YouTube API v3 - API request quotas, costs, pricing, rates

[Zigglzworth]

Hi,

I am trying to understand the costs per request point (unit) for the YouTube API. I do not see any documentation.
From what I understand there is a courtesy (free tier) limit of 50,000,000 units/day per day.
It is possible to request more but it is also possible to pay for more by enabling billing.

What is the cost per 1000 units ? does anyone know? Is the YouTube API even billable and open
for larger use?

I have used the quota calculator to understand the amount of points my application would use ( see  https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/determine_quota_cost )
But I do not understand how this translates to dollar cost.

Anyone have experience with such calculations ?

Thanks.

[Greg Robbins]

The Get Help section of https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/ has links to areas for questions about use of the YouTube API.

[Danh Thanh]

i also looking for this thing, Right now it shown cost 100 unit per search, and i still dont know what is that mean?

[Aids Education]

Is there any answer? I also want to know that.

[Searcher]

I'm also wondering about the cost of the service, and I can't decide until I see how much, for example 1000 requests cost. 

[Thomas Van Lenten]

As mentioned originally, you should probably check the servers's api docs/help pages, as the costs aren't going to be specific to this library and we wouldn't want to provide wrong info. The docs for the apis and/or the developer console for enabling apis would be where you are more likely to find information about quotas and costs.

TVL

[Searcher]

Thanks for the response. 

Google provides an excellent Youtube quota calculator. The problem is that returns the value in points (like "100 points" for a search) but nowhere in the docs you can translate that into any currency.

???

[Thomas Van Lenten]

Again, please use their api specific help pages if you can't find the info.  Since this list/client library covers 100+ apis, we don't know the specific details like that, and we won't want to provide wrong answers.

TVL

[Searcher]

Thanks, but nothing there.

So, I will post the exact request, so nobody can say they don´t know what is this.

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?order=relevance&part=snippet&q=Madonna

for example. This is as clear as a question can be, for an API provider.

[Thomas Van Lenten]

On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 3:50:50 PM UTC-5, Searcher wrote:

Thanks, but nothing there.

I'm not sure what you are talking about for the nothing there.

As mentioned back in 2014, https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/ is the place to check.  It appears to have links/sections for "SUPPORT" and "SEND FEEDBACK", the footer also as "Terms of Service" & "Monetization Guidelines".  That is going to be the proper place to start looking/asking for getting specific information to an API (YouTube in this case).  This list covers the ObjC client library that supports 100+ apis, so it isn't the right place for specific details like you are asking.