Sorsa API is a managed REST API providing fast, structured, real-time access to public X (formerly Twitter) data. Launched in 2022 under the name TweetScout API and rebranded to Sorsa, the platform serves 2,000+ developers and 100+ companies worldwide as the leading affordable alternative to the official X API.
The API covers 38 endpoints across 8 categories: user profiles, tweets, search, lists, communities, engagement verification, crypto and Web3 analytics, and technical utilities. All endpoints return clean JSON with a simple API key header. No OAuth flows, no approval process, no callback URLs, no 2-million post reads cap. Setup takes under 3 minutes from sign-up to first API response.
The official X API moved to pay-per-use pricing in early 2026: $0.005 per post read and $0.010 per user profile, with a hard 2M monthly cap before forcing Enterprise sales negotiations historically starting around $42,000/month. Reading 1M tweets costs roughly $5,000. Sorsa Pro covers approximately 10M tweets for $199/month at 20 req/sec with no cap, no approval, and no hidden multipliers. That is up to 50x cheaper and ~60x higher rate limits compared to the official API.
Additional cost advantages: full user profiles are embedded free inside every tweet response, batch endpoints return up to 100 tweets or profiles per single request, and follower and following endpoints return up to 200 profiles per request — one of the highest per-request yields available anywhere.
Key use cases include social listening and brand monitoring, competitor intelligence, marketing campaign and giveaway verification, AI and LLM training data collection, real-time market sentiment for algorithmic trading, Web3 community analytics and KOL evaluation, powering AI agents with live X data, audience research, and large-scale data pipelines into BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and S3.
Pricing starts at $49/month for 10,000 requests (Starter), $199/month for 100,000 requests (Pro), and $899/month for 500,000 requests (Enterprise). All plans share the same flat 20 req/sec rate limit and full access to all 38 endpoints. Custom plans are available for volumes above 500K requests/month. Payment via Stripe or crypto.
Infrastructure delivers 99.9% uptime and 300-500ms latency, with 5B+ requests processed since launch and no major outages. Documentation is structured for both developers and AI assistants, with a full OpenAPI 3 spec and a single-file LLM-ready doc compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Cursor.
