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GitHub pricing: GitHub profile API, GET /users/{username}

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100% complete: all 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 82 plans by price. GitHub's $21 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 profiles: as little as $0.0019. GitHub's $21 monthly plan covers up to 10,800,000 profiles a month at no extra cost.GitHub, Scrappa and ReefAPI are the best GitHub profile API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Unauthenticated one of GitHub's 3 plans
Call: GET /users/{username} one of GitHub's 2 calls for this API
API: GitHub profile API one of GitHub's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 7 key fields we check. Bio, Company, Location, Links, Contact, Followers, Repositories.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send username to GET /users/{username}. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

GitHub: GitHub profile API alternatives

GitHub alternatives: every GitHub profile API provider ranked

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

GitHub, $21 monthly, Enterprise, GET /users/{username}Fiber AI, free, Cardless API trialLitescrape, top-up from $10, Usage-based, GET /api/github/userScrappa, $1,000 packReefAPI, $1,200 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /github/v1/userScrapeCreators, $497 pack
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.0019$0.00$0.15$0.20$0.333$0.994
Completeness100%86%86%86%100%100%
Billingmonthlyfreepay firstpay firstyearlypay first
Pay$21$0$10$1,000$1,200$497
Enough for10,800,000 calls a month50 calls, once66,667 calls5,000,000 calls300,000 calls a month500,000 calls
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownunknownlivelive
Who can get itorganizations on GitHub Enterprise Cloudanyone with a work email, one trial per company domain, to use only in the United Statesanyoneanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone legally able to enter into a binding agreement

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

  1. docs.github.com/en/rest/about-the-rest-api/about-the-rest-api
  2. docs.github.com/en/rest/users/users
  3. docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api
  4. docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service
  5. github.com/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: Get an organization · Get a repository · List repositories for a user
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchProvides publicly available information about someone with a GitHub account.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataH. API Terms, GitHub Terms of Service: "You may not share API tokens to exceed GitHub's rate limitations. You may not use the API to download data or Content from GitHub for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of selling GitHub users' personal information, such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards. All use of the GitHub API is subject to these Terms of Service and the GitHub Privacy Statement. GitHub may offer subscription-based access to our API for those Users who require high-throughput access or access that would result in resale of GitHub's Service."
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Per second0.017
Concurrent100
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.07 s
The call
You sendusername
MethodGET
Path/users/{username}
About the plan
PlanUnauthenticated
Who can get itanyone
The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

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