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TranscriptAPI

transcriptapi.com

How did a $5-a-month YouTube transcript API reach an author-disclosed $14,800 in September 2026?

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Product at a glance

What it is
A YouTube data API that returns transcripts, search results, channel listings and playlists at scale, reachable over REST, an MCP server or agent skills.
Who it is for
Developers building summarizers, research pipelines and content databases, plus no-code automators on n8n, Make and Zapier.
How it charges
100 free credits with no card required; $5 a month for 1,000 credits at one credit per successful call; extra credits at $2.50 per 1,000.
Business model
Self-serve, usage-metered subscriptions: a single low-priced plan, no sales team, revenue from many small monthly payments plus overage top-ups.

Author-disclosed Sep 2026 revenue

$14.8K

Disclosed on X, 2 October 2026

Founder-stated subscriptions

2,000+

X post, 8 October 2026

Estimated Sep 2026 visits

59.2K

External traffic estimate

Estimated US Google organic visits a month

78.9

across 55 keywords

Data as of 2026-11-0501

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6 chapters, with every figure, post and source.

  1. ?With no search traffic, where do people come from?
  2. ?Why one $5 tier and no sales team?
  3. ?When were the public numbers disclosed?
  • 01The business
  • 02Channel map
  • 03Growth actions
  • 04Social and public notes
  • 05Timeline
  • 06What to copy

Revenue · 30 days

+218%

$12,480

Top post on XViral

$10K in 8 days. Here is exactly what I posted, and when.

4.8K9361.2M

Growth playbook

Launch on X with a before/after demo, then pin the thread to the pricing page.

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