Add one MCP server and your agent can transcribe YouTube, TikTok and Twitch links, describe what happens on screen, read text from images and speak. You set the budget on the key, and the agent can check the price before each job.
$5 in free credits to start. No credit card required.
Hear
YouTube, X, Twitch, Kick and TikTok links, X Spaces, and uploaded audio and video. Word timestamps, speaker labels and TikTok links need model WhisperLargeV3Ct2, which the tool does not pick by default, so name it in your request.
See
A timeline of what happens on screen, with start and end times for each event.
Read
OCR for text in screenshots, slides and scanned documents.
Speak
Narration from $0.77 per million characters on Kokoro, or in 23 languages on Chatterbox.
Remember
BGE-M3 vectors (1,024 dimensions) to search what the agent has read and heard.
Check
A price tool next to every job tool and a job status tool, so the agent can quote a job before it spends.
In the dashboard, give it a spend limit per day, week or month and an expiry date.
Point your client at https://mcp.deapi.ai/mcp. Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Cursor send the key as a Bearer header; claude.ai and ChatGPT sign in with OAuth.
“Transcribe this video and list every product the speaker mentions.” The agent picks the tool and runs it. Ask it to check the price first if you want a quote.
Setup steps for every client are in the MCP server docs.
deAPI charges for the media task. Your agent's language model is billed separately by its provider.
| Task | deAPI cost |
|---|---|
| Transcribe one 20-minute YouTube video | $0.021 |
| Research across 50 such videos | $1.03 |
| Transcript plus on-screen timeline of a one-hour YouTube video | ≈ $0.16 |
| Read a 10,000-character answer aloud on Kokoro | $0.0077 |
From the /price endpoint on 27 October 2026, transcription on model WhisperLargeV3Ct2, timeline on Marlin 2B with the balanced preset. The agent can call the price tools for current amounts.
Daily, weekly or monthly. Over the limit the API answers 402 key_limit_exceeded and the job does not run.
A key never spends more than the account balance.
Keys can expire on a date and accept calls only from an allowlist of up to 20 IP entries.
Each job tool has a matching price tool, for example video_url_transcription_price.
Every job tool accepts a webhook URL, so your own systems hear about finished jobs too.
Generated files are deleted no later than 24 hours after job creation.
$5 in credits after email verification, no card. Setup takes one URL and one key.
See also YouTube Transcript API, Claude Code Skills and deAPI on Apify.
Setup, budgets and limits
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