Disclosure: Xanguard publishes this page and is one of the options. Competitor figures were copied from each vendor's own pages on 5 October 2026; we did not run our own speed test of other vendors.
The best twitterapi.io alternative depends on which twitterapi.io product you use. If you use its real-time stream, Xanguard is a drop-in replacement: the same stream routes and payloads, a new base URL and key, ~200 ms median detection published live, and $49 a month for 50 accounts instead of $149. If you use its pay-per-call REST data (search, profiles, followers), GetXAPI and Sorsa are the cheaper per-request options, and the official X API is the first-party route.
twitterapi.io alternatives at a glance (checked 5 October 2026)
| Provider | Type | Price | Push stream | Beyond tweets | Published latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| twitterapi.io (for reference) | REST per item + stream plans | REST $0.15 per 1,000 tweets; stream $29 (6 accounts) to $999 (2,000) | WebSocket, webhook | Tweets | "P50 251ms" (header); "under 500 ms median" (stream page) |
| Xanguard | Real-time stream + REST | $49 (50 accounts) to $849 (1,000); all event types from $249 | WebSocket (twitterapi.io-compatible path too), Telegram | Deleted tweets, profile changes, new followers, follows and unfollows | ~200 ms median, p95 and p99, hourly |
| GetXAPI | REST per call | $0.001 per call, about $0.05 per 1,000 tweets; 73 endpoints including writes and DMs | None listed | Search, users, followers, lists, DMs | None found |
| Sorsa | REST per request | $49 for 10,000 requests, $199 for 100,000, $899 for 500,000; 20 requests a second | None | Search, profiles, followers, batch lookups; read-only | None found |
| TweetStream | Real-time stream | $199 (50 accounts, 3 connections), $499 (250); Scale from $750 | WebSocket, Discord | News, Binance Square, pump.fun callouts, OCR, Truth Social on Pro | 170 ms 7-day median, live page |
| Official X API | Pay per use | $0.005 per post read, $0.010 per user read; 3M post reads a month cap | Filtered stream, 1 connection | Posting, DMs, search | None published |
Sources: each vendor's pricing and product pages on 5 October 2026 (twitterapi.io pricing and stream pages, getxapi.com, Sorsa's published rates, tweetstream.io pricing and speed check, docs.x.com pricing).
Stream prices at the same account count
| Accounts | twitterapi.io stream | Xanguard Starter | TweetStream |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | $149 | $49 | $199 |
| 250 | $499 | $229 | $499 |
| 500 | $499 | $449 | from $750 |
| 1,000 | $999 | $849 | Scale quote |
| 2,000 | $999 | Ask us | Scale quote |
Per month, cheapest published plan that covers the count. twitterapi.io's 250 figure is its 150-account plan plus 100 extra accounts at $2, which equals its 500-account plan. At 2,000 accounts twitterapi.io is the cheaper choice.
Xanguard: the drop-in for twitterapi.io's stream
- Same routes.
/oapi/x_user_stream/add_user_to_monitor_tweet,remove_user_to_monitor_tweetandget_user_to_monitor_tweetwork onapi.xanguard.tech. - Same WebSocket shape.
wss://api.xanguard.tech/twitter/tweet/websocketwith thex-api-keyheader; tweets arrive as{"event_type":"tweet","tweets":[...]}. - New key. Get a
dt_key from @B2B_Xanguard_bot and keep the same header.
Step-by-step with the endpoint map: migrate from twitterapi.io. What changes for you besides the bill: every paid account gets the same detection path (twitterapi.io's low-latency path covers authors with 5,000+ followers, and new accounts can take up to 20 minutes to activate, per its stream page), and the native Xanguard WebSocket adds deleted tweets, profile changes, new followers and follows. See the X feed for trading terminals and bots.
What Xanguard does not replace: twitterapi.io's pay-per-call search, timelines, follower exports and other bulk REST endpoints. Xanguard's only search product is CA Search (last 24 hours, by contract address or ticker), which also accepts the twitterapi.io-style X-API-Key header.
When another option fits better
- GetXAPI if you need the lowest per-tweet price for bulk REST reads, or write and DM endpoints.
- Sorsa if you run read-heavy pipelines with batch lookups and want flat per-request billing. More in Sorsa API alternative.
- TweetStream if you want news, Binance Square and Truth Social in the same feed, or OCR from the entry plan. More in TweetStream alternative.
- The official X API if you need first-party access, posting or search. More in Xanguard vs the official X API.
Try Xanguard
Open @B2B_Xanguard_bot, pick a plan (Starter $49 for 50 accounts, paid in SOL), point your client at api.xanguard.tech and compare created_at with your receive time on the same accounts for a day.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on which twitterapi.io product you use. For its real-time stream, Xanguard is a drop-in replacement: the same stream routes and payloads with a new base URL and key, ~200 ms median detection published live, from $49 a month for 50 accounts. For bulk REST reads, GetXAPI ($0.05 per 1,000 tweets) and Sorsa (from $49 for 10,000 requests) are the usual picks. For first-party access, the official X API.
Yes, for the stream. Xanguard serves twitterapi.io's user-stream routes (add, remove and list monitored users) and its tweet WebSocket path with the same payload shapes and the X-API-Key header. You change the host to api.xanguard.tech and use a Xanguard dt_ key. The migration guide is at xanguard.tech/migrate/twitterapi-io.
For streams up to 1,000 accounts, yes: Xanguard is $49 for 50 accounts, $229 for 250, $449 for 500 and $849 for 1,000, against $149, $499, $499 and $999 for twitterapi.io's stream (checked 5 October 2026). At 2,000 accounts twitterapi.io's $999 Scale plan is the cheaper option. For pay-per-call REST data, twitterapi.io charges $0.15 per 1,000 tweets; Xanguard does not sell bulk REST reads.
Among feeds with published, measured numbers, TweetStream showed a 170 ms 7-day median on 5 October 2026 and Xanguard publishes ~200 ms median detection refreshed hourly. twitterapi.io states P50 251 ms in its site header and under 500 ms median on its stream page; its low-latency path covers authors with 5,000+ followers.
Yes. Xanguard streams deleted tweets, profile changes, new followers and follow or unfollow events on the same WebSocket as tweets. TweetStream adds news, Binance Square, pump.fun callouts and OCR. GetXAPI and Sorsa are request-based REST APIs without a push stream.