# botsmith, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x/search: X post API

> Search X (Twitter) posts with full advanced-search syntax (from:, since:, until:, exact phrases, boolean operators). Returns up to 20 posts per call as clean JSON with metrics and entities, plus a cursor for the next page. No X account or API key needed.

botsmith's x402 pay per call plan for the X post API costs $1.00 per 1,000 posts. botsmith's docs list 4 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Text, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We haven't run botsmith through [our X post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-post-api.txt) yet.
We rank 370 plans for X post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.10 or less per 1,000 posts. This plan costs less per 1,000 posts than 10% of the 370 plans.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.0011. Zapi charges for each page of results. We count 20 posts on each page to get the $0.0011 price. [AnyAPI's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/anyapi/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-with-x402-and-mpp-post-v1-run-twitter-user-tweets/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 posts a month: $0.05.
[EveryInfra](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/everyinfra/10-pack/llms.txt), [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt) and [TweetAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/tweetapi/17-monthly-pro-get-tw-v2-user-tweets/llms.txt) are the best X (Twitter) post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/botsmith/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x-search
- [X (Twitter) post API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://botsmith.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://x402.botsmith.dev/x/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://x402.botsmith.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: botsmith (https://botsmith.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $1.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search X (Twitter) posts with full advanced-search syntax (from:, since:, until:, exact phrases, boolean operators). Returns up to 20 posts per call as clean JSON with metrics and entities, plus a cursor for the next page. No X account or API key needed.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, type. Optional: cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /x/search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base from a wallet (x402)

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post URL, text, created at, language, author username, author name, author ID, like count, repost count, reply count, quote count, view count, hashtags, URLs, user mentions, next cursor, has more

## botsmith's plans (1)

- [botsmith, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x/search](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/botsmith/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete

## botsmith's calls for this API (6)

- `GET /x/watchlist`: [botsmith, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x/watchlist](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/botsmith/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x-watchlist/llms.txt)
- `GET /x/mentions`: [botsmith, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x/mentions](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/botsmith/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x-mentions/llms.txt)
- `GET /x/thread`: [botsmith, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x/thread](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/botsmith/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x-thread/llms.txt)
- `GET /x/tweet`: [botsmith, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x/tweet](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/botsmith/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x-tweet/llms.txt)
- `GET /x/search`: [botsmith, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x/search](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/botsmith/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /x/timeline`: [botsmith, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x/timeline](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/botsmith/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x-timeline/llms.txt)

## botsmith's APIs (2)

- [botsmith: X profile API pricing, 1 plan, GET /x/dossier](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/botsmith/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x-dossier/llms.txt)
- [botsmith: X profile API pricing, 1 plan, GET /x/user](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/botsmith/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x-user/llms.txt)
- [botsmith: X post API pricing, 1 plan, GET /x/search](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/botsmith/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x-search/llms.txt)

## botsmith: X post API alternatives

- [InsightSocial, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/insightsocial/20-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [lobstr.io, $100 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/runs, Twitter User Tweets Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/lobstr-io/100-monthly-pro-post-v1-runs-twitter-user-tweets-scraper/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Scrollhound, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrollhound/25-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ProLevelMax, $10,000 pack, Enterprise $10,000+ top-up (15% bonus), POST /v1/run, X (Twitter) tweets by search, profile or URL](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/prolevelmax/10000-pack-enterprise-10000-top-up-15-bonus-post-v1-run-x-twitter-tweets-by-search-profile-or-url/llms.txt): $1.044 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [twitr.sh, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/twitr-sh/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 50% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://botsmith.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://x402.botsmith.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://x402.botsmith.dev/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://x402.botsmith.dev/catalog?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://x402.botsmith.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://x402.botsmith.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing