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YTAPI pricing: video search API

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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 YTAPI through our video search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 622 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 YTAPI plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of YTAPI's 5 plans
Call: GET /v1/search YTAPI's only call for this API
API: Video search API one of YTAPI's 4 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 30 days old. You get videos YTAPI saved earlier.
  • 5 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Length, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits, enough for 200 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send q to GET /v1/search. You can also send limit, type, upload_date, duration, sort_by and cursor. The call returns the videos that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

YTAPI: video search API alternatives

YTAPI alternatives: other video search API providers by price

The table starts with YTAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to YTAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

YTAPI, $79 packSerply, $15 packGeoRanker, $150 monthlyValueSERP, $1,896 yearlyZenserp, $479.88 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.58$1.50$1.50$1.58$1.60
Completeness83%17%0%0%83%
Billingpay firstpay firstmonthlyyearlyyearly
Pay$79$15$150$1,896$479.88
Enough for50,000 pages10,000 calls100,000 pages a month100,000 calls a month25,000 calls a month
Freshness30 dayslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone of legal age to form a binding contractanyoneanyone

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. docs.ytapi.dev/credits/
  2. docs.ytapi.dev/llms-full.txt
  3. docs.ytapi.dev/pricing/
  4. docs.ytapi.dev/search/query
  5. ytapi.dev/
  6. ytapi.dev/legal/terms
  7. ytapi.dev/openapi.json
  8. ytapi.dev/pricing

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
Perpage of 50
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freenever
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Extract transcript · Get transcript · Get full video info · Get most replayed moments · Get video comments · Get playlist · Get channel · Get channel latest videos · List channel videos · List channel playlists · Submit batch job
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch YouTube, list a channel's uploads or playlists, and page through any playlist. No Google Cloud project and no YouTube Data API quota.
Data
Freshness30 days
Keep datano limit
Use dataThese Terms give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to call the API and to use the dashboard for your own applications. [...] Transcripts, titles, and other YouTube material remain subject to the rights of their owners and to YouTube’s terms. [...] Do not present the Service, or data from it, as an official YouTube product. [...] You will not: break the law, or help someone else break it, use the Service to harass, dox, or harm a person, send card-testing, credential-stuffing, or other attack traffic, bypass a security control, probe the Service as an open proxy, or overload it in a way that is not a good-faith measurement with your own key and credits, resell or white-label the Service without our written permission, share an API key publicly.
Plan
Pay$0
You get200 credits
Enough for200 pages
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per day100
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: limit, type, upload_date, duration, sort_by, cursor
MethodGET
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, video result ID, video result type, video result title, video result description, video result channel, video result channel ID, video result duration seconds, video result formatted duration, video result view count text, video result published time, video result thumbnail, video result channel handle, video result subscribers, video result video count, video result badges, has more, next cursor

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