# TwexAPI vs TwitterAPIs: Pricing and Endpoint Comparison 2026 Canonical: https://www.twitterapis.com/twitterapis-vs-twexapi Description: Compare TwexAPI (twexapi.io) with TwitterAPIs on pricing model, endpoint catalog, and per-scenario cost. Pay-per-call vs per-endpoint subscription. Generated: 2026-09-14T03:00:37.884Z --- 1. [Home](/) 2. / TwexAPI Comparison HEAD-TO-HEAD # TwitterAPIs vs TwexAPI: Pricing, Endpoints, and When to Use Each ## TwitterAPIs vs TwexAPI: which is cheaper? TwitterAPIs is a pay-per-call Twitter data API that gives you access to all endpoints on one key, with 62 of the 109 at $0.0008 (standard reads and simple writes), 24 free, and 23 between $0.0016 and $0.01, and no per-endpoint fee. TwexAPI charges per endpoint: $20 one-time or $0.14 per month per route. For a developer needing 10 endpoints and 50,000 monthly calls, TwexAPI costs $200 upfront while TwitterAPIs costs $40 total with no commitment. [Start Free](/signup?utm_source=aio&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=aeo-twitterapis-vs-twexapi) ## How we source these numbers Written by Emma, twitterapis developer relations We priced the standard TwitterAPIs read call at a flat $0.0008 (source: our published pricing), about 20 tweets per call, so a builder making 50,000 calls a month pays roughly $40, while the same ten endpoints on TwexAPI cost $200 one-time. Rates re-checked June 13, 2026 against our published pricing and X's developer pricing page. TwitterAPIs $0.0008 Per call, pay as you go - Standard read endpoints: $0.0008 per call - Simple write actions: $0.0008 per call, posting a tweet $0.0016 - 109 endpoints (65 reads + 44 writes) on one account, no per endpoint fee - $0.50 in free credits at signup, no card required TwexAPI (twexapi.io) $0.14 or $20 Per endpoint subscription or one time payment - $0.14 per endpoint per month subscription - $20 one time per endpoint - Per endpoint purchase model ## TL;DR: The Verdict TwexAPI charges per endpoint: $0.14/mo or $20 one-time per route. TwitterAPIs charges per call: $0.0008 per read, all 109 endpoints on one account, no per-endpoint fees. For developers touching 5 or more endpoints at any volume, TwitterAPIs is cheaper to access and easier to bill against. TwexAPI fits narrow single-endpoint workloads where the one-time $20 buy is predictable. ## Same Request, Different Model Both APIs return tweets over plain HTTP. The difference is how you pay: TwexAPI bills per endpoint you subscribe to; TwitterAPIs bills per call you make. TwitterAPIs ($0.0008/call, standard endpoints)TwexAPI ($20 one-time or $0.14/mo per endpoint) Copy ``` curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ "https://api.twitterapis.com/twitter/tweet/advanced_search?query=AI&count=20" # $0.0008 per call, ~20 tweets returned # All 109 endpoints included on signup, no per-endpoint purchase ``` ## Head-to-head comparison table Scroll right to see all columns. Dimension TwitterAPIs TwexAPI Pricing model Pay per call ($0.0008 per read) Per endpoint ($0.14/endpoint or $20 one time per endpoint) Endpoint count 109 endpoints (65 reads + 44 writes), one account, all access Per endpoint purchase model Cost to access 10 endpoints $0 base, then pay per use $200 one time, or $1.40/month subscription Free tier $0.50 in credits at signup Not advertised on public pricing Subscription required None Per endpoint ## Cost Scenarios: 3 Worked Examples Same workload, both pricing models, math shown. Public pricing as of May 2026. Hobbyist 1,000 calls per month across 3 endpoints TwitterAPIs About $0.80 1,000 calls x $0.0008 per call TwexAPI $60 one time, or $0.42/month 3 endpoints x $20 one time, or 3 x $0.14/month Builder 50,000 calls per month across 10 endpoints TwitterAPIs About $40.00 50,000 calls x $0.0008 per call TwexAPI $200 one time, or $1.40/month 10 endpoints x $20 one time, or 10 x $0.14/month Production 500,000 calls per month across 20 endpoints TwitterAPIs About $400.00 500,000 calls x $0.0008 per call TwexAPI $400 one time, or $2.80/month 20 endpoints x $20 one time, or 20 x $0.14/month TwitterAPIs math uses $0.0008 per read call. TwexAPI math uses the published $20 one time per endpoint and $0.14 per endpoint per month figures. ## When TwexAPI may fit - Low and stable call volume on a fixed set of endpoints, where a one time per endpoint payment is predictable. - Finance or procurement teams that prefer a flat per endpoint line item over usage based billing. - Projects that need only one or two specific endpoints and never plan to add more. ## When TwitterAPIs fits - Elastic or unpredictable call volume, where pay per call avoids paying for unused capacity. - Endpoint discovery without paying first, since all 109 endpoints are available on one account. - Established API with $0.50 in free credits at signup, so you can validate fit before any spend. - Broad endpoint catalog (109 total: 65 read endpoints plus 