Benchmarks · TikTok
The TikTok transcript scrapers people use most, measured on the same requests
We ran the same requests through TikTok Transcript Scraper and through the most used TikTok transcript scrapers on the Apify Store, then checked what came back against the source. Measured on October 10, 2026. Alternatives = the most used scrapers for the same platform on the Apify Store, ranked by monthly users (Apify public statistics). Scrapers change: these are the results on that date, and we keep the raw runs.
Open TikTok Transcript Scraper on ApifyTranscripts cost $2.00 per 1,000 on the Free plan, plus $0.025 per started minute only when a video has no usable TikTok captions, plus $0.003 per run; videos without speech are free.
What came back
| Test | Quarra | Alternatives |
|---|---|---|
| 20 video links shared on Reddit, the same 20 linksThe most used TikTok transcript scraper. The 7th is a 3-minute video without TikTok captions, which ours transcribes with AI; it returned it empty. | 7 transcripts | 6 transcripts |
| Records charged for those 20 links12 of its 18 had no text. Ours charges transcripts only: music, photo posts and dead links come back as free records that say why. | 7 | 18 |
Where we are not ahead
- Run time: the most used alternative took 29 s for the 20 links, ours 46 s.
TikTok transcript API: the Research API, yt-dlp captions and the alternativeHow to download the transcripts of a TikTok account's videosAll benchmarks and how we measure