You — xposts.co
~$2.10/mo at 7 posts/day
$39 once for the tool. Connect your X Developer OAuth keys — auto-post to your account for ~1¢/post. No monthly SaaS bill, no platform lock-in.
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What you'd spend on X growth
Generate and auto-post with your own X Developer app — $0.01 per text post. Drag the slider to match your habit.
Bring your own keys — posts go to your X account
- developer.x.com — Bearer Token (
X_BEARER_TOKEN) reads tweets; OAuth keys (X_CONSUMER_KEY, etc.) write scheduled posts - console.x.ai — Grok API key (
XAI_API_KEY) for generation (~1¢/post) - Vercel — paste env vars, connect Blob, add
CRON_SECRET+ cron-job.org for auto-poster
Your projected cost (generate + auto-post)
$2.10/mo
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Based on $0.01 per text post via your X Developer keys. Competitors charge $29–$49/mo whether you post or not.
Why xposts.co wins on cost
Competitors charge flat monthly fees. xposts.co is $39 once — connect your X Developer app, auto-post to your account for about a penny per post.
- ~$0.01/post — generate + publish, not $29–$49/mo
- Your X Developer keys — OAuth posts to your account, not ours
- Self-hosted — your Vercel, your Blob storage, your cron
- Personas from real X accounts — Bearer Token reads your tweets
- Ideas from HN & Reddit — built-in trend sources
SuperX
$39/mo
Cloud scheduling on their servers. $468/year — you don't own the stack or bring your own API keys.
Tweet Hunter
$49/mo
Premium suite with templates and scheduling. $588/year — posts through their platform, not your Developer app.
Typefully
$29/mo
Writing and scheduling on their cloud. Cancel and you lose access — no self-hosted option.
Hypefury
$29/mo
Automation and recycling. Monthly rent plus your persona data lives on their servers.
How you connect your keys
xposts.co never asks for your keys at signup. After deploy, you paste them into Vercel — the app runs on your infrastructure.
Read — personas
X Developer Portal → Bearer Token → X_BEARER_TOKEN
Fetches ~200 of your tweets + influencers to build your voice.
Write — auto-poster
Same X app → OAuth 1.0 keys → X_CONSUMER_KEY, X_CONSUMER_SECRET, X_ACCESS_TOKEN, X_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
Posts scheduled tweets to the account that generated the tokens.
Generate — Grok
console.x.ai → API key → XAI_API_KEY
~$0.01 per text post, ~$0.02 with images. You pay xAI directly.
Publish — cron
cron-job.org hits /api/cron/publish every 15 min with your CRON_SECRET
Free tier on cron-job.org. Optional — draft manually if you prefer.