KeyAPI positions itself around AI agents, 20+ social platforms, and historical windows advertised up to 1,000 days. SocQ expands to 50 platforms and 1,000 endpoints and gives teams three concrete agent paths—hosted MCP, an installable Skill, and a cross-platform CLI—while credits never expire.
Confirm SLA, compliance, support, and enterprise terms directly.
SocQ publishes a more explicit operational baseline.
Is SocQ a KeyAPI alternative?
When should you choose SocQ or KeyAPI?
Historical requirement
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Choose KeyAPI when a tested workflow needs its advertised long historical window; choose SocQ for broader current-data operations
KeyAPI advertises historical access up to 1,000 days, but the decision should use the exact platform, resource, account, and earliest timestamp required. Choose SocQ when that historical test is not decisive and the product values 50-platform coverage plus shared agent tooling.
Set the required earliest date per platform and object
Test accounts with known old content
Record gaps, deleted items, page count, and cost to the cutoff
Agent runtime
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Choose SocQ when MCP, Skill, and CLI must share one endpoint and task model
SocQ provides hosted Streamable HTTP MCP, a reusable Agent Skill, CLI, and REST over the same catalog. Validate discovery, exact-tool scope, estimate, asynchronous polling, restart recovery, pagination, and export in the actual Claude, Codex, VS Code, or OpenClaw environment.
Use exact tools for stable production prompts
Keep the API key outside prompt content
Restart mid-task and verify continuation
Evaluation window
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Choose SocQ when a three-day trial cannot cover the required test schedule
KeyAPI's short evaluation window can work for fast endpoint checks. SocQ's 100 free credits do not expire, so engineering can test known historical cases, seasonal targets, failures, and delayed integrations without losing the balance.
Write test cases before starting a timed trial
Reserve usage for pagination and failures
Do not approve from happy-path samples alone
AI Agent Ready
Connect SocQ to AI agents with MCP, Skill, or CLI
Codex, Claude, VS Code, OpenClaw, and other compatible environments can use SocQ through MCP, Skill, or CLI.
Verify the required history for each platform and endpoint; use SocQ MCP, Skill, and CLI to test discovery, estimates, continuation, and exports in the target agent runtime.
Give compatible agents scoped access to SocQ tools.
https://api.socq.ai/mcp
Agent Skill
Install a reusable research workflow for endpoint discovery and task handling.
npx skills add SocQAPI/socq-devtools
CLI
Run and resume jobs from terminals, scripts, and editor agents.
npm i -g @socq/cli
Example historical research prompt
Find the longest supported history for public posts about this topic across X, YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram. Describe each endpoint, estimate credits to reach 900 days, sample the oldest pages, resume tasks, and report the actual earliest timestamp per platform.
Migration checklist
Migrate KeyAPI workflows to SocQ
Treat historical coverage and agent execution as separate acceptance gates; keep KeyAPI for any dated corpus SocQ does not reproduce.
Select exact SocQ endpoints and document field, ID, cursor, task, credit, and error differences plus required discovery, estimate, polling, resume, pagination, and export actions.
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Replay a corpus with known dates
Run the same accounts and objects through both providers; compare earliest returned timestamp, missing intervals, accepted records, page completion, latency, failures, and total cost.
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Cut over only after both gates pass
Run the real Claude, Codex, VS Code, OpenClaw, or CLI workflow, including a restart. Move accepted jobs to SocQ and keep KeyAPI for unmatched history or resource behavior.
FAQ
SocQ vs KeyAPI FAQs
What is KeyAPI?
KeyAPI is a unified social media data API for AI agents and automation. It covers more than 20 platforms and emphasizes access to historical social content.
How much historical data does KeyAPI provide?
KeyAPI offers history of up to 1,000 days. Actual depth varies by platform, resource, account, deleted content, and pagination.
Does KeyAPI provide MCP access?
KeyAPI is agent-oriented, but its public product does not package the same hosted MCP, installable Skill, and CLI combination. Those three integration paths are built into SocQ.
Which supports more platforms?
SocQ covers 50 platforms, while KeyAPI covers more than 20. KeyAPI focuses on historical depth; SocQ provides broader cross-platform reach.
Does SocQ guarantee 1,000 days of history?
No. SocQ history varies by endpoint and platform. KeyAPI offers a maximum window of 1,000 days, while actual availability still varies by resource.
Do KeyAPI free credits expire?
Yes. KeyAPI's 100 free credits expire after three days. SocQ's 100 free credits never expire.
What makes SocQ Agent Ready?
Verified hosted MCP, an installable SocQ Skill, and @socq/cli, with endpoint discovery, scoped tools, asynchronous continuation, pagination, and exports.
Official KeyAPI sources
Platform scope, historical positioning, free expiry, and plan examples were checked on August 12, 2026.
KeyAPI websiteKeyAPI documentation
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