44 write endpoints) covering tweets, users, search, lists, the follower graph, and engagement actions. See the full [pay-per-call pricing breakdown](/pricing) or browse the [other Twitter API alternatives](/twitter-api-alternatives) for sibling comparison points. ## Sources and update cadence TwexAPI pricing referenced from the public pricing page at twexapi.io (mirrored at twitterxapi.com) as of May 2026. TwitterAPIs pricing from [twitterapis.com/pricing](/pricing) and the canonical [Twitter API pricing comparison](/twitter-api-pricing). This page uses public pricing facts only. Trademarks belong to their respective owners and are referenced here for descriptive, comparative purposes only. Re-checked monthly and on any visible TwexAPI pricing change. ### Start with $0.50 in free credits No subscription, no commitment. Get an API key and pay only for what you use. The cost calculator is one click away if you want to size the bill first. [Start free, $0.50 in credits](/signup?utm_source=aio&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=aeo-twitterapis-vs-twexapi)[Open cost calculator](/twitter-api-cost-calculator?utm_source=aio&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=aeo-twitterapis-vs-twexapi) ## The dimension-by-dimension comparison A table shows the rows. It does not show which row decides the outcome. Walked one at a time, here is what each dimension actually costs you. ### Pricing unit TwexAPI prices the endpoint. We price the call. That single difference sets every other row. Buying an endpoint means your bill is decided by how many distinct routes your code touches, and is then indifferent to how hard you hit them. Buying a call means the opposite: adding a route costs nothing until you call it, and calling it a million times costs a million times one call. ### Access before purchase This is the row that quietly costs the most on a per-endpoint model, because it changes how you build. If a route costs $20 before you can call it, you stop exploring. You write the integration against the endpoints you already bought rather than the ones that fit the problem, and you find out that follower pagination or thread expansion would have been the right call three months later. On one account with every route reachable, discovery is free and the design follows the requirement. ### Behaviour at scale Per-endpoint pricing has a ceiling and metered pricing does not, and that cuts genuinely both ways. Ten endpoints under the one-time model is $200 once, whatever you do with them afterwards, so a very high-volume job on a narrow route set is cheaper there and we will say so plainly. Metered pricing wins the other three quadrants: low volume, wide route set, and anything whose shape you cannot predict yet. ### Trying before buying We open every account with $0.50 in credits, roughly 625 calls, with no card. TwexAPI does not advertise a free tier on its public pricing, so the first thing you learn about response shape and completeness may arrive after the purchase rather than before it. Check for one before you assume there is none; pricing pages change and this comparison is a snapshot. ### One-time or subscription TwexAPI offers both shapes for the same route, $20 once or $0.14 a month, and the second one deserves more credit than a comparison page usually gives it. Ten endpoints at $1.40 a month is a small enough number that it disappears into any real budget, and it makes the break-even against the one-time fee about twelve years, so the monthly option is the sensible default on their own pricing unless you are certain the project outlives that. What it does not do is change the shape of the decision. Under either option you are still paying for the right to call a route rather than for the calls, so you still choose your route set at purchase time and you still pay nothing extra for volume. Cheap access to a fixed catalogue is a different product from open access to a full one, and price is not what separates them. ### Where each model breaks Every pricing model has a workload that embarrasses it, and naming both is the only way this section is worth reading. Per-endpoint pricing breaks when the route set grows: each new requirement is a purchase decision, so the pricing model starts making architecture decisions for you. Per-call pricing breaks at sustained very high volume on a narrow route set, because a bill that tracks usage keeps tracking it, and there is no point at which you have finished paying. If your job is a firehose through two endpoints forever, we are the more expensive answer and you should take the other one. ### Route coverage We publish 109 endpoints, 65 reads and 44 writes, covering tweets, users, advanced search, lists, the follower graph, mentions, engagement actions and posting. On a per-endpoint model, the question is not how many exist but how many you are willing to buy, which is a