Twitter and X API Pricing 2026: Tiers, Free Tier and Costs

The official X API uses pay-per-use pricing: reads cost $0.005-$0.010 per resource and writes cost $0.010-$0.015 per resource. TwitterAPIs offers the same data at $0.0008 per call (~20 tweets per call) for every endpoint. That's $0.04 per 1,000 tweets vs $5-$10 on the official API.

No. TwitterAPIs uses pure pay-per-call pricing with no monthly subscriptions, no minimum spend, and no commitment. You get $0.50 in free credits at signup and only pay for what you use.

X retired the old fixed Basic / Pro / Enterprise subscription tiers and moved to a pay-per-use model in 2026. The current structure is: a Free tier (write-focused, ~100 reads/mo, not viable for data collection), pay-per-use reads from $0.005 per resource, pay-per-use writes from $0.010 per resource with a 2 million post-read monthly hard cap, and Enterprise (required above the cap) starting around $42,000/month. TwitterAPIs charges a flat $0.0008 per call (~20 tweets) at any volume with no tiers and no monthly cap.

The official X API free tier is designed for posting, not reading. It caps reads at roughly 100 posts per month and is intended for bots that publish rather than apps that collect data. It does not include meaningful search, timeline, or follower access. If you need to read tweets at any scale, the practical free option is TwitterAPIs's $0.50 signup credit (~625 calls), then pay-per-use at $0.04 per 1,000 tweets with no monthly read cap.

X closed the Basic ($200/mo) and Pro ($5,000/mo) subscription tiers to new signups at the February 2026 cutover to pay-per-use. Basic included 50,000 posts and 15,000 reads per month; Pro included 300,000 posts, 1,000,000 reads, full-archive search, and filtered stream. Existing subscribers keep their plans, but new projects must use pay-per-use, with Enterprise (from about $42,000/month) required above the 2 million monthly read cap. TwitterAPIs has no tiers: it is a flat $0.0008 per call (~20 tweets) at any volume.

TwitterAPIs is 5x-15x cheaper than the official X API across all endpoint types. For example, a tweet read costs $0.0008 on TwitterAPIs (~20 tweets per call) vs $0.005 on the official API. At 10,000 calls, you pay $8 with TwitterAPIs (~200K tweets) vs $50 with the official API.

TwitterAPIs is the cheapest Twitter API on the market at $0.0008 per call (~20 tweets per call), making it just $0.04 per 1,000 tweets. The official X API starts at $0.005 per single resource, over 100x more expensive per tweet.

There is an official X API free tier, but it's write-focused with negligible read access (around 100 reads per month), so you can't realistically collect tweets on it. For free testing that actually works, TwitterAPIs gives every new account $0.50 in credits (~625 calls) with no credit card required, then $0.04 per 1,000 tweets after that.

As of the April 20, 2026 update, a standard text or media post costs $0.015 per request on the official X API, but a post containing any URL costs $0.20 per request, roughly 13x more. The premium applies to anything with a link in the body: newsletter URLs, blog posts, affiliate links, or tracking URLs. If you auto-publish links at volume, model this line item before you ship, because it dominates the write bill. TwitterAPIs is a read API for collecting tweet, user, and follower data and does not carry a per-link write premium.