# FetchLayer, free: X post API

> Retrieve timeline tweets for a user handle with full engagement data and pagination support.

FetchLayer's X post API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns all 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author, Audience.
We rank 148 plans by price. [TweetAPI's $417 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/tweetapi/417-monthly-giga-get-tw-v2-user-photos/llms.txt) 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.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/free
- Get it: https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.fetchlayer.dev/twitter/user-tweets`
- API key: with the plan, on https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/twitter/endpoints/user-tweets
- Sold by: FetchLayer (https://fetchlayer.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Audience: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 223 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve timeline tweets for a user handle with full engagement data and pagination support.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Its Acceptable Use Policy: "You Must Not Use FetchLayer To" violate any law, regulation, court order, or third-party right, collect or process personal data in a way that is unlawful, unfair, deceptive, or disproportionate, stalk, harass, threaten, dox, profile, or otherwise target individuals for harmful purposes, build or support unlawful surveillance, unlawful monitoring, or harmful intelligence gathering about private individuals, make or support decisions about housing, employment, credit, insurance, education, healthcare, public benefits, or similar regulated outcomes without an appropriate legal basis and all required safeguards, scrape or analyze data about minors, health, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, political opinions, or other sensitive categories without a lawful basis and appropriate protections, bypass authentication, paywalls, robots controls, rate limits, or technical access controls that are not intended for public access, republish, syndicate, mirror, or redistribute verbatim copyrighted third-party content (such as full Reddit posts or comments) to end consumers without appropriate rights, use scraped content to create a competing product that substitutes for the original source platform, use the service to distribute malware, spam, credential theft, or phishing content, attempt to reverse engineer, break, overload, or interfere with the service or its infrastructure, train machine learning or AI models on content obtained through FetchLayer without independently verifying that you have appropriate rights or a valid legal basis to do so, resell, sublicense, or operate a competing extraction service on top of FetchLayer unless we have expressly allowed it in writing. Its terms: "It is not permitted to republish, syndicate, or redistribute the original creative expression of third-party content without appropriate rights. You must not use FetchLayer to create a competing publication or mirror of the source platform's content."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 30 credits
- Enough for: 30 pages

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle. Optional: count, cursor
- Method: POST
- Path: /twitter/user-tweets

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)

## The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, conversation ID, created at, text, language, posted from, in reply to post ID, in reply to user ID, post URL, author ID, author name, author username, author bio, author followers, author following, author verified, reply count, repost count, like count, quote count, bookmark count, view count, media, next cursor

## FetchLayer's plans (10)

- [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/top-up/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/25-monthly/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/50-monthly/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/100-monthly/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/250-monthly/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/400-monthly/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $900 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/900-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 100% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $1,400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/1400-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 100% complete, live

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

- `POST /twitter/user-tweets`: [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)

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## FetchLayer: X post API alternatives

- [GetXAPI, free credits, GET /twitter/user/tweets](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/getxapi/free-credits-get-twitter-user-tweets/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, free, POST /v1/runs, Twitter User Tweets Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/lobstr-io/free-post-v1-runs-twitter-user-tweets-scraper/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapebadger/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapeCreators, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapecreators/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-10-29.

- https://fetchlayer.dev/
- https://fetchlayer.dev/acceptable-use
- https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/twitter/endpoints/user-tweets
- https://fetchlayer.dev/llms.txt
- https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- https://fetchlayer.dev/terms