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What the options cost, what they actually do, and where each one falls over. Prices are dated and sourced, because every number in this corner of the market goes stale.
The official X API moved to pay-per-usage credits. Here is the per-resource price list, what it works out to per 1,000 posts, where the Enterprise cliff is, and how to estimate a monthly bill before you commit.
Third-party read APIs for X data, compared on published price per 1,000 calls, what you can try before paying, coverage, and the trade-offs nobody puts on their pricing page.
Four working ways to read public X data in 2026 — managed read APIs, self-hosted scraping, headless browsers, and the official API — with the real maintenance cost and legal footing of each.
Build a draw your entrants can audit: collect retweeters, repliers, and quoters, dedupe them, filter obvious bots, and use a seeded random pick anyone can reproduce.