$4.487$4.50$4.56$4.80
Completeness67%33%100%67%0%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$54any amount$49$19$1,200
Enough for1,000 pages a monthas many as you pay forabout 10,888 calls a monthabout 4,166 calls a month250,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownlivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years oldanyone who signs up with a mobile phone number and SMS code, identity verification is optionalanyoneanyoneanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

  1. transcriptapi.com/docs/api
  2. transcriptapi.com/pricing
  3. transcriptapi.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Length
  • Date, not in the answer
  • Channel
  • Views
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Thumbnail
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Perpage of 30
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: YouTube Transcript · Video Metadata · Search Endpoint · Channel Videos (Paginated) · Channel Info · Channel Playlists · Channel Posts · Channel Sections · Playlist Endpoint
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch within a specific channel to find videos on any topic. Great for researching a creator's content or finding niche topics in large channels.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree NOT to: Violate any laws, regulations, or third-party rights, Use the Service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, Overload or interfere with the Service infrastructure, Use automated tools to abuse, spam, or overload the Service, Resell or redistribute the Service without explicit written permission, Access data or systems without authorization, Use the Service to collect personal information without consent, Transmit viruses, malware, or other malicious code, Impersonate others or misrepresent your affiliation [...] transcript data is sourced from YouTube and subject to YouTube's terms and applicable copyright laws [...] You may use transcripts in your own commercial product, subject to YouTube's terms.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 pages, once
Expires90 days
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of channel and q, or continuation
MethodGET
Path/youtube/channel/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

video result ID, video result title, video result channel ID, video result channel, video result channel handle, video result channel verified, video result duration, video result view count text, video result published time, video result thumbnail, video result type, video result has captions, returned results count, next cursor, has more

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