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TranscriptOut pricing: video search API, GET /v1/channel/search

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run TranscriptOut 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 TranscriptOut plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of TranscriptOut's 11 plans
Call: GET /v1/channel/search one of TranscriptOut's 2 calls for this API
API: Video search API one of TranscriptOut's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 5 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Length, Date, Channel, Views, Thumbnail.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 100 calls.
  • One call. You send name and q to GET /v1/channel/search. You can also send limit and next_page_token. The call returns the videos that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 16 years old. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

TranscriptOut: video search API alternatives

TranscriptOut alternatives: other video search API providers by price

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

TranscriptOut, $1,547.79 yearly, 100,000 credits a month, billed annually, GET /v1/channel/searchTranscriptFetch, $45 monthlyAnysite, $549 monthlyFroxy, $500 monthlyAnyCrawler, $200 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.29$1.286$1.292$1.316$1.333
Completeness83%67%50%17%33%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$1,547.79$45$549$500$200
Enough for100,000 calls a month35,000 pages a month425,000 calls a month380,000 calls a month150,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyone at least 16 years oldanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyoneanyone

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. transcriptout.com/#pricing
  2. transcriptout.com/docs
  3. transcriptout.com/privacy
  4. transcriptout.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
  • Channel
  • Views
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Thumbnail
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freenever
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Get a transcript · Get transcripts in bulk · Get video info · Search YouTube · List channel videos · A channel's latest videos · List playlist videos · Search inside a playlist
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchYouTube's own relevance search, scoped to one channel. Matches titles, descriptions, tags and even spoken words.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to: Use the service unlawfully, or to infringe anyone else’s rights. Work around rate limits or the credit system, by opening multiple accounts to multiply the free grant, for example. Resell or redistribute the API itself as a competing transcript API. Probe, overload or attempt to disrupt the service or the infrastructure behind it. Use the service to build a dataset whose distribution would infringe the rights of the video creators. [...] Transcripts, titles, thumbnails and every other field the API returns originate from YouTube and belong to their rights holders. We grant you no license in them, because we hold none to grant. You are responsible for making sure your use of that content complies with copyright law, with YouTube’s terms, and with any other rules that apply to you.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 calls, once
Rate limit
Per second3.33
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendname, q. Optional: limit, next_page_token
MethodGET
Path/v1/channel/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 16 years old
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

video result ID, video result title, video result channel, video result duration, video result view count text, video result published date, video result link, video result thumbnail, video result channel title, search query, searched channel ID, returned results count, next cursor, has more

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