The Best Twitter Analytics Tools in 2026, With Real Prices

I grew my own X account from 0 to 10K followers in 137 days. This post compares the tools by price and by what each one is good at. Every price comes from the vendor’s own pricing page, checked October 25, 2026. If you want to know which numbers to watch first, read Twitter analytics: where to find it and 5 metrics to track.

What X’s own analytics shows, free and paid

X gives you some numbers for free. The full analytics page in the app needs a paid plan. Here is what you get at each level.

From X Help: view counts, Professional Accounts, X Business: Post Activity dashboard and @Subscriptions, June 13, 2024 and the SpaceXSI pricing page, checked October 25, 2026.

The Post Activity dashboard is the most detailed free option. X’s business help says it shows impressions, engagements, link clicks, reposts, likes and replies for each post. It defaults to the last 28 days. You can export up to 30 days at a time, with a cap of 3,000 posts per file.

X announced “a new and improved analytics page” in June 2024 and said to “upgrade to Premium to get daily insights.” X has renamed its plans since. The old $8 Premium tier is now Plus on The X Subscription, and the SpaceXSI pricing page lists Advanced Analytics for Plus. Check the sign-up screen before you pay.

Twitter analytics tools compared

Pick by the job you need done. A scheduler with stats, a follower tracker and a team reporting suite are three different products.

Typefully: cheap stats inside a scheduler

Typefully is a writing and scheduling tool with X analytics on top. The Creator plan is $99 a year, billed yearly only, and includes X analytics. Business is $20 a month per social set ($18 billed yearly). It adds detailed metrics, profile conversion rate, tweeting streaks and CSV download. The free plan has no analytics.

Pick it if you mostly want a nice place to write and schedule, and basic numbers are a bonus. More options in Typefully alternatives.

Tweet Hunter: analytics plus automation

Tweet Hunter lists “Complete X Analytics” on every plan. Discover is $29 a month for one account, Grow is $49 for five accounts, and Enterprise is $200. Discover also includes scheduling, a library of over 12 million viral tweets, auto-plug, auto-retweet and 3,000 auto-DMs a month.

Pick it if you want automation in the same tool. If you don’t, you pay for features you won’t use. Compare it in ClimbX vs Tweet Hunter.

Circleboom: follower tracking

Circleboom Twitter is built around your follower list. Pro is $31.99 a month ($23.99 billed yearly) and includes account analytics, post analytics and follower tracking. Its Who Unfollowed Me feature only works for accounts with up to 25,000 followers. The cheaper Limited plan ($16.24 a month) has no analytics.

Pick it if you want to clean up your following list or see who left. Just want your count over time? The free Twitter follower tracker does that without an account.

Metricool: many networks on a small budget

Metricool covers Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and more. X is an add-on: $10 a month per connected account, on top of Starter from $25 a month. Starter gets “reduced” X analytics. Complete X analytics needs Advanced, from $67 a month. Metricool also says X metrics are stored for 30 days only. The free plan does not connect X at all.

Pick it if X is one of five networks you report on. For an X-first account, the 30-day limit hurts.

Sprout Social: team reporting

Sprout Social is a full social media suite for teams. Essentials is $99 per seat a month ($79 billed yearly) for up to 5 profiles, with profile and post-level reporting. Standard is $199 a seat. Premium Analytics is a paid add-on from Standard up. There is a 30-day free trial with no card.

Pick it if you report to a boss or a client across many networks. For a solo founder it is far more tool, and price, than you need.

ClimbX: what to post next

ClimbX is the tool I built. Its analytics answer one question: what should you post more of? It reads your own posts and shows:

1. 1

   Four headline numbers

   Followers, posts, impressions and engagements, each with the change against the period before and a small daily chart. Pick 7, 30 or 90 days, all time, or your own dates.
2. 2

   Your best formats and topics

   Ranked by replies or impressions per post. Only formats and topics with 3 or more posts count, so one lucky post does not fool you. Tap a row to see its best posts.
3. 3

   Posts to learn from

   Your top post next to one that landed below your usual reach, side by side.
4. 4

   Your best time to post

   Median views by the hour you posted, with your strongest window. Viral breakouts are left out so they do not skew it.
5. 5

   A weekly report

   Average reach per post, your main takeaway, your strongest patterns and what to try next.

The same data is open to AI agents through the ClimbX MCP server, so you can ask Claude for your weekly report or best formats in plain words. ClimbX also drafts posts in your voice. You edit and approve every one before it goes out. From $29/month, with a 7-day trial for $1.

Pick it if you post on X alone and want the numbers to turn into your next post. Skip it if you need reports for other networks.

Which Twitter analytics tool should you pick?

Start from what you will do with the numbers.

Free ways to check your numbers first

Try the free route for a week before you pay. You will learn which numbers you actually look at.

1. 1

   Switch to a free Professional Account

   It adds Professional Home with 28 days of account analytics.
2. 2

   Work out your engagement rate

   Copy the numbers under a post into the Twitter engagement rate calculator. It compares your result with 1,184 real posts.
3. 3

   Track your follower count

   Save a daily count with the Twitter follower tracker. No login.
4. 4

   Write down your three best posts each week

   Note the format and topic of each. If you keep doing this by hand, a paid tool will save you time.

Analytics is one job among several. For the rest (scheduling, replies, writing), see the best X growth tools, compared by job.

Frequently asked questions

Bottom line

X’s free numbers are enough to start. Pay for a Twitter analytics tool only when it does something X doesn’t. Typefully is the cheapest. Circleboom tracks followers. Metricool and Sprout Social are for teams. ClimbX tells a solo account what to post next.