# Vimeo, free: Video search API

> Vimeo's API supports flexible, high-quality video integration with your custom apps.

Vimeo's video search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Length, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
You get up to 1,080,000 pages a month.
We haven't run Vimeo through [our video search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 453 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.90 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Vimeo's $20 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/20-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.0037. Vimeo's $20 monthly plan covers up to 5,400,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 100 results.
[SerpKite](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-videos-bing-videos/llms.txt), [PrismCrawl](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/prismcrawl/10-pack-lite-post-v1-yahoo-videos-search/llms.txt) and [ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly/llms.txt) are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/free
- [Video search API: 12 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://vimeo.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.vimeo.com/videos`
- API key: with the plan, on https://vimeo.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developer.vimeo.com/api/reference/videos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing#search_videos
- Sold by: Vimeo (https://vimeo.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Length: ✓
- Channel: ✓
- Views: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Thumbnail: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 327 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Vimeo's API supports flexible, high-quality video integration with your custom apps.

## Data

- Keep data: You may only request, store, and use content, data, or metadata made available by Vimeo through the Developer Interfaces [...] as necessary for your Application's legitimate operation. [...] Upon termination or suspension, you must immediately cease using the Developer Interfaces and delete any Vimeo Content in your possession.
- Use data: You may only request, store, and use content, data, or metadata made available by Vimeo through the Developer Interfaces (collectively, “Vimeo Content”) as necessary for your Application's legitimate operation and consistent with all applicable privacy and data-protection laws. You may only use Vimeo Content to power features of your Application. You must not use it for advertising, profiling, or data mining, or to build or enrich user datasets for any other product or service. [...] You may not use Vimeo Content or any other data obtained through the Developer Interfaces to train, retrain, fine-tune, or otherwise improve any artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models, nor permit any third party to do so. [...] You may not charge End Users a fee for your Application unless we expressly authorize you to do so in writing. [...] You must comply with our rate limits and other technical restrictions. [...] Upon termination or suspension, you must immediately cease using the Developer Interfaces and delete any Vimeo Content in your possession.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 1,080,000 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.42
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: direction, filter, links, page, per_page, sort, uris
- Method: GET
- Path: /videos

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a Vimeo account in good standing, 16 or older (18 for commercial use)

## The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

video result link, video result URI, video result title, video result description, video result duration seconds, video result width, video result height, video result created at, video result released at, video result modified at, video result language, video result license, video result type, video result status, video result categories, video result tags, video result content rating, video result thumbnail, video result view count, video result like count, video result comment count, video result privacy, video result embed settings, video result resource key, video result channel, video result channel URL, video result channel ID, video result channel thumbnail, video result channel bio, video result channel location, video result channel account type, video result channel created at, video result channel websites

## Vimeo's plans (8)

- [Vimeo, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Vimeo, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/20-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0037 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Vimeo, $41 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/41-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0038 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Vimeo, $125 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/125-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0039 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Vimeo, $144 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/144-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0022 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Vimeo, $300 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/300-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0023 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Vimeo, $900 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/900-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0023 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Vimeo, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete

## Vimeo's calls (1)

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

## Vimeo's APIs (1)

- [Vimeo: video search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/free/llms.txt)

## Vimeo: video search API alternatives

- [x402serps, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/x402serps/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [SerpScraper.dev, $4,992 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/4992-yearly/llms.txt): $0.028 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [SerpData, $900 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpdata/900-pack/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Serpent API, top-up from $500, Scale, GET /api/videos, Bing Video Search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-videos-bing-video-search/llms.txt): $0.07 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $300,000 yearly, Nova Pro, GET /google_videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapingdog/300000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.114 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://developer.vimeo.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://developer.vimeo.com/api/reference/videos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://developer.vimeo.com/guidelines/rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vimeo/openapi/master/api.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://vimeo.com/legal/service-terms/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://vimeo.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://vimeo.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing