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Libraries.io pricing and alternatives: GitHub profile API

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86% complete: 6 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 50 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.15.Scrappa, ReefAPI and Litescrape are the best GitHub profile API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Libraries.io's 2 plans
Call: GET /api/github/{login} Libraries.io's only call for this API
API: GitHub profile API one of Libraries.io's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get profiles from Libraries.io's copy of GitHub. Libraries.io doesn't say how old the copy is.
  • 6 of the 7 key fields we check. Bio, Company, Location, Links, Contact, Followers.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send login to GET /api/github/{login}. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Libraries.io: GitHub profile API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 profiles.

This planLibraries.io, freeScrappa, freeReefAPI, free, POST /github/v1/userLitescrape, free, 5 free calls, GET /api/github/userAnyAPI, free trial key
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness86%86%100%86%86%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published500 calls a month1,000 calls5 calls, onceabout 41 calls, once
Freshnessstoredunknownliveunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone aged 13 or over with a Libraries.io account, a human ("Accounts registered by 'bots' or other automated methods are not permitted")anyone 18 or overanyoneanyoneanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list

Every GitHub profile API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. libraries.io
  2. libraries.io/api
  3. libraries.io/terms

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, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Platforms · Project · Project Dependencies · Project Dependents · Project Dependent Repositories · Project Contributors · Project SourceRank · Project Search · Repository · Repository Dependencies · Repository Projects · User Repositories · User Packages · User Packages Contributions
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet information for a given user or organization.
Data
Freshnessstored
Use dataYou may not use the service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. [...] Data provided by the Service is licensed to you under version 4.0 of the Creative Commons Attribution, Share Alike license (CC BY-SA). This license grants permissive rights for users to use the data commercially, and to create and distribute derivative works, but places certain conditions on redistribution of the data, including on attribution and the terms the data can be redistributed under. Full details of the permissions granted and conditions set by the license can be found here. You may comply with Sec. 3(1)(A)(i) of CC BY-SA by using the text 'includes data gathered by Libraries.io' in your publication or 'powered by Libraries.io' if providing a service. [...] You agree not to misuse or interfere with the normal operation of the service. Examples of such interference or unauthorized access can include: (i) scanning or searching the services by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available, documented interfaces intended for such purposes, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in these terms, our robots.txt, or in a separate written agreement, (ii) disruption of the use or access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, overloading, flooding, or spamming the services, or (iii) circumventing any rate limits in place on the service, such as those described in our documentation.
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendlogin
MethodGET
Path/api/github/{login}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 13 or over with a Libraries.io account, a human ("Accounts registered by 'bots' or other automated methods are not permitted")
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, record ID, username, account type, created at, updated at, name, company, website, location, hidden, last synced, email, bio, followers, following, host type

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