lobstr.io
The cleanest per-result price in this set: 1 credit is 1 unique result with no charge for duplicates, so a Twitter search, timeline, profile or follower row all cost the same, from $20/month for 10,000 results down to $500/month for a million. The catch is that this is a hosted scraping tool, not a live API: work runs as scheduled squids with concurrency slots and 7 to 28 days of data retention, the free tier caps exports at 30 rows a request, unused credits are wiped every month, and there is no squid at all for a single tweet's detail or for a tweet's replies. Overage and add-on prices are not published, so the only way past a plan's credits is to upgrade.
Tweet search request, by volume
| Tweets per month | Monthly bill | Per 1,000 | Cheapest route | Allowance unused |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1k | no plan reaches this volume | - | - | - |
| 10k | no plan reaches this volume | - | - | - |
| 100k | no plan reaches this volume | - | - | - |
| 1M | no plan reaches this volume | - | - | - |
How lobstr.io compares
lobstr.io publishes no price at 10,000 tweets a month: no plan reaches this volume. The cheapest published route here costs $0.033 per 1,000.
| Provider | 1k a month | 10k a month | 100k a month | 1M a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | $0.033 | $0.033 | $0.032 | $0.032 |
| T | $0.040 | $0.040 | $0.040 | $0.040 |
| G | $0.050 | $0.050 | $0.050 | $0.050 |
| L | no plan reaches this volume | no plan reaches this volume | no plan reaches this volume | no plan reaches this volume |
List prices, dollars per 1,000 tweets at the cheapest published route to each volume. How this is worked out
Every published plan
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Overage each | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FREE | $0 per month | 100 | not published | 100 credits/month, 1 concurrent squid slot, 7 days of data retention, limited export (30 rows per request), no scheduling, Premium scrapers locked. |
| STARTER | $20.00 per month | 10,000 | not published | 10,000 credits/month, 2 slots, 28 days retention, unlimited export. Yearly billing takes 20% off. No overage rate is printed; the FAQ says you upgrade or buy add-ons, whose prices are not published. |
| PRO | $100 per month | 100,000 | not published | Marked MOST POPULAR. 100,000 credits/month, 10 slots, 28 days retention, unlimited export. Yearly billing takes 20% off. |
| TEAM | $500 per month | 1,000,000 | not published | 1,000,000 credits/month, 50 slots, 28 days retention, unlimited export. Yearly billing takes 20% off. |
| Custom | on request | - | not published | "Contact sales" for large enterprises with custom integrations, security and governance. No list price. |
lobstr.io sells scrapers it calls squids, and its pricing FAQ states "1 credit = 1 unique result. You'll never pay for duplicates." The pricing-page simulator prints a per-result credit cost for each squid: Twitter Search Results Scraper (Export Tweets) 1 credit, Twitter User Tweets Scraper (Export User Tweets) 1 credit, Twitter Profile Scraper (Export Profile Info) 1 credit, and Twitter Followers & Following Scraper (Export Profiles) 1 credit. The USD value of a credit comes from the plans below. tweet and replies are null because the simulator's full squid list contains no single-tweet-detail and no tweet-replies or comments squid for Twitter, only the four above. Nothing is metered per request, so minPerRequestUsd is null throughout.
Cost by endpoint
Per 1,000, at 10,000 tweets a month.
What it can do
Only what the provider's own pages state.
Where these numbers came from
- https://www.lobstr.io/pricing read 2026-09-08 / plan table read in the Aside browser: FREE $0 / 100 credits / 1 slot / 7 days; STARTER $20 / 10,000 / 2 slots / 28 days; PRO $100 / 100,000 / 10 slots / 28 days; TEAM $500 / 1,000,000 / 50 slots / 28 days; Yearly billing -20%; FAQ "1 credit = 1 unique result", credits do not roll over, free plan exports capped at 30 rows per request
- https://www.lobstr.io/pricing read 2026-09-08 / the "Which plan do I need" simulator, driven in the Aside browser: selecting Twitter Search Results Scraper, Twitter User Tweets Scraper, Twitter Profile Scraper and Twitter Followers & Following Scraper each prints a cost of 1 credit per exported result; the simulator's squid list contains no Twitter tweet-detail or tweet-replies scraper
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