# PapaCasper, pay as you go: GitHub repository API

> Check a GitHub repository's health signals: stars, forks, open issues, license, archived/disabled status, and days since last push.

PapaCasper's x402 pay per call plan for the GitHub repository API costs $50.00 per 1,000 repositories. We check each provider's docs for 10 fields. PapaCasper's docs list 4: License, Stars, Forks, Open issues.
We haven't run PapaCasper through [our GitHub repository API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt) yet.
We rank 171 plans for GitHub repository APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.393 or less per 1,000 repositories. This plan costs less per 1,000 repositories than 2% of the 171 plans. PapaCasper has no free GitHub repository API plan. [51 GitHub repository API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt) [deps.dev's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/deps-dev/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 58.3 out of 100.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 repositories: $0.022. [UAPI's CNY 4.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/uapi/cny-4-90-pack/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 repositories a month: about $0.73.
[Agent Margin Router's $199 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/agent-margin-router/199-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of repositories, and costs more up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt), [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt) and [Pushbuild](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/pushbuild/top-up/llms.txt) are the best GitHub repository API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go
- [GitHub repository API in 2026: the best of 40+ APIs compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt)
- Get it: https://papacasper.com/mcp-docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://papacasper.com/mcp/pay/github_repo_health_check`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://papacasper.com/mcp-docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Sold by: PapaCasper (https://papacasper.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 40%
- License: ✓
- Stars: ✓
- Forks: ✓
- Open issues: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 repositories: $50.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Check a GitHub repository's health signals: stars, forks, open issues, license, archived/disabled status, and days since last push.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use our sites for lawful purposes. Please do not abuse them: no attempts to break into, overload, or disrupt the sites, the MCP Toolbelt, or the public DNS service, and no use of any of them for illegal activity.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: owner, repo
- Method: POST
- Path: /mcp/pay/github_repo_health_check

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base through x402, with no signup

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

stars, forks, open issues, license, archived, disabled, days since last push

## PapaCasper's plans (3)

- [PapaCasper, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $50.00 per 1,000, 40% complete
- [PapaCasper, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/papacasper/9-monthly/llms.txt): $22.50 per 1,000, 40% complete
- [PapaCasper, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/papacasper/29-monthly/llms.txt): $14.50 per 1,000, 40% complete

## PapaCasper's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /mcp/pay/github_repo_health_check`: [PapaCasper, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## PapaCasper's APIs (5)

- [PapaCasper GitHub repository API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [PapaCasper Tech stack API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [PapaCasper Domain WHOIS API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [PapaCasper Email verification API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [PapaCasper Web scraping API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## PapaCasper: GitHub repository API alternatives

[PapaCasper alternatives: other GitHub repository API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/papacasper-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 repositories.

- [SocialScrape, $13 pack](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socialscrape/13-pack/llms.txt): $13.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Social Fetch, $14 pack](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/social-fetch/14-pack/llms.txt): $14.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Parse, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/parse/300-monthly/llms.txt): $45.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Strale, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/strale/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $54.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://papacasper.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://papacasper.com/mcp-docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://papacasper.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://papacasper.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing