# Subtext pricing

Reading transcripts on the website is free and needs no account. The API and the MCP server run on credits.

## What a credit buys

- 1 credit = 1 transcript: every successful request costs one credit.
- The same video again is another credit; so is another language, translation or format.
- Errors cost nothing. Listing a video's caption languages costs nothing.

## Free

100 credits for a new account, once per mailbox and for the first 2 accounts created from one network address in 24 hours. Create an account: https://youtubevideototranscript.com/login?src=pricing

## Paid (coming soon)

Paid plans are not available yet and nothing can be bought here today. The price we are aiming for is about $5 for 1,000 credits.

API reference: https://youtubevideototranscript.com/api.md