# How much does the X (Twitter) API cost in 2026?

> What the X (Twitter) API costs in 2026 under pay-per-use, what 10,000 post reads or 500 profiles come to, and a per-page route for reading public X data.

Canonical page: https://okdata.online/answers/x-api-pricing-2026/

**Short answer: **Since February 2026 X sells its API pay-per-use, with no subscription: X's pricing page lists $0.005 per post read, $0.010 per user read and $0.010 per trends request. For reading public data, okdata returns a page of about 20 posts for $0.006, so 1,000 posts cost $0.30, and a profile costs $0.001.

Say you are budgeting a small tool that reads 10,000 posts a month about your market and checks 500 creator profiles. On X's own API that is $50 for the posts and $5 for the profiles. Reading the same public data through okdata costs $3.00 for the posts (500 search pages) and $0.50 for the profiles. Which one you should pay for depends on whether you only read public data or also need to post, message and work with your own account.

## What X charges now

X launched pay-per-use pricing on 6 February 2026. You buy credits up front in the Developer Console and each request draws them down. These are the read rates on [X's pricing page](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing) as of 12 November 2026:

| X API item | Price |
|---|---|
| Post read | $0.005 per post returned |
| User read | $0.010 per user returned |
| Trends | $0.010 per request |
| Your own data (Owned Reads) | $0.001 per resource |

Reads are capped at 3 million posts per monthly billing cycle; above that X points you to Enterprise. A post you already paid for is not charged again within the same UTC day. When pay-per-use launched, X kept the Basic and Pro plans for existing subscribers, but the pricing page now shows only the credit model. New paying accounts can earn up to $70 in one-time free credits.

## The same reads here

| Job | X API | okdata |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 posts from a search | $5.00 | $0.30 |
| 500 profiles | $5.00 | $0.50 |
| One country's trends, daily for 30 days | $0.30 | $0.27 |
| One post by link | $0.005 | $0.001 |

[X post search](/apis/x/posts/search/) is billed per page of about 20 posts, not per post. Failed calls cost nothing, and a retry with the same Idempotency-Key within 24 hours is free.

```bash
curl -G "https://api.okdata.online/v1/x/posts/search" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKDATA_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode 'query="your brand" lang:en' \
  -d sort=latest
```

## When to pay X directly

- You post, reply, send DMs or manage lists. okdata is read-only.
- You read your own account's data: Owned Reads at $0.001 are hard to beat.
- You need streams, webhooks, follower lists or a contract with X itself.

okdata covers public reads only: [post search](/apis/x/posts/search/), [account posts](/apis/x/users/posts/list/), [profiles](/apis/x/users/get/), [single posts](/apis/x/posts/get/) and [trends](/apis/x/trends/list/). No X developer account is needed, and new keys start with $0.10 of credit. Full prices are on the [pricing page](/pricing/).

## Endpoints used

- [X post search](https://okdata.online/apis/x/posts/search/) `x.posts.search`: $0.006 per call · about 20 posts per page
- [X account profile](https://okdata.online/apis/x/users/get/) `x.users.get`: $0.001 per call
- [X trending topics](https://okdata.online/apis/x/trends/list/) `x.trends.list`: $0.009 per call · about 30 board entries per page
- [X post detail](https://okdata.online/apis/x/posts/get/) `x.posts.get`: $0.001 per call

Updated 2026-11-12