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Why Xquik wins over Brand24

Xquik is the fastest X data service, & the cheapest per useful result. Public Apify benchmarks ran on 2026-09-27 & 2026-09-29. Xquik’s X Tweet Scraper delivered 39.2 useful tweets per second, the fastest. It cost USD 0.000175 per useful tweet, the lowest of 12 Actors. Every run is public on the benchmark page. Xquik publishes reproducible benchmarks with run IDs. Brand24 publishes none. Xquik bills only delivered, unique, filter-matching results. Empty pages, failed requests, retries, duplicates & filtered rows cost nothing. Brand24’s pricing sells fixed monthly plans with mention caps. Individual costs USD 249 a month for 2,000 mentions. At full use, that is USD 0.1245 per mention. On Xquik, 2,000 tweets cost USD 0.30. That makes Xquik the cheapest per useful result. Xquik also returns full tweet text. Brand24’s API page says X text fields come back empty. Xquik also covers more of X in 1 product. It offers 23 extraction tools, 18 write actions & 1-second monitors with signed webhooks. Agents connect through a remote MCP server, & developers use SDKs in 8 languages.

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Where Brand24 fits

Brand24 is a media & social monitoring tool. It says it tracks over 25,000,000 online sources, X among them. This guide compares Brand24 & Xquik on X mentions. It covers mention tracking, update speed, API access, writes & agent connections.
Facts on this page come from Brand24’s official pages, read on 2026-10-15. Verify current pricing & terms on the official site before buying.

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Quick answer

Pick Xquik

Xquik is faster & cheaper per useful result. It returns full X text, checks every second & adds writes & exports.

When Brand24 may fit

Your PR team also tracks news, reviews & podcasts in 1 dashboard.

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Source-backed Brand24 scope

  • Brand24’s sources include X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, news & blogs.
  • Plans cost USD 249, USD 349, USD 499 & USD 699 a month.
  • Annual billing lowers Individual to USD 199 a month.
  • Enterprise starts at USD 1,499 a month, billed annually.
  • Monthly mention caps run from 2,000 on Individual to 100,000 on Business.
  • Individual updates every 12 hours. Team updates every hour. Pro & Business update in real time.
  • AI sentiment analysis labels mentions positive, negative or neutral.
  • Alerts go to email, Slack & Teams. A mobile app is also available.
  • API access costs extra on Business. Enterprise includes it.
  • The API returns empty text fields for X posts, citing platform terms.
  • API pages hold up to 500 rows. Each date range covers up to 31 days.
  • Brand24 also lists an MCP connection for AI assistants.
  • Reports export to PDF, Excel & PowerPoint.
  • The first 14 days are free, with no credit card.

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Comparison

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What to test in Xquik

Track your Brand24 X keywords in Xquik for 1 week. Compare mention counts, text, delay & cost. Xquik bills only the tweets you keep.

Tweets, followers & exports

23 extraction tools cover tweets, replies, quotes, reposts, likes, followers, following, verified followers, communities, lists, Spaces, articles, and search. Export results to CSV, JSON, XLSX, Markdown, or API responses.

Automation & writes

18 X write actions cover tweets, media uploads, likes, retweets, follows, DMs, profile updates, and community actions from connected accounts.

Monitoring & delivery

Account and keyword monitors check active streams every 1 second. Store events, poll them, or deliver them through signed webhooks.

Developer tools

Choose REST, an SDK, MCP, or pay-per-use reads. Credit records show each request’s cost.

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Migration path

Move your X keywords from Brand24 to Xquik keyword monitors first. Send events to your signed webhook or Telegram. Keep Brand24 for news & review sources if you need them.

Xquik pricing

Every action in credits & dollars, beside the X API’s own rates.

Keyword monitors API

Create keyword monitors & receive signed webhook events.

Official Brand24 pricing

Verify current prices before making a final decision.