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

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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/videos 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 once, enough for 5 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send channel to GET /youtube/channel/videos. 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

The table starts with YouTubeTranscriptAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 videos closest to YouTubeTranscriptAPI's. We also show the AgentX.sale plan. Its price is farther from the price of YouTubeTranscriptAPI's cheapest paid plan.

YouTubeTranscriptAPI, $60 yearly, Annual, GET /youtube/channel/videosAgentX.sale, pay as you goIPWEB, $650 monthlylobstr.io, $960 yearly, Pro, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Search ScraperQuanticData, top-up from $5Thordata, $125 pack
$ per 1,000 videos$0.80$0.667$0.747$0.80$0.80$0.833
Completeness67%67%67%83%67%67%
Billingyearlypay as you gomonthlyyearlypay firstpay first
Pay$60per call$650$960$5$125
Enough for750 pages a yearas many as you pay for870,000 results a month100,000 results a month6,250 results150,000 results
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownlivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base or Solana (x402), no account or API keyanyone at least 18 years old, or a legal entity, using it in network environments outside mainland Chinaprofessionals, not consumersanyone, for an organisation, someone authorised to bind itanyone 18 or older and of the legal age in their jurisdiction

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 100
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forTrack New Uploads · Resolve Channel Handle · from the same budget: Get Transcripts · Search YouTube · Search Inside a Channel · Extract Playlist Videos
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA channel's most recent uploads, up to 100 videos. Only the first page is served for now.
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
Enough for5 pages, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median2.39 s
The call
You sendchannel
MethodGET
Path/youtube/channel/videos
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

video ID, title, channel ID, channel name, channel handle, video duration text, view count text, thumbnail, position, has more

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