Supadata review
A developer API that returns transcripts, metadata and AI-extracted data from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X videos, plus web pages as Markdown, with 100 free credits a month.
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Best for: pulling video transcripts into a RAG pipeline or AI agent, including videos that have no captions
Pricing: Free for 100 credits a month; paid plans run from $5/month billed annually (300 credits) and $17/month (3,000 credits) up to $897/month for 1,000,000 credits.
- Supadata's free plan includes 100 API credits per month with no credit card required.
- A Supadata transcript costs 1 credit, an AI-generated transcript costs 2 credits per minute, and translation costs 30 credits per minute.
- Supadata Pro costs $17 per month for 3,000 credits; Basic costs $60 per year for 300 credits a month.
- Supadata transcribes YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X videos plus public files up to 750 MB or 12 hours long.
- Supadata is operated by Dumpling Software UG in Berlin, Germany.
Limitations: AI transcription at 2 credits per minute gets expensive for long videos.; Credits do not roll over between months.; No support for live streams or members-only videos.
Top alternatives: YouTube Transcript IO, GetYouTubeTranscript, TranscriptAPI, ScrapeCreators, YouTube To Transcript — full list
What is Supadata?
Supadata is a video transcript and web data API operated by Dumpling Software UG in Berlin, Germany. Developers send a video URL with an API key and receive the transcript as timestamped JSON segments or plain text, in the requested language when captions exist; in the default auto mode Supadata generates a transcript with AI when they do not, and long videos return a job ID that the client polls until the result is ready. The same key covers metadata for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X posts, YouTube video, channel, playlist and search data, transcript translation, an extract endpoint that turns a video into structured JSON from a prompt or schema, and a web reader that scrapes, maps and crawls sites into Markdown. Pricing is credit-based, from a free 100-credit tier to custom Enterprise volumes, and Supadata is built for RAG pipelines, chatbots, content repurposing and social media research rather than for people who want a single transcript by hand.
Supadata is a REST API for developers and AI builders that fetches video transcripts from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X and public file URLs, falling back to AI speech-to-text when a video has no captions. A transcript costs 1 credit and an AI-generated transcript 2 credits per minute; the free plan includes 100 credits a month, Basic costs $5 per month billed annually ($60 a year) for 300 credits, Pro $17 per month for 3,000 credits, and the Mega, Giga and Supa plans scale up to 1,000,000 credits for $897 per month. Beyond transcripts, Supadata returns social video metadata, YouTube channel, playlist and search data, AI video analysis against a prompt or JSON schema, and web scraping, crawling and site maps as LLM-ready Markdown. It ships Python and JavaScript SDKs, an MCP server, and Zapier, Make, n8n and Activepieces integrations.
Standout feature: AI transcription fallback on the same endpoint: when a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or X video has no captions, Supadata generates a transcript with speech-to-text in 100+ auto-detected languages instead of returning an error.
Biggest weakness: Supadata charges 2 credits per minute for AI-generated transcripts, so a single 60-minute video without captions uses 120 credits, more than the free plan's 100 monthly credits, and unused credits never roll over.
Supadata: pros and cons
Pros
- One endpoint returns transcripts for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X and public file URLs up to 750 MB or 12 hours long.
- Falls back to AI transcription when a video has no captions, where caption-only YouTube tools fail.
- The free plan gives 100 credits a month with no credit card required.
- Python and JavaScript SDKs, an MCP server, and native Zapier, Make, n8n and Activepieces integrations.
- YouTube search, channel and playlist data and web scraping to Markdown share the same key and credit pool.
Cons
- Generated transcripts (2 credits per minute) and translation (30 credits per minute) drain small plans quickly, and credits do not roll over.
- Batch, crawl and translation endpoints require Pro at $17 per month or higher, and Basic is sold only as a $60 annual plan.
- Live streams and members-only or paywalled videos cannot be transcribed, and async job results expire one hour after completion.
Supadata pricing
Free tier · paid from $5/mo · verified from the vendor's pricing page
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 100 credits per month, 1 request per second, no credit card required. |
| Basic | $5/mo | Billed annually only ($60/year); 300 credits per month, 10 requests per second, optional auto-recharge at $10 per 1,000 credits. |
| Pro | $17/mo | 3,000 credits per month, 10 requests per second, auto-recharge at $10 per 1,000; unlocks batch, crawl and transcript-translation endpoints. |
| Mega | $47/mo | 30,000 credits per month, 50 requests per second, auto-recharge at $10 per 5,000 credits. |
| Giga | $297/mo | 300,000 credits per month, 100 requests per second, auto-recharge at $20 per 20,000 credits. |
| Supa | $897/mo | 1,000,000 credits per month, 100 requests per second, auto-recharge at $20 per 20,000 credits. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom credit volume and rate limits. |
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