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Why Xquik wins over Tweepy

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. Tweepy publishes none. Xquik bills only delivered, unique, filter-matching results. Empty pages, failed requests, retries, duplicates & filtered rows cost nothing. Tweepy is free, but every call it makes bills through the X API. X’s pricing lists USD 0.005 per post read & USD 0.010 per user read. Reading 1,000 posts costs USD 5 there & USD 0.15 on Xquik. 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 Tweepy fits

Tweepy is an open-source Python library for the official X API. It wraps X’s v2 & v1.1 endpoints. You bring your own X app credentials & pay X’s rates. This guide compares Tweepy on the X API with Xquik’s Python SDK. It covers reads, followers, posting, real-time alerts & cost.
Facts on this page come from Tweepy’s docs & repository, read on 2026-10-15. X’s rates come from its pricing page, read the same day. X says its prices may change.

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Quick answer

Pick Xquik

Xquik is faster & cheaper per useful result. 1 API key covers reads, writes, monitors & exports.

When Tweepy may fit

Your app must call X’s official API with its own developer credentials.

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Source-backed Tweepy scope

  • Tweepy uses the MIT license. Version 4.17.0 shipped on 2026-07-02.
  • Install it with pip install tweepy.
  • Client covers X API v2. API covers v1.1.
  • StreamingClient reads X’s filtered & sample streams with a bearer token.
  • Recent search returns 10 to 100 posts per request. Full-archive search allows up to 500.
  • Follower pages return 1 to 1,000 users.
  • wait_on_rate_limit makes the client wait when X’s rate limit hits.
  • Every call needs your own X bearer token or OAuth 1.0a keys.

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X API rates behind Tweepy

  • X bills USD 0.005 per post read & USD 0.010 per user read.
  • Followers & following cost USD 0.010 per user returned.
  • Creating a post costs USD 0.015.
  • Pay-per-use plans cap at 3,000,000 post reads a month.
  • X says its prices may change.

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Comparison

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What to test in Xquik

Run your Tweepy search in Xquik’s Python SDK. Compare rows, fields & cost for 1 week of queries. Xquik bills only the tweets you keep. A recent search in Tweepy looks like this.
The same search in Xquik’s Python SDK reads X_TWITTER_SCRAPER_API_KEY.

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

Install x_twitter_scraper beside Tweepy. Move 1 read job first, then compare rows & cost. Move writes & streams once the receiving code accepts Xquik’s output.

Xquik pricing

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

Python SDK

Install the SDK, authenticate & search tweets from Python.

Official Tweepy docs

Verify the current Tweepy release before making a final decision.

Official X API pricing

Verify X’s current rates before making a final decision.