Best Tweet Deleter Tools in 2026: What Still Works

Updated 2026-08-07 · Written by the TweetXDelete team

X's switch to pay-per-use API pricing in 2026 wiped out most free tweet deletion tools — including the original version of this site. The approaches below are the ones still standing as of August 2026, grouped by how they survived.

Quick comparison

The real divide in 2026: who pays the API bill

Every tool in the table falls on one side of a line drawn in February 2026, when X made its API pay-per-use. API-based tools are billed for every deletion they perform — X's own pricing documentation lists "Interaction: Delete" at $0.010 per request — and that is why their monthly plans typically run between $6 and $36 and why deletion caps exist. Browser-side tools avoid the API entirely: deletions run through your own logged-in session, the same route your own delete taps take, at no per-deletion cost to anyone. That structural difference — not generosity — is what decides pricing.

Pricing checked 7 August 2026 from each vendor's public pricing page. Annual billing lowers the monthly equivalent at several vendors, and plans change often — check before you buy.

1. TweetXDelete — browser extension, one-time payment (ours)

We rebuilt TweetXDelete as a browser extension after the API pricing killed our free web service. The relevant facts:

• No API bill, so no subscription. First 30 deletions included, then a one-time $4.99 launch price for unlimited deletion of posts, likes and reposts. Lifetime access.
• No login handover. There is no password prompt, no OAuth screen, no account linking. The extension works inside the X session already open in your browser, and nothing leaves your device — the only thing that ever contacts our server is a license-key check.
• Archive reach. Hand it the data archive X gives you and it deletes past the 3,200-post listing limit, back to your first post. It reads only post IDs and dates from the file, locally.
• Deliberately paced. Deletion is slow on purpose — paced to respect X's rate limits, because careful cleanup is what keeps your account safe. If you want a ten-second wipe, this is not that, and we would argue nothing safe is.

The honest trade-off of the whole browser-side category: extensions depend on X's web interface, so they need active maintenance when X ships changes. That maintenance is our job, and the engine discovers X's current interface at runtime rather than hardcoding it — but you should know the dependency exists.

2. Circleboom — subscription, broad feature set

A long-running API-based manager with deletion features, a small rationed free tier, and archive support on paid plans. Solid tooling; the cost structure is the catch — as an API-based service it pays X per deletion, and its plans price accordingly. If you prefer an OAuth-based web dashboard over a browser extension and don't mind a subscription, it remains a competent option.

3. TweetDelete — familiar name, tighter limits

TweetDelete survived the API changes but its free tier is confined to the API's 3,200-post window: no archive upload, no like or repost cleanup. It works for a light prune of a recent account; for anything older or bigger you hit the paywall, and the subscription meter starts running.

4. Free browser-side tools — the honest competition

We are not the only tool that skips the API, and it would be dishonest to leave this row out of our own comparison. tweetXer is an open-source userscript, and there are free Chrome extensions such as DeleteTweets with five-figure install counts. They cost nothing and, architecturally, they do what we do.

What you are actually choosing between:

• Maintenance. Browser-side tools break whenever X changes its web interface. A hobby project gets fixed when its author has a free evening; that is the real difference a payment buys, not the deletion itself.
• Pacing. Several free tools delete as fast as they can, which is the behaviour most likely to get an account flagged. Check what pacing a tool uses before pointing it at an account you care about — ours is deliberately slow and reads X's own rate-limit headroom.
• Archive support. Many free tools cannot read your X data archive, which means everything older than your last ~3,200 posts stays up.
• Resume and verification. Long runs get interrupted. Whether a tool picks up where it left off, and whether it confirms each deletion actually happened, is what separates a weekend script from a product.

If your account is small, recent, and you enjoy tinkering, a free tool is a perfectly reasonable answer and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.

5. One-time API tools — pay once, wipe once

A cluster of tools (XWipe, DeleteOldPosts and others) settled on one-time pricing between roughly $15 and $99 — a single payment sized to cover the API cost of your wipe with margin. Two things to check before buying: archive support (without it, nothing older than 3,200 posts gets touched) and the refund policy, since you pay before the tool has seen your account.

How to choose

• Years of history, want it fully gone, hate subscriptions: a browser-side tool with archive support. That is the case we built TweetXDelete for.
• Prefer an official-API web dashboard and don't mind monthly billing: Circleboom or TweetDelete, sized to your account.
• One big account, one wipe, budget $15–99: a one-time API tool with confirmed archive support.
• Whatever you pick: never type your X password into a tool, and prefer deletion that is paced rather than instant — your account outlives the cleanup.

Not sure why everything got paid this year? The background is in our X API changes in 2026 explainer, and the step-by-step process is in how to delete all your tweets in 2026.