glim.sh pricing: GitHub repository API

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60% complete: 6 of the 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields

$0.00per 1,000 repositoriesWe haven't run glim.sh through our GitHub repository API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 96 plans for GitHub repository APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.431 per 1,000 repositories or less.GitHub's $21 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 repositories: as little as $0.0019. GitHub's $21 monthly plan covers up to 10,800,000 repositories a month at no extra cost.Scrappa, GitHub and Litescrape are the best GitHub repository API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Free credit one of glim.sh's 3 plans

Call: POST /api/v1/github/get glim.sh's only call for this API

POST /api/v1/github/getFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: GitHub repository API one of glim.sh's 10 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
6 of the 10 key fields we check. Description, Language, Dates, Stars, Forks, Owner.
Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit, enough for 500 calls.
One call. You send ref to POST /api/v1/github/get. You can also send page and per_page. The call returns the repository's details.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

glim.sh: GitHub repository API alternatives

glim.sh alternatives: every GitHub repository API provider ranked

The table starts with glim.sh's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 repositories closest to glim.sh's. We also show the UnifAPI plan. Its price is farther from the price of glim.sh's cheapest paid plan.

	glim.sh, pay as you go	ScrapeAtlas, $19 pack	Scavio, $4,788 yearly	Monocrawl, $799 monthly	Anysite, $200 monthly	UnifAPI, top-up, Pay-as-you-go
$ per 1,000 repositories	$2.00	$1.90	$1.995	$1.998	$2.00	$3.00
Completeness	60%	100%	100%	80%	100%	100%
Billing	pay as you go	pay first	yearly	monthly	monthly	pay first
Pay	per call	$19	$4,788	$799	$200	any amount
Enough for	as many as you pay for	10,000 calls	200,000 calls a month	400,000 calls a month	100,000 calls a month	as many as you pay for
Freshness	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	live	unknown
Who can get it	anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet: x402 on Base, Solana or Monad, or MPP on Tempo	anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreement, a business's account holder must be authorized to bind it	anyone	anyone	anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction	anyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Description
Language
Topics, not in the answer
License, not in the answer
Dates
Stars
Forks
Watchers, not in the answer
Open issues, not in the answer
Owner

Price
$ per 1,000 repositories	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Search tweets with advanced query operators - body param is query · Fetch a tweet with thread context, or a user profile · Search Reddit posts by keyword query · Fetch a Reddit post with comments, subreddit feed, or user · Run a semantic web search with ranked results · Fetch a web page as clean extracted content · Search GitHub repos, conversations, discussions, or code · Search Amazon product listings · Fetch Amazon product details by ASIN · Fetch a cleaned YouTube transcript · Search Telegram channels and indexed public posts · Fetch a public Telegram channel's posts or a post with comments · Search tweets (paginated) - body param is q, not query · Fetch multiple tweets by id (comma-separated ids) · Fetch replies to a tweet · Fetch quote tweets of a tweet · Fetch users who retweeted a tweet · Fetch the full thread context of a tweet · Fetch the attached Twitter article of a tweet · Fetch a single tweet by id · Search Twitter user profiles by keyword · Check the follow relationship between two users · Fetch multiple users by id (comma-separated ids) · Fetch a user's recent tweets · Fetch a user's mentions timeline · Fetch a user's followers · Fetch the accounts a user follows · Fetch a user's verified followers · Fetch a single user profile by @handle or id · Fetch tweets from a list · Fetch the member profiles of a Twitter list · Fetch trending topics (by WOEID) · LLM chat completion (OpenAI-compatible, streaming supported) · Anthropic Messages API compatible LLM inference (streaming supported)

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	A github.com URL or `owner/repo` shorthand returns repo + README, files, PRs, issues, discussions and more — inferred from the ref.

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	No unlawful use, and no use that violates the rights of others. Data is retrieved from publicly available sources on your behalf. You are responsible for how you use it, including compliance with the source platforms' terms and applicable law. No attempts to disrupt, overload, or reverse the service's payment gating.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	$1
Enough for	500 calls

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	ref. Optional: page, per_page
Method	POST
Path	/api/v1/github/get

About the plan
Plan	Free credit
Who can get it	anyone who signs in at glim.sh/app with an email code: new accounts get $1 of free calls

The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

full name, description, language, stars, forks, homepage, pushed at, owner, owner type, readme file