X API

docs.x.com · checked 8 Oct 2026

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How it plugs in

—Public API

NoOpen source

NoFree tier

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The X API provides programmatic access to X’s public conversation to retrieve posts, analyze trends, build integrations, and create platform experiences.

Pricing

X API — EnterpriseCustom enterprise agreement; pricing not stated on the page. · High-volume endpoints · Dedicated account management · Custom rate limitsOn request
X API — Pay-per-useCredits purchased upfront; usage is charged per resource or request. · No subscription or minimum spend · Pay-per-use plans capped at 3 million Post reads per monthly billing cycleOn request

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Facts

Website: docs.x.com
Price: Not published
Free trial: No
Analytics: The API provides public engagement metrics and private metrics such as impressions and clicks for your own posts.
API version: X API v2 is the recommended current version; v1.1 is legacy and has limited support.
Incident reporting: X Developer Platform users must notify X within 48 hours after suspecting a security incident.
Other data: Available resources include users, Spaces, Direct Messages, Lists, and location-based trends.
Owned Reads: Eligible requests for the app owner’s own data cost $0.001 per resource when the authenticated user owns the developer app.
Post capabilities: The API can search, look up, stream, create, and delete posts, and access timelines, threads, and quote posts.
Rate limits: X API v2 has endpoint-specific limits, most limits reset every 15 minutes, and requests exceeding a limit receive a 429 response.
SDKs: The developer overview lists official Python and TypeScript SDKs.
Security: API requests must use HTTPS, and the security guidance says not to expose keys or tokens in client-side code, logs, or repositories.
Support: The developer overview directs users to the Developer Forum for help from the community and X team.
Usage pricing: Pay-per-use pricing has no subscriptions, contracts, or minimum spend, and usage and costs can be monitored in the Developer Console.
Use restrictions: The developer guidelines prohibit scraping or browser automation and state that X data may not be used to train AI or machine-learning models, except for Grok.

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