# upAPI, free: Bluesky profile API

> Fetch a Bluesky (AT Protocol) profile by handle or DID. Returns display name, description, avatar/banner, follower and post counts, labels, and DID. Uses the public AppView - no auth required.

upAPI's Bluesky profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. upAPI's docs list 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Followers, Following, Posts.
We haven't run upAPI through [our Bluesky profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-bluesky-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 119 plans for Bluesky profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.58 per 1,000 profiles or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.022.
[Bluesky](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/bluesky/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/scrappa/50-pack/llms.txt) and [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/scrapecreators/497-pack/llms.txt) are the best Bluesky profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/upapi/free
- [Bluesky profile API: the 6 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-bluesky-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.upapi.io/bluesky-profile.get`
- API key: with the plan, on https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://upapi.io/apis/social-media/bluesky-profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: upAPI (https://upapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: 1 minute
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 112 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch a Bluesky (AT Protocol) profile by handle or DID. Returns display name, description, avatar/banner, follower and post counts, labels, and DID. Uses the public AppView - no auth required.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You agree not to use the Services to: break the law, infringe anyone's rights, or help someone else do so, transmit malware, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services or any upstream provider without authorization, exceed, evade, or interfere with rate limits, plan quotas, or other technical or usage restrictions, including by sharing or rotating keys to do so, resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services or your API access except as we expressly allow, place an unreasonable load on, disrupt, or degrade our infrastructure or that of any upstream provider, violate the terms, policies, or rate limits of any upstream API you reach through the gateway, send data you have no lawful right to send, or route sensitive data through an endpoint not intended for it, or misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person or organization." "[...] your use of it is also subject to that provider's own terms and policies, which we do not control."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month
- Expires: the quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle
- Method: POST
- Path: /bluesky-profile.get

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

DID, profile picture, banner image, handle, labels, fetched at, indexed at, posts count, bio, name, following, followers

## upAPI's plans (4)

- [upAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [upAPI, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/upapi/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.29 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [upAPI, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/upapi/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.198 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [upAPI, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/upapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 83% complete, live

## upAPI's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /bluesky-profile.get`: [upAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt)

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## upAPI: Bluesky profile API alternatives

- [Zapi, Rp129,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/zapi/rp129000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.036 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $15 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/bluesky/profiles](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/scrapingdaddy/15-monthly-starter-get-v1-bluesky-profiles/llms.txt): $0.06 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [TrueScrape, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/truescrape/500-pack/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Upscrape, $499 pack](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/upscrape/499-pack/llms.txt): $0.938 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://upapi.io/apis/social-media/bluesky-profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky-profile-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/apis/social-media/linkedin-get-profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky-profile-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/docs/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky-profile-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky-profile-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky-profile-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky-profile-api-pricing