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Why Xquik wins over Social Fetch

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. Social Fetch publishes none. Xquik bills only delivered, unique, filter-matching results. Empty pages, failed requests, retries, duplicates & filtered rows cost nothing. Social Fetch’s pricing bills USD 0.00236 per request on pay as you go. A completed not_found lookup still bills. On Xquik, a search that finds nothing 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 Social Fetch fits

Social Fetch calls itself a versioned public REST API for social data. It covers 25 platforms, X included. Most completed lookups cost 1 credit. This guide compares Social Fetch and Xquik on specific X tasks. It covers tweet search, lookups, monitors, webhooks, writes & agent connections.
Facts on this page come from Social Fetch’s official pages, read on 2026-10-15. Verify current pricing and terms on the official site before buying.

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Quick answer

Pick Xquik

Xquik is faster & cheaper per useful result. It also adds X monitors that check every second, writes & file exports.

When Social Fetch may fit

You need 25 platforms behind 1 key.

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Source-backed Social Fetch scope

  • Pay as you go costs USD 0.00236 per request. Plans cost USD 0.00161 to USD 0.00150 per request.
  • Starter costs USD 29 a month for 18,000 credits. Scale costs USD 225 a month for 150,000.
  • X search, tweet & profile routes cost 1 credit per successful request.
  • A completed not_found lookup still bills. Validation errors & infrastructure failures do not.
  • Pay-as-you-go pack credits never expire. Monthly plan credits reset each period.
  • New accounts get 100 free credits with no card.
  • Monitors poll on a schedule and send HMAC-signed webhooks. X sources have a 5-minute floor.
  • Each monitor check bills like the lookup it runs, also when nothing is new.
  • Pay as you go allows 5 active monitors. Starter allows 25, Growth 100 & Scale 250.
  • Requests use an x-api-key header. A TypeScript SDK & a hosted MCP server are available.
  • Each workspace can have 200 requests in flight. Paid metered routes have no RPS cap.

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Comparison

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What to test in Xquik

Price the X part of the task. A Social Fetch lookup costs from USD 0.0015. An Xquik tweet or profile costs USD 0.00015. For monitors, compare check speed and daily cost. Xquik checks every second for USD 0.108 a day.

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 X lookups and monitors in both products. Compare fields, alert timing & cost. Move the task once the systems that read the data accept Xquik’s output.

Xquik pricing

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

Monitors API

Create account monitors and receive signed webhook events.

Official Social Fetch pricing

Verify current prices before making a final decision.