It’s not a donation. It’s a subscription to an API. It’s designed for institutional or large customers and varies from 60k too 100k per month. Subscribers get a real-time, direct data stream of posts milliseconds before they appear on the public feed. Other social media platforms also sell API connection feeds.
Official Platform APIs with Paid/Enterprise Data Access. These are first-party offerings from the social platforms themselves:X (formerly Twitter): Pay-per-use API for reads/writes (e.g., ~$0.005 per post read) plus legacy Pro (~$5,000/month) and Enterprise tiers. Enterprise provides real-time streams, filtered streams, and full “firehose”-style access (custom pricing often starting around $42,000+/month). This is the closest direct analog for low-latency post data.
Reddit: Free for non-commercial use (with rate limits). Commercial access is metered (~$0.24 per 1,000 calls) with entry contracts often from ~$12,000/year and higher enterprise deals (tens to hundreds of thousands per year) for elevated volume or specialized access.
LinkedIn: Community Management and other APIs are gated. Higher tiers (Marketing Developer Platform / partner programs) require approval and can involve significant costs or partnership fees; full data access is restricted and enterprise-oriented.
YouTube (Google): Data API is free within daily quota units (10,000 units/day base). Higher quotas or commercial-scale use require review and can involve paid increases or enterprise agreements.
TikTok: Official Research API is limited (mainly academic). Commercial/developer access exists with sandbox-to-production audits; higher-volume or specialized data often routes through partners or paid arrangements. Full firehose-style access is not openly sold the same way.
Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads): Graph API and related endpoints are free to call (subject to App Review, rate limits, and Business Verification). No direct per-call fee for post data, though WhatsApp Business Platform charges per delivered template message (country- and category-based). Enterprise advertising data flows through the Marketing API (free calls + ad spend).
Bluesky: Public firehose/AT Protocol access is available (rate-limited, e.g., points-based). It is largely free/open for public data but can involve infrastructure costs at scale; not a high-priced proprietary feed like Truth API.
Other platforms (Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitch, etc.) offer developer APIs that are mostly free or lightly restricted, with commercial scaling handled via rate limits or partner programs rather than high fixed data-licensing fees.Specialized Third-Party / Aggregated Real-Time Social Data FeedsThese are not the platforms themselves but sell licensed, low-latency, or institutional feeds built on (or aggregating) social data—often used by the same trading/hedge-fund customers as Truth API:Dataminr: Real-time AI-powered alerts and event detection from social media, news, and open web. Widely used by trading desks, banks, and risk teams. Enterprise pricing typically $150,000+/year.
RavenPack: Structured news, social sentiment, and event feeds optimized for quantitative trading and systematic strategies. High-end institutional pricing (often $100,000+/year).
Social Market Analytics (and similar quant-focused providers): Quantified social/firehose sentiment and signals, especially from X/Twitter, sold to financial firms.
Other notable players in the space include Brandwatch, Meltwater, Talkwalker (social listening platforms with API access), and various firehose resellers or data partners (e.g., historical Twitter/X or multi-platform streams).