TranscriptAPI pricing: YouTube channel API
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36% complete: 4 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run TranscriptAPI through our YouTube channel API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 389 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.667 per 1,000 channels or less.Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.01.YouTube Data API (Google), Litescrape and lobstr.io are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of TranscriptAPI's 5 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $5 monthlyMonthly$5.00 per 1,000
- $10 yearlySpecial Low Usage Plan$10.00 per 1,000
- $54 yearlyAnnual$4.50 per 1,000
- Contact usCustom plan
Call:
GET / TranscriptAPI's only call for this APIAPI: YouTube channel API one of TranscriptAPI's 3 APIs
- YouTube channel API
- YouTube channel video API
GET /youtube/ channel/ latest - YouTube channel video API
GET /youtube/ channel/ videos - Video search API
GET /youtube/ search - Video search API
GET /youtube/ channel/ search
About this item
- A copy at most 5 minutes old. You get channels from TranscriptAPI's copy of YouTube.
- 4 of the 11 key fields we check. Photo, Verified, Followers, Posts.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 100 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 90 days.
- One call. You send
channeltoGET /. The call returns the channel's details.youtube/ channel/ info - Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
TranscriptAPI: YouTube channel API alternatives
TranscriptAPI alternatives: other YouTube channel API providers by price
The table starts with TranscriptAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to TranscriptAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.
| TranscriptAPI, $54 yearly | EnsembleData, $100 monthly, Wood, GET /youtube/channel/detailed-info, Channel Detailed Info | Captapi, $9 monthly | SociaVault, $29 pack | CreatorCrawl, $99 pack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 channels | $4.50 | $4.444 | $4.50 | $4.833 | $4.95 |
| Completeness | 36% | 55% | 82% | 73% | 91% |
| Billing | yearly | monthly | monthly | pay first | pay first |
| Pay | $54 | $100 | $9 | $29 | $99 |
| Enough for | 1,000 calls a month | 750 calls a day | 2,000 calls a month | 6,000 calls | 20,000 calls |
| Freshness | 5 minutes | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old | anyone | anyone at least 16 years old |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Bio, not in the answer
- Photo
- Links, not in the answer
- Contact, not in the answer
- Location, not in the answer
- Verified
- Followers
- Following, not in the answer
- Posts
- Likes, not in the answer
- Views, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 channels | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: YouTube Transcript · Video Metadata · Search Endpoint · Search Within Channel · Channel Videos (Paginated) · Channel Playlists · Channel Posts · Channel Sections · Playlist Endpoint |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Fetch a channel's profile: title, @handle, verified flag, subscriber/video-count text, description, keywords, tags, thumbnails, banners, and the tabs the channel exposes. |
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| Freshness | 5 minutes |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | You agree NOT to: Violate any laws, regulations, or third-party rights, Use the Service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, Overload or interfere with the Service infrastructure, Use automated tools to abuse, spam, or overload the Service, Resell or redistribute the Service without explicit written permission, Access data or systems without authorization, Use the Service to collect personal information without consent, Transmit viruses, malware, or other malicious code, Impersonate others or misrepresent your affiliation [...] transcript data is sourced from YouTube and subject to YouTube's terms and applicable copyright laws [...] You may use transcripts in your own commercial product, subject to YouTube's terms. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 100 calls, once |
| Expires | 90 days |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | channel |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /youtube/channel/info |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old |
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold
channel ID, title, handle, verified, subscribers text, videos count text, description, keywords, tags, family safe, profile picture sizes, banner image sizes, tabs