# TwittrAPI vs TwitterAPIs: price per call and per 1,000 tweets, monitoring, limits (2026)

> TwitterAPIs and TwittrAPI both bill per call. Price per 1,000 calls and per 1,000 tweets, free credit, rate limits, monitoring at each plan size and endpoints, checked October 2026.

HTML page: https://www.twittrapi.com/compare/twitterapis
Competitor facts checked on 2026-10-16.

TwitterAPIs and TwittrAPI both sell access to public X data per API call, without an X developer account. The differences are the price per call, the rate limit, how monitoring is priced and timed, and the write endpoints.

We run TwittrAPI. TwitterAPIs details below come from its own pages, checked on 16 October 2026. Each number links to its source.

## At a glance (as of October 2026)

| | TwittrAPI | TwitterAPIs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Billing unit | Per API call | Per call, by endpoint class |
| Price per 1,000 calls | $0.065 to $0.10 | $0.80 per 1,000 standard calls (as of October 2026) |
| Per 1,000 tweets, about 20 per call | $0.00325 to $0.005 | $0.04 per 1,000 tweets on a full page of 20 tweets (as of October 2026) |
| Single lookup (one tweet or profile) | $0.0001 per call (Standard) | $0.0008 per standard call (as of October 2026) |
| Higher-priced calls | None, every call costs the same, writes included | $0.0016 per call for DMs and creating tweets, $0.0024 for full history, $0.004 for a full thread (as of October 2026) |
| How you pay | Prepaid balance, no subscription; lower price with larger top-ups | top-ups of $10, $25, $50, $100, $250 or any amount; credits never expire (as of October 2026); no subscriptions and no volume discount (as of October 2026) |
| Free credit | $0.50 test credit, 7 days | $0.50 free credit for new accounts, no card required (as of October 2026) |
| Payment | Crypto (USDT or USDC on Polygon, USDT on Tron, or Litecoin); card top-ups | card or crypto; crypto adds 2% credit (as of October 2026) |
| Rate limit | 30 requests/s after the first top-up; 50 to 1,000 booked; 3,000 on request | 600 requests per minute and 20 concurrent requests per API key (as of October 2026) |
| Empty and failed calls | Empty results count as a call; 400, 407, 408, 409 or 5xx responses are refunded | calls that come back empty or fail are billed (as of October 2026) |
| Monitoring, free | 1 account free (Standard, checked at least every 60 s) | 1 monitored account free on every account (as of October 2026) |
| Monitoring, 6 accounts | $3 Standard (60 s), $5.40 Fast (5 s), $11.40 Real-time (1 s) | Starter $15/month for 6 accounts, under 60 s detection (typical) (as of October 2026) |
| Monitoring, 20 accounts | $7.50 Standard (60 s), $14 Fast (5 s), $29 Real-time (1 s) | Growth $47/month for 20 accounts, 2 s delivery once a post is detected (as of October 2026) |
| Monitoring, 50 accounts | $15 Standard (60 s), $29 Fast (5 s), $59 Real-time (1 s) | Professional $95/month for 50 accounts, 2 s delivery once a post is detected (as of October 2026) |
| Monitoring, 150 accounts | $32 Standard (60 s), $64 Fast (5 s), $129 Real-time (1 s) | Enterprise $199/month for 150 accounts, 2 s delivery once a post is detected (as of October 2026) |
| Monitoring, 500 accounts | $82.33 Standard (60 s), $165.67 Fast (5 s), $332.33 Real-time (1 s) | Enterprise Plus $399/month for 500 accounts, 2 s delivery once a post is detected (as of October 2026) |
| Monitoring, 2,000 accounts | $236.50 Standard (60 s), $474 Fast (5 s), $949 Real-time (1 s) | Scale $799/month for 2,000 accounts, 2 s delivery once a post is detected (as of October 2026) |
| Endpoints | Reads across users, tweets, search, lists, communities and trends, plus writes for your own accounts | 113 endpoints: 69 reads and 44 writes (as of October 2026) |
| Write endpoints for your own accounts | post (with media, a poll or a schedule), reply, like, retweet, follow, bookmark, mute, block, lists, communities, drafts, DMs, profile and media upload, with your X session cookie and proxy; same price per call as reads | write endpoints (posting, likes, follows, DMs, lists, drafts, scheduled tweets, articles, Grok chat) (as of October 2026) |
| MCP for AI agents | Hosted, sign-in with OAuth; also local | an MCP server you run with npx @twitterapis/mcp (as of October 2026) |
| Auth | `X-API-KEY` header | `Authorization: Bearer` header |
| Response format | X's own JSON, or flat camelCase JSON with `format=simple` | Flat snake_case JSON |

Per 1,000 tweets assumes 20 tweets per search or timeline call, as both providers count. Our monitoring prices are monthly, as the dashboard books them for that number of accounts; the seconds are the longest time between two checks.

## Price per call

A standard TwitterAPIs call costs $0.0008 per standard call (as of October 2026). A call on TwittrAPI costs $0.0001 at the Standard price that every account gets, about 8x less, and less again on our volume tiers ([pricing](https://www.twittrapi.com/pricing)).

TwitterAPIs' homepage states "$0.0008 per call, every endpoint" (as of October 2026). Its pricing page lists higher prices for DMs and tweet creation, full history and thread calls: $0.0016 per call for DMs and creating tweets, $0.0024 for full history, $0.004 for a full thread (as of October 2026). Every call on TwittrAPI has the same price.

