# X API pricing tiers explained | TwitterAPIs.com Canonical: https://www.twitterapis.com/answers/x-api-pricing-tiers-explained Description: The official X API uses paid subscription tiers with no free read access. TwitterAPIs.com has no tiers, just $0.04 per 1,000 tweets, pay-per-use. Generated: 2026-09-03T18:54:14.674Z ---1. [Home](/) 2. / [Answers](/answers) 3. / X API pricing tiers explained # X API pricing tiers explained Last updated August 31, 2026 X sells API access as monthly subscription tiers. Basic opens at $200 a month, Pro moves into the thousands, and Enterprise is a sales conversation with no published rate. Each rung bundles a fixed post allowance, so the sticker divides down to roughly $5 to $10 per 1,000 tweets. TwitterAPIs.com sells no rungs at all, only a $0.0008 call. 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)). ## The tier ladder, from Basic to Enterprise X stopped giving reads away in February 2023 and replaced free access with a subscription ladder. Basic sits at the bottom at $200 a month. Pro is the next rung up and is quoted in the thousands a month. Enterprise sits above both and carries no published rate: reaching its territory opens a sales conversation rather than a checkout page. Every rung is a monthly commitment, and every rung sits behind an approved developer account that has to clear review before a single request goes out. ## What a rung buys is an allowance, not a rate This is the part that surprises anyone arriving from a metered API. A rung does not sell a price per post. It sells a monthly allowance of posts and charges a flat fee whether you read all of them or none. The per-tweet figure everyone quotes, roughly $5 to $10 per 1,000, is printed nowhere by X. It is what you get when you divide a rung's monthly fee by the allowance that rung includes, and it moves whenever the allowance does. ## Where each rung runs out Basic runs out when its allowance is spent, and the remedy is to wait for the reset or climb a rung, not to pay a small overage. Pro exists because Basic's allowance is thin for anything collecting continuously, and it asks for roughly an order of magnitude more money in exchange. Enterprise is where the ladder stops naming prices: it is a negotiated contract sized to a firehose workload. A widely repeated five-figure monthly number for it traces back to 2023 press coverage of a plan X has since retired, not to anything X publishes. ## Why the effective price climbs when usage is uneven A flat fee punishes an uneven month. If a rung's allowance is sized for continuous collection and your job runs for four days, the fee still leaves your account in full, and the cost of every post you did read rises in proportion to the allowance you left untouched. The same logic bites at the top of a rung: a job that overshoots buys the next rung whole rather than the slice it needed. Rungs reward a workload that is flat and predictable, and charge a premium for one that is not. ## What a metered alternative looks like beside a rung TwitterAPIs.com has no rungs to choose between and nothing to outgrow. One standard read is $0.0008 with no monthly fee underneath it, so a four-day month bills for four days. The comparison that matters is shape rather than sticker: a rung is a floor you pay before reading anything, and a meter is a line that starts at zero. For a steady, high, well-understood volume a rung can be defensible. For anything spiky, seasonal, or still being sized, the floor is the expensive part. ## Official X API tiers, and what each one commits you to Tier Published monthly price How access is sized Where it stops Free read access Withdrawn None since February 2023 Not available on the official platform Basic $200 Fixed monthly post allowance Allowance spent, wait for reset or climb Pro Thousands a month Larger fixed allowance Continuous collection at scale Enterprise Not published Negotiated contract No rate card, sales conversation only TwitterAPIs.com No monthly fee Metered at $0.0008 a call No allowance to run out > Free access to the Twitter API is no longer available. To read public data from the X platform, developers must subscribe to a paid plan. X Developer Platform documentation. [Source](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/about-x-api) ## Questions and answers What does the Basic tier cost? $200 a month. It is the lowest paid rung on the official X ladder, and it bundles a fixed monthly post allowance rather than a per-post rate. The flat fee is charged whether the allowance is spent or left untouched. Does X still have a free tier for reading posts? Not for reads. X withdrew free read access in February 2023, and every rung above it is a paid monthly subscription sitting behind an approved developer account. Reading public posts on the official platform now starts at the Basic fee. What is the Pro tier for? Collection that runs continuously at a volume the Basic allowance cannot hold. It is quoted in the thousands a month, roughly an order of magnitude above Basic, and it is the last rung with a number attached before the ladder turns into a negotiation. Why does X not publish an Enterprise price? Because Enterprise is a negotiated contract sized to the workload rather than a plan you buy off a page. Crossing into it opens a sales conversation. The five-figure monthly number people repeat comes from 2023 press coverage of a plan X has since retired. How do I work out what a rung costs per tweet? Divide that rung's monthly fee by the post allowance it includes, then scale to a thousand. That division is where the widely quoted $5 to $10 per 1,000 tweets comes from. 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