Twitter API Pro, a $5,000-per-month startup API, was unveiled today. Developers can submit 300,000 tweets per month, get 1 million tweets monthly, and use the entire archive search end-point.
March saw Tesla’s new pricing levels. Twitter closed its free API tier earlier this year. Content provider bots can access 1,500 tweets per month for free.
The new tier falls between the $100 per month basic and $42,000 per month enterprise tiers. Twitter recommends this new level for “startups scaling their business.”
When Twitter revealed the new pricing, several developers and founders suggested a medium tier between Basic and Enterprise for firms that can’t pay nearly half a million annually.
The new Pro API tier will help some people, but organizations on tight budgets still have to pay $60,000. For example, this new posting limit of the Pro tier may be sufficient for some bots. Still, developers would struggle to earn money through subscriptions or contributions to operate the service.
Twitter still lacks a solution for researchers and academics. The social network stated it was “looking at new ways” to serve that community in March, but it hasn’t announced anything.
After slashing costs, Musk said Twitter was on “the comeback arc” during an event. Twitter and the ambitious “everything app X” appointed NBCU’s Linda Yaccarino as CEO this month.