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Why Xquik wins over ScrapeBadger

Xquik is the fastest X data service. 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. ScrapeBadger publishes none. Xquik bills only delivered, unique, filter-matching results. Empty pages, failed requests, retries, duplicates & filtered rows cost nothing. ScrapeBadger’s pricing bills 1 base credit per X call plus 1 per item. At USD 0.00015 a credit, 3 tweets cost USD 0.0006 there. The same 3 tweets cost USD 0.00045 on Xquik. That makes Xquik the cheapest per useful result for searches & sparse pages. On a full page of 1 account’s tweets, ScrapeBadger charges a little less per tweet. 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 ScrapeBadger fits

ScrapeBadger is a scraping API for many sites, including X. Its X endpoints read tweets, users, lists, communities, and trends. It lists no write actions. This guide compares ScrapeBadger and Xquik on specific X tasks. It covers tweet search, follower exports, account monitors, publishing, webhooks, and agent connections.
Facts on this page come from ScrapeBadger’s official pages, read on 2026-10-15. Its pages give different credit rules, so verify current pricing on the official site before buying.

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Quick answer

Pick Xquik

Xquik is faster, & cheaper per useful result on searches. It also adds writes from connected accounts, 1-second keyword monitors, exports & SDKs.

When ScrapeBadger may fit

You scrape many sites, not only X, from 1 account.

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Source-backed ScrapeBadger scope

  • The pricing page lists pay-as-you-go top-ups from USD 10 at USD 0.15 per 1,000 credits.
  • The credits docs bill X tweet and user endpoints at 1 base credit plus 1 credit per item returned.
  • The pricing page says failed requests are never charged, including empty responses.
  • No write actions are listed for X.
  • Twitter Streams track accounts or search queries and deliver by WebSocket or signed webhook.
  • A hosted MCP server covers its APIs, with 49 tools for X.

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Comparison

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What to test in Xquik

Price the whole task. Count the base credit on each call, the rows, monitors, and exports. Choose Xquik when the job also acts on X or needs files.

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

Run the same query in both products, then compare rows, fields, and cost. Move the task only after the systems that read the data accept the Xquik output.

Xquik pricing

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

Search tweets API

Query parameters, filters, cursors, and response fields.

Official ScrapeBadger pricing

Verify current prices before making a final decision.