YouTube transcript reliability, measured in public.

Capslane publishes the test set, environment, versions and failures behind every reliability claim. The current result is an initial operational check, not a market-wide benchmark.

Published2 September 2026
ScopeInitial operational validation
Public fixtures2

Verified paths

These checks were executed on the deployed architecture. Broader success-rate claims will appear only after the versioned corpus is complete.

Native extraction

61 English segments returned from a public captioned fixture.

Passed

Native cache

The repeated request was returned from the shared cache in 39 ms.

Passed

Generated transcript

A captionless public fixture completed through download, processing and persistence.

Passed

Native isolation

Native extraction remained available while the generated worker was active.

Passed

Reproduce the method.

The methodology defines the video categories, cache rules, latency measurement and exclusions. The current aggregate result is available without republishing transcript content.

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