3 free transcripts a month without an account. Free account: 25 Cloud Requests a month + unlimited transcripts in the Chrome extension.
Cloud Requests cover server-side transcript retrieval, API, MCP, bulk, and Radar. AI Processing Units cover summaries, chat, transcription, and AI Watch. Browser transcripts read by the Chrome extension use neither.
Watch & Capture · no card
Understand · $100/year
Research & Automate · $300/year
Monitor & Collaborate · $830/year
Failed jobs are refunded automatically.
Both balances work on Free and never expire. A top-up buys volume — more of what your account can already do. The Bulk Pass adds the one thing a top-up cannot: bulk and channel extraction, for 30 days, without a subscription.
Pay once: 1,000 transcripts of videos that have captions (1,000 Cloud Requests that never expire), plus 30 days of bulk jobs and channel listings on any plan. Bought beside your queued videos.
Videos without captions are never charged. They are listed separately, and you can transcribe their audio with AI Units, priced per minute and shown before you approve. AI Units are not included in the pass.
Start a bulk jobWebsite, API, MCP and Radar retrieval — and bulk, once a plan or a Bulk Pass turns it on.
$7.90 per 1,000 cloud jobs.
$6.98 per 1,000 cloud jobs.
Standard Watch, summaries, chat, or transcription.
A flexible AI allowance for regular use.
Large research and automation workloads.
It does not buy throughput. Bulk jobs and channel listings arrive with a plan or a Bulk Pass, not with a balance — so a Free account holding 50,000 Cloud Requests still extracts one video at a time until it adds a pass. Signed webhooks, extra seats, higher API rate limits, longer history and Auto mode choosing Deep Watch arrive with a plan. A plan is also the cheaper way to buy the units themselves: Starter’s monthly allowance would cost $24 as packs, Pro’s $76 and Team’s $199.
Cloud Requests pay for VidWords infrastructure. AI Processing Units pay for model computation. Browser transcripts in the Chrome extension use neither.
One successful transcript, API, MCP, bulk, or Radar retrieval uses one Cloud Request. Cache hits still count because you asked VidWords to do the job.
Per minute of video, Standard Watch uses 4 AI Units and Deep Watch 30; a summary is 10 and a chat message 5. Audio transcription is 3 per audio minute and needs a paid plan or a top-up — the free monthly allowance does not cover it.
| Features | Free | Starter | Pro | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browser transcripts (Chrome extension) | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Cloud Requests / month | 25 | 1,000 | 3,500 | 10,000 |
| AI Processing Units / month | 200 | 3,000 | 10,000 | 28,000 |
| Bulk & channel extraction | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Radar watchlists | 1 daily | 3 daily | 25 every ~4 hours | 100 hourly |
| Deep Watch (30 AI Units per video minute) | When you choose it | When you choose it | ✓ Auto picks it too | ✓ Auto picks it too |
| History | 90 days | 1 year | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Seats | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| API / MCP rate | Trial / PAYG | 200 RPM | 500 RPM | 1,000 RPM |
| Shared Radar | — | — | — | ✓ |
A Radar watchlist holds up to 25 YouTube channels, checked on the schedule above, and emails you a digest of their new videos — each with a short AI summary if you leave summaries on.
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