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Best X (Twitter) profile API in 2026

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TwexAPI, TweetAPI and lobstr.io are the best X (Twitter) profile API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 15 providers and rank all 15 by score. For the three we score highest, we show each one's top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 profiles cost. We rank 257 plans by price. TweetAPI's $417 monthly plan (/tw-v2/user/by-ids) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00083.

Every X (Twitter) profile API provider we score, ranked

  1. TwexAPI, $20 pack, Mini: Overall score 71.4, Data score 60, $0.05 per 1,000 profiles
  2. TweetAPI, $417 monthly, Giga: Overall score 65.2, Data score 67, $0.167 per 1,000 profiles
  3. lobstr.io, $500 monthly: Overall score 61.3, Data score 83, $0.50 per 1,000 profiles
  4. ScrapeCreators, $497 pack: Overall score 61.0, Data score 85, $0.994 per 1,000 profiles
  5. Litescrape, top-up from $10: Overall score 58.4, Data score 36, $0.15 per 1,000 profiles
  6. SocialData, top-up, Usage-based pricing: Overall score 52.7, Data score 34, $0.40 per 1,000 profiles
  7. Scrappa, $10 pack: Overall score 51.6, Data score 32, $0.303 per 1,000 profiles
  8. AnyAPI, top-up from $10: Overall score 49.1, Data score 30, $0.22 per 1,000 profiles
  9. Captapi, $9 monthly: Overall score 47.3, Data score 55, $4.50 per 1,000 profiles
  10. TwitterAPI.io, $10 pack, $10 recharge: Overall score 46.8, Data score 39, $0.18 per 1,000 profiles

Providers #11 to #15 are under the three cards below.

  1. #1 TwexAPI: X profile API

    TwexAPI, $20 pack, Mini

    It returns 5 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Location, Verified, Followers, Following.

    Overall score
    71.4
    $ per 1,000
    $0.05
    Price score
    72
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: $0.05
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 257
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 profiles than this plan: 46
    Data score
    60
    Cost to get started score
    88
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $20
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 86 other calls
    Performance score
    69
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.158 s
    • TwexAPI, Get Twitter User About by Screen Name, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.109 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider all 20 accounts in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.6039 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 60 out of 100.

  2. #2 TweetAPI: X profile API

    TweetAPI, $417 monthly, Giga

    It returns 9 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.

    Overall score
    65.2
    $ per 1,000
    $0.167
    Price score
    65
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: $0.083
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 257
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 profiles than this plan: 85
    Data score
    67
    Cost to get started score
    63
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $417
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 91 other calls
    Performance score
    26
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.423 s
    • TwexAPI, Get Twitter User About by Screen Name, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.109 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider all 20 accounts in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.6744 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 67 out of 100.

  3. #3 lobstr.io: X profile API

    lobstr.io, $500 monthly

    It returns 9 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.

    Overall score
    61.3
    $ per 1,000
    $0.50
    Price score
    45
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 257
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 profiles than this plan: 124
    Data score
    83
    Cost to get started score
    62
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $500
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 81 other calls
    Performance score
    1
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 9.782 s
    • TwexAPI, Get Twitter User About by Screen Name, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.109 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider all 20 accounts in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.8284 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 83 out of 100.

Every X (Twitter) profile API provider we score, ranked: #11 to #15

  1. GetXAPI, $99 monthly, Scale: Overall score 45.8, Data score 36, $0.66 per 1,000 profiles
  2. XFluxAPI, $249 monthly: Overall score 44.6, Data score 20, $0.124 per 1,000 profiles
  3. TwitterAPIs, top-up from $10, Pay-as-you-go: Overall score 44.0, Data score 44, $1.60 per 1,000 profiles
  4. Sorsa, $199 monthly, Pro: Overall score 42.2, Data score 34, $3.98 per 1,000 profiles
  5. Bright Data, top-up: Overall score 33.8, Data score 27, $1.50 per 1,000 profiles

The Data score on X (Twitter) profile APIs

This score, out of 100, shows how much of an account's profile a provider's call returns. We ask for each account's profile by the account's handle. For each account, we count the parts the answer held. We divide that count by the number of parts any provider's answer held for that account. Then we average the results over all accounts. Each account counts the same. An account the call didn't find counts as 0. We compare a provider that ran on fewer accounts with the other providers on those same accounts. A provider can't score higher by running only on easy accounts. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer accounts than the benchmark has.

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