head to head/Developer Tools

TranscriptAPI vs XCrawl

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

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.

XCrawl

Turn any web page into LLM-ready JSON or Markdown

community boosts

⚡ 0

pricing

Freemium

what it is

XCrawl is a web data API for AI builders: scrape, crawl, map and search the web and get clean JSON or Markdown back, with proxies and JS rendering handled for you. Scrape a single URL into Markdown, JSON, HTML or a screenshot; crawl a whole site with depth and scope rules; map every URL on a domain; or pull structured results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other engines. SDKs for Python and Node.js, a CLI, an MCP server and an n8n node are available, and new accounts start with 1,000 free credits.