# TwittrAPI vs Sorsa API: price per request, plans, history (2026)

> Sorsa sells monthly request plans; TwittrAPI bills per call from a prepaid balance. Prices in the same unit, rate limits, monitoring and search history, checked October 2026.

HTML page: https://www.twittrapi.com/compare/sorsa
Competitor facts checked on 2026-10-14.

Sorsa and TwittrAPI both sell read access to public X data per request, without an X developer account. Sorsa sells monthly plans with a request quota. We bill per call from a prepaid balance.

We run TwittrAPI. Sorsa details below come from its own pages, checked on 14 October 2026. Each number links to its source.

## At a glance (as of October 2026)

| | TwittrAPI | Sorsa |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Billing unit | Per API call | Per request, whatever it returns |
| Price per 1,000 calls | $0.065 to $0.10 | $1.40 to $4.90 per 1,000 requests (as of October 2026) |
| Per 1,000 tweets, search and timelines | $0.00325 to $0.005 | about $0.10 per 1,000 tweets through search or timelines on Pro (as of October 2026); $0.07 to $0.245 across plans |
| Batch lookups | Up to 500 profiles per call by ID ($0.00013 to $0.0002 per 1,000) | up to 100 tweets or 200 profiles per request (as of October 2026); from $0.02 per 1,000 tweets, with up to 100 tweets per request (as of October 2026) |
| How you pay | Prepaid balance, no subscription | Starter $49/month for 10,000 requests up to Hyperscale $13,990/month for 10,000,000 (as of October 2026); extra requests at the plan's rate from a prepaid balance (card or crypto) (as of October 2026) |
| Free to start | $0.10 test credit, 7 days | 100 free requests that do not expire (as of October 2026) |
| Rate limit | 30 requests/s after the first top-up; 50 to 1,000 booked; 3,000 on request | 20 requests/s on every plan (as of October 2026) |
| Account monitoring | Webhooks; $19/month for 10 accounts (Real-time, checked at least every 1 s) | no streaming or webhooks; monitoring means polling (as of October 2026) |
| Endpoints | Reads across users, tweets, search, lists, communities and trends | 41 endpoints (as of October 2026) |
| MCP for AI agents | Hosted, sign-in with OAuth; also local | an MCP server you run with npx sorsa-mcp (as of October 2026) |
| Auth | `X-API-KEY` header | `ApiKey` header |

Monthly plans count as if used in full. Per 1,000 tweets assumes 20 tweets per search or timeline call; Sorsa states about 20 tweets per search page (as of October 2026).

## Price in the same unit

Sorsa charges per request: $4.90 on Starter, $1.99 on Pro, $1.40 on Hyperscale per 1,000 requests (as of October 2026). On TwittrAPI 1,000 calls cost $0.065 to $0.10, about 14x less than Sorsa's largest plan used in full.

**Search and timelines.** With about 20 tweets per page on both, 1,000 tweets cost $0.00325 to $0.005 on TwittrAPI and $0.07 to $0.245 on Sorsa, depending on the plan.

**Batch lookups.** Sorsa returns up to 100 tweets or 200 profiles per request (as of October 2026), which is how it reaches from $0.02 per 1,000 tweets, with up to 100 tweets per request (as of October 2026). We return up to 500 profiles per call by ID ($0.00013 to $0.0002 per 1,000 profiles).

## Where Sorsa is the better fit

- **Old posts**: search back to 2006 (as of October 2026).
- **Large batches**: up to 100 tweets or 200 profiles per request (as of October 2026).
- **A fixed monthly budget** with a known quota.

## Where TwittrAPI is the better fit

- **No monthly plan**: pay per call from a balance that never expires.
- **Account monitoring with webhooks** within 1, 5 or 60 s for any public account ([monitoring](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/monitoring)). On Sorsa: no streaming or webhooks; monitoring means polling (as of October 2026).
- **Higher rate limits**: 30 requests/s after the first top-up, 50 to 1,000 booked, against 20 requests/s on every plan (as of October 2026).
- **Hosted MCP with OAuth**: connect by URL, nothing to install ([hosted MCP](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/hosted-mcp)).
- **Refunds** on 400, 408, 409 or 5xx responses.

## Switching

Both use a key in a header and return JSON. Map the paths and the fields you read; our endpoints are in the [reference](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/reference). For polling jobs, consider [account monitoring](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/monitoring) instead of repeated requests.

TwittrAPI is not affiliated with X Corp. Reading data needs no X account.

## Frequently asked questions

### What do 1,000 tweets from search cost?

At about 20 tweets per call: $0.00325 to $0.005 on TwittrAPI. Sorsa states about $0.10 per 1,000 tweets through search or timelines on Pro (as of October 2026).

### Can Sorsa push new tweets to a webhook?

Its site says no streaming or webhooks; monitoring means polling (as of October 2026). TwittrAPI sends new tweets of watched accounts to your webhook.

### Do I need a subscription?

On Sorsa, yes, a monthly plan. On TwittrAPI, no.


## Sources

- [Sorsa API pricing](https://api.sorsa.io/pricing)
- [Sorsa API homepage](https://api.sorsa.io/)