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YouTubeVideoTranscript.io pricing: video search API, GET /api/v1/search

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesIn our video search API benchmark, the best plan from YouTubeVideoTranscript.io scores 47.6 out of 100. YouTubeVideoTranscript.io ranks 32nd 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 YouTubeVideoTranscript.io plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of YouTubeVideoTranscript.io's 4 plans
Call: GET /api/v1/search one of YouTubeVideoTranscript.io's 2 calls for this API
API: Video search API one of YouTubeVideoTranscript.io's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 6 fields on our checklist. Length, Date, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 30 credits a month. You spend the credits on YouTubeVideoTranscript.io's other calls. This call is free. YouTubeVideoTranscript.io limits how many calls you get but gives no number. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits do not roll over.
  • One call. You send q to GET /api/v1/search. You can also send type, sort_by, upload_date, duration and continuation. The call returns the videos that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 13 years old with a Google account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

YouTubeVideoTranscript.io: video search API alternatives

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We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planYouTubeVideoTranscript.io, free, GET /api/v1/searchScrappa, freeSerpScraper.dev, freeTranscriptYT, freeCrawlora, free, GET /brave/videosVimeo, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%83%100%50%100%83%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published500 calls a month5,000 calls, once100 calls, onceabout 666 calls a monthnot published
Who can get itanyone at least 13 years old with a Google accountanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone at least 18 years old, or of the age of majority where they live, and able to enter into a binding contractanyoneanyone with a Vimeo account in good standing, 16 or older (18 for commercial use)

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. youtubevideotranscript.io/docs/quotas
  2. youtubevideotranscript.io/docs/rate-limits
  3. youtubevideotranscript.io/docs/search
  4. youtubevideotranscript.io/pricing
  5. youtubevideotranscript.io/terms
  6. youtubevideotranscript.io/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
  • Thumbnail
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Fetch a transcript · Video comments · Search inside a channel · Video info and caption availability · Resolve a URL · Check usage · List channel playlists · Get an exact long-form count
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFind videos before fetching their transcripts.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use the service for personal, research, journalistic, and commercial purposes, subject to YouTube's Terms of Service and applicable copyright law. [...] You are responsible for ensuring your use of downloaded transcripts complies with applicable laws. YouTube Video Transcript does not grant any rights in the underlying video content. [...] You may not use YouTube Video Transcript to scrape transcripts at a volume that violates YouTube's Terms of Service, resell access to the service without authorization, automate requests in a manner that degrades service quality for other users, or use the service for any unlawful purpose.
Plan
Pay$0
You get30 credits a month
Expiresdo not roll over
Rate limit
Per second0.5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median2.09 s
The call
You sendq. Optional: type, sort_by, upload_date, duration, continuation
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 13 years old with a Google account
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

video result ID, video result link, video result title, video result thumbnail, video result duration seconds, video result published date, video result view count text, video result is live, video result channel, video result channel ID, video result description, video result channel handle, video result subscribers, video result video count, video result playlist ID, video result type, search query, total results, next cursor

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