With the introduction of the new X API pricing model (pay-per-use), what used to be the free API tier is definitely gone. You can check the official announcement from X here.

Honestly, that is probably a good thing if you think about the absurd amount of spam bots on the platform… but it also took down a few actually useful ones along the way.

One of them was @freeEpicGamesb, which used to post the Epic Free Games as soon as they were available. It was pretty nice to just spot them in the timeline.

On April 3rd, 2026, the bot announced it could no longer post notifications because the X API free tier was gone:

Source: EpicGamesBot on X

So I made EFGTracker as a small alternative.

It does not post on X/Twitter. Instead, it creates issues on GitHub for the current Epic freebies and if you watch the repository, you can get notified by email. Not exactly the same experience, but still quite convenient and, more importantly, it works without paying for API access.

If you want, you can also fork it and run it on your own.

You can find more details in the Epic Free Games Tracker repository.

If you were also relying on that bot, this should do the trick