X is testing a pay-per-use pricing model for its API

Two years aft revamping its developer programs and pricing, X is expanding the closed beta of a pay-per-use program for its API to much developers.

The societal web is accepting applications from developers who privation to beryllium a portion of the program, the company’s developer relationship wrote successful a station connected X.

“We are expanding a closed beta to some caller & powerfulness users who privation to vessel astonishing apps connected X,” the station read.

X’s caller API leafage shows the costs of antithetic kinds of requests, specified arsenic reading, creating posts, DMs, trends and pulling bookmarks. The leafage besides has a calculator that lets developers estimation however overmuch a bundle of API usage mightiness cost. This differs from X’s older system, wherever each requests outgo the same.

A conception connected the caller API leafage compares the caller pricing with the aged tier-based system. It is not yet wide if X yet wants to get escaped of the older plan-based system. We person asked X to clarify and volition update this communicative if we perceive back.

X’s caller pay-per-use exemplary won’t person monthly tier caps. Image Credits: X

The closed beta comes 2 years aft X overhauled its API pricing. In aboriginal 2023, the institution started blocking third-party clients of the app, and successful February 2023, the institution said that it was ending escaped entree to its API, which resulted successful assorted apps shutting down.

Then successful March 2023, the societal web introduced a $100-per-month basal tier (which present costs $200 per month) arsenic good arsenic a $42,000-per-month endeavor tier. A fewer months later, it launched a $5,000-per-month Pro plan that gave developers the quality to fetch 1 cardinal tweets per period and station 300,000 tweets per month, and gives them entree to the afloat archive hunt endpoint.

However, the plans proved insufficient oregon were simply unaffordable for a batch of developers. To mitigate this, the institution past twelvemonth launched top-up packs for applications that deed their API tier limits.

With this caller usage-based plan, X could triumph backmost developers who wanted to integrate their app with the societal network, oregon mean to physique applications that enactment with it.