X API Pay-Per-Use Pricing 2026

Pure consumption pricing for the X / Twitter API. $0.001 per call on GetXAPI (~20 tweets per call) vs $0.005 per resource on the official X API pay-per-use tier. No subscription required, no monthly minimum, no surprise tier upgrade. Optional subscription plans are also available.

What “pay-per-use” actually means for the X API

Pay-per-use (also called consumption-based or usage-based pricing) means you are billed for each API call you make, instead of a flat monthly fee for a tier. The official X API currently lists prepaid pay-per-use for standard access and custom-priced Enterprise access. Its public table does not publish an effective date or a complete legacy-tier migration history. GetXAPI has run on pay-per-use from day one.

Two things make pay-per-use cheap or expensive: the cost per call, and how much data each call returns. On the official X API, one resource = one tweet, so 1,000 tweets costs about $5. On GetXAPI, one call returns about 20 tweets, so 1,000 tweets costs $0.05. For the brand-level breakdown of every endpoint see the GetXAPI pricing page. For the head-to-head comparison against the official X API pay-per-use rates, see Twitter API pricing 2026.

Cost per call, every endpoint

Every endpoint, the cost per call, and the implied cost per 1,000 calls. Standard reads (tweets, users, lists) are $0.001 per call. DM endpoints and Create Tweet are $0.002. Article publishing is $0.005 to $0.01.

Endpoint Price List

Credits are drawn at each endpoint's real cost, not one credit per call: most reads are $0.001, heavier endpoints cost more, so they use more of your plan or top-up credits per call.

Showing 64 of 64 endpoints

Endpoint	Price / Call	Price / 1,000 Calls
`tweet/advanced_search`	$0.001	$1.00
`tweet/detail`	$0.001	$1.00
`tweet/replies`	$0.001	$1.00
`tweet/retweeters`	$0.001	$1.00
`tweet/thread`	$0.005	$5.00
`tweet/create`	$0.002	$2.00
`tweet/edit`	$0.002	$2.00
`tweet/favorite`	$0.001	$1.00
`tweet/retweet`	$0.001	$1.00
`tweet/bookmark`	$0.001	$1.00
`tweet/unbookmark`	$0.001	$1.00
`tweet/delete`	$0.001	$1.00
`article/get`	$0.001	$1.00
`article/create`	$0.010	$10.00
`article/publish`	$0.005	$5.00
`article/unpublish`	$0.005	$5.00
`article/delete`	$0.005	$5.00
`article/list`	$0.005	$5.00
`article/update`	$0.005	$5.00
`user/search`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/info`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/info_by_id`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/user_about`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/followers`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/following`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/followers_v2`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/following_v2`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/verified_followers`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/media`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/tweets`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/tweets_and_replies`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/tweets/complete`	$0.003	$3.00
`user/likes`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/home_timeline`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/mentions`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/bookmarks`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/bookmark_search`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/followers_you_know`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/check_follow_relationship`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/affiliates`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/follow`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/unfollow`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/update_avatar`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/update_banner`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/update_profile`	$0.001	$1.00
`list/members`	$0.001	$1.00
`dm/list`	$0.002	$2.00
`dm/send`	$0.002	$2.00
`dm/conversation`	$0.001	$1.00
`media/upload`	$0.001	$1.00
`community/join`	$0.002	$2.00
`user_login`	$0.010	$10.00
`account/me`	Free	Free
`account/payments`	Free	Free
`spaces/info`	$0.001	$1.00
`spaces/download`	From $0.05	+ $0.015 / transcript min
`trends`	$0.001	$1.00
`trends/locations`	$0.001	$1.00
`user/status`	$0.001	$1.00
`community/info`	$0.001	$1.00
`notifications`	$0.002	$2.00
`user_login_v2`	$0.005	$5.00
`reset-password/send-code`	$0.005	$5.00
`reset-password/confirm`	$0.005	$5.00

3 ROI scenarios: light, medium, heavy

Three real-world usage profiles, each modeled with monthly call volume, approximate tweets returned, and the pay-per-use bill on GetXAPI vs the official X API pay-per-use tier.

