# YTAPI, free: Video search API

> Search YouTube, list a channel's uploads or playlists, and page through any playlist. No Google Cloud project and no YouTube Data API quota.

YTAPI's Free plan for the video search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. YTAPI's docs list 5 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Length, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
We haven't run YTAPI through [our video search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
[TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/45-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. TranscriptYT's $45 pack costs more up front than TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/139-monthly/llms.txt) and [TranscriptYT](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt) are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/ytapi/free
- [Video search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://ytapi.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.ytapi.dev/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://ytapi.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.ytapi.dev/search/query?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: YTAPI (https://ytapi.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Length: ✓
- Channel: ✓
- Views: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Thumbnail: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search YouTube, list a channel's uploads or playlists, and page through any playlist. No Google Cloud project and no YouTube Data API quota.

## Data

- Freshness: 30 days
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: These 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 get: 200 credits
- Enough for: 200 pages
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per day: 100
- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: limit, type, upload_date, duration, sort_by, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## YTAPI's plans (5)

- [YTAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 30 days
- [YTAPI, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/ytapi/9-pack/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 83% complete, 30 days
- [YTAPI, $29 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/ytapi/29-pack/llms.txt): $2.90 per 1,000, 83% complete, 30 days
- [YTAPI, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/ytapi/79-pack/llms.txt): $1.58 per 1,000, 83% complete, 30 days
- [YTAPI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/ytapi/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete, 30 days

## YTAPI's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/search`: [YTAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt)

## YTAPI's APIs (4)

- [YTAPI: search autocomplete API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt)
- [YTAPI: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt)
- [YTAPI: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/ytapi/free/llms.txt)
- [YTAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/channels/{id}/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/ytapi/free-get-v1-channels-id-latest/llms.txt)
- [YTAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/channels/{id}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/ytapi/free-get-v1-channels-id-videos/llms.txt)

## YTAPI: video search API alternatives

- [Serply, $15 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serply/15-pack/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [GeoRanker, $150 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/georanker/150-monthly/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $1,896 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/valueserp/1896-yearly/llms.txt): $1.58 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Zenserp, $479.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/zenserp/479-88-yearly/llms.txt): $1.60 per 1,000, 83% complete, live

## 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.

- https://docs.ytapi.dev/credits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.ytapi.dev/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.ytapi.dev/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.ytapi.dev/search/query?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://ytapi.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://ytapi.dev/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://ytapi.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://ytapi.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing