Twitter API Pricing, Cost, and Limitations: Your Complete Guide

Intro

Twitter is one of the largest and most popular media platforms in our modern world. In 2021, the social network turned 15 years old, and the number of registered accounts was about 1.3 billion. More than half a billion people around the planet regularly use this resource. It makes Twitter an attractive platform for promoting a brand, building a customer base, and increasing loyalty to a company/product. That is why it is so crucial to get information from Twitter. You can successfully do it with the Twitter API from Data365. A detailed tutorial on how to use Twitter API can be found here https://data365.co/guides/how-to-use-twitter-api.

In this article, we ensure you with particulars on Twitter API limitations and the price of using our API. You also can find practical tips on how to compute Twitter API pricing.

The base Twitter API cost from Data365 is €300 and covers 500k mentions per month. But users can choose a tariff plan, taking into account their needs.

The larger volume you would like to get, the higher price you should pay. Our sales representatives can help you pick up a Twitter API pricing plan that best fits your requirements. Every month our sales team bills the clients assuming the selected tariff plan. Clients should pay per month using a bank transfer or credit card.

Customers can pay by credit card using the widely accepted Stripe payment system. Additionally, if the customer prefers credit card payments, they can set up auto-pay to ensure that the monthly fee is automatically deducted. This streamlined process provides ease and reliability for payment transactions. So, we can conclude that Data365 suggests an easy pricing model without any subscriptions.

And last but not least – if you want, you can ask about free API access for testing purposes.

First example: let's say you want to download a Twitter profile and 80 of its tweets:

The estimated cost of the request will be 9 + 1 * 80 = 89 mentions

9 is the cost of profile data

1 is the cost of a tweet

80 is the number of tweets

If the Twitter user had no tweets at all, then the cost of the request would be 9 mentions. You should only pay for profile data.

Second example: let's say you would like to find 100 tweets, then:

The estimated cost of the request will be 7 + 1 * 100 = 107 mentions

7 charged per search query

1 is the cost per tweet

100 is the number of tweets you expect to receive

If fewer tweets were found during the search, you only pay for the number of found tweets.

We recommend you kindly use our mentions calculator to determine Twitter API cost you should pay. Just input the needed type of data and the assumed data volume, and the app will calculate the total amount of mentions. Knowing this value, you can choose the appropriate tariff plan.

The effectiveness of Twitter API use depends heavily on the API limitations. What is it, and is it really so important? Let's consider Twitter API limits in every detail.

Twitter API rate limiting involves setting limits on the request number or amount of data to prevent the API from being overloaded.
Official Twitter limits API to raise its scalability and Internet security. Data365 also uses the best practice for Twitter API rate limit on definite types of data to optimize queries and improve the performance of the data obtaining process.

For your complete overview, let's see the table with Data365 Twitter API limits on the amount of data in 1 request:

Data type

Limits

Tweets per profile

up to 300*

Tweets per search

up to 500*

Comments per tweet**

up to 400

Profile per search

up to 500

* Apply the monitoring or re-creating requests using filters with different time intervals (parameter from_date, to_date), locations (parameters near, within), languages, etc., to raise the number of tweets on the Twitter web version response.
** You can usually get all comments on a tweet, except for tweets with huge activity.

You should also keep in mind our Twitter API rate limits: you can get up to 100 such requests per second. Usually, the response time is within 1-5 minutes and depends on the amount of data in the query.

When considering data access tools, it's crucial to evaluate not only pricing but Twitter API limitations. To make things clear, let's take a look at a few worthwhile APIs.

The official Twitter API offers several versions, including Premium and Enterprise, each with its own pricing structure and limitations. The Premium API provides historical and real-time data, with pricing based on requests, data volume, and access level. However, the cost for the Premium Twitter API is $42,000 per month (or approximately $500 million per year). It offers a wide range of options and data to retrieve, but still has monthly limits on requests.
The Twitter API has rate limits to ensure fair usage and system stability. The limits vary by endpoint and user context. For example, standard v2 endpoints have a default limit of 900 requests per 15 minutes, while certain endpoints have lower limits, such as 450 requests per 15-minute window. User context actions and the new pricing structure also have specific limits, including a maximum of 2 million tweets per month.
The Enterprise API offers customized solutions for large-scale data access, with pricing tailored to specific needs, but the cost is still high.

In addition to the official Twitter API, there are alternative tools available. Thus, Apify is such a web scraping platform with pricing based on compute units consumed and rate limits ranging from 30 (as default) to 200 (as an exception) requests per second depending on data type. So, choosing this tool, the exact cost will depend on the specific usage and requirements of the user.

ScraperAPI offers flexible pricing based on factors such as the number of API credits, concurrent threads, and geotargeting capabilities. They impose a limit of 2MB per request, which applies to all requests made to their API.

Other alternative tools include Data365, which is a reliable tool that offers data access solutions with a prepaid model that consists of three pricing packages (Basic, Standard, and Premium) based on data volume and available social networks. Data365's Twitter API pricing is based on mentions, with each data type having its own mention value. At the same time, the limits depend only on the pricing plan chosen and can reach up to 100,000,000 mentions per month. That means you can adjust the volume and price according to your specific needs and budget.

We also advise you to check our Twitter API documentation, where you can find detailed information on how to start using our API (API operation algorithm, helpful tips, sample requests and responses for each element, and much more).

We can infer that Data365 Twitter API suggests a very convenient and client-oriented pricing policy, and the company's sales team can help you with any questions you have.