Twitter API pricing explained

Official X API pricing in 2026

The official X API now uses prepaid credits. A public Post read costs $0.005 per Post. That is $5 per 1,000 Posts and $500 per 100,000 Posts.

X charges by resource returned. A search response containing 100 new Posts consumes 100 Post reads. The official pricing page says repeat reads of the same resource are usually deduplicated within the same UTC day.

• Post read: $0.005 each
• User read: $0.01 each
• Follower or following read: $0.01 each
• Eligible reads from your own account: $0.001 each

Rates checked on September 3, 2026. See the official X API pricing page before committing a large budget.

The monthly Post read cap

X documents a 2 million Post read monthly cap for pay per use access. Higher volume moves to an Enterprise agreement.

TwitterXAPI has no fixed monthly Post cap. Your balance pays for successful records returned. Failed requests do not consume credit.

The official cap appears in X usage and billing.

Compare the cost

At TwitterXAPI's $0.10 per 1,000 posts rate, 100,000 posts cost $10. The same number of official Post reads costs $500 at the published rate.

const posts = 100_000;
const twitterXApi = posts / 1_000 * 0.10;
const officialXApi = posts * 0.005;
console.log({ twitterXApi, officialXApi });
// { twitterXApi: 10, officialXApi: 500 }

See a real API response

TwitterXAPI returns normalized JSON by default, with stable names for IDs and account counts.

curl "https://twitterxapi.com/api/v1/users/marclou?level=moderate" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TWITTERXAPI_KEY"

{
  "id": "2311987360",
  "username": "marclou",
  "followersCount": 382499,
  "followingCount": 1246,
  "statusesCount": 36756,
  "verified": false
}

Choose the right API

Use the official API when you need write actions or private account data with user consent.

Use TwitterXAPI for public profiles, posts, replies, followers, searches, communities, trends, and large account histories. There is no developer app approval step.