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Why Xquik wins over Keyhole

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. Keyhole publishes none. Xquik bills only delivered, unique, filter-matching results. Empty pages, failed requests, retries, duplicates & filtered rows cost nothing. Keyhole’s plans page lists Team & Enterprise plans with post caps & no prices. Its pricing link opens a demo request. A historical X report starts at USD 50. On Xquik, 10,000 tweets from a past date range cost USD 1.50. That makes Xquik the cheapest per useful result. 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 Keyhole fits

Keyhole sells social listening, profile analytics & hashtag tracking. Its social listening is now available on Muck Rack. This guide compares Keyhole & Xquik on X hashtag & keyword data. It covers tracking, history, exports, writes & agent connections.
Facts on this page come from Keyhole’s official pages, read on 2026-10-15. Keyhole lists pricing on request, so ask for a quote before buying.

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Quick answer

Pick Xquik

Xquik is faster & cheaper per useful result. It returns raw X rows, checks every second & has public prices.

When Keyhole may fit

Your PR team runs Muck Rack & wants listening in the same place.

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Source-backed Keyhole scope

  • Keyhole offers social listening, profile analytics & hashtag tracking.
  • Its social listening is available on Muck Rack.
  • The plans page lists Team & Enterprise with no prices.
  • Team includes 5 topics, 10k posts, 10 profiles & 3 users.
  • Enterprise includes 15+ topics, 20k posts & historical data.
  • Team reports export to PDF & XLS.
  • Historical X reports start at USD 50, based on the volume of tweets analyzed.
  • A historical report arrives within 1 business day, in PDF & Excel.
  • One-time historical reports have no trial. Keyhole offers a sample report.
  • The X hashtag analytics trial needs no credit card.

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Comparison

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What to test in Xquik

Pull last month’s tweets for your campaign hashtag in Xquik. Compare volume, fields & cost with a Keyhole quote. 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

Search your Keyhole hashtags & keywords in Xquik first. Add a keyword monitor for each live campaign. Export rows to CSV or XLSX for the reports your team already builds.

Xquik pricing

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

Search tweets API

Search tweets by keyword, hashtag, account & date range.

Official Keyhole plans

Verify current plans before making a final decision.