# Sumvid

> Sumvid is a free AI YouTube summarizer: paste a YouTube link and get a clean, scannable summary of the video without watching it, written by Claude. Free tier is real — 5 Claude-written summaries a day, no card required; paid plans raise the monthly limit and use the same Claude models.

## Pages

- [Home](https://sumvid.app/): What Sumvid does, how it works in three steps (paste a URL, AI summarizes, read and export), and answers to common product questions.
- [Resúmenes de YouTube con IA en español](https://sumvid.app/es): Spanish-language landing page — Sumvid writes the summary itself in Spanish, whatever language the video is in.
- [Resumos de vídeos do YouTube com IA em português](https://sumvid.app/pt): Brazilian-Portuguese landing page — Sumvid writes the summary itself in Portuguese.
- [Pricing](https://sumvid.app/pricing): Free vs. paid plans — every plan gets the same Claude summaries; free covers 5 videos a day, paid plans raise the monthly limit. Includes billing FAQ (cancel anytime).
- [Tools & API](https://sumvid.app/tools): Programmatic/agent access — pay-per-call HTTP API and MCP server, paid via x402 (USDC micropayments on Base mainnet), no signup or API key. The agent API has its own machine-payable llms.txt on the API origin: https://api.sumvid.app/llms.txt.
- [YouTube summary API for AI agents](https://sumvid.app/youtube-summary-api): Sumvid's YouTube summary API: an HTTP API and MCP server that summarize YouTube videos and fetch transcripts for AI agents, paid per call in USDC via x402 — no API keys, no account, no subscription.
- [Live settlement ledger](https://sumvid.app/settlements): The public ledger of AI agents paying Sumvid's API per call in USDC via the x402 protocol, with on-chain receipts.
- [Summarize a YouTube video with AI](https://sumvid.app/summarize-youtube-video): Guide to summarizing a YouTube video with Sumvid, with a worked example and how it works.
- [Get the transcript of a YouTube video](https://sumvid.app/youtube-transcript): Guide to getting a YouTube video's transcript — YouTube's own free panel, or Sumvid's paid transcript API/MCP tool.
- [Summarize podcasts, lectures, and talks](https://sumvid.app/summarize-podcasts): Guide to summarizing YouTube-published podcasts, lectures, and talks without watching them.
- [Eightify, summarize.tech & NoteGPT alternatives](https://sumvid.app/alternatives): Honest, fact-checked comparison of Sumvid with Eightify, summarize.tech, and NoteGPT — how each works, free tiers, API/MCP access, public summary pages, transcript access.
- [NotebookLM alternative for YouTube summaries](https://sumvid.app/notebooklm-alternative): NotebookLM is excellent for multi-source research, but if you just want to paste one YouTube link and get a clean, shareable summary, Sumvid is a lighter, purpose-built alternative.
- [YouTube videos to Obsidian notes](https://sumvid.app/youtube-to-obsidian): Guide to turning a YouTube video into a clean Obsidian note — front-mattered, tagged markdown with clickable timestamp links, via Sumvid's "Copy for Obsidian" export.
- [Video summary library](https://sumvid.app/library): Browse recent AI-written YouTube video summaries on Sumvid — every entry is a full, free summary you can read in about a minute, no sign-in required.
- [Changelog](https://sumvid.app/changelog): Dated release notes — what shipped and when.

## Optional

- [Privacy policy](https://sumvid.app/privacy)
- [Terms of service](https://sumvid.app/terms)