Best X (Twitter) data APIs, 2026Every main way to get X data.X’s pay-per-use API, its Enterprise plan and the main data APIs, compared on what they return, how they charge and how you connect.
An editorial comparison of what each vendor publishes, checked 25 Sept 2026. Monocrawl is ours and listed first. How we compared
What are you building?
Public profiles and posts in a product or pipelineA data API. They differ most in how they charge.
An AI agent that searches and reads XAn option with an MCP server, so the agent can call it directly.
Posting, messages or data for accounts that sign in to your appThe official X API. It handles posting and DMs, and reads of your own account’s data cost $0.001 each.
Every public post as it happens, or over 3 million post reads a monthX API Enterprise. Its volume streams carry every public post, with no monthly read cap.
Who follows an account, and who reposts or quotes a postAn option that returns follower lists and the accounts behind reposts and quotes.
9options compared
7with an MCP server
6free to start
30sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Three routes
X’s own API is pay-per-use, with Enterprise contracts for full-volume access. Data APIs read any public account with an API key.
X API
X API Enterprise
Monocrawl and the vendors below
What they return
What each option lists on its own pages, and how you connect.
| X data | Connect | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | Profiles | Posts | Replies | Post search | Account search | Followers | Reposts and quotes | Communities | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | Our API | ||||||||||
| X APIOfficial, pay-per-use | 12345 | ||||||||||
| X API EnterpriseOfficial, Enterprise | – | 678 | |||||||||
| ApifyX scraper actors | – | – | – | 9101112 | |||||||
| Bright DataX Scraper API | – | – | – | – | 1314151617 | ||||||
| Data365Social data API | – | – | 181920 | ||||||||
| SociaVaultSocial data API | – | – | 2122232425 | ||||||||
| Sorsa APIX data API | 262728 | ||||||||||
| XpozAgent data tool | – | – | 2930 | ||||||||
Pricing
A request, a result, a record and a unit are not the same size, and allowances reset on different schedules. Price your own workload with each vendor.
One key and one response format across 70+ platforms, with monitors for alerts.
Monthly plans
$0.005 per post read
Users and followers $0.010 each. Capped at 3 million post reads a month.
Worth knowingBills per item returned, and the same item requested again within a UTC day is charged once.
None listed; credits are prepaid
Quote on a custom contract
No monthly post-read cap.
Worth knowingAdds the full firehose, likes streams and engagement metrics, with a named account manager.
No published price
$0.30 per 1,000 results on the free plan
For the Twitter Scraper actor, from $0.24 on higher plans. Free users get 20 results a run.
Worth knowingX scrapers here are community-maintained actors, and results land in a dataset you can export.
$5 of usage a month
$1.50 per 1,000 records, pay as you go
$499 a month includes 384,000 records.
Worth knowingEach request scrapes X live, and only successfully delivered records are billed.
5,000 records a month
€300 a month for one network
500,000 credits included. An X post costs 1 credit, a profile 9.
Worth knowingCollects live from X for each request, through tasks you start, check and then fetch.
14-day trial, on request
$29 for 6,000 credits, one time
X calls cost 1 credit each.
Worth knowingAlso returns AI transcripts of X videos, and its credits never expire.
50 credits
$49 a month for 10,000 requests
$199 a month for 100,000.
Worth knowingEvery endpoint costs one request from a monthly quota, and it adds crypto-audience scores.
100 requests, no expiry
$20 a month for 7,500 credits
An X query costs 2 credits.
Worth knowingBuilt for AI agents, with keywords and accounts it tracks for you.
500 credits, once
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded response for Red Bull’s public profile. No X login and no developer app.
GET /v1/x/profilecurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/x/profile?handle=redbull" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"
Red Bull
@redbull
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Profile2 creditsRecent posts3 creditsPost search1 creditReplies to a post5 creditsFollowers3 creditsQuotes of a post3 creditsAccount search1 creditCommunity posts2 credits2.1sMedian response in our benchmark. 22 September 2026 catalogue benchmark. Median of recorded endpoint timings across 636 operations with a successful HTTP response. Includes network time; individual requests vary.
Questions
X’s self-serve API is pay-per-use from prepaid credits: $0.005 per post read, $0.010 per user or follower returned and $0.015 per post created, capped at 3 million post reads a month. Enterprise contracts lift the cap and add the full firehose. X is moving subscribers of its old fixed plans, $200 or $5,000 a month, onto pay-per-use.
Not for most new apps. X’s API runs on prepaid credits, and only apps X classes as Public Utility Apps keep free access. For public data, most data APIs let you start free: Monocrawl gives 1,000 credits every month, Bright Data 5,000 records a month, Apify $5 of usage a month, Xpoz 500 credits once, Sorsa API 100 requests and SociaVault 50 credits.
Yes. X’s pay-per-use API has recent search over the last 7 days and full-archive search back to 2006. Monocrawl’s post search takes a date window with from and to dates.
Not with Monocrawl: you send your Monocrawl API key and get public X data back, with no X login and no developer app. The official API needs a developer account, an app and prepaid credits, and X’s terms require Enterprise beyond early-stage use or a limited number of end users.
Monocrawl, X itself, Apify, Bright Data, SociaVault, Sorsa API and Xpoz publish their own MCP servers, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly. X’s server runs through your own X developer app.
Units differ: X bills per post or user returned, while most data APIs bill per call, result or record, and one call can return a page of about 20 posts. Price your own workload, such as a number of posts or profiles a month, with each vendor.
Method
What’s includedX’s own API in its two current forms, pay-per-use and Enterprise, plus a selection of X data APIs that publish their pricing or offer a trial and come up across X API searches and comparison lists.
What we comparedWhat each vendor publishes about its X data, pricing, free allowance and access, read on its own pages. “Best” here means worth comparing, not a ranking from tests: we have not run their APIs.
About MonocrawlMonocrawl is our product and is listed first. Its details come from our live plans and catalogue.
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