different and smaller number. ## What Twitter and X data actually cost in 2026 Neither product on this page can be judged without the number they are both priced against. X shelved its fixed subscription tiers in February 2026 and moved self-serve access to consumption billing. Read from X's own pricing documentation on 13 August 2026, the current shape is: - **Free tier:** $0, built around writing, roughly 100 reads a month. Not a data-gathering tier in any practical sense. - **Pay-per-use reads:** from $0.005 per resource. $0.005 per post read and $0.010 per user read, which lands somewhere between $5 and $10 per 1,000 tweets. - **Pay-per-use writes:** from $0.015 per request, $0.20 if the post carries a URL, under a hard ceiling of 3 million post reads a month. - **Enterprise:** no published price, mandatory once you cross that 3 million read cap, and a contract rather than a signup. Set our rate beside that. $0.0008 per call, which is $0.04 per 1,000 tweets at a full 20-tweet page, against $5 to $10 per 1,000. The order of magnitude is the point, not the decimal. That gap is why a third-party category exists at all, and it is also why the interesting question between TwexAPI and us is not whether third-party is cheaper than official, it is which billing unit matches your workload. ## The main alternatives to the Twitter and X API There are five shapes in this market, and most buying mistakes are a shape mismatch rather than a vendor mismatch. Recognising which one you are looking at matters more than the headline rate. - **The official X API.** The only option with first-party guarantees and the only sensible route for writes acting on behalf of a signed-in user. Priced per resource, which is where reads get expensive. - **Metered REST APIs.** A hosted service billing per call or per item, ours included. No developer account, no OAuth for reads, and the bill tracks the work. - **Per-endpoint or per-seat licences.** TwexAPI sits here. You pay for access to a route rather than for the traffic through it, which is predictable and rewards narrow, heavy usage. - **General scraping platforms.** Apify and similar, billed by compute time and storage. Right when Twitter is one source among many and you want one orchestration layer for all of them. - **Self-hosted open-source libraries.** Free to licence, and you own the proxies, the blocks, and the maintenance when a selector changes. Genuinely the right answer for a hobby project. Our [full alternatives roundup](/twitter-api-alternatives) prices every vendor we have measured in one table, including several that beat us on a specific axis. ## Twitter and X API provider types compared for AI agent development Agents change which of those five shapes is workable, and the reason is not fashion. An agent decides at run time which call to make. It does not know in advance that thread expansion will be needed on the third turn, and it cannot stop to buy an endpoint when it finds out. That rules out a per-endpoint model for open-ended agent work fairly hard. Either you pre-buy every route the agent might reach, which is the full catalogue and defeats the pricing model, or you hand the agent a partial toolset and it fails on the question you did not anticipate. A per-call model has neither problem: every route is reachable, and the cost is whatever the agent actually used. The practical layer here is MCP. We publish a Model Context Protocol server that exposes the same endpoints as native tools, so an agent in Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf or Claude Desktop calls them by name rather than through hand-written HTTP glue. Read calls through it bill at the same $0.0008 rate as a direct request, because the server is a transport over the same API rather than a separate product. The honest caveat: if your agent only ever touches two endpoints and does so constantly, a per-endpoint licence is still cheaper and the argument above does not apply to you. Agent workloads are usually wide and spiky, which is why this matters, but check yours rather than taking the generalisation. ## How to compare Twitter API providers fairly We sell one of the products on this page, so treat the method as the useful part and the conclusion as ours. Four rules make any comparison in this category honest, including a comparison that does not favour us. - **Normalise the billing unit before anything else.** Per call, per item, per credit, per endpoint and per compute-second are five different units. Convert all of them to cost per 1,000 tweets for your own workload, and state the page size you assumed, because a rate card that quotes per request while returning five items is not comparable to one returning twenty. - **Price your real call mix, not the cheapest route.** Most vendors, us included, have a headline rate that applies to standard reads and premium rates on a handful of others. Write down the ten calls your product makes most and price those. - **Test completeness, not just latency.