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Why Xquik wins over TwitterAPI.io

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. TwitterAPI.io publishes none. Xquik bills only delivered, unique, filter-matching results. Empty pages, failed requests, retries, duplicates & filtered rows cost nothing. TwitterAPI.io’s pricing charges at least USD 0.00015 per call, also when it returns no data. Both list USD 0.00015 per tweet, so empty & sparse calls decide the bill. An empty search costs 0 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 TwitterAPI.io fits

TwitterAPI.io calls itself a public social data API for developers & AI agents. Its pay-as-you-go tweet price matches Xquik’s at USD 0.00015 per tweet. The 2 differ on empty results, subscriptions, writes, streams & agent tooling. This guide compares TwitterAPI.io and Xquik on specific X tasks. It covers tweet search, follower exports, monitors, publishing, webhooks & agent connections.
Facts on this page come from TwitterAPI.io’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 file exports, SDKs in 8 languages, 1-second monitors & remote MCP.

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Source-backed TwitterAPI.io scope

  • Tweets cost 15 credits each, which is USD 0.00015 per returned tweet. USD 1 buys 100,000 credits.
  • Every call costs at least USD 0.00015, also when it returns no data.
  • A single profile lookup costs USD 0.00018. Batches of 100 or more profiles cost USD 0.00001 each.
  • Followers cost USD 0.00001 to USD 0.00003 each, by page size. 200 per call is USD 0.00001 each.
  • Posting a tweet, liking, following & other v2 writes cost USD 0.002 per call.
  • Article content costs USD 0.001 per call. A media upload costs USD 0.003.
  • The account stream starts at USD 29 a month for 6 accounts. Median delivery is under 500 ms.
  • Keyword filter rules push tweets by webhook or WebSocket, at USD 0.00015 per tweet.
  • Requests use 1 x-api-key header. The open-source MCP server runs locally with 12 read-only tools.
  • Never-paid accounts get 0.2 requests per second. Paid accounts get 20, Scale 50 & Business 500.
  • New accounts get USD 1 in free credits, valid for 31 days. Paid credits never expire.

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Comparison

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What to test in Xquik

Price the whole task. Count empty & sparse calls, write steps, exports & monitors. Xquik never bills a search that returns nothing.

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. Compare rows, empty pages, fields & 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.

Search tweets API

Query parameters, filters, cursors, and response fields.

Official TwitterAPI.io pricing

Verify current prices before making a final decision.