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Why Xquik wins over OpenTweet

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. OpenTweet publishes none. Xquik bills only delivered, unique, filter-matching results & each published post. Empty pages, failed requests, retries, duplicates & filtered rows cost nothing. OpenTweet’s pricing sells monthly plans with daily post caps. Pro costs USD 19.99 a month for up to 20 posts a day. At full use, that is about USD 0.033 per post. Xquik posts a tweet for USD 0.0045 with no plan. 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 OpenTweet fits

OpenTweet calls itself the posting layer for X, built for AI agents. It schedules posts, threads & articles, & drafts them with AI. This guide compares OpenTweet & Xquik on X tasks for agents. It covers posting, reads, monitors, MCP tools & SDKs.
Facts on this page come from OpenTweet’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. Agents can post, read, search & monitor X through 1 MCP server.

When OpenTweet may fit

You want a visual content calendar & an evergreen repost queue.

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Source-backed OpenTweet scope

  • Plans cost USD 19.99, USD 29 & USD 49 a month.
  • Daily post caps are 20, 100 & 300 posts.
  • Posts with links are capped at 30, 300 & 600 a month.
  • API limits run from 60 to 600 requests a minute.
  • Daily API caps run from 1,000 to 30,000 requests.
  • Every plan includes the REST API, a CLI & an MCP server.
  • The MCP server has 43 tools for posts, threads, scheduling, articles & analytics.
  • Its only search tool looks up saved & public tweets for inspiration.
  • Paid Advanced allows 20 X searches a day.
  • It cross-posts to X, Bluesky & LinkedIn from 1 draft.
  • Every plan starts with a 7-day trial that needs a card.

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Comparison

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What to test in Xquik

Post 1 week of your queue through Xquik. Compare publish results, errors & cost per post. Then pull replies & followers for the same posts. Xquik bills each post & each row 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

Point your agent’s posting step at Xquik’s create tweet endpoint or MCP server. Connect your X account once. Add monitors when the agent must react to replies or mentions.

Xquik pricing

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

Create tweet API

Post tweets & replies from a connected account.

Official OpenTweet pricing

Verify current prices before making a final decision.