X API
pay-per-usage, no approval — and a $0.20 tax on any post with a link
x replaced its subscription tiers with credits and removed the approval gate entirely — then made any post containing a link cost thirteen times a normal one.
the current model is pay-per-usage: buy credits, they deduct per request, no contract and no minimum spend. that is a real improvement — you can start with a few dollars and there is no approval process. duplicate requests within a rolling twenty-four hour window are not charged twice, which is genuinely useful for polling design.
then there is the link tax. a post costs $0.015. a post containing a url costs $0.200. that is a thirteen-fold multiplier on exactly the thing most social automation does, and a thousand link posts a month is two hundred dollars in raw x fees before any aggregator subscription. every aggregator now passes this straight through. model it before you commit to anything.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- social media api providers
- pricing
- $0.015 per post; $0.200 per post containing a url
- website
- docs.x.com
x replaced its subscription tiers with credits and removed the approval gate entirely — then made any post containing a link cost thirteen times a normal one.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.