glim.sh pricing: X post API, POST /api/v1/twitter/users/{ref}/tweets

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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

Call: POST /api/v1/twitter/users/{ref}/tweets one of glim.sh's 2 calls for this API

API: X post API one of glim.sh's 10 APIs

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 250 pages.
One call. You send ref to POST /api/v1/twitter/users/{ref}/tweets. You can also send cursor and include_replies. The call returns the account's posts.
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/users/{ref}/tweets	SocialCrawl, £49 pack	Refetcher, top-up	Sorsa, $490 yearly	QuanticData, $299 monthly
$ per 1,000 posts	$0.20	$0.163	$0.18	$0.204	$0.209
Completeness	50%	83%	100%	83%	83%
Billing	pay as you go	pay first	pay first	yearly	monthly
Pay	per call	£49	any amount	$490	$299
Enough for	as many as you pay for	20,000 pages	as many as you pay for	10,000 pages a month	about 1,428,571 results 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 18 or over	anyone, or acting for an organization they have the authority to bind	anyone, except from or on behalf of persons or entities located in countries or regions subject to applicable sanctions or embargoes	anyone, for an organisation, someone authorised to bind it

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

Price
$ per 1,000 posts	$0.00
Per	page of 20
Billing	free

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Search tweets with advanced query operators - body param is query · Fetch a tweet with thread context, or a user profile · 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 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)

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	A user's recent tweets, ~20/page.

Data
Freshness	live
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.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	$1
Enough for	250 pages

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	ref. Optional: cursor, include_replies
Method	POST
Path	/api/v1/twitter/users/{ref}/tweets

About the plan
Plan	Free credit
Who can get it	anyone who signs in at glim.sh/app with an email code: new accounts get $1 of free calls

The 12 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, count on page