Light usage

Indie hacker, prototype, weekend project with small daily tweet pulls.

Monthly calls: 5,000
~Tweets: 100,000
GetXAPI: $5/mo
Official X API: $25/mo
Save $20/mo (80%)

Medium usage

Funded startup, growth dashboard, daily sentiment runs at moderate scale.

Monthly calls: 50,000
~Tweets: 1,000,000
GetXAPI: $50/mo
Official X API: $250/mo
Save $200/mo (80%)

Heavy usage

Production analytics platform, full firehose-style ingestion, multi-tenant.

Monthly calls: 500,000
~Tweets: 10,000,000
GetXAPI: $500/mo
Official X API: $2,500/mo
Save $2,000/mo (80%)

Scenario rates assume tweet/user/search reads at the official X API $0.005 per-resource rate. Run your exact bill in the cost calculator.

Current Official X API Pay-Per-Use Rates

Source: docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing. Verified August 4, 2026. Reads are billed per resource and writes per request; the page does not state a pricing effective date.

Resource	Official X API	GetXAPI Equivalent	Notes
Posts: Read (tweet search, lookup)	$0.005	$0.001 to $0.002 per call	1 tweet returned per resource
User: Read (profiles, followers)	$0.010	$0.001 to $0.002 per call	1 user returned per resource
DM Event: Read	$0.010	$0.001 to $0.002 per call	1 DM event per resource
Content: Create (standard post)	$0.015	$0.001 to $0.002 per call	1 standard Post-create request
User Interaction: Create (like, retweet)	$0.015	$0.001 to $0.002 per call	1 interaction per resource
DM Interaction: Create (send DM)	$0.015	$0.001 to $0.002 per call	1 DM send per resource

GetXAPI typically returns ~20 tweets per call, so the effective per-tweet cost is 100x cheaper than the official X API single-resource read. Last verified May 30, 2026.

Pay-per-use pricing FAQ

Pay-per-use means charges scale with actual API usage instead of a fixed standard-access subscription. The current official X pricing page lists prepaid pay-per-use access, with reads billed per resource and writes per request. It does not publish an effective date for the table. GetXAPI charges $0.001 per standard call, with about 20 tweets returned per call.

Yes. For tweet search and tweet detail (the most common use case), GetXAPI is 5x cheaper per call ($0.001 vs $0.005) and 100x cheaper per tweet because each GetXAPI call returns ~20 tweets while the official resource returns 1 tweet. For user reads it's 10x cheaper per call, and for DM operations it's 5x to 7.5x cheaper.

Tweet search on GetXAPI uses the tweet/advanced_search endpoint at $0.001 per call, returning ~20 tweets per page. So 1,000 tweets of search results costs $0.05. The official X API charges $0.005 per single tweet returned via search, so 1,000 tweets costs $5, a 100x markup.

Yes. Use the cost calculator to plug in your tweet, user, and DM call volumes and see the side-by-side monthly bill for GetXAPI vs the official X API pay-per-use rates, with total savings percentage. For per-endpoint cost detail, see the pricing page.

The current public X pricing page lists prepaid pay-per-use and custom-priced Enterprise access. It does not list public Free, Basic, or Pro plans. Standard Post reads cost $0.005 per resource, User reads cost $0.010, and standard Post creation costs $0.015 per request. GetXAPI charges $0.001 per standard call and returns about 20 tweets per call.

No. There is no minimum monthly spend and no mandatory subscription. You buy credits starting at $10 (10,000 API calls / ~200,000 tweets) and they never expire. New accounts get $0.10 in free credits at signup with no credit card required.

Because GetXAPI pricing is per call, a usage spike consumes credits faster without forcing a tier upgrade. You can set spend alerts in the dashboard. The official X API meters standard access per resource or request and has a 3 million monthly Post-read cap, so model both cost and that cap for read-heavy workloads.

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