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

glim.sh's site llms.txt X (Twitter) profile API: 18 providers compared glim.sh: X profile API alternatives

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27% complete: 3 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields

$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run glim.sh through our X profile API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 501 plans for X profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 profiles or less.TwittrAPI's top-up from $500 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00016.lobstr.io, TweetAPI and TwexAPI are the best X (Twitter) profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Free credit one of glim.sh's 3 plans

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

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

About this item

Live. You get the profile from X when you call the API.
3 of the 11 key fields we check. Verified, Followers, Posts.
Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit, enough for 1,000 calls.
One call. You send ref to POST /api/v1/twitter/users/{ref}. The call returns the account's profile.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

glim.sh: X profile API alternatives

glim.sh alternatives: every X profile 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 profiles 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}	lobstr.io, $100 monthly	TweetAPI, $5 pack, Pay as you go, GET /tw-v2/user/by-id	GetXAPI, $15 monthly, Pro, GET /twitter/user/info	Qovia, top-up
$ per 1,000 profiles	$1.00	$1.00	$1.00	$1.00	$1.00
Completeness	27%	82%	82%	82%	73%
Billing	pay as you go	monthly	pay first	monthly	pay first
Pay	per call	$100	$5	$15	any amount
Enough for	as many as you pay for	100,000 results a month	5,000 calls	15,000 calls a month	as many as you pay for
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	professionals, not consumers	anyone at least 18 and able to enter a binding contract	anyone	anyone with an account

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.

Bio, not in the answer
Photo, not in the answer
Links, not in the answer
Contact, not in the answer
Location, not in the answer
Verified
Followers
Following, not in the answer
Posts
Likes, not in the answer
Views, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 profiles	$0.00
Per	call
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 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 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	Fetch a user profile by username or ID

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	1,000 calls

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	ref
Method	POST
Path	/api/v1/twitter/users/{ref}

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 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, verified, followers, posts count