Twitter API Cost Calculator

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 a Free tier capped at 100 reads per month. 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 $5 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 on the market. At 10M tweets per month TwitterAPIs bills $500 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: $0 on the Free tier (limited to 100 post reads and 500 posts created per month), then roughly $0.005 per post read and $0.010 per user read once you exceed the free quota, 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 and $0.0015 per write action. 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 $0.0015 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.