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YouTubeTranscriptAPI YouTube channel video API pricing: GET /youtube/channel/latest

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 videosIn our YouTube channel video API benchmark, the best plan from YouTubeTranscriptAPI scores 34.1 out of 100. YouTubeTranscriptAPI ranks 37th of 48 providers.This plan is free. We rank 318 plans for YouTube channel video APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.075 or less per 1,000 videos. 130 YouTube channel video API plans on our price sheet are free. YouTube Data API's free plan scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 83.9 out of 100.TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 videos, with no charge 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, and 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 YouTubeTranscriptAPI plan for that many videos. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of YouTubeTranscriptAPI's 3 plans
Call: GET /youtube/channel/latest one of YouTubeTranscriptAPI's 2 calls for this API
API: YouTube channel video API one of YouTubeTranscriptAPI'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 100 credits. You spend the credits on YouTubeTranscriptAPI's other calls. This call is free. YouTubeTranscriptAPI limits how many pages you get but gives no number. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send channel to GET /youtube/channel/latest. The call returns the channel's videos.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

YouTubeTranscriptAPI: YouTube channel video API alternatives

YouTubeTranscriptAPI alternatives: every YouTube channel video API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 videos.

This planYouTubeTranscriptAPI, free, GET /youtube/channel/latestScrapeUnblocker, freeYouTube Data API (Google), free, Default quota, GET /youtube/v3/playlistItemsEveryInfra, freeReefAPI, free, POST /youtube/v1/channel_shortsyoutubescraperapi, free
$ per 1,000 videos$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness67%83%50%83%67%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0€0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published500 pages, once10,000 pages a dayabout 1,798 pages, once1,000 pages1,000 pages
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownlivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 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 enabledanyone who stars everyinfra/everyinfra-agent-plugins on GitHub and claims the credit in the console after sign-up, once per account and once per GitHub accountanyoneanyone of legal age to form a binding contract

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

  1. youtubetranscriptapi.com
  2. youtubetranscriptapi.com/docs/api/channel.md
  3. youtubetranscriptapi.com/docs/rate-limits.md
  4. youtubetranscriptapi.com/legal/terms
  5. youtubetranscriptapi.com/openapi.json
  6. youtubetranscriptapi.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 15
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forResolve Channel Handle · from the same budget: Get Transcripts · Search YouTube · Search Inside a Channel · Browse Channel Videos · Extract Playlist Videos
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRSS-backed list of the latest 15 uploads. Free endpoint, ideal for daily-recap or new-content alert pipelines.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou will not use the service to violate YouTube's Terms of Service. You will not redistribute transcripts or metadata in ways that infringe copyright. You will not attempt to circumvent rate limits, billing, or authentication. You will not resell raw API access. Build a product on top of it.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.61 s
The call
You sendchannel
MethodGET
Path/youtube/channel/latest
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, channel name, video ID, title, video URL, publish date, updated at, description, thumbnail, view count, results returned

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