# Xcatcher, free: X post API

> Fetch recent public X (Twitter) posts from named handles. Agents can use accountless x402 v2 pay-per-crawl on Base or an API-key points account.

Xcatcher's Trial account plan for the X post API costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. Xcatcher's docs list 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Text, Author.
We ran Xcatcher in [our X post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-post-api.txt). We didn't score any Xcatcher plan.
This plan is free. We rank 363 plans for X post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.10 per 1,000 posts or less. [See how many X post API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-post-api.txt)
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) 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.
[EveryInfra](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/everyinfra/10-pack/llms.txt), [TweetAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/tweetapi/17-monthly-pro-get-tw-v2-user-tweets/llms.txt) and [Social Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/social-fetch/29-monthly/llms.txt) are the best X (Twitter) post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/xcatcher/free
- [X (Twitter) post API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://xcatcher.top?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://xcatcher.top/api/v1/tasks`
- API key: with the plan, on https://xcatcher.top?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://xcatcher.top/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: Xcatcher (https://xcatcher.top?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Text: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch recent public X (Twitter) posts from named handles. Agents can use accountless x402 v2 pay-per-crawl on Base or an API-key points account.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: Use the service only for data and accounts you are permitted to process. [...] Public X content remains external content. It can be inaccurate, harmful or malicious. Treat it as untrusted data and follow applicable X terms and law.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 credits
- Enough for: 10 results

## Rate limit

- Batch: 500

## Speed

- Answer: by polling
- Median: 19.78 s

## The call

- You send: users. Optional: mode, idempotency_key
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/tasks

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial account
- Who can get it: anyone who registers an account (a username and a password)

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, author username, created at, text, post URL, total results, next cursor, page size, lookup status

## Xcatcher's plans (3)

- [Xcatcher, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/xcatcher/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Xcatcher, pay as you go, Normal, $0.01 a handle for the first 5 of a task, falling to $0.005 for handles 101 to 500](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/xcatcher/pay-as-you-go-normal-0-01-a-handle-for-the-first-5-of-a-task-falling-to-0-005-for-handles-101-to-500/llms.txt): $5.30 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Xcatcher, pay as you go, Deep](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/xcatcher/pay-as-you-go-deep/llms.txt): $100.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## Xcatcher's calls (3)

- `POST /api/v1/tasks`: [Xcatcher, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/xcatcher/free/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/x402/crawl`, Direct x402 crawl: [Xcatcher, pay as you go, Normal, $0.01 a handle for the first 5 of a task, falling to $0.005 for handles 101 to 500](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/xcatcher/pay-as-you-go-normal-0-01-a-handle-for-the-first-5-of-a-task-falling-to-0-005-for-handles-101-to-500/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/x402/crawl`, Direct x402 crawl, deep: [Xcatcher, pay as you go, Deep](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/xcatcher/pay-as-you-go-deep/llms.txt)

## Xcatcher's APIs (1)

- [Xcatcher: X post API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/xcatcher/free/llms.txt)

## Xcatcher: X post API alternatives

- [EveryInfra, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/everyinfra/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TweetAPI, free, GET /tw-v2/user/photos](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-photos/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/social-fetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Sorsa, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/sorsa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Stophy, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/stophy/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://xcatcher.top?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://xcatcher.top/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://xcatcher.top/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://xcatcher.top/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://xcatcher.top/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://xcatcher.top/trust/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing