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API.SH pricing: GitHub profile API

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100% complete: all 7 fields on our checklistSee the 7 fields

$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run API.SH through our GitHub profile API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 111 plans for GitHub profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 profiles. See the best free GitHub profile API plan.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.022. Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 profiles a month: about $2.72.Scrappa, ReefAPI and TrueScrape are the best GitHub profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest API.SH plan for that many profiles. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of API.SH's 8 plans
Call: GET /github/v1/user API.SH's only call for this API
API: GitHub profile API one of API.SH's 99 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 7 fields on our checklist. Bio, Company, Location, Links, Contact, Followers, Repositories.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits don't roll over.
  • One call. You send username to GET /github/v1/user. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

API.SH: GitHub profile API alternatives

API.SH alternatives: other GitHub profile API providers by price

The table starts with API.SH's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to API.SH's.

API.SH, $50 monthlyAnysite, $1,199 monthlyScrappa, pay as you goReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /github/v1/userTrueScrape, $100 pack
$ per 1,000 profiles$1.00$0.999$1.00$1.00$1.00
Completeness100%100%86%100%71%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay as you gomonthlypay first
Pay$50$1,199per call$50$100
Enough for50,000 calls a month1,200,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for50,000 calls a month100,000 calls
Freshnessunknownliveunknownlivelive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email addressanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

  1. api.sh
  2. api.sh/docs/billing
  3. api.sh/docs/errors
  4. api.sh/docs/github-user
  5. api.sh/legal/acceptable-use
  6. api.sh/legal/terms
  7. api.sh/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Bio
  • Company
  • Location
  • Links
  • Contact
  • Followers
  • Repositories
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 6,019 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGitHub user profile
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not: resell or provide raw access to the Service as a competing API without our written agreement, attempt to get around credits, limits or security, interfere with the Service or other customers, reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows, or use the Service in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Expiresunused credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendusername
MethodGET
Path/github/v1/user
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email address
The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, user ID, name, account type, profile picture, profile URL, bio, company, location, website, email, Twitter username, hireable, public repos, public gists, followers, following, account created, profile updated, node ID, site admin, user view type, Gravatar ID, API URL, repositories API URL

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