X / Twitter API Alternatives: Normalized Tweet Data Without Enterprise Pricing
The X API pricing tiers pushed most indie developers out. Here is what FetchPI covers — profile, tweets, replies, search, followers — with one request model and pay-per-call billing.
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What FetchPI covers on X
GET /v1/x/users/{username}— profile with follower counts.GET /v1/x/users/{username}/posts— a user's tweets.GET /v1/x/posts/{id}— tweet detail.GET /v1/x/posts/{id}/comments— replies.GET /v1/x/search/posts— keyword search with cursor pagination.
How it compares
You trade the official firehose for pay-per-call simplicity: no monthly tier, no app review, one key. Prices are per call and published on the pricing page; cache-mode reads cost a fraction when your use case tolerates minutes of staleness. Responses are the same normalized entities across platforms — a monitoring pipeline built on X data extends to Reddit or TikTok by adding URL prefixes.
Search with freshness
The search explorer demo runs the real search capability anonymously — try the freshness modes and watch meta.freshness and meta.billing report what happened.
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHPI_API_KEY" \
"https://fetchpi.com/v1/x/search/posts?q=openai&freshness=live"