Home › Comparisons › YouTube Transcript Extractor vs YouTube Video Transcript on

YouTube Transcript Extractor vs YouTube Video Transcript on Apify: price, usage and output compared

Both actors are on the Apify Store and aim at the same job. This page puts their public Store numbers side by side. We build the first one, so treat our own claims with that in mind; every figure below is read from the public Store data on 2026-10-16 and will drift.

Side by side

What the publisher says it does

Ours: Get YouTube transcripts and subtitles from videos, Shorts, channels, playlists or searches as plain text, timed segments, SRT or VTT, with title, channel, views, duration and caption languages. Pick languages, manual or auto. No login, no API key.

starvibe: This Apify Actor extracts full transcripts (with timestamps) and metadata from YouTube videos, including title, description, upload date, views, likes, channel info, and duration

How to choose

• YouTube Video Transcript has more users on the Store today (13708 against our 2), which is a fair reason to look at it first.
• Run each one on the same small input and compare the datasets you get back. That is the only reliable test of output quality, and it costs cents.
• Our output columns, types and a real sample are on the schema page. For YouTube Video Transcript, use the sample and output tab on its own listing.

Try YouTube Transcript Extractor on Apify

Disclosure: we publish YouTube Transcript Extractor. Rival figures come from Apify's public Store data; if something here is out of date or wrong, the Store page is authoritative.