SocialAPI
The only pay-as-you-go X monitoring · No subscription

Monitor any X account,
pushed in seconds.

Everyone else sells monthly plans. We bill by the hour. Start with one account, turn it on and off whenever you like, and pay only for the hours you actually use. Plus 40 read endpoints on the same balance.

Start monitoring — $0.08/dayRead the docs
$0.0008 per call · 30 tweets included · from $0.000027 each
$0.20 free credits with Google sign-up · No subscription · No minimum · No credit card
Why we don't do subscriptions
SocialAPI
$0.08/account/day · billed hourly · 1 account minimum
Everyone else
$19–29/mo · forced 6-account bundles · unused slots wasted
~2s
median push latency
40
read endpoints
100
req/s, no tiers
200 only
billing
LIVELive monitoringConnecting…

Demo · delayed 15 min. You're seeing a deliberately delayed sample of fixed accounts. With an API key you get real-time push (~2s median) on any account you choose.

GET /v1/user/last_tweetsGet it via API
Capabilities

Everything you can read on X — as an API

Not a thin wrapper. A full intelligence layer with composite endpoints competitors don't offer.

Advanced Search

Full X search syntax — from:, since:, min_faves, hashtags, cashtags. Real-time results, not a stale cache.

User Intelligence

Complete profiles, about details, media, highlights, followers & following with cursor pagination.

Tweet & Thread

Single tweet, full reply tree, complete thread, retweeters — with every metric and media.

Trends & Today's News

Live trending topics and the explore feed — what the world is talking about right now.

Composite Endpoints

One call returns everything: whois due-diligence, engagement panorama, batch profiles — concurrent under the hood.

Real-time Monitoring

Stream new tweets from any account into your pipeline. Same fleet powers query & watch.

See the request and the response

One consistent envelope, field names that mirror X's own structure — no bespoke concepts to learn first. Every response carries an x-credits-used header, so the cost is never a guess.

  • Consistent envelope: status / data / meta / request_id / credits_used
  • Field names mirror X's structure — migration cost near zero
  • Errors come with an actionable fix hint, not just a status code
api.socialapi.tech
200 OK~740ms
$

Illustrative format, not live data. The wall at the top of the page is the live stream.

API Surface

40 endpoints. One base URL.

Standard JSON, cursor pagination, honest error codes. Everything an engineer expects.

User
Tweet
Search & Trends
Community
List
Composite
GET/v1/user/info

User Profile

Complete profile: followers, verification, bio, join date, location.

Request
usernamestringrequiredX handle without @
Response
200 OK
https://socialapi.tech/v1/user/info
{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "id": "44196397",
    "username": "elonmusk",
    "display_name": "Elon Musk",
    "followers_count": 240919741,
    "blue_verified": true,
    "created_at": "Tue Jun 02 2009",
    "url": "https://x.com/elonmusk"
  }
}
Why SocialAPI

Faster, deeper, fresher than the alternatives

The official X API now bills per resource returned - 30 posts cost $0.15 there. Basic scrapers are cheap but break. We give you both the price and the reliability.

SocialAPI
Official X API
Other scrapers
Data freshness
Real-time
Rate-limited
Flaky
Read endpoints
40
~12
Limited
Composite queries
Yes
No
No
Billing model
Per 30-item tier
Per resource
Varies
Pricing
Pay per use
~100x ours
Varies
Self-healing fleet
Yes
Yes
No
Use cases

Turn X into a data source

Sentiment & Monitoring

Track brands, tickers, KOLs in real time.

AI Training Data

Clean, structured tweets & profiles at scale.

Growth Analytics

Follower graphs, engagement, audience intel.

Trading Signals

Crypto & market chatter, whale accounts, trends.

Pricing

Pay as you go. No subscription.

Billed on what you actually receive. Up to 30 items is $0.0008; beyond that it is $0.00012 an item. Single lookups are $0.00015. Only successful requests are charged.

From $0.000027 per tweet one call includes 30 tweets for $0.0008, more billed per item — no subscription, crypto top-up, credits never expire.
Rate:1 USD = 100,000 credits
$0.20 free credits on Google sign-up
Credits never expire
No monthly subscription
No minimum spend
Real-time monitoring — billed hourlyNo subscription
$0.08/ account / day

333 credits per account-hour, drawn from your balance each hour. Watch as many accounts as you like, for as long as you like — stop, and the billing stops.

Start with a single account — no bundles, no minimum
Add or remove accounts anytime, live in seconds
Auto-pauses when your balance runs out; resumes on top-up
New tweets reach your WebSocket in about 2 seconds (median); 75% arrive within 3

What will it cost you?

Billed by the hour, per account. Watch 3 days and you pay for 3 days — the length of time is part of the price, not an afterthought.

20
3 days
1 dayfull month
You pay
$4.80for 3 days
20 accounts × $0.08/day × 3 days
Per day$1.60
If you ran it all month$48.00
Credits used479,520
That's 10% of a full month — because you only ran it that long.
Start monitoring
Start with one account — no bundles, no minimum
Add or remove accounts anytime, live in seconds
Stop and the billing stops — nothing to cancel
Free demo — no signup
Try it live

Query @elonmusk's live profile right in the docs — no account, no card, no key. See the real response format before you pay.

Try the demo
Top up — the more you fund, the more you get
$20++1% bonus
2,000,000
$100++3% bonus
10,000,000
$500++6% bonus
50,000,000
$2,000++10% bonus
200,000,000
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Your tier is set by what you have topped up over the LAST 12 MONTHS, and the bonus applies to THIS top-up only. Example: with $490 in the window, adding $20 reaches $510 and the 6% tier — this $20 gets 6%, and earlier amounts are not back-paid. Spending credits never lowers your tier. Your first deposit earns a flat 20% instead of the tier rate; the two do not stack.

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What a call actually costs
per call

Every price below is for one call. List endpoints bill in 30-item tiers, so a call returning 30 tweets costs the same as one returning 3 — which is why the per-item cost drops as fast as it does.

Endpoint
SocialAPI
Items / call
Per item
Tweets
timeline · replies · thread · 30 items
$0.0008
80 credits
30
$0.000027
Profile
single user lookup
$0.00015
15 credits
1
$0.00015
Search
advanced search · mentions · quotes · 30 items
$0.0010
100 credits
30
$0.000033
Followers
follower graph · 30 items
$0.0008
80 credits
30
$0.000027
Batch tweets
any tweet IDs · up to 100 · 30 items
$0.0008
80 credits
30
$0.000027
You only pay for lookups we actually perform
All 40 read endpoints included
No hard rate limit — run it concurrently
Live reads, typically under a second — not cached

Billing rules

Stated plainly, so you can verify it yourself.

Charged
  • A lookup that returns data — billed on what actually came back, not the limit you asked for
  • A completed lookup with no match — confirming an account doesn't exist is still a real lookup
Not charged
  • Malformed or missing parameters — the request never leaves us
  • Authentication failures — likewise never dispatched
  • Any error on our side — our problem is not your bill

The first 30 items are included in the $0.0008; beyond that it is $0.00012 each. Asking for a big limit costs nothing extra — you pay for what actually arrives. Every response carries an x-credits-used header, so the cost is never a guess.

FAQ

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