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TranscriptAPI pricing: YouTube channel video API, GET /youtube/channel/videos

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 videosWe haven't run TranscriptAPI through our YouTube channel video API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 184 plans for YouTube channel video APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.052 per 1,000 videos or less.TranscriptAPI's $5 monthly plan (/youtube/channel/latest) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 videos. TranscriptAPI's $5 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many videos as TranscriptAPI's rate limit allows.TubeLab's $39 monthly plan (/channel/shorts/{id}) covers any number of videos. TubeLab's $39 monthly plan costs more up front than TranscriptAPI's $5 monthly plan.YouTube Data API (Google), Scrappa and lobstr.io are the best YouTube channel video API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest TranscriptAPI plan for that many videos. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of TranscriptAPI's 5 plans
Call: GET /youtube/channel/videos one of TranscriptAPI's 2 calls for this API
API: YouTube channel video API one of TranscriptAPI's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Analytics, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 100 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 90 days.
  • One call. You send channel or continuation to GET /youtube/channel/videos. You can also send tab and sort. The call returns the channel's videos.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

TranscriptAPI: YouTube channel video API alternatives

TranscriptAPI alternatives: other YouTube channel video 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 videos closest to TranscriptAPI's.

TranscriptAPI, $54 yearly, Annual, GET /youtube/channel/videosSocialKit, $39 monthlyMonocrawl, $299 monthlyCaptapi, $9 monthlyCrawlora, $9 monthly
$ per 1,000 videos$0.045$0.043$0.044$0.045$0.045
Completeness67%67%33%67%67%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$54$39$299$9$9
Enough for1,000 pages a month18,000 pages a month135,000 pages a month1,000 pages a monthabout 6,666 pages a month
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years oldanyoneanyoneanyone at least 18 years oldanyone

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.

  1. transcriptapi.com/docs/api
  2. transcriptapi.com/pricing
  3. transcriptapi.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Text
  • Media
  • Engagement, not in the answer
  • Analytics
  • Author
  • Audience, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 videos$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: YouTube Transcript · Video Metadata · Search Endpoint · Search Within Channel · Channel Info · Channel Playlists · Channel Posts · Channel Sections · Playlist Endpoint
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchList all videos from any YouTube channel. Ideal for building databases, bulk transcript extraction, or auditing a channel's full content library.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou 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.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 pages, once
Expires90 days
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of channel or continuation. Optional: tab, sort
MethodGET
Path/youtube/channel/videos
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

video ID, title, channel ID, channel name, channel handle, video duration text, view count text, thumbnail, position, member only, published time text, total results, next cursor, has more

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