# How Much Does the Twitter/X API Cost? | TwitterAPIs
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# How much does the Twitter/X API cost?

Last updated August 31, 2026

TwitterAPIs.com bills one rate card, not a plan. A standard read is $0.0008 a call and returns about 20 tweets, so the arithmetic lands at $0.00004 a tweet, or $0.04 per 1,000. Thread expansion is $0.004, tweet creation $0.0016, full account history $0.0024. Twenty account endpoints bill nothing. An idle month costs zero.

Every rate here is the pricing TwitterAPIs publishes. The billed rate is $0.0008 per call; $0.04 per 1,000 tweets is derived from it at a full 20-tweet page, which is the default page size rather than a guaranteed yield (source: [twitterapis.com/pricing](/pricing)).

## What one call costs on the TwitterAPIs.com rate card

There is one rate card and no plan to pick. A standard read is $0.0008 a call, and that single price covers advanced search, user timelines, tweet detail, replies, quotes, retweeters, follower and following lookups, likes, media, mentions, and list members. Above it sit four narrower prices for heavier work: tweet creation and direct message reads at $0.0016, full account history at $0.0024, thread expansion at $0.004, and a login call at $0.01 that bills only when the login succeeds. Twenty account and session endpoints, among them account/me and account/payments, carry no charge at all.

## The arithmetic from a per-call price to a per-tweet price

Divide, do not guess. One standard read costs $0.0008 and comes back with roughly 20 tweets, so a single tweet costs $0.0008 divided by 20, which is $0.00004. Multiply by a thousand and you have $0.04 per 1,000 tweets. The same division works on any endpoint: take its per-call price, divide by the number of objects one page returns, and you have the unit you can put in a budget. A page that comes back short raises that unit, because the call still bills in full, which is why the honest figure is about 20 rather than exactly 20.

## What a month of reading actually adds up to

Three worked examples, all at the standard read rate. A monitoring job that reads 50,000 tweets in a month bills $2. A product feature pulling 250,000 tweets bills $10. A research archive taking 2 million tweets bills $80. None of those three figures changes if the work lands in one afternoon or spreads across thirty days, because the meter counts calls rather than time. Stop calling and the bill stops with it.

## What is not on the bill

No subscription. No monthly minimum. No per-seat charge, no annual commitment, no platform fee, and no penalty for a busy week. There is no plan to outgrow, so nothing gets cut off at a quota line and nothing lapses if you skip a month. The only thing that ever appears on an invoice is calls you made, priced at the rate card above and drawn against your balance.

## How the meter reads, and what the ceiling is for

Charges come out of a prepaid balance as calls land, and every new account starts with $0.50 already on it, no card asked for. At the standard read rate that balance is worth about 625 calls, or roughly 12,500 tweets, which is enough to wire a real job end to end before any money moves. Separately from money, one key is bounded at 600 requests a minute with 20 in flight. That ceiling is a throughput bound, not a spending cap: cross it and you get a 429 asking you to slow down and retry, never a larger invoice.

## TwitterAPIs.com rate card, by endpoint class

Endpoint class

Price per call

Example endpoint

Effective cost per 1,000 tweets

Standard read

$0.0008

/twitter/tweet/advanced\_search

$0.04

Premium write and DM read

$0.0016

/twitter/tweet/create

Not measured in tweets

Full account history

$0.0024

/twitter/user/tweets/complete

Varies with page size

Thread expansion

$0.004

/twitter/tweet/thread

Priced per thread, not per page

Login

$0.01

/twitter/user/user\_login

Billed only on a successful login

Account and session

$0

/account/me

Free

![Stat panel showing TwitterAPIs.com pricing: 0.04 dollars per 1,000 tweets, 0.50 dollars free credits on signup, under 2 minutes to first API call](/blog/content/images/answers-twitter-api-cost.svg)

TwitterAPIs.com at a glance: $0.04 per 1,000 tweets, $0.50 in free credits on signup with no card, and under 2 minutes to your first API call.

> Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead.

@TwitterDev. [Source](https://x.com/XDevelopers/status/1621026986784337922)

## Questions and answers

What does a single tweet cost?

$0.00004. A standard read is $0.0008 and returns about 20 tweets, so dividing gives four hundredths of a cent per tweet, or $0.04 per 1,000. That is the number to carry into a budget, because it is the one that scales with the size of the job.

Which calls cost more than $0.0008?

Four classes. Tweet creation and direct message reads bill $0.0016, full account history bills $0.0024, thread expansion bills $0.004, and a login call bills $0.01 and only when it succeeds. Everything else on the read surface sits at the standard $0.0008.

Is there a monthly fee or a minimum spend?

Neither. No subscription, no monthly minimum, no seat charge, no annual commitment. A month in which you make no calls costs nothing, and a month with 2 million tweets in it bills $80. The invoice is only ever the calls you made.

What does the $0.50 starting balance buy?

About 625 standard reads, which comes to roughly 12,500 tweets. It lands on every new account with no card required, so you can wire a job end to end and watch the meter move before deciding whether to top up.

Does hitting the rate ceiling cost extra?

No. The bound of 600 requests a minute and 20 in flight on a key is a throughput limit, not a billing one. Crossing it returns a 429 asking you to back off and retry, which is a signal to slow down rather than a surcharge on the invoice.

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### Start with $0.50 in free credits

No credit card. Roughly 12,500 tweets to test every endpoint.

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