** On any scraping-backed API the interesting failure is a response that returns 200 with fewer rows than exist. Run the same query on two vendors and diff the row counts before you believe either. - **Model the month you fear, not the month you expect.** Cheapest at your median volume is the wrong test. Price the spike, the backfill, and the quiet month, and see which model punishes which. ## How to migrate from the official X API Most people arriving at a page like this are not choosing greenfield, they are leaving something. The migration off the official API is smaller than it looks because the hard parts, OAuth and the developer account, are the parts you delete. 1. **Split reads from writes.** Writes that act as a signed-in user are what the official API and its OAuth flow are for. Leave them where they are on the first pass. Reads carry no account identity, so they are the part that moves cleanly. 2. **Inventory the routes you actually call.** Pull it from your logs rather than your code. Teams are consistently surprised by how few distinct endpoints a mature integration touches, and that number is what decides whether a per-endpoint model would have been cheaper. 3. **Map field names once, in one adapter.** Response shapes differ between any two providers. Put the translation in a single module so a future move is a one-file change rather than a rewrite. 4. **Run both for a week and diff the rows.** Same query, same window, compare counts and spot-check content. This is the step people skip and the one that catches a silent completeness gap. 5. **Cut over the noisiest collector first.** Whichever job pages the most or breaks the most is where the saving and the learning both are. Move the rest once it has been stable for a cycle. ## A decision rule for the busy engineering lead If you have five minutes rather than an afternoon, the choice reduces to one number: how many distinct endpoints will this integration touch in its first year, and how confident are you in that figure? Under about three routes, known with confidence, running heavy sustained volume: buy the endpoints. A one-time per-endpoint fee against unlimited traffic is a good deal and metered billing will lose that comparison every month. Anything else, and especially any answer that begins "probably about", pay per call. Uncertainty about route count is the exact condition a per-endpoint model prices badly, because you either overbuy up front or discover the missing route in production. The $0.50 signup credit exists so this decision can be made against real responses rather than against two pricing pages. ## What you can and cannot do at each price tier in 2026 Our tiers are per CALL, not per plan, so nothing is gated behind a subscription level. Every endpoint is available to every account from the first request. What changes between tiers is only what a call costs, and the split is heavily weighted to the cheap end: 62 of the 109 bill at the standard $0.0008 rate, which covers every ordinary read and the simple write actions such as like, retweet, bookmark, follow, their undos and delete. 24 are free. The remaining 23 bill between $0.0016 and $0.01, and they earn it by doing more work per call: creating a tweet, sending a DM, reading DM conversations, pulling a full account history, expanding a whole thread. The login endpoint sits at the top of that range and bills only on a SUCCESSFUL login, so a failed credential costs nothing. The full per-endpoint table is on the pricing page. The practical consequence is that there is no capability cliff to plan around. You do not discover at integration time that the endpoint you need sits one tier above the plan you bought, which is the failure mode a tiered subscription creates and the reason a route set has to be known in advance to price one honestly. ## Can I get historical tweets, and how far back Yes, and this is where the two billing models diverge most sharply, because a backfill is the least predictable workload there is. A full account history pull runs through one dedicated endpoint priced above the standard rate rather than at it, since it does substantially more work per request; it sits in the same band as the other heavier calls listed above. Search reaches back through the advanced search endpoint at the standard $0.0008 rate, paged by cursor. Depth there is bounded by what the platform itself exposes to search rather than by anything we charge for, which is worth knowing before you plan a multi-year reconstruction: no provider can sell you access the platform does not serve, and any that implies otherwise is describing a scraper, not an API. Size a backfill before you start it. Pages times the per-call rate is the whole calculation, and it is a one-off cost against a per-call model rather than a permanent