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TranscriptFetch pricing: video search API

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run TranscriptFetch through our video search API benchmark 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.TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan 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 covers any number of searches. TranscriptYT's $45 pack costs more up front than TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan.Scrappa, SerpScraper.dev and TranscriptYT are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest TranscriptFetch plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of TranscriptFetch's 12 plans
Call: POST /api/v2/transcripts/search TranscriptFetch's only call for this API
API: Video search API one of TranscriptFetch's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 4 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Length, Date, Channel, Views.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits, enough for 50 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send query to POST /api/v2/transcripts/search. You can also send platform "youtube", type "video", upload_date, duration, sort, captions, transcripts, limit and cursor. The call returns the videos that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

TranscriptFetch: video search API alternatives

TranscriptFetch alternatives: other video search API providers by price

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

TranscriptFetch, $2,290 yearlyQuanticData, $299 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/serp, Google video searchSearch1API, $19 monthly, Basic, POST /search, SearchScrapeUnblocker, €299 monthlyUjeebu, $155 pack
$ per 1,000 searches$0.763$0.753$0.76$0.765$0.775
Completeness67%67%67%83%67%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlymonthlypay first
Pay$2,290$299$19€299$155
Enough for250,000 pages a monthabout 396,825 calls a month25,000 calls a month440,000 calls a month200,000 calls
Freshnessunknown24 hourslivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone 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 who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permission

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.

  1. transcriptfetch.com/
  2. transcriptfetch.com/docs/billing
  3. transcriptfetch.com/docs/pagination
  4. transcriptfetch.com/docs/rate-limits
  5. transcriptfetch.com/docs/youtube/search
  6. transcriptfetch.com/legal
  7. transcriptfetch.com/pricing

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
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Thumbnail, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Perpage of 50
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Fetch a transcript (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or file URL) · List a channel's or profile's videos, Shorts, streams or playlists · List a playlist's videos · Fetch up to 500 transcripts in one call (plan-dependent) · Check a monitor now
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearches YouTube by keyword and returns a page of videos, each with a url the transcript and batch endpoints accept.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataTranscriptFetch does not own the transcripts, captions, or metadata returned by the Service, those remain the property of their respective creators and rights holders. No ownership or intellectual-property rights in any fetched content are transferred to you, and you are responsible for obtaining any rights necessary for your intended use of that content. [...] Use the Service lawfully. Do not abuse, overload, or attempt to circumvent rate limits or access controls, do not resell raw access in violation of these terms. You are responsible for ensuring your use of fetched transcripts complies with YouTube's Terms of Service, applicable copyright law, and the rights of content owners. The Service is intended solely for publicly available content. Do not use it to access, or attempt to access, private, unlisted, age-gated, members-only, or otherwise access-restricted content, or any content requiring authentication.
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits
Enough for50 pages
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: platform "youtube", type "video", upload_date, duration, sort, captions, transcripts, limit, cursor
MethodPOST
Path/api/v2/transcripts/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

video result ID, video result link, video result title, video result duration seconds, video result channel, video result published date, video result view count, next cursor, credits consumed, credits remaining

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