SocialData is a drop-in alternative to the official Twitter/X API, built for developers who need reliable access to public X data without enterprise-tier pricing or the hassle of maintaining scrapers and proxy pools.

The platform exposes clean REST endpoints that return structured JSON for everything public on X: individual tweets and full threads, tweet comments, quotes and retweeters, user profiles (single or in batches of 100), complete follower and following lists, user timelines, likes, mentions, verified followers, lists, communities, Spaces, and articles. A powerful search endpoint supports the full set of Twitter Advanced Search operators, so you can filter by keywords, hashtags, mentions, dates, engagement thresholds and more.

Beyond on-demand data, SocialData offers a Monitoring API: instead of polling, you create a monitor and receive a webhook within seconds after a user posts a tweet, follows a new account, changes their profile, or a search query picks up a match. Social Action endpoints provide single-call verification of whether a specific user followed an account, retweeted a post, or replied — ideal for giveaways, airdrops, and community reward programs. An MCP server lets AI tools such as Claude and Cursor query X data conversationally, billed exactly like the equivalent REST calls.

Pricing is simple and usage-based: $0.0002 per tweet or profile returned ($0.20 per 1,000 items), drawn from a prepaid balance shared across all products with a single API key. Failed requests are never billed. Rate limits scale with your usage, so the same API serves a weekend prototype and a production app ingesting millions of items.

There are no subscriptions, no seat licenses, and no approval process — sign up, top up your balance, and start making requests in minutes. Comprehensive documentation is available at docs.socialdata.tools.