Elon Musk-owned social community X made adjustments to its API pricing and limits right now and in addition introduced annual plans with a reduced price.
The corporate raised the costs of the essential API tier from $100 to $200 and stated it might introduce increased limits and new endpoints for this subscription plan.
In a put up on X’s developer group portal, the corporate famous that the variety of reads via this API might be elevated from 10,000 to fifteen,000, and builders will get new endpoints like reposts_of_me and communities search.
Nevertheless, on the API comparability web page and plan buy web page, the API limits are the identical as earlier than. That is presumably an error, and the corporate will edit the web page (it didn’t reply to our queries).
Within the announcement put up, the X Developer account stated that it is usually introducing an experimental learn API for the free tier. Nevertheless the corporate didn’t reveal that the free tier’s put up limits at the moment are diminished from 1,500 to simply 500, and the learn API will solely provide you with 100 requests.
X has additionally launched new annual plans for Fundamental and Professional API tiers which might be cheaper than builders paying a month-to-month price. The Fundamental annual plan prices $2,100 and the Professional annual plan prices $54,000.
Earlier this 12 months, the corporate launched top-ups to get a further restrict on learn and put up requests with a cap of 10 top-ups for the essential tier and 5 top-ups for the professional tier. X is now limiting builders to solely two top-ups per thirty days for each tiers.