**Search and timelines.** Both count about 20 tweets per call: $0.00325 to $0.005 per 1,000 tweets on TwittrAPI, $0.04 per 1,000 tweets on a full page of 20 tweets (as of October 2026) on TwitterAPIs. X decides the real page size. TwitterAPIs' pricing page reports that pages averaged about 13 tweets across its own read calls, search pages closer to 8 (as of October 2026), so measure with your own queries.

## Monitoring

Both have one account free and flat monthly plans. At each of TwitterAPIs' plan sizes, our Standard and Fast classes cost less than its plan. Our Real-time class costs less up to 500 accounts and more at 2,000: $949/month against Scale $799/month for 2,000 accounts, 2 s delivery once a post is detected (as of October 2026).

The seconds mean different things. Ours are guaranteed check intervals for every public account, with no follower minimum ([monitoring](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/monitoring)). TwitterAPIs publishes Starter: under 60 s detection, poll-based, typical (as of October 2026), and Growth and larger: 2-second delivery once a post is detected (as of October 2026), with no detection interval stated for those plans. Its pricing page says detection is poll-based and typical, not a guaranteed SLA (as of October 2026).

## Where TwitterAPIs is the better fit

- **Free credit that stays**: the same $0.50 to start, and free credits never expire (as of October 2026). Ours is valid 7 days.
- **Write endpoints we do not have**, such as articles and Grok chat (write endpoints (posting, likes, follows, DMs, lists, drafts, scheduled tweets, articles, Grok chat) (as of October 2026)).
- **Monitoring at 2,000 accounts**: Scale $799/month for 2,000 accounts, 2 s delivery once a post is detected (as of October 2026) costs less than our Real-time class for the same count.
- **Monitoring to chat**: signed webhooks, or Slack and Discord natively (as of October 2026).

## Where TwittrAPI is the better fit

- **Price per call**: $0.0001 against $0.0008 per standard call (as of October 2026), one price for every endpoint.
- **Rate limit**: 30 requests/s after the first top-up, against 600 requests per minute and 20 concurrent requests per API key (as of October 2026); up to 3,000 on request.
- **Monitoring with guaranteed intervals**: within 60, 5 or 1 s for any public account; Standard and Fast cost less at every plan size above.
- **Refunds** on 400, 407, 408, 409 or 5xx responses.
- **Hosted MCP with OAuth**: connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor by URL ([hosted MCP](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/hosted-mcp)).
- **Crypto without a fee** (USDT or USDC on Polygon, USDT on Tron, or Litecoin).

**Write endpoints.** Our [account actions](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/account-actions) cost the same per call as reads; TwitterAPIs' pricing page lists $0.0016 per call for DMs and creating tweets, $0.0024 for full history, $0.004 for a full thread (as of October 2026). The X session is handled differently: on TwitterAPIs, writes use an X session you register once and they store, or a login endpoint ($0.01 per login) (as of October 2026); on TwittrAPI you send the session cookie and your proxy with each call ([your X session](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/x-session)).

## Switching

Both use a key in a header and return JSON. Their key goes in `Authorization: Bearer`, ours in `X-API-KEY`. Their paths take a `query`, `username` or `id` parameter and return snake_case fields with `next_cursor` and `has_more`. Add `format=simple` on our side for flat camelCase objects with `nextCursor` and `hasNextPage` ([simple format](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/simple-format)).

| TwitterAPIs | TwittrAPI | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `GET /twitter/user/info?username=` | [`GET /user/by/username/{username}`](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/reference/user-by-username-username) | |
| `GET /twitter/user/tweets?username=` or `user_id=` | [`GET /user/{userId}/tweets`](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/reference/user-userid-tweets) | Handle only: `/user/-1/tweets?username=jack`. |
| `GET /twitter/tweet/advanced_search?query=&product=Latest` | [`GET /search?searchItem=&category=Latest`](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/reference/search) | `query` also works as the parameter name. Same X search operators. |
| `GET /twitter/tweet/detail?id=` | [`GET /simpletweet/{tweetId}`](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/reference/simpletweet-tweetid) | |
| `GET /twitter/user/followers?username=` | [`GET /user/{userId}/followers`](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/reference/user-userid-followers) | Use `-1` and `?username=` for a handle. |

All our endpoints are in the [reference](https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/reference). To compare cost on your own workload, run the same queries on both and divide what you paid by the tweets you got.

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

## Frequently asked questions

### Is TwittrAPI cheaper per call than TwitterAPIs?

On published prices, yes: $0.0001 per call on our Standard price against $0.0008 per standard call (as of October 2026) for a standard TwitterAPIs call.

### What do 1,000 tweets cost?

At 20 tweets per call: $0.00325 to $0.005 on TwittrAPI, $0.04 per 1,000 tweets on a full page of 20 tweets (as of October 2026) on TwitterAPIs.

### Which one has more free credit?

Both start new accounts with $0.50. Ours is valid 7 days; on TwitterAPIs, free credits never expire (as of October 2026).

### Which one is cheaper for monitoring?

It depends on the number of accounts and the speed. At TwitterAPIs' plan sizes, our Standard and Fast classes cost less; our Real-time class costs less up to 500 accounts and more at 2,000. Our intervals are guaranteed; TwitterAPIs states that detection is poll-based and typical, not a guaranteed SLA (as of October 2026).

### Does either need an X developer account?

No. Both issue their own API keys.


## Sources

- [TwitterAPIs pricing](https://www.twitterapis.com/pricing)
- [TwitterAPIs homepage](https://www.twitterapis.com/)
- [TwitterAPIs OpenAPI spec](https://www.twitterapis.com/openapi.json)