YouTube Transcript AI
Transcribes YouTube videos, Shorts and finished livestreams from the audio, with or without captions.
$0.0075 per video + $0.00106 per minute. One hour: $0.0711.
deAPI Actors on Apify Transcripts, Video Analysis and Upscaling
deAPI publishes its own actors on the Apify Store. Paste links, click Start and get one row per video, file or image. Apify bills each result to your Apify account, so you don't need a deAPI account or API key. More deAPI actors are coming soon.
$5 in free credits to start. No credit card required.
- deAPI actors on the Apify Store today
- +8
- for a one-hour YouTube video on YouTube Transcript AI
- $0.0711
- for a 30-second video ad on Video Ad Analyzer
- $0.0212
deAPI Actors on Apify and What Each One Costs
Each actor is published by deAPI under apify.com/deapi and priced per result. Your Apify plan doesn't change the price, except for TikTok video metadata: $0.0045 instead of $0.005 on Gold plans and up.
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TikTok Transcript from Audio
Transcribes the audio of public TikTok videos.
$0.0289 per video up to 1 minute, rising by length to $0.1582 over 10 minutes.
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Twitch & Kick VOD Transcriber
Transcribes Twitch VODs and clips and Kick VODs, up to 10 hours.
$0.0188 per recording + $0.003 per minute. One hour: $0.1988.
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Audio & Video Transcription
Transcribes MP3, MP4, WAV and other files from links, or episodes from podcast RSS feeds, up to 10 hours.
$0.0075 per file (per started 2.5 hours) + $0.00113 per minute. One hour: $0.0753.
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AI Video Analyzer
Lists timestamped on-screen events and scenes in TikTok, YouTube and X videos. It reads the picture, not the speech.
TikTok from $0.0152 per video up to 1 minute. YouTube and X: $0.0048 per video + $0.0043 per minute.
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Twitch & Kick VOD Analyzer
Lists timestamped on-screen events in Twitch VODs and clips and Kick VODs, up to 2 hours.
$0.0115 per video + $0.0039 per minute. One hour: $0.2455.
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Video Ad Analyzer
Returns the transcript, on-screen timeline, 3-second hook, spoken CTAs, brand mentions and pacing of Facebook and TikTok video ads.
$0.00684 per video + $0.01032 per transcript + $0.00134 per 10 seconds. A 30-second ad with sound: $0.0212.
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AI Image Upscaler 4x
Upscales images from links 4×, up to 8,192 pixels a side.
$0.00124 per image + $0.00024 per 100,000 input pixels. A 1024×1024 JPG: $0.0039.
Prices from the Apify API on 27 October 2026; each actor page shows the current ones. Minutes, seconds and pixels count per started unit. Word timestamps or speaker labels cost more on the transcription actors. All actors except Audio & Video Transcription add $0.00005 per run start for each GB of memory.
What Apify Adds on Top of the deAPI API
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No code
Fill in the input form in Apify Console and click Start. Results open as a table you can download.
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Chain with other actors
Pass links from another actor's results to a deAPI actor, for example video URLs from a YouTube scraper to YouTube Transcript AI. Video Ad Analyzer reads an ad library scraper's dataset directly.
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Schedules and tasks
Save an input as a task and run it on a schedule, for example a podcast RSS feed transcribed every day.
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Integrations
Send finished runs to a webhook, Make, Zapier, n8n or Google Drive, or call the actor from the Apify API and SDKs.
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Ready-made files
Transcripts come with SRT and VTT subtitles, and every dataset exports as JSON, CSV or Excel.
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AI assistants
Run the actors from an AI assistant such as Claude through the Apify MCP server.
Example Workflow: Analyze a Competitor's Video Ads
Video Ad Analyzer reads the dataset of an ad library scraper directly, so two actors make a competitor research pipeline without code.
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Scrape the ads
Run Facebook Ads Library Scraper from the Apify Store on a brand's Ad Library page, filtered to video ads.
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Chain Video Ad Analyzer
In the scraper's Integrations tab, add Run Actor, pick deAPI Video Ad Analyzer and pass it the scraper's dataset. Each scrape is then analyzed before the video links expire; Meta's expire after about four days.
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Get one row per ad
Each video ad comes back with its transcript, on-screen timeline, 3-second hook, spoken CTAs, brand mentions and pacing, next to the advertiser, CTA button and ad text. Export the table or pass it on to Make, Zapier or n8n.
100 video ads of 30 seconds with sound cost $2.12 in Video Ad Analyzer, plus what the scraper charges for its own run. Image and text ads are skipped and not charged.
Apify Actor or deAPI API
The API costs less per job and covers every deAPI model, including text-to-speech and image generation. It needs code, a deAPI key and your own handling of results. The actor costs more and gives you the Apify tools above.
| Job | deAPI actor on Apify | deAPI API |
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| One-hour YouTube video | $0.0711 | $0.052 |
| One-hour audio file | $0.0753 | $0.052 |
| One-hour Twitch VOD | $0.1988 | $0.150 |
| One-minute TikTok video | $0.0289 | $0.015 |
Segment timestamps, no speaker labels. API prices from the /price endpoint, actor prices from the Apify API, both on 27 October 2026.
How Billing Works on Apify
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No deAPI account
Apify bills each result to your Apify account. deAPI keys and credits don't apply.
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Failed links are free
A link that fails or gets skipped stays in the dataset with its error and is not charged.
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Cost cap per run
Set a maximum cost per run in Apify and the run stops there.
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Apify free plan
Each actor runs on Apify's free plan within a monthly cap, for example 60 minutes on YouTube Transcript AI and 20 images on the upscaler, paid from the free plan's monthly credit.
- $5 in free credits
- No credit card required
- Prepaid, no subscription
Run a deAPI Actor on Apify, or Call the API
You can try each actor on Apify's free plan, for example up to 60 minutes a month on YouTube Transcript AI. For large volumes, the deAPI API costs less per job and starts with $5 in credits.
See also YouTube Transcript API, Speech-to-Text API Pricing and Transcription MCP Server.
Frequently Asked Questions
Actors, prices and billing on Apify
No. The actors call deAPI for you, and Apify bills each result to your Apify account. You only need an Apify account.
On YouTube Transcript AI, $0.0075 per video plus $0.00106 per started minute, so a one-hour video costs $0.0711. With word timestamps or speaker labels the rates are $0.01063 per video and $0.00154 per minute, $0.10303 for one hour.
Yes. The TikTok, YouTube, Twitch and Kick actors transcribe the audio track, so a video doesn't need captions.
Yes. All four return SRT and VTT next to the plain text and timestamped segments.
Yes. Video Ad Analyzer takes another actor's dataset directly, by hand or through the Run Actor integration. The other deAPI actors take lists of links, so you pass them the URLs from a scraper's results.
No. A link that fails or gets skipped shows up in the dataset with its status and is not charged.
The API. A one-hour YouTube video costs $0.052 through the API and $0.0711 through the actor. The actor needs no code and no deAPI key, and it connects to other Apify actors and integrations.
Yes, more are coming soon. Follow deAPI on the Apify Store to see them when they go live.