# Instagram, TikTok & YouTube Transcript + Viral Hook Scraper Comparison Matrix (2026)

> **Canonical HTML Surface**: `https://ceadigital.io/compare/video-transcript-hook-apis`
> **LLM Markdown Mirror**: `https://ceadigital.io/compare/video-transcript-hook-apis.md`
> **1-Row Free Live Preview**: `POST https://ceadigital.io/v1/tools/free-preview` with `{"tool": "video-hook", "query": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ecomgrowth/video/7391827361928371", "secondary": "es"}`

## Honest Price-Per-1,000 Comparison Matrix

| Provider / Actor | Price per 1,000 Video Minutes | Platforms Covered | 0–3s Spoken Hook + Burned-In Visual OCR Hook? | Scene Cut Pacing & Retention Score? | Localized UGC Creator Brief (`ES`/`DE`/`PT`/`FR`)? | Silent / Music-Only Video Policy |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **`ceadigital/instagram-tiktok-youtube-transcript-scraper`** (`short-video-hook-transcript-extractor`) | **`$5.00 / 1k mins`** (Bronze+) or **`$29/mo`** Direct Key (`5,000` hits) | **IG Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Meta Ad Library** | **Yes** (`+$5/1k` extracts both 0–3s spoken hook & on-screen OCR captions) | **Yes** (Cuts/min + hook retention score 0–100) | **Yes** (`+$0.05` generates localized UGC shooting brief) | **`$0.00` charged** on silent/deleted videos |
| `lance_api/instagram-video-transcript-scraper` | `$5.00 – $15.00 / 1k` | Instagram focus | Spoken transcript only | No | Translation add-on | Standard PPE |
| `steadyfetch` | `$10.00 / 1k` | Social video | Raw transcript only | No | No | Standard PPE |
| `tubetext` | `$9.00 / 1k` | YouTube only | Captions only | No | No | Standard PPE |

## Why Performance Creative Teams & UGC Agencies Switch to CEA Digital

1. **50% Lower Base Cost Than `steadyfetch` (`$5.00/1k` vs. `$10.00/1k`)**: Extract time-coded spoken transcripts across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts with one unified schema.
2. **Captures Silent-Scroll Burned-In Hooks**: Over 60% of high-converting TikTok & Reels ads rely on burned-in on-screen text during the first 3 seconds while the viewer's sound is muted. Plain ASR scrapers miss this completely; our `visual-ocr-hook` event captures both spoken and visual 0–3s hooks.
3. **1-Click `datasetId` Chaining**: Paste any `datasetId` from `apify/instagram-scraper` (`65,631` monthly users) or `clockworks/tiktok-scraper` (`34,505` monthly users) to enrich thousands of competitor videos automatically.