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Free

For write-only use cases and testing the X API

  • Rate-limited access to v2 posting and media upload endpoints 
  • 500 posts per month - posting limit at the user level
  • 500 posts per month - posting limit at the app level
  • 100 reads per month
  • 1 app ID
  • Login with X 
  • Access to Ads API
  • Free

Basic

For hobbyists or prototypes

  • Rate-limited access to suite of v2 endpoints 
  • 3,000 posts per month - posting limit at the user level
  • 50,000 posts per month - posting limit at the app level
  • 15,000 posts per month - read limit at the app level 
  • 2 app IDs 
  • Login with X 
  • Access to Ads API
  • $200 per month
  • $175 per month with annual subscription ($2,100 total)
  • 2 Top-ups allowed

Pro

For startups scaling their business

  • Rate-limited access to suite of v2 endpoints, including search and filtered stream

  • 288,000 posts per month - posting limit at the user level

  • 300,000 posts per month - posting limit at the app level
  • 1,000,000 posts per month - read limit at the app level
  • 3 app IDs
  • Login with X
  • Access to Ads API
  • $5,000 per month
  • $4.500 per month with annual subscription ($54,000 total)

  • 2 Top-ups allowed

Enterprise

For businesses and scaled commercial projects

  • Commercial-level access that meets your and your customer's specific needs
  • Managed services by a dedicated account team
  • Complete streams: replay, engagement metrics, backfill, and more features
  • Access to Ads API
  • Monthly subscription tiers

Use cases

Build for businesses

Use X's powerful APIs to help your business listen, act, and discover.

Build for the public

Build for people on X to integrate or improve their experience on the platform.

Do research

Use the X API to get historical and real-time data points for your next research project.

Teach & learn

Teach or learn valuable skills with the X API.

Build for fun

Experiment, explore, create, and have fun.

Build for good

Make the world, and X, a better place.

Real-time access to the global conversation

Use the X API to listen to and analyze the public conversation, engage with people on X, and innovate. Here you can see how the recent search endpoint was used to find Posts with specific keywords.

      curl --request GET --location 'https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets/search/recent?tweet.fields=context_annotations&max_results=100&query=camping(nature%20OR%20%22outdoor%20actvities%22)' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer $BEARER_TOKEN'
    
      {
   "data": {
       "context_annotations": [
           {
               "domain": {
                   "id": "65",
                   "name": "Interests and Hobbies Vertical",
                   "description": "Top level interests and hobbies groupings, like Food or Travel"
               },
               "entity": {
                   "id": "839159814991167489",
                   "name": "Travel",
                   "description": "Travel"
               }
           },
           {
               "domain": {
                   "id": "66",
                   "name": "Interests and Hobbies Category",
                   "description": "A grouping of interests and hobbies entities, like Novelty Food or Destinations"
               },
               "entity": {
                   "id": "839160129752686593",
                   "name": "General Travel",
                   "description": "General Travel"
               }
           },
           {
               "domain": {
                   "id": "66",
                   "name": "Interests and Hobbies Category",
                   "description": "A grouping of interests and hobbies entities, like Novelty Food or Destinations"
               },
               "entity": {
                   "id": "1046575724830720001",
                   "name": "Outdoor Activities",
                   "description": "Outdoor Activities"
               }
           },
           {
               "domain": {
                   "id": "67",
                   "name": "Interests and Hobbies",
                   "description": "Interests, opinions, and behaviors of individuals, groups, or cultures; like Speciality Cooking or Theme Parks"
               },
               "entity": {
                   "id": "849076092111536128",
                   "name": "Adventure travel",
                   "description": "Adventure travel"
               }
           },
           {
               "domain": {
                   "id": "67",
                   "name": "Interests and Hobbies",
                   "description": "Interests, opinions, and behaviors of individuals, groups, or cultures; like Speciality Cooking or Theme Parks"
               },
               "entity": {
                   "id": "849076476272009216",
                   "name": "Camping",
                   "description": "Camping"
               }
           },
           {
               "domain": {
                   "id": "67",
                   "name": "Interests and Hobbies",
                   "description": "Interests, opinions, and behaviors of individuals, groups, or cultures; like Speciality Cooking or Theme Parks"
               },
               "entity": {
                   "id": "1103294729079349250",
                   "name": "Nature",
                   "description": "Nature"
               }
           },
           {
               "domain": {
                   "id": "65",
                   "name": "Interests and Hobbies Vertical",
                   "description": "Top level interests and hobbies groupings, like Food or Travel"
               },
               "entity": {
                   "id": "839159814991167489",
                   "name": "Travel",
                   "description": "Travel"
               }
           },
           {
               "domain": {
                   "id": "66",
                   "name": "Interests and Hobbies Category",
                   "description": "A grouping of interests and hobbies entities, like Novelty Food or Destinations"
               },
               "entity": {
                   "id": "839160129752686593",
                   "name": "General Travel",
                   "description": "General Travel"
               }
           },
           {
               "domain": {
                   "id": "67",
                   "name": "Interests and Hobbies",
                   "description": "Interests, opinions, and behaviors of individuals, groups, or cultures; like Speciality Cooking or Theme Parks"
               },
               "entity": {
                   "id": "839161975712067584",
                   "name": "Travel Actions",
                   "description": "This entity includes all conversations about travel and vacation."
               }
           }
       ],
       "id": "1392142832274612224",
       "text": "Can't wait to take my family camping at all the amazing nature areas in my state that I loved growing up!"
   }
}
    

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Businesses, researchers, and developers all over the world have used the X Developer Platform to creatively innovate, gain valuable insights, and shape the future. Explore how they did it and get inspired to use the APIs in your own way.

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