Manifold pricing: YouTube channel video API

Name: Manifold YouTube channel video API
Brand: Manifold

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields

$0.00per 1,000 videosWe haven't run Manifold through our YouTube channel video API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 254 plans for YouTube channel video APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.063 or less per 1,000 videos. See the best free YouTube channel video API plan.TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 videos. TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many videos as TranscriptYT's rate limit allows. ScrapeUnblocker's pay-as-you-go plan costs the least for 10,000 videos a month: about $0.06.ShortsIntel's $10 pack (/creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos) covers any number of videos. ShortsIntel's $10 pack costs more up front than TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan.ScrapeUnblocker, YouTube Data API (Google) and EveryInfra are the best YouTube channel video API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Free one of Manifold's 7 plans

Call: POST /mcp Manifold's only call for this API

API: YouTube channel video API one of Manifold's 34 APIs

About this item

A copy at most 6 hours old. You get videos from Manifold's copy of YouTube.
4 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Text, Media, Author, Audience.
Nothing to pay. You get 250 credits a month, enough for 250 pages. Unused credits expire at the monthly reset, not rolled over.
One call. You send id and params.arguments.handle to POST /mcp. You set jsonrpc to "2.0", method to "tools/call" and params.name to "youtube_get_videos". You can also send params.arguments.sort and params.arguments.cursor. The call returns the channel's videos.
Who can get it: anyone using it for business, aged 18 or over, no card needed. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 videos. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

	This planManifold, free	ScrapeUnblocker, free	YouTube Data API (Google), free, Default quota, GET /youtube/v3/playlistItems	ReefAPI, free, POST /youtube/v1/channel_shorts	Spidra, free, POST /batch/scrape	KonbiniAPI, free
$ per 1,000 videos	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	67%	83%	50%	67%	67%	67%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	€0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	250 pages a month	500 pages, once	10,000 pages a day	1,000 pages	300 pages, once	100 pages
Freshness	6 hours	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone using it for business, aged 18 or over, no card needed	anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")	anyone of legal age and not barred by law, with a Google Account and a Google Cloud project that has the YouTube Data API enabled	anyone	anyone	anyone at least 18 years old

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

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

Charges
Repeat free	6 hours
Also pays for	from the same budget: 111 other calls

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	The videos on one YouTube channel, newest or most viewed first.

Data
Freshness	6 hours
Keep data	no limit
Use data	[7.3] You may use the results the Service returns for your internal business purposes, including in reports and materials you produce for your own clients, subject to Section 5. [...] [5.1] You must use the Service lawfully, and only in ways that a reasonable person would consider fair to us, to our data providers and to the people whose data the Service returns. In particular, you must not: (a) use the Service to send unsolicited messages, or to build or enrich lists of people for unsolicited marketing, in breach of the UK GDPR, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, the CAN-SPAM Act, or any other law that applies to you or to the people you contact, (b) resell, sublicense, redistribute or publicly release the data the Service returns as a dataset or database, or use the Service to build a product whose purpose is to make that data available to others, (c) use the data to discriminate unlawfully, to stalk, harass or intimidate anyone, or for any purpose that is harmful, deceptive or unlawful, (d) use the Service to determine a person's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or any similar benefit, or for any purpose regulated by consumer reporting or credit reference laws, (g) reverse engineer, decompile or copy the Service, or use it to build a competing service, (i) use the Service in breach of the terms of a platform, website or data provider, where those terms apply to you.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	250 credits a month
Enough for	250 pages a month
Expires	at the monthly reset, not rolled over

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	jsonrpc "2.0", id, method "tools/call", params.name "youtube_get_videos", params.arguments.handle. Optional: params.arguments.sort, params.arguments.cursor
Method	POST
Path	/mcp

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone using it for business, aged 18 or over, no card needed

The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

author username, author followers, date, text, views, media, duration, links, transcript