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Twitter API Cost Calculator
The Twitter API Cost Calculator is a free tool that estimates your monthly spend across both TwitterAPIs and the official X API. TwitterAPIs charges $0.0008 per call returning about 20 tweets, which works out to $0.04 per 1,000 tweets. Enter your expected call volume below to see the exact cost side by side.
How we source these numbers
Written by Emma, twitterapis developer relations
We priced every read call at a flat $0.0008 (source: our published pricing), about 20 tweets each, so the calculator above bills 1,000 tweets at $0.04 against the official X API standard read rate of $0.005 per resource. The full rate card sits on the Twitter API pricing page, the pay-per-use pricing breakdown covers the official X rates resource by resource, and the Twitter API alternatives guide ranks the cheaper third-party options. This calculator prices unit rate and volume. For the third variable, waste, the Twitter API total-cost-of-ownership breakdown works through seven cost drivers and reverse-engineers three real monthly bills line by line.
Rates re-checked June 13, 2026 against our published pricing and X's developer pricing page.
Quick presets
Tweet requests / month
TwitterAPIs: $0.0008 / call (~20 tweets)
Official X: $0.005 / read, $0.010 / write
User requests / month
TwitterAPIs: $0.0008 / call (~20 tweets)
Official X: $0.010 / read, $0.015 / write
Write actions / month
TwitterAPIs: $0.0008 / call
Official X: $0.015 / write action
Estimated Monthly Cost at Your Volume
Total input volume: 65,000 requests / month
| Provider | Estimated Monthly Spend | Effective Cost / 1,000 | Pricing Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| TwitterAPIs | $52.00 | $0.80 | Pay per call (no caps) |
| Official X API | $575.00 | $8.85 | Pay per use |
You save $523.00/mo with TwitterAPIs (91% less than official X API)
Sources: official X API pay-per-use pricing from developer.x.com/#pricing. Official X costs above use read rates for comparison; write operations cost more ($0.010-$0.015/request). Pricing last verified on May 5, 2026.
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Twitter API Monthly Cost by Usage Tier
Static reference for monthly cost across six common usage tiers, from hobbyist (10K tweets per month) to enterprise scale (1B tweets per month). All figures assume read-heavy workloads.
| Tier | Monthly tweets | TwitterAPIs cost | X API Free tier | X API pay-per-use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobbyist | 10K tweets | $0.40 | Not available (free tier removed 2026) | $50 (pay-per-use, ~$0.005/read) |
| Side project | 100K tweets | $4 | Not available (over Free cap) | $500 (pay-per-use) |
| Indie SaaS | 1M tweets | $40 | Not available | $5,000 (pay-per-use) |
| Growing startup | 10M tweets | $400 | Not available | $50,000 (pay-per-use) |
| Established product | 100M tweets | $4,000 | Not available | $500,000 (pay-per-use, or Enterprise contract) |
| Enterprise scale | 1B tweets | $40,000 | Not available | $5M+ (pay-per-use, or Enterprise contract) |
TwitterAPIs bills $0.0008 per call (about 20 tweets returned per call). The official X API now bills pay-per-use at roughly $0.005 per post read ($5 per 1,000 reads), so cost scales linearly with volume; very high-volume usage may move to a negotiated Enterprise contract. For a per-call breakdown of the official rates, see our X API pay-per-use pricing page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Twitter API cost depends on the provider. The official X API uses pay-per-use pricing at roughly $0.005 per post read and $0.010 per user read, with no free tier as of 2026. TwitterAPIs charges a flat $0.0008 per API call (about 20 tweets returned per call), which works out to $0.04 per 1,000 tweets. At 100K tweets per month a hobbyist would pay $4 on TwitterAPIs versus about $500 on the official X API pay-per-use rate.
Yes. TwitterAPIs bills $0.0008 per call (roughly 20 tweets returned), which is $0.04 per 1,000 tweets, vs the official X API at $0.005 per post read or $5 per 1,000 reads. That is a 100x lower per-tweet cost, and there is no monthly minimum or plan fee, you pay only for the calls you make. See the static tier table above for monthly cost at six common usage tiers from 10K tweets per month up to 1B tweets per month. The TwitterAPIs pricing page lists the exact per-endpoint rates.
For high volume read workloads above 1M tweets per month, TwitterAPIs at $0.0008 per call is consistently the lowest per-tweet rate among pay-as-you-go providers. At 10M tweets per month TwitterAPIs bills $400 vs roughly $50,000 on the official X API pay-per-use rate of $0.005 per read. TwitterAPIs has no platform-level rate limit cap and no required plan minimum, so the bill scales linearly with usage. See /twitter-api-alternatives for the full comparison against twitterapi.io, apify, and other pay-per-use options.
X API monthly cost scales with usage under the pay-per-use model introduced in 2026. There is no free tier. Every read costs roughly $0.005 per post and $0.010 per user read, about $5 per 1,000 reads or $500 at 100K reads. Very high-volume usage can move to a negotiated Enterprise contract. Use the calculator above to estimate your monthly bill against actual TwitterAPIs rates of $0.0008 per call.
Three inputs decide your monthly bill: tweet reads (search, lookup, replies, threads, timelines), user reads (profile, followers, following, search), and write actions (like, retweet, bookmark, follow). Multiply each by the per-call rate for your provider. On TwitterAPIs that is a flat $0.0008 per read call, $0.0008 per simple write action, and $0.0016 to post a tweet. On the official X API it is $0.005 per post read, $0.010 per user read, and $0.015 per write, plus the plan minimum. The calculator above does this math automatically once you enter monthly volume.
TwitterAPIs bills per API call, not per individual tweet. Each read call returns approximately 20 tweets, so $0.0008 per call works out to roughly $0.04 per 1,000 tweets. User lookups (profile, followers, following) also bill at $0.0008 per call, the same flat read rate. Write actions (like, retweet, bookmark, follow) bill at $0.0008 per call, and posting a tweet bills at $0.0016 per call. There is no monthly minimum, no platform-level rate limit, and a $0.50 credit at signup so you can test the API before paying. See the pricing page for the per-endpoint rate card.
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