AI Replies on X: The Real Cost

Nobody sells replies by the thousand once you see how X meters them.

Every reply is billed twice

Once by the model that drafts it, once by X when it sends. Those are different bills.

Drafting is nearly free

About 2 credits. You can generate and throw away a dozen drafts for the price of one send.

Sending is where the money goes

Roughly 10 credits per reply. So one AI-assisted reply lands near 12 credits, all in.

Unless it contains a link

Then the send jumps from 10 credits to 200. Twenty plain replies cost the same as one link reply.

Splitting the link doesn't help

Each piece of content is priced on its own text. A post plus a link reply costs more, not less.

You can't reply to strangers

Only to accounts that mentioned or quoted you. Cold replying isn't a paid tier — it isn't available.

A human presses send

No classifier reliably knows if a reply is welcome. Drafts wait in a queue for you to approve.

Spending more won't send more

50 replies a day, 15 per 15 minutes, 5 seconds apart. Budget doesn't move those ceilings.

Run the numbers yourself

The full cost table, the approval queue, and what an honest setup can't do.

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