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Scrape.ly pricing: X post API

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100% complete: all 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run Scrape.ly through our X post API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 348 plans for X post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.092 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, YepAPI and ChatterAPI are the best X (Twitter) post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Scrape.ly plan for that many posts. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Scrape.ly's 5 plans
Call: POST /v2/actors/echofield~tweet-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items Scrape.ly's only call for this API
API: X post API one of Scrape.ly's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the posts from X when you call the API.
  • All 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author, Audience.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit a month, enough for 12,500 results. Calls stop once your credit runs out.
  • One call. You call POST /v2/actors/echofield~tweet-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items. You send one of twitterHandles, startUrls, searchTerms or conversationIds. The call returns the posts of each account you send.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 with full legal capacity. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scrape.ly: X post API alternatives

Scrape.ly alternatives: other X post API providers by price

The table starts with Scrape.ly's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 posts closest to Scrape.ly's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Scrape.ly, $19 monthlyParse, $1,000 monthlyQuanticData, $79 monthlyMacrocosmos, $99 monthlylobstr.io, $4,800 yearly, Team, POST /v1/runs, Twitter User Tweets Scraper
$ per 1,000 posts$0.34$0.30$0.316$0.33$0.40
Completeness100%100%83%100%83%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$19$1,000$79$99$4,800
Enough forabout 55,882 results a monthabout 33,333 pages a month250,000 results a month300,000 results a month1,000,000 results a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 with full legal capacityanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bindanyone, for an organisation, someone authorised to bind itanyoneprofessionals, not consumers, through their own X account synced to lobstr.io

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

  1. scrape.ly/
  2. scrape.ly/api/linkedin-profile-api.md
  3. scrape.ly/api/twitter-x-api.md
  4. scrape.ly/docs/api-overview.md
  5. scrape.ly/legal/acceptable-use.md
  6. scrape.ly/legal/terms.md
  7. scrape.ly/pricing
  8. scrape.ly/store/echofield/tweet-scraper.md

Product details

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

  • Text
  • Media
  • Engagement
  • Analytics
  • Author
  • Audience
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 587 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchScrape public posts from X (Twitter) profiles and tweet URLs: text, timestamps, likes, reposts, replies, views, media, and author details.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou decide what you collect and for what purpose, and you are solely responsible for Your Content, for having all rights, permissions and legal bases, and for complying with the law and with the terms of the sites your runs access. [...] Some Actors find or collect information about people, if you use them you are the controller of the results and must meet your duties to the people concerned. You must not use them to decide a person's eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing or benefits, to stalk, harass or expose anyone, or for any other unlawful purpose. [...] If you run Actors that find information about people, you must have a lawful purpose for each run and must not use the results to decide eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or benefits (or for any other purpose that makes them a consumer report under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act or similar law), to stalk, harass, intimidate, dox or locate anyone against their will, for illegal surveillance, to discriminate, or for unsolicited marketing. [...] You must not use the Services to: 1. break any law, or infringe anyone's rights, including copyright, database, trademark and trade-secret rights, 2. create, store or distribute child sexual abuse material, terrorist content or other illegal content, 3. commit or support fraud, phishing, scams, identity theft or money laundering, 4. send spam or unsolicited bulk messages, or create fake accounts, engagement, reviews or traffic, 5. run malware, ransomware, spyware, backdoors or keyloggers, or any code designed to damage or gain unauthorised access to a system, 6. carry out denial-of-service attacks, or scan or test systems you are not authorised to test, 7. mine cryptocurrency, or use our resources for purposes unrelated to the Actors you run, 8. engage in a practice prohibited by Article 5 of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), such as manipulative or exploitative techniques, social scoring, or building facial-recognition databases by untargeted scraping of facial images, 9. breach sanctions or export control law, 10. probe, scan, attack or overload our infrastructure, escape the run environment, or access other users' data, runs or accounts, 11. avoid or manipulate billing, usage limits, spending caps or rate limits, including by misusing an Actor's charging mechanism, 12. hold more than one free account per person or organisation, or use fake identities or other methods to obtain free or promotional credit, 13. resell, sublicense or provide access to the Services as a service to third parties, except by running Actors to deliver your own products and services, or with our written consent, 14. manipulate Store rankings, ratings, reviews, usage statistics or bookmarks, or post false reviews or issues, 15. impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation, or 16. help or encourage anyone else to do any of these things.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$5 a month
Enough for12,500 results a month
Rate limit
Per second16.67
Concurrent5
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of twitterHandles, startUrls, searchTerms or conversationIds. Optional: maxItems, sort, tweetLanguage, onlyVerifiedUsers, onlyTwitterBlue, onlyImage, onlyVideo, onlyQuote, author, inReplyTo, mentioning, minimumRetweets, minimumFavorites, minimumReplies, start, end, fullHistory, includeSearchTerms, customMapFunction, geotaggedNear, withinRadius, geocode, placeObjectId
MethodPOST
Path/v2/actors/echofield~tweet-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 with full legal capacity
The 46 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post URL, text, created at, language, full text, conversation ID, posted from, repost count, reply count, like count, quote count, bookmark count, view count, possibly sensitive, author username, author name, author ID, author URL, author blue verified, author verified type, author profile picture, author followers, author following, author bio, author location, author account created, author posts count, author media count, author likes count, author banner image, author protected, media, user mentions, hashtags, URLs, card, is reply, in reply to post ID, in reply to username, in reply to user ID, is repost, reposted post, is quote, quoted post ID, quoted post

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