Spend Brake vs YouTubeAPI.io

A side-by-side comparison built from both listings. Blank cells mean the company has not given that detail; we never guess.

Spend Brake compared with YouTubeAPI.io
Detail	Spend Brake	YouTubeAPI.io
What it does	Hard dollar caps for every paid API your apps and agents call, enforced before the request leaves	YouTube transcript, video metadata, search and comments API with unified credit pricing
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	BG	US
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Pricing	Free plan: $0, up to $50/month protected spend, 1 key, 1 provider, 10,000 requests/month, 20 agent sessions/month. Indie: $9/month, unlimited keys, 2 providers, 100,000 requests/month, 100 agent sessions/month. Team: $49/month, unlimited keys, 5 providers, 1,000,000 requests/month, 500 agent session	Free Trial: 12,000 credits ($1.20 value) with no card required. Starter: $19/month or $25 one-time PAYG for 250,000 credits. Pro: $69/month or $89 one-time PAYG for 1,200,000 credits. Business/Scale: $199/month or $249 one-time PAYG for 5,000,000 credits. Pricing: $1.00 per 1,000 transcripts or look
Key features	Session keys for AI agents with independent budgets Support for Google Maps, Twilio, Mapbox, HERE, Tavily, Exa, Brave and SerpApi Self-hosted option with Docker Compose and offline license verification	Timed video transcripts with millisecond accuracy and RAG-ready plain text Full video metadata including views, likes, comments count, duration, chapters and keywords Keyword search for up to 50 videos or shorts per call Video comments extraction with up to 100 comments per call Channel profile lookup by handle or channel ID Channel uploaded videos and shorts feeds with pagination Regional trending videos by country and category Multi-language subtitle track discovery Zero charge on failed, empty or 404 requests
What makes it different	Atomic enforcement of all caps simultaneously so parallel requests cannot slip past together Provider keys never exposed to client applications, only revocable virtual keys	No Google Cloud quota caps or OAuth audits required Handles residential proxy rotation and avoids cloud IP bot blocks Pay-as-you-go credits never expire
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	Not checked yet no change since last check	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	0	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	0	0
Referring domains (Majestic)	0	0

6 details filled in for both companies.

More alternatives to Spend Brake More alternatives to YouTubeAPI.io