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youtubescraperapi Video search API pricing

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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 youtubescraperapi through our video search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 711 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.316 or less per 1,000 searches. 185 video search API plans on our price sheet are free. Scrappa has a free plan with 500 calls a month. Scrappa is the best video search API in our benchmark.TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches, with no charge per call. You get as many searches as TranscriptYT's rate limit allows. SerpBase's $3 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $3.00.TranscriptYT's $45 pack covers any number of searches, and costs more up front than TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan.Scrappa, TranscriptYT and SerpScraper.dev are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest youtubescraperapi plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of youtubescraperapi's 5 plans
Call: GET /youtube/search youtubescraperapi's only call for this API
API: Video search API one of youtubescraperapi's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Live. youtubescraperapi reads the search engine's video results when you call the API.
  • 5 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Length, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 requests.
  • One call. You send search_query to GET /youtube/search. The call returns the videos that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone of legal age to form a binding contract. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

youtubescraperapi: video search API alternatives

youtubescraperapi alternatives: other video search API providers by price

The table starts with youtubescraperapi's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to youtubescraperapi's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

youtubescraperapi, contact usSerpBase, $10 pack, Starter, POST /google/videos/searchFlashData, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/queries/realtime, YouTube Search API (Realtime)Serper, $1,250 packAutom, $1,250 pack, Premium, GET /v1/brave/videos
$ per 1,000 searches$0.50$0.50$0.50$0.50$0.50
Completeness83%50%100%83%83%
Billingcontactpay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$100$10$10$1,250$1,250
Enough for200,000 calls a month20,000 calls20,000 calls2,500,000 calls2,500,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone of legal age to form a binding contractanyoneanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an accountbusinesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"professionals: the service is ordered for a trade, business, craft or profession, by someone at least 18 and able to contract

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

  1. youtubescraperapi.com
  2. youtubescraperapi.com/docs
  3. youtubescraperapi.com/pricing
  4. youtubescraperapi.com/privacy
  5. youtubescraperapi.com/terms
  6. youtubescraperapi.com/youtube-search-scraper

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
  • Thumbnail
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: YouTube Transcript Scraper API (GET /youtube/transcript) · YouTube Suggest (GET /youtube/suggest) · YouTube Comment Scraper API (GET /youtube/comments) · YouTube Channel Scraper API (GET /youtube/channel) · YouTube Video Scraper API (GET /youtube/video) · YouTube Playlist Scraper API (GET /youtube/playlist) · YouTube Email Scraper API (GET /youtube/email) · YouTube Shorts Scraper API (GET /youtube/shorts)
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOur YouTube search API takes a search query and returns the ranked organic results as clean JSON: video IDs, titles, channel names, view counts, and thumbnails, with paid placements split out into a separate ads array so you never mistake an ad for a real ranking.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataIts Terms of Service: "We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the API in line with these terms. Data you retrieve may be subject to the rights of the underlying source." "You agree not to use the service for unlawful, infringing, deceptive, or abusive purposes, or to access data you are not permitted to access." "You agree not to resell raw access or attempt to circumvent plan limits."
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 requests
Enough for1,000 calls
Rate limit
Concurrent10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median2.60 s
The call
You sendsearch_query
MethodGET
Path/youtube/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone of legal age to form a binding contract
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, returned results count, video result position, video result title, video result link, video result ID, video result channel, video result channel URL, video result channel thumbnail, video result channel verified, video result view count text, video result published time, video result duration, video result snippet, video result thumbnail, video result rich thumbnail, ads

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