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YouTubeTranscriptAPI Video search API pricing: GET /youtube/search

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run YouTubeTranscriptAPI 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 YouTubeTranscriptAPI plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of YouTubeTranscriptAPI's 3 plans
Call: GET /youtube/search one of YouTubeTranscriptAPI's 2 calls for this API
API: Video search API one of YouTubeTranscriptAPI's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Channel, Views, Thumbnail.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 25 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send q to GET /youtube/search. You can also send type and limit. The call returns the videos that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

YouTubeTranscriptAPI: video search API alternatives

YouTubeTranscriptAPI alternatives: other video search API providers by price

The table starts with YouTubeTranscriptAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to YouTubeTranscriptAPI's. We also show the APICK plan. Its price is farther from the price of YouTubeTranscriptAPI's cheapest paid plan.

YouTubeTranscriptAPI, $60 yearly, Annual, GET /youtube/searchAPICK, top-up from ₩55,000SerpWow, $155 monthlysocially, $79 packTrends MCP, $192 yearlyTrendsConnector, $192 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$16.00$15.014$15.50$15.80$16.00$16.00
Completeness50%100%0%100%50%50%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlypay firstyearlyyearly
Pay$60₩55,000$155$79$192$192
Enough for3,750 calls a yearas many as you pay for10,000 calls a month5,000 calls1,000 calls a month1,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownlive30 minutesunknownunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyone who signs up as a member: an individual, company or organizationanyoneanyone with an accountanyone aged 18 or over with a Trends MCP account (sign up with an email and an 8-digit code, no card)anyone aged 18 or over with a TrendsConnector account

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. youtubetranscriptapi.com
  2. youtubetranscriptapi.com/docs/api/search.md
  3. youtubetranscriptapi.com/docs/rate-limits.md
  4. youtubetranscriptapi.com/legal/terms
  5. youtubetranscriptapi.com/openapi.json
  6. youtubetranscriptapi.com/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Length, not in the answer
  • Date, not in the answer
  • Channel
  • Views
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Thumbnail
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search50
Also pays forTrack New Uploads · Resolve Channel Handle · from the same budget: Get Transcripts · Search Inside a Channel · Browse Channel Videos · Extract Playlist Videos
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch for videos or channels with rich metadata.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou will not use the service to violate YouTube's Terms of Service. You will not redistribute transcripts or metadata in ways that infringe copyright. You will not attempt to circumvent rate limits, billing, or authentication. You will not resell raw API access. Build a product on top of it.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for25 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: type, limit
MethodGET
Path/youtube/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

video result type, video result ID, video result title, video result channel ID, video result channel title, video result channel handle, video result formatted duration, video result view count text, video result published time, video result thumbnail, returned results count

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