Comparison
A twitterapi.io alternative
at 1/7.7th the price.
twapi.io serves the incumbent's read API — same paths, parameters, response shapes, and credit arithmetic — from an independent archive of billions of public tweets. This page is the honest comparison: where the two are identical, where they differ, and when each one is the right choice.
Price, per read family
| Read | twapi.io | twitterapi.io lists |
|---|---|---|
| Tweets (search, timelines, threads, lookup) | $0.019 / 1k | $0.15 / 1k |
| User profiles | $0.023 / 1k | $0.18 / 1k |
| Profiles in bulk by id | $0.013 / 1k | $0.10 / 1k |
| Follower / following profiles | $1.30 / 1M | $10 / 1M |
| Follower IDs | $0.58 / 1M | $4.50 / 1M |
| Article fetch / follow-relationship check | $0.00013 / call | $0.001 / call |
Both APIs meter in the same unit (1 credit = $0.00001), so existing budget arithmetic carries over — divided by 7.7. New twapi.io accounts start with $10 of credit, about 500,000 tweets.
What matches, what differs
| Wire format | identical | Same paths, parameters, response shapes, X-API-Key header, credit unit, and cursor paging. Migration is a base-URL change. |
| Tweet & user reads | served | Lookup, advanced search (Latest and Top), timelines, mentions, replies, quotes, threads, user search, articles. |
| Follow graph | served | Followers, followings, follower IDs, follow-relationship checks — priced for graph-scale pulls. |
| Data source | different | They scrape live per request. We answer from a continuously-ingested archive of billions of public tweets, densest for recent months; tweet-by-id misses are fetched live from X. |
| Retweeter lists | not served | We do not collect per-retweeter data. The endpoint answers with an honest empty page instead of inventing one. |
| Streaming / monitoring | not yet | Webhook-style tweet filters are on the roadmap; if you need them today, the incumbent has them. |
| Posting, DMs, login flows | never | twapi.io is a read API by design. |
FAQ
- Is twapi.io a drop-in replacement for twitterapi.io?
- For read endpoints, yes: change the base URL from api.twitterapi.io to api.twapi.io and keep the same X-API-Key header. Paths, parameters, response shapes, credits, and cursors follow the same wire format. Write endpoints, login flows, and streaming are not served.
- Why is the price exactly 1/7.7th?
- Every read family is the incumbent’s published rate divided by 7.7. The economics differ: scrape-proxy APIs pay for live collection on every request, while twapi.io serves from an archive it already maintains on its own hardware, so a read costs milliseconds of database time.
- When should I stay with twitterapi.io?
- If you need streaming/monitoring webhooks, retweeter lists, write actions, or guaranteed live scraping of arbitrary historical queries, the incumbent is the right tool today. For read-heavy workloads — search, timelines, profiles, follow graphs — twapi.io does the same job at a fraction of the cost.
- How do I try it?
- Sign up at twapi.io — every new account gets $10 of credit (about 500,000 tweets), no card required, and keys mint instantly in the dashboard.