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EnsembleData pricing and alternatives: X post API

EnsembleData's sitellms.txt
83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe rank 109 plans by price. TweetAPI's $417 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.0042. TweetAPI charges for each page of results. We count 20 posts on each page to get the $0.0042 price.
Plan: Free Trial one of EnsembleData's 7 plans
Call: GET /twitter/user/tweets EnsembleData's only call for this API
API: X post API one of EnsembleData's 8 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the posts from X when you call.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Engagement, Analytics, Author, Audience.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a day, enough for about 12 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at 00:00 UTC each day, when the daily units are reset.
  • One call. You send id to GET /twitter/user/tweets. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

EnsembleData: X post API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 posts. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planEnsembleData, freeGetXAPI, free credits, GET /twitter/user/tweetslobstr.io, free, POST /v1/runs, Twitter User Tweets ScraperScrapeBadger, freeScrapeCreators, free
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness83%100%83%83%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forabout 12 pages a day100 pages100 results a month1,000 results, once100 pages, once
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneevery new account, no credit cardprofessionals, not consumers, through their own X account synced to lobstr.ioanyone 18 or overanyone legally able to enter into a binding agreement

X (Twitter) post API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. ensembledata.com/apis/docs
  2. ensembledata.com/apis/openapi.json
  3. ensembledata.com/pricing
  4. ensembledata.com/terms-and-conditions
  5. ensembledata.com/twitter-posts-api

Product details

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

  • Text
  • Media, not in the answer
  • Engagement
  • Analytics
  • Author
  • Audience
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 57 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAccess Twitter tweet histories for any public account including post text, retweet counts, reply totals, and impression data for content and trend analysis.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataClients may only use the APIs and Data for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms and Conditions [...] Clients may not use the APIs or Data for any illegal or unethical purposes, including but not limited to, spamming, hacking, or phishing [...] Clients may not use the APIs or Data to create a product or service that competes directly with EnsembleData’s services [...] Clients may not use the APIs or Data in a manner that would cause harm to EnsembleData, its employees, agents, or any third party
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits a day
Enough forabout 12 pages a day
Expiresat 00:00 UTC each day, when the daily units are reset
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendid
MethodGET
Path/twitter/user/tweets
About the plan
PlanFree Trial
Who can get itanyone
The 65 fields the plan's answer can hold

entry ID, sort index, display type, post ID, text, full text, created at, language, view count, views state, like count, repost count, reply count, quote count, bookmark count, favorited, retweeted, bookmarked, is quote, conversation ID, posted from, display text range, hashtags, URLs, user mentions, symbols, timestamps, is translatable, edit post IDs, editable until, edits remaining, is edit eligible, quick promote eligibility, unmention data, author ID, author username, author name, author bio, author location, author created at, author followers, author following, author likes count, author listed count, author media count, author posts count, author profile picture, author banner image, author blue verified, author verified, author affiliation, author pinned post IDs, author possibly sensitive, author withheld in countries, author is translator, author translator type, author has custom timelines, author entities, author tip jar, author profile image shape, author default profile, author default profile image, author fast followers count, author normal followers count, author profile interstitial type

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