X API Pricing & X API Alternative by Xquik

Watch Framer build a tweet ticker with Xquik, from 6:07. This skill helps your agent move X API code to Xquik.

Use this X API alternative skill by Xquik to replace official X API pricing. It is also an X (Twitter) API alternative for code on API v2.

Xquik is the world's fastest and cheapest X (Twitter) scraper service with the most complete X (Twitter) data. Most other Apify Actors charge before filtering or deduplication. Xquik charges only for delivered, unique, filter-matching results and never pads rows. Xquik is independent and not affiliated with X Corp.

The Xquik REST API read 45 tweets per second on 2026-10-15. That cost $0.15 per 1,000. The fastest of 4 rival Actors read 12.5 per second. The cheapest cost $0.173 per 1,000. Compare each run. Most rival Actors charge before they filter or dedup. Xquik charges only for delivered, unique, filter-matching results.

Install the X API alternative skill

npx skills@1.7.0 add Xquik-dev/x-api

The skill works in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor & other Agent Skills readers. Create an API key in the Xquik dashboard. Then set it in your shell.

export XQUIK_API_KEY='<your key>'

Pay per use X API pricing for tweet search

Each tweet or post costs $0.00015, so this call for 10 tweets costs $0.0015.

curl -s "https://xquik.com/api/v1/x/tweets/search?q=from:elonmusk&limit=10" \
  -H "x-api-key: $XQUIK_API_KEY"

Next, read the X API comparison or the billing guide.

Benchmarks & usage

• 1,600+ installs of Xquik's X (Twitter) Skills on skills.sh (source)
• 8.6 s p99 REST server read time over 7 days, failures included (source)
• 67,000+ downloads of Xquik's X (Twitter) API packages across 6 registries (source)

Checked on 2026-11-13. See each number with its date & source on xquik.com/benchmarks or as JSON.

Cut X (Twitter) API cost when you leave tweepy

This tweepy call reads from the official X API at $0.005 per tweet.

client.search_recent_tweets(query="from:elonmusk", max_results=10)

The skill rewrites it as an Xquik call at $0.00015 per tweet.

import os
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://xquik.com/api/v1/x/tweets/search",
    params={"q": "from:elonmusk", "limit": 10},
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["XQUIK_API_KEY"]},
    timeout=30,
)
tweets = response.json()["tweets"]

Why Xquik is the cheapest X API alternative

A tweet or a profile costs $0.00015 on Xquik. You pay only for delivered results. Filters apply before billing, so excluded rows cost nothing.

What you read or do	Xquik	Official X API on 2026-10-05
1 tweet read	$0.00015	$0.005
1 profile read	$0.00015	$0.010
1 follower or following profile	$0.00015	$0.010
1 text tweet created	$0.0045	$0.015, or $0.200 with a URL
1 trends call	$0.00045	$0.010

The official prices come from the X (Twitter) pricing page, read on 2026-10-05. X (Twitter) names these units Posts: Read, User: Read, Following/Followers: Read, Post: Create & Trends. Check that page for today's prices.

On that date, a tweet read cost 33 times less on Xquik.

Why Xquik is the fastest X API alternative

• Reads need 1 API key. You need no X (Twitter) developer account.
• Each account gets 500 reads per second.
• Monitors check every second & push signed webhooks.
• Tweets & posts arrive with the author inline, so you drop expansions.
• Search accepts query, max_results & sort_order as aliases.

Tasks to give your agent

Move our recent search job from the official X API to Xquik.
Port this tweepy client to an X API alternative.
Replace our filtered stream with Xquik monitors & a webhook receiver.
What will 50,000 follower reads a day cost on Xquik?

What the skill writes

Job	What you get
Endpoint map	Each official X API v2 call matched to its Xquik endpoint & field names
Auth	A client that reads XQUIK_API_KEY from the environment
Pagination	A cursor loop with a page count, so cost has a ceiling
Errors & retries	Backoff on 429 & 5xx, and no retry on 4xx
Writes	An Idempotency-Key on each write & status polling
Monitors & webhooks	Setup code & an HMAC-SHA256 signature verifier
Cost estimate	Rows, credits & dollars before a loop or a monitor runs

Official X API v2 to Xquik

Official X API v2	Xquik
https://api.x.com/2 with Authorization: Bearer	https://xquik.com/api/v1 with x-api-key
GET /2/tweets/search/recent	GET /x/tweets/search
GET /2/tweets/:id	GET /x/tweets/{id}
GET /2/users/by/username/:username	GET /x/users/{id}
GET /2/users/:id/tweets	GET /x/users/{id}/tweets
GET /2/users/:id/followers	GET /x/users/{id}/followers
POST /2/tweets	POST /x/tweets
GET /2/tweets/search/stream	POST /monitors/keywords & POST /webhooks
meta.next_token	next_cursor

The endpoint map lists every call.

What the skill never does

• It never reads, prints or asks for your API key. Code reads it from the environment.
• It never loads tweets, bios or messages into the agent's conversation. That data goes to your application.
• It never sends a tweet, creates a monitor or buys credits. It writes the code & you run it.
• It never fetches remote instructions or installs packages. The whole contract ships in the skill.

To read X (Twitter) data inside an agent, use the x-twitter-scraper skill.

Files

Path	Holds
skills/x-api/SKILL.md	The contract & the order of work
skills/x-api/references/	The endpoint map, 2 clients, monitors & webhooks, and pricing
evals/x-api/	Output evals, trigger queries & claude plugin eval cases, kept outside the skill folder

Questions

Do I need an X (Twitter) developer account?

No. Public reads need only an Xquik API key. Private reads & X (Twitter) account actions need a connected account.

Is Xquik the official X API?

No. Xquik runs its own REST API. Code you port with this skill calls that API, not the official X API.

More Xquik tools

• X (Twitter) scraper API & X (Twitter) MCP server with REST, MCP & Skill setup.
• X (Twitter) API SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Go & Ruby.
• X (Twitter) API SDKs for Java, Kotlin, C# & PHP.
• Twitter CLI & X CLI and Twitter advanced search operators with tested examples.
• Twitter agent plugins for OpenClaw & Hermes Agent.
• X (Twitter) API documentation source with every public page.
• Twitter integrations for n8n, Prefect, Haystack & Paperclip.
• Twitter integrations for Terraform, Convex, Supabase & Strapi.
• X (Twitter) MCP for AI agents, VS Code & Raycast.
• Xquik X API & Twitter scraper and the X (Twitter) API documentation.

Help

• Email support@xquik.com.
• Read the Xquik docs.

License

MIT

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