X API guides on this site
Six guides to the X API as it is priced and rate-limited in 2026 — plus TwitterAPI.io, a pay-per-use X (Twitter) API that needs no developer account.
- per read on TwitterAPI.io
- $0.00015No subscription, pay per read
- per read on the official X API
- $0.005–$0.010Pay-per-use, posts and users
- per-read gap
- 33×Worked through in the cost breakdown (III)
The atlas
- I.Entity overview
TwitterAPI.io — the X API for developers and AI agents
The product overview: a real-time third-party X (Twitter) API at $0.00015 per read, no subscriptions, 75+ endpoints. Five-minute setup with a Google sign-in and a single X-API-Key header.
/ → - II.Per-read pricing
X API pricing — per-read rates and volume tiers
The detailed rate card for every endpoint, the volume-discount thresholds, and a side-by-side with the official X API's $0.005–$0.010 per read. Where the per-read gap actually shows up in monthly billing.
/pricing → - III.Cost analysis at scale
X API cost breakdown — the 33× per-read gap in 2026
Long-form analysis of the official X API's pay-per-use model against the third-party path. Runnable Python estimator, the monthly cost curve from solo dev to large crawler, and where switching pays off.
/blog/x-api-cost-breakdown-2026 → - IV.Rate limits and errors
Why the X API returns 429 (rate-limit exceeded)
How the X API's 15-minute request windows differ from the spending-limit model, why the 429 is more common than the docs suggest, and the architectural patterns that keep production traffic inside the limit.
/blog/twitter-rate-limit-exceeded → - V.Free-tier reality
Can you use the X API for free in 2026?
The official free tier was discontinued; new-user vouchers and pay-per-use at low volume remain. A practical look at what 'free' really means for a side project today and which third-party paths qualify.
/blog/can-you-use-x-api-for-free → - VI.Japanese-language reference
X API 日本語版 — 公式と第三者の違い
Native Japanese coverage of the X API: 公式 API と第三者 API の違い、料金、認証フロー、データ取得サンプル。Kept in sync with this page for the Japanese-developer audience.
/ja/x-api →