Steadyfetch/Video and audio to text
Prices checked 1 September 2026Per 1,000 unitsFree plan and Business plan20 actors compared
Two very different jobs hide under the word transcript. Pulling YouTube's existing captions costs a tenth of a cent per video. Turning speech into text costs per minute of audio. The tables below keep them apart.
per 1,000 videos+ $0.008 per minute of built-in speech-to-text when a video has no captions
Videos, Shorts and live VODs as JSON, plain text, SRT or VTT. Captions first; speech-to-text only when there are none, priced per minute.
Charged only when a row lands in your dataset. Misses carry a status and charged: false.
per 1,000 videos+ $0.008 per speech-to-text minute
Paste a channel and get every video's transcript in one run, de-duplicated, with no per-channel fee.
Charged only when a row lands in your dataset. Misses carry a status and charged: false.
per 1,000 audio minutes
Any direct audio or video file link, or page links on 11 tested sites, to text, SRT and VTT with timestamped segments. Rounded up to the next whole minute; silent and unreachable items are not charged.
Charged only when a row lands in your dataset. Misses carry a status and charged: false.
per 1,000 reels+ $0.005 per minute beyond the first 3 minutes
A creator's handle in, their recent reels back as text: transcript, first-3-seconds hook, language, segments, plus the reel's short code, caption, plays and likes. Also takes reel links or any Instagram scraper's dataset.
Charged only when a row lands in your dataset. Misses carry a status and charged: false.
Store page Pin to Apify MCP n8n · instagram reel transcripts API docs
per 1,000 posts
Every post and reel from a public profile, newest by date (pinned posts flagged, not promoted), no login and no cookies. Your result limit is exact.
Charged only when a row lands in your dataset. Misses carry a status and charged: false.
Store page Pin to Apify MCP n8n · instagram profile posts API docs
Every actor that appears in Apify store search for these terms, with the price its store page publishes for a free-plan account and for a Business-plan account. Our rows are shaded.
| Actor · what a row is | Transcripts | Free plan, per 1,000 | Business plan, per 1,000 | Fee per run | Users, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| steadyfetch/ | Captions + speech to text | $5.00 | $1.20 | none | 1 |
| steadyfetch/ | Captions + speech to text | $5.00 | $1.20 | none | 1 |
| pintostudio/ | Captions | $10.00 | $7.00 | none | 2,547 |
| starvibe/ | Captions | $5.00 | $5.00 | none | 2,072 |
| karamelo/ | Captions | $7.00 | $5.00 | none | 843 |
| supreme_coder/ | Captions | $1.00 | $0.70 | $0.00005 | 621 |
| codepoetry/ | Captions + AI fallback | $1.00 | $0.70 | $0.0025 | 407 |
| scrape-creators/ | Captions | $1.00 | $1.00 | none | 241 |
Bars are drawn per column against the dearest row on this plate.
| Actor · what a row is | Transcripts | Free plan, per 1,000 min | Business plan, per 1,000 min | Fee per run | Users, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| steadyfetch/ | Speech to text | $3.00 | $3.00 | none | 1 |
| kaz_kakyo/ | Speech to text | $10.00 | $10.00 | $0.00005 | 86 |
| sauliusautomatesit/ | Speech to text | $40.00 | $34.00 | $0.00005 | 28 |
Bars are drawn per column against the dearest row on this plate.
| Actor · what a row is | Transcripts | Free plan, per 1,000 | Business plan, per 1,000 | Fee per run | Users, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| steadyfetch/ | Speech to text | $15.00 | $5.00 | none | 2 |
| makework36/ | Speech to text | $15.00 | $15.00 | $0.005 | 77 |
| linen_snack/ | Speech to text | $20.00 | $20.00 | none | 65 |
| afanasenko/ | Speech to text + on-screen text | $75.00 | $66.00 | none | 167 |
| scraping_solutions/ | Speech to text | $2.80 | $2.50 | none | 98 |
Bars are drawn per column against the dearest row on this plate.
| Actor · what a row is | Transcripts | Free plan, per 1,000 | Business plan, per 1,000 | Fee per run | Users, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| steadyfetch/ | — | $2.40 | $0.60 | none | 0 |
| instagram-scraper/ | — | $1.00 | $0.30 | $0.0005 | 927 |
| instagram-scraper/ | — | $1.00 | $0.45 | $0.0005 | 613 |
| data-slayer/ | — | $2.50 | $1.50 | $0.002 | 225 |
Bars are drawn per column against the dearest row on this plate.
Price as published$5 for 300 credits ($16.67 per 1,000) down to $897 for 1,000,000 ($0.90 per 1,000). A caption transcript is 1 credit; a generated (speech-to-text) transcript is 2 credits per minute.
Transcript API for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and X
On YouTube captions we are mid-pack on price: $5 per 1,000 videos on the free plan, $1.20 on Business, against $1 for the cheapest caption scrapers and $10 for the most-used one. The difference is the fallback: a video with no captions still comes back with real text, billed per minute at $0.008, and a video we cannot transcribe is not charged.
On speech to text per minute, our media transcriber is $3 per 1,000 minutes on every plan; the next actor charges $10 and the Whisper transcriber $34 to $40. Supadata's API charges 2 credits per generated minute, from $33 per 1,000 minutes on its smallest plan to $1.80 on its largest.
For Instagram Reels, the actors that also read on-screen text charge up to $75 per 1,000. Ours is $15 on the free plan and $5 on Business for the spoken transcript with the hook; on-screen text is an opt-in.
POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/steadyfetch~<actor>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=… with the input as JSON. The API docs link on each card shows the exact body.