Twitter & X API Pricing 2026: Tiers, Free Tier & 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. GetXAPI offers the same data at $0.001 per call (~20 tweets per call) for standard endpoints and $0.002 for DM endpoints. That's $0.05 per 1,000 tweets vs $5-$10 on the official API.

No subscription is required. GetXAPI's primary model is pay-per-call with no minimum spend and no commitment, and you get $0.1 in free credits at signup and only pay for what you use. Optional subscription plans, a fixed monthly call quota at a lower effective rate, are also available if you prefer.

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. GetXAPI charges a flat $0.001 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 GetXAPI's $0.10 signup credit (~2,000 tweets), then pay-per-use at $0.05 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. GetXAPI has no tiers: it is a flat $0.001 per call (~20 tweets) at any volume.

GetXAPI is 5x-15x cheaper than the official X API across all endpoint types. For example, a tweet read costs $0.001 on GetXAPI (~20 tweets per call) vs $0.005 on the official API. At 10,000 calls, you pay $10 with GetXAPI (~200K tweets) vs $50 with the official API.

GetXAPI is the cheapest Twitter API on the market at $0.001 per call (~20 tweets per call), making it just $0.05 per 1,000 tweets. The official X API starts at $0.005 per single resource, 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, GetXAPI gives every new account $0.10 in credits (~2,000 tweets) with no credit card required, then $0.05 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. GetXAPI is a read API for collecting tweet, user, and follower data and does not carry a per-link write premium.