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YouTubeTranscript.dev pricing: video search API, GET /search/videos

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesIn our video search API benchmark, the best plan from YouTubeTranscript.dev scores 52.3 out of 100. YouTubeTranscript.dev ranks 24th of 36 providers.This plan is free. We rank 610 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 YouTubeTranscript.dev plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of YouTubeTranscript.dev's 5 plans
Call: GET /search/videos one of YouTubeTranscript.dev's 2 calls
API: Video search API YouTubeTranscript.dev's only API

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 10 credits a month, enough for 10 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle.
  • One call. You send q to GET /search/videos. You can also send upload_date, sort_by, duration, region and page_token. The call returns the videos that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone who signs up. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

YouTubeTranscript.dev: video search API alternatives

YouTubeTranscript.dev alternatives: every video search API provider ranked

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

YouTubeTranscript.dev, $79 monthly, Business, GET /search/videosAnspire, top-up, Standard Search, domestic, region_mode 0, Pay as you goTranscriptOut, $4.49 monthly, 1,000 credits a month, GET /v1/searchGetYouTubeTranscript, $54 yearly, Annual, GET /searchPullbay, $49 monthly, Builder, GET /duckduckgo/videos
$ per 1,000 searches$4.389$4.487$4.49$4.50$4.50
Completeness83%33%100%100%100%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlyyearlymonthly
Pay$79any amount$4.49$54$49
Enough for18,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for1,000 calls a month12,000 pages a yearabout 10,888 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveunknownunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyone who signs up with a mobile phone number and SMS code, identity verification is optionalanyone at least 16 years oldanyone at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority in their jurisdictionanyone

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. youtubetranscript.dev/api-docs
  2. youtubetranscript.dev/api/docs/markdown?version=v2
  3. youtubetranscript.dev/api/v2/openapi.yaml
  4. youtubetranscript.dev/pricing
  5. youtubetranscript.dev/terms
  6. youtubetranscript.dev/youtube-transcript-api

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
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Transcribe a video · Transcribe a video with speech-to-text · Transcribe many videos · Transcribe an Instagram Reel · Translate a transcript · Get themes & keywords · Search Shorts · Search channels · Search playlists
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch YouTube videos by keyword.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to: Violate any laws or regulations, Infringe on intellectual property rights, Abuse, harass, or harm others, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Use the service to extract transcripts from private or restricted videos, Resell or redistribute transcripts without proper authorization, Exceed rate limits or abuse API access. Transcripts extracted through our service may be subject to third-party copyright. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with applicable copyright laws.
Plan
Pay$0
You get10 credits a month
Enough for10 calls a month
Expiresat the end of each billing cycle
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median1.80 s
The call
You sendq. Optional: upload_date, sort_by, duration, region, page_token
MethodGET
Path/search/videos
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone who signs up
The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, query, next cursor, credits consumed, credits remaining, video result type, video result ID, video result link, video result title, video result thumbnail, video result channel ID, video result channel title, video result channel handle, video result channel URL, video result channel thumbnail, video result view count, video result view count text, video result published date, video result published time, video result duration seconds, video result formatted duration, video result badges

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