This X API pricing calculator uses X's own current pricing: 1.5 cents per standard post and 20 cents per post that contains a URL — a real, official ~13.3x multiplier X's docs state with no explanation. Enter your posting volume and link ratio to see your real estimated monthly API cost.
Total posts you publish to X per day, across all accounts.
Share of posts with an outbound URL — X's own docs price these at $0.20 each vs $0.015 plain.
Usually 30, to match X's monthly billing cycle.
API calls that read posts (timelines, mentions, metrics) — billed separately at $0.005 each, capped at 3,000,000/month.
360 plain + 240 with a link
$53.40
(plain posts × $0.015) + (link posts × $0.20)
vs. if none of these posts had a link
$44.40
post cost − (total posts × $0.015)
15,000 reads this cycle
$75.00
min(reads, 3,000,000) × $0.005
Total estimated X API cost this billing cycle
$128.40
If every one of these 600 posts were plain text with no link, the same volume would cost $9.00. If every one of them contained a link instead, it would cost $120.00 — a 13.3x multiplier between the two, per X's own pricing page. Per-post prices used: $0.015 standard, $0.20 with a link, $0.005 per read.
Over a 30-day cycle: 600 total posts, 240 with a link. Plain cost is 360 posts at 1.5 cents each; link cost is 240 posts at 20 cents each — roughly six times more total post cost than if none of those posts had contained a link.
Over a 30-day cycle: 150 posts, all plain text, each billed at 1.5 cents — no link surcharge at all since none of them contain a URL.
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