head to head/Developer Tools

The Machine Record vs TranscriptAPI

Neck and neck on boosts. Profiles, pricing and deals below.

The Machine Record

Get the data

community boosts

⚡ 0

pricing

Freemium

what it is

The register as open data: JSON API without a key, daily CSV and JSON mirrors on GitHub, Hugging Face and Kaggle, a Zenodo DOI for citation, RSS feeds per company. Case metadata is CC BY 4.0.

TranscriptAPI

YouTube Transcript API with Search, Channels & Playlists

community boosts

⚡ 0

pricing

Paid

what it is

100 free credits to start. YouTube transcript API with video search, channel browsing, and playlist extraction. REST API, YouTube MCP for ChatGPT & Claude, and AI agent skills. Powers 15M+ transcripts/month.