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TranscriptFetch pricing: YouTube channel video API

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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 TranscriptFetch through our YouTube channel video API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 253 plans for YouTube channel video APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.063 per 1,000 videos or less. 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.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.
Type a number to see the cheapest TranscriptFetch plan for that many videos. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of TranscriptFetch's 12 plans
Call: POST /api/v2/transcripts/channel TranscriptFetch's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel video API one of TranscriptFetch's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 4 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Text, Media, Analytics, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits, enough for 50 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send channel to POST /api/v2/transcripts/channel. You can also send tab, sort, query, limit, cursor and since_video_id. The call returns the channel's videos.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

TranscriptFetch: YouTube channel video API alternatives

TranscriptFetch alternatives: other YouTube channel video API providers by price

The table starts with TranscriptFetch's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 videos closest to TranscriptFetch's.

TranscriptFetch, $2,290 yearlyReefAPI, $15 monthly, Pro monthly, POST /youtube/v1/channel_videosLurkAPI, $225 packVidWords, $79 monthlyOmkar Cloud, $48 monthly
$ per 1,000 videos$0.015$0.015$0.015$0.016$0.016
Completeness67%67%50%33%67%
Billingyearlymonthlypay firstmonthlymonthly
Pay$2,290$15$225$79$48
Enough for250,000 pages a month5,000 pages a month500,000 pages10,000 pages a month100,000 pages a month
Freshnessunknownlive1 hourunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone with a confirmed email addressanyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted parties

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. transcriptfetch.com/
  2. transcriptfetch.com/docs/billing
  3. transcriptfetch.com/docs/endpoints/channel
  4. transcriptfetch.com/docs/pagination
  5. transcriptfetch.com/docs/rate-limits
  6. transcriptfetch.com/docs/youtube/channel-videos
  7. transcriptfetch.com/legal
  8. transcriptfetch.com/pricing

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 50
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Fetch a transcript (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or file URL) · List a playlist's videos · Search for videos, channels or playlists · Fetch up to 500 transcripts in one call (plan-dependent) · Check a monitor now
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchLists a YouTube channel's uploads, newest first, a page at a time.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataTranscriptFetch does not own the transcripts, captions, or metadata returned by the Service, those remain the property of their respective creators and rights holders. No ownership or intellectual-property rights in any fetched content are transferred to you, and you are responsible for obtaining any rights necessary for your intended use of that content. [...] Use the Service lawfully. Do not abuse, overload, or attempt to circumvent rate limits or access controls, do not resell raw access in violation of these terms. You are responsible for ensuring your use of fetched transcripts complies with YouTube's Terms of Service, applicable copyright law, and the rights of content owners. The Service is intended solely for publicly available content. Do not use it to access, or attempt to access, private, unlisted, age-gated, members-only, or otherwise access-restricted content, or any content requiring authentication.
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits
Enough for50 pages
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendchannel. Optional: tab, sort, query, limit, cursor, since_video_id
MethodPOST
Path/api/v2/transcripts/channel
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

video ID, video URL, title, video duration, publish date, view count, channel name, platform, next cursor, credits used, credits remaining

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