Is using strlen() in the loop condition slower than just checking for the null character?

I have read that use of strlen is more expensive than such testing like this:

We have a string x 100 characters long.

I think that

for (int i = 0; i < strlen(x); i++)

is more expensive than this code:

for (int i = 0; x[i] != '\0'; i++)

Is it true? Maybe the second code will not work in some situation so is it better to use the first?

Will it be better with the below?

for (char *tempptr = x; *tempptr != '\0'; tempptr++)