# ReadX, pay as you go, Pay per request, GET /api/{name}: X post API

> User timeline - tweets for an X handle

ReadX's X post API on its Pay per request plan. It returns all 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author, Audience.
We haven't run ReadX through [our X post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-post-api.txt) yet.
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](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.
[TweetAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/tweetapi/17-monthly-pro-get-tw-v2-user-tweets/llms.txt), [TwitterAPIs](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/twitterapis/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-get-twitter-user-tweets/llms.txt) and [Sorsa](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/sorsa/199-monthly/llms.txt) are the best X (Twitter) post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/readx/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-api-name
- [X (Twitter) post API: 15 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://readx.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://readx.sh/api/{name}`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://readx.sh/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: ReadX (https://readx.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

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

## Price

- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: User timeline - tweets for an X handle

## Data

- Freshness: live
- 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: name. Optional: cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/{name}

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per request
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 44 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, conversation ID, in reply to post ID, text, created at, replies, pinned, thread, place, posted from, reply count, repost count, like count, view count, quote count, reposted post, quoted post, card, poll, media, edit post IDs, note, is ad, made with AI, author ID, author username, author name, author location, author website, author bio, author profile picture, author banner image, author pinned post IDs, author following, author followers, author posts count, author likes count, author media count, author verified type, author protected, author account created, next cursor, has more, pinned post

## ReadX's plans (1)

- [ReadX, pay as you go, Pay per request, GET /api/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/readx/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-api-name/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## ReadX's calls for this API (3)

- `GET /api/{name}/tweets_complete`: [ReadX, pay as you go, Pay per request, GET /api/{name}/tweets_complete](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/readx/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-api-name-tweets-complete/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/{name}`: [ReadX, pay as you go, Pay per request, GET /api/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/readx/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-api-name/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/{name}/with_replies`: [ReadX, pay as you go, Pay per request, GET /api/{name}/with_replies](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/readx/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-api-name-with-replies/llms.txt)

## ReadX's APIs (2)

- [ReadX: X post API pricing, 1 plan, GET /api/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/readx/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-api-name/llms.txt)
- [ReadX: X profile API pricing, 1 plan, GET /api/{name}/about](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/readx/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-api-name-about/llms.txt)
- [ReadX: X profile API pricing, 1 plan, GET /api/{name}/info](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/readx/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-api-name-info/llms.txt)
- [ReadX: X profile API pricing, 1 plan, GET /api/{name}/profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/readx/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-api-name-profile/llms.txt)

## ReadX: X post API alternatives

- [StableSocial, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): 83% complete, live
- [API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, POST /v1/batch, Batch Requests](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-post-v1-batch-batch-requests/llms.txt): 83% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://readx.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://readx.sh/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://readx.sh/skill.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing