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Alternatives to TranscriptAPI
TranscriptAPI: REST API and MCP server for extracting YouTube transcripts, searching videos, and listing channel and playlist data. 8 products similar to TranscriptAPI, compared on pricing, free tier, API, MCP server, SDK and open source. 8 of 8 have a free tier, 8 of 8 have an API, 7 of 8 offer an MCP server.
- BulkTranscripts
Download YouTube transcripts in bulk from channels, playlists, or single videos
- Arcmira
Search engine for the spoken web: YouTube transcript search API, SDKs, and MCP
- Transcript LOL
Transcribe audio and video files with AI
- URLpipe
Web data API for Markdown, screenshots & metadata
- SerpApi
Google Search API
- PodcastsToText
Web-based tool that transcribes podcast episodes from a Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or TikTok link, with speaker labels, timestamps and export to TXT, MD, SRT, VTT, JSON, DOCX or PDF.
- WebScraping.AI
Web scraping API that returns rendered HTML, clean text, or AI-extracted structured JSON from any URL
- Webhook Toolkit
Test, inspect and debug webhooks with a live capture URL, CLI forwarding, AI explanations and an MCP server.
Side by side
| Product | Pricing | Free tier | API | MCP server | SDK | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TranscriptAPI | Freemium | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| BulkTranscripts | Freemium · from $4.99 | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Arcmira | Freemium · from $0 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| Transcript LOL | Freemium | yes | yes | no | — | no |
| URLpipe | Freemium | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| SerpApi | Freemium | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| PodcastsToText | Freemium | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| WebScraping.AI | Freemium · from $29/month (Personal plan, 250,000 credits); pay-as-you-go $0.0002/credit with $20 minimum top-up | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| Webhook Toolkit | Freemium · from Free tier; paid plans from €5 one-time (7-day Pass), Pro €9/month, Business €29/month | yes | yes | yes | yes | — |
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