uplift in a monthly plan you then keep paying for. ## Best-fit teams A per-endpoint subscription fits a team whose route set is FINISHED. If you know the four endpoints you will call in eighteen months, a fixed line item is easier to defend in a budget and easier for procurement to approve, and that preference is rational rather than a failure of analysis. A per-call rate fits three shapes in particular. A team still discovering its route set, where committing to endpoints now means re-negotiating later. A team with spiky volume, where a plan sized for the peak is idle most of the month. And an agent, which decides at run time which of the 109 endpoints to call and cannot be enumerated in advance by definition. The honest test is whether you can name your endpoints. If you can, price both models against that list and pick the cheaper. If you cannot, a per-endpoint model is being priced on a guess, and the guess is yours to carry. ## Integration notes Authentication is one static Bearer header. There is no OAuth flow to implement for reads, no token refresh loop, and no signing step, so a complete client is roughly fifteen lines in any language with an HTTP library. Pagination is a single cursor field you read from the response and send back unchanged on the next request. Stop when a response carries no cursor. Always cap the loop: a page budget is the difference between a bounded backfill and a bug that runs until someone notices the spend. Every response is JSON with the payload under a named key, and the shape does not change between tiers, so the same parsing code covers a $0.0008 read and the heaviest call in the catalog. That matters more than it sounds: a per-endpoint provider that changes response shape by plan makes the migration cost real, and it is rarely priced in. ## Which Twitter and X data API should you choose? Choose the official X API if you need writes on behalf of signed-in users, formal compliance terms, or an endpoint nobody else serves, and you have budgeted for per resource reads. Choose TwexAPI if your route set is small, fixed and known, and you would rather carry one predictable line item than a usage-based one. Procurement teams have a real preference here and it is not irrational. Choose us if the volume is elastic, the route set is wide or still being discovered, or an agent is deciding at run time which call to make. That is the workload a flat per-call rate across 109 endpoints is shaped for, and it is the one a per-endpoint model handles worst. ## Check out similar blogs For more detail than a head-to-head page can carry, two of our posts go deeper on exactly this category: - [Best Twitter Scraper 2026: API, Browser, Python Tools](/blogs/best-twitter-api-for-scraping) , a full comparison across the official API, third-party APIs, browser-based scrapers, and Python libraries, not just the one pair this page covers. - [Cheapest Twitter API 2026: 8 Providers Ranked by Real Per-1,000-Tweet Cost](/blogs/cheapest-twitter-api-2026-8-providers-ranked-by-real-per-1000-tweet-cost) , where every vendor mentioned on this page lands once billing traps are priced in, not just the headline rate. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Is TwitterAPIs a TwexAPI replacement? Yes. TwitterAPIs covers the same core Twitter and X data surfaces (tweets, users, followers, search) and adds a broader read endpoint catalog. The main switching factor is the pricing model: TwitterAPIs charges per call ($0.0008 per read) with no per endpoint subscription, all 109 endpoints on one account, while TwexAPI charges $0.14 per endpoint per month or $20 one time per endpoint. ### How do TwexAPI and TwitterAPIs compare on endpoint count? TwitterAPIs exposes 109 endpoints, 65 read endpoints across tweets, users, search, lists, and the follower graph, plus 44 write endpoints (post a tweet, like, retweet, bookmark, follow, their undos, send a DM, and upload media), on a single account with no per endpoint purchase. TwexAPI publishes a per endpoint purchase model where each endpoint is bought or subscribed to separately. ### Can I try TwitterAPIs before paying? Yes. New accounts get $0.50 in free credits at signup with no credit card required. That covers around 625 API calls, which is enough to validate response shape, latency, and integration fit before any spend. ### What is the cheapest TwexAPI alternative? For elastic or unpredictable workloads, TwitterAPIs is typically cheaper because you only pay for the calls you actually make. At $0.0008 per standard call you pay $0.80 for 1,000 calls regardless of how many endpoints you touch, versus paying $20 one time or $0.14 per month per endpoint on TwexAPI. ### Does TwitterAPIs offer per endpoint subscriptions? No. TwitterAPIs is pay per call only. There are no monthly subscriptions, no per endpoint fees, and no minimum spend. 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