Twitter introduces a new $5,000-per-month API tier

Twitter announced a brand new API tier at present known as Twitter API Professional for startups that prices $5,000 monthly. The tier provides builders the power to fetch 1 million tweets monthly and publish 300,000 tweets monthly, and provides them entry to the total archive search endpoint.

The Elon Musk–led firm introduced the brand new pricing tiers in March. Earlier within the 12 months, Twitter introduced that it’ll shutter entry to its free API tier. Nonetheless, it considerably walked again that call by providing 1,500 tweets monthly free entry for content material supplier bots.

The brand new tier sits between the $100 monthly fundamental tier and the $42,000 monthly enterprise tier. Twitter is looking this new degree appropriate for “startups scaling their enterprise.”

When Twitter introduced the brand new pricing, many builders and founders argued that the corporate ought to introduce a center tier between Primary and Enterprise for startups that may’t afford to spend practically half 1,000,000 {dollars} per 12 months.

The brand new Professional API tier will cater to a few of these people, however gained’t resolve for companies who run on tight budgets as they nonetheless should shell out $60,000 per 12 months. For instance, this new posting restrict of the Professional tier is perhaps enough for a number of the bots, however it could be robust for builders to lift cash by subscriptions or donations to maintain the service for a very long time.

Notably, Twitter hasn’t nonetheless developed a solution for researchers and teachers. In March, the corporate stated that it was “taking a look at new methods” to serve that neighborhood, however the social community hasn’t made any announcement but.

Lately at an occasion, Musk stated that Twitter was on “the comeback arc” after he took drastic measures to chop prices. Earlier this month, the corporate employed NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino as CEO of each Twitter and the bold “every thing app X.”