TranscriptAPI pricing: video search API, GET /
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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.
Plan: Free one of TranscriptAPI's 5 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $5 monthly, MonthlyMonthly$5.00 per 1,000
- $10 yearly, Special Low Usage PlanSpecial Low Usage Plan$10.00 per 1,000
- $54 yearly, AnnualAnnual$4.50 per 1,000
- Contact us, Custom planCustom plan
Call:
GET / one of TranscriptAPI's 2 calls for this APIAPI: Video search API one of TranscriptAPI's 3 APIs
- YouTube channel API
- YouTube channel video API
GET /youtube/ channel/ latest - YouTube channel video API
GET /youtube/ channel/ videos - Video search API
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 send
qorcontinuationtoGET /. You can also sendyoutube/ search type,sort,upload_,date duration,featuresandsp. 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/search | Anspire, top-up, Standard Search, domestic, region_mode 0, Pay as you go | Pullbay, $49 monthly, Builder, GET /duckduckgo/videos | Search1API, $19 monthly, Basic, POST /search, Search, full | SerpWow, $1,200 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $4.50 | $4.487 | $4.50 | $4.56 | $4.80 |
| Completeness | 67% | 33% | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Billing | yearly | pay first | monthly | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | $54 | any amount | $49 | $19 | $1,200 |
| Enough for | 1,000 pages a month | as many as you pay for | about 10,888 calls a month | about 4,166 calls a month | 250,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old | anyone who signs up with a mobile phone number and SMS code, identity verification is optional | anyone | 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 2026-11-06.
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
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
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| Per | page of 20 |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: YouTube Transcript · Video Metadata · Search Within Channel · Channel Videos (Paginated) · Channel Info · Channel Playlists · Channel Posts · Channel Sections · Playlist Endpoint |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Search YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists. Filter by type and limit results — perfect for discovery, research, and building content pipelines. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | You 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. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 100 pages, once |
| Expires | 90 days |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | one of q or continuation. Optional: type, sort, upload_date, duration, features, sp |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /youtube/search |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone 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