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title: Twitter API pricing vs Xquik from $0.00015 per result
description: Compare X API pricing with Xquik. Pay $0.00015 per tweet or profile, against $0.005 per X API post read. Monthly plans cost up to 20% less.
canonical: https://xquik.com/en/pricing
language: en
last-updated: 2026-10-15
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# Xquik pricing

Pay $0.00015 per tweet, profile or follower with pay-as-you-go credits. Monthly plans cost up to 20% less.

## Monthly plans & pay-as-you-go

Pay as you go from $10. Save up to 20% with a monthly plan.

Pay as you go

$10 minimum top-up

66,666 credits

Credits never expire.

With your credits, you can scrape 66,666 tweets or profiles, or publish 2,222 tweets.

[Start with $10](https://dashboard.xquik.com/en/signup?plan=payg)

Starter

$20 /mo

140,000 credits/month

Unused credits carry over.

With your credits, you can scrape 140,000 tweets or profiles, or publish 4,666 tweets.

[Choose Starter](https://dashboard.xquik.com/en/signup?plan=starter)

Most popular

Pro

$99 /mo

770,000 credits/month

Unused credits carry over.

With your credits, you can scrape 770,000 tweets or profiles, or publish 25,666 tweets.

[Choose Pro](https://dashboard.xquik.com/en/signup?plan=pro)

Business

$199 /mo

1,670,000 credits/month

Unused credits carry over.

With your credits, you can scrape 1,670,000 tweets or profiles, or publish 55,666 tweets.

[Choose Business](https://dashboard.xquik.com/en/signup?plan=business)

## What each action costs

Each action uses credits. With pay-as-you-go, 1 credit costs $0.00015.

| Action | Credits | Pay-as-you-go price |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Search or extract a tweet | 1 | $0.00015 |
| Extract a profile | 1 | $0.00015 |
| Extract a follower | 1 | $0.00015 |
| Read an X article | 5 | $0.00075 |
| Analyze a post with AI | 2 | $0.0003 |
| Post a tweet or reply | 30 | $0.0045 |
| Other write actions, such as a like or follow | 10 | $0.0015 |
| Attached media, per started MB | 2 | $0.0003 |
| Run a monitor, per hour | 30 | $0.0045 |

## Xquik vs X API pricing

X's pricing page listed these pay-per-use rates on Oct 15, 2026.

| Action | X API | Xquik |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Read a post | $0.005 | $0.00015 |
| Read a user or follower | $0.010 | $0.00015 |
| Create a post | $0.015 | $0.0045 |

X caps post reads at 3,000,000 a month & says prices may change. [Check X's pricing page](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing).

## Reads bill only results

Searches & extractions charge only for delivered, unique, filter-matching results. A search bills only the rows it returns. An active monitor costs 30 credits an hour while it runs. Estimates & exports are free. Unused plan credits carry over, & pay-as-you-go credits never expire.

## Measured against other scrapers

In benchmarks on Sep 27, 2026 & Sep 29, 2026, Xquik's Tweet Scraper cost $0.000175 per useful tweet. That was the lowest of 12 Apify Actors.

It also delivered the most useful tweets per second, 39.2.

[See every run on the trust page](https://xquik.com/en/trust#benchmark-x-tweet-scraper).

## Pricing questions

### How much does the X API cost?

X's pay-per-use API lists $0.005 per post read & $0.010 per user read. Xquik charges $0.00015 per tweet or profile.

### Is there a free plan?

No. Pay-as-you-go starts at $10 for 66,666 credits, & those credits never expire.

### Do unused credits expire?

No. Plan credits carry over to the next month. Pay-as-you-go credits never expire.

### Can I cancel a plan anytime?

Yes. Plans have no contract, & you can cancel anytime.

### Does an empty search cost anything?

No. A search bills only the rows it returns, so 0 rows cost 0 credits.

Xquik is an independent third-party service. Not affiliated with X Corp. "Twitter" and "X" are trademarks of X Corp.