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Why Xquik wins over Pulsar

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. Pulsar publishes none. Xquik bills only delivered, unique, filter-matching results. Empty pages, failed requests, retries, duplicates & filtered rows cost nothing. Pulsar’s site lists no prices & offers demos instead. Xquik publishes every price. A tweet costs USD 0.00015, & a search that returns 0 tweets costs 0. 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 Pulsar fits

Pulsar calls itself an audience intelligence & social listening platform. It collects social, search, news & web data from 195 countries. This guide compares Pulsar & Xquik on X data. It covers mentions, raw rows, alerts, writes & agent connections.
Facts on this page come from Pulsar’s official pages, read on 2026-10-15. Pulsar 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 Pulsar may fit

You need audience segments across social, news & search for research.

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Source-backed Pulsar scope

  • Pulsar’s products include TRAC, CORE, TRENDS, Crisis Oracle, CLEAR & Narratives AI.
  • It collects social, search, news media & web data from 195 countries.
  • Its named social sources include Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram & Pinterest.
  • It also covers regional sources such as VK, Naver, Weibo, WeChat & Baidu.
  • TRAC offers over 50 filters, plus templated or custom dashboards.
  • Pulsar says its AI detects sentiment, topics & emotions in all languages.
  • Audience segmentation shows the main communities in a conversation.
  • Pulsar also sells research & consultancy services.
  • The site lists no prices. It offers demos instead.

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Comparison

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What to test in Xquik

Pull 1 month of X mentions for a brand you track in Pulsar. Compare volume, fields & cost with your Pulsar 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

Move the X part of your research to Xquik first. Search past mentions, then add keyword monitors for live ones. Export rows to CSV or XLSX for your analysts.

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 Pulsar site

Request current pricing before making a final decision.