X API access is not a trading signal
X/Twitter's official API gives you Posts and account data. A selected-account trading feed also needs persistent delivery, recovery, OCR, token detection, price context, and routing. TweetStream packages that narrower job behind one WebSocket.
X currently charges $0.005 per Post resource returned on pay-per-use, deduplicates resources within a 24-hour UTC day as a soft guarantee, and caps pay-per-use at 3M Post reads per monthly billing cycle. With a persistent Filtered Stream connection, you still own connection handling, parsing, recovery, enrichment, and routing.
- Flat $199/mo Minimum plan for 50 monitored accounts
- Live rolling server-detection report
- Token detection, OCR, and live prices included without a custom pipeline
- For monitored accounts
- Choose TweetStream when you monitor specific market-moving accounts and need posts routed to bots, Discord, or dashboards fast.
- For official platform access
- Choose the official X API when you need write actions, compliance archives, broad historical data, or platform-level developer access.
- Trial and pricing
- Try your own watchlist for 3 days. After the trial, Minimum starts at $199/mo for 50 monitored accounts.
Pricing and access overview
| Service | Price | Delivery | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| X API (Official) | $0.005/Post resource | HTTP stream or webhook + REST | 3M Post reads per billing cycle on pay-per-use |
| Xanguard B2B API | From $49/mo for 50 accounts | WebSocket + REST | Starter covers new and deleted tweets; profile and follow alerts need a higher tier. Self-reported, unverified: about 270 ms median tweet detection. Payment is in SOL. |
| 1322 (X / Twitter) | From $250/mo for 100 accounts | WebSocket + REST | One-day trial on request, with no card. Self-reported, unverified: 150 to 250 ms typical standard delivery. |
| twitterapi.io REST | $0.15 per 1K tweets | REST | Pay as you go with no minimum spend. |
| twitterapi.io Stream | From $29/mo for 6 accounts | WebSocket or webhook | Extra accounts on Starter cost $5/mo each. Self-reported, unverified: median delivery under 500 ms. |
| TweetStream Minimum | $199/mo for 50 accounts | WebSocket + Discord | Posts, deletes, pins, profile changes, and follows when observed, plus news from 22 publications, Binance Square, 10 pump.fun accounts, and 10 FOMO users and 10 coins. 170 ms median (Sept 2026), live report |
| TweetStream Pro | $499/mo for 250 accounts | WebSocket + Discord + History | Adds history replay, supported Trump and White House Truth Social posts, 100 pump.fun accounts, and 100 FOMO users and 100 coins. |
Sources: X API pricing · usage and 3M Post-read cap per monthly billing cycle · Xanguard B2B API · 1322 pricing · twitterapi.io pricing · twitterapi.io Stream
Competitor latency figures are self-reported on each vendor's site and have not been independently verified. TweetStream's timing comes from its public speed report, which states how it is measured. Competitor information was reviewed on 2026-09-28. Check current terms before purchasing.
Feature comparison
| X API (direct) | TweetStream | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | Per Post resource, with a 3M Post-read cap per monthly billing cycle | Flat monthly plan per monitored-account tier |
| Delivery | HTTP stream or webhook plus REST; you run the consumer | One WebSocket with typed events for selected accounts |
| Sources | X only | X, news from 22 publications, Binance Square, pump.fun callouts, and FOMO on every plan. Supported Trump and White House Truth Social posts on Pro and above. |
| Token detection, OCR, and prices | Not built in; parse and enrich the raw data yourself | Included in the event payload |
| Prediction-market detection | Not built in | Included (Polymarket) |
| Published timing | Depends on your own pipeline | 170 ms median over the seven days to September 30, 2026, from X's post timestamp to first TweetStream server receipt. Live figures at /speedcheck. |
| Write actions, compliance archives, broad history | Available with official access | Not offered; use the official X API for these |
Use TweetStream for the trading trigger
Keep the official X API for platform-specific work Keep official X access for write actions, compliance archives, broad historical data, or platform-level developer access. Put TweetStream on monitored accounts when the first enriched post needs to reach a bot, Discord, or desk fast.
Put TweetStream on the trading trigger You want a short path from post to action: alerts arrive with tokens, prices, and OCR already extracted, without building plumbing first.
Where TweetStream fits
Use TweetStream for selected accounts that feed trading bots, research systems, or desk alerts. It is not a broad social-listening suite, a write API, or a complete replacement for every X developer endpoint.
Frequently asked questions
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TweetStream is independent and is not the official X API. It is built for selected-account alert workflows. Use the official X API when you need official platform access, write actions, or compliance archives.
X API pricing and access information reviewed on 2026-09-28. Confirm current rates and metering in X Developer Console.