glim.sh pricing: X post API, POST / api/ v1/ twitter/ get
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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run glim.sh through our X post API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 298 plans for X post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.075 per 1,000 posts or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan 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.TweetAPI, TwitterAPIs and Sorsa are the best X (Twitter) post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free credit one of glim.sh's 3 plans
- Free creditFree credit$0.00 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Pay per callPay per call$0.25 per 1,000
- Top-up, Prepaid balancePrepaid balance$0.25 per 1,000
Call:
POST / api/ v1/ twitter/ get one of glim.sh's 2 calls for this APIPOST /Free credit$0.00 per 1,000api/ v1/ twitter/ get POST /Free credit$0.00 per 1,000api/ v1/ twitter/ users/ {ref}/ tweets
API: X post API one of glim.sh's 10 APIs
- Amazon product API
- Amazon search API
- GitHub repository API
- Web scraping API
- Web search API
- Reddit post API
- Telegram channel API
- Telegram channel post API
- X profile API
POST /api/ v1/ twitter/ users/ {ref} - X profile API
POST /api/ v1/ twitter/ get - X post API
About this item
- Live. You get the posts from X when you call the API.
- 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Author, Audience.
- Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit, enough for 200 pages.
- One call. You send
reftoPOST /. You can also sendapi/ v1/ twitter/ get include,include_,replies include_,mentions cursorandexpand_. The call returns the account's posts.urls - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
glim.sh: X post API alternatives
glim.sh alternatives: every X post 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 posts closest to glim.sh's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| glim.sh, pay as you go, Pay per call, POST /api/v1/twitter/get | Sorsa, $49 monthly | ReadX, pay as you go, Pay per request, GET /api/{name}/tweets_complete | QuanticData, top-up from $5 | Parse, $1,000 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 posts | $0.25 | $0.245 | $0.25 | $0.25 | $0.30 |
| Completeness | 50% | 83% | 100% | 83% | 100% |
| Billing | pay as you go | monthly | pay as you go | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | per call | $49 | per call | $5 | $1,000 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 10,000 pages a month | as many as you pay for | 20,000 results | about 33,333 pages a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| 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, except from or on behalf of persons or entities located in countries or regions subject to applicable sanctions or embargoes | anyone | anyone, for an organisation, someone authorised to bind it | anyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind |
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.
- Text
- Media, not in the answer
- Engagement, not in the answer
- Analytics, not in the answer
- Author
- Audience
| $ per 1,000 posts | $0.00 |
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| Per | page of 20 |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Search tweets with advanced query operators - body param is query · 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 · Fetch GitHub repo metadata, files, PRs, issues, or discussions · 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) |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | One `ref` accepts a tweet URL, bare tweet id, or profile URL, returns the tweet with thread context, or the user with ~20 recent tweets. |
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| Freshness | live |
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| 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. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | $1 |
| Enough for | 200 pages |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | ref. Optional: include, include_replies, include_mentions, cursor, expand_urls |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /api/v1/twitter/get |
| Plan | Free credit |
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| Who can get it | anyone who signs in at glim.sh/app with an email code: new accounts get $1 of free calls |
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold
post ID, post URL, text, created at, author username, author name, author verified, author followers, author posts count, next cursor, has more