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ReefAPI pricing and alternatives: GitHub profile API, POST /github/v1/user

ReefAPI's sitellms.txtBest GitHub profile API in 2026: pricing comparedReefAPI: GitHub profile API alternatives

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100% complete: all 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 33 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.15.Scrappa, Litescrape and ReefAPI are the best GitHub profile API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ReefAPI's 11 plans
Call: POST /github/v1/user one of ReefAPI's 2 calls for this API
API: GitHub profile API one of ReefAPI's 66 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from GitHub when you call the API.
  • All 7 key fields we check. Bio, Company, Location, Links, Contact, Followers, Repositories.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send username to POST /github/v1/user. You can also send anon_tier. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ReefAPI: GitHub profile API alternatives

The table starts with ReefAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to ReefAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /github/v1/userScrapeCreators, $497 packScavio, $4,788 yearlyCaptapi, $9 monthly
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.333$0.994$1.995$4.50
Completeness100%100%100%100%
Billingyearlypay firstyearlymonthly
Pay$1,200$497$4,788$9
Enough for300,000 calls a month500,000 calls200,000 calls a month2,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone legally able to enter into a binding agreementanyoneanyone at least 18 years old

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. reefapi.com
  2. reefapi.com/_next/static/chunks/app/pricing/page-560e08c02e869119.js
  3. reefapi.com/docs
  4. reefapi.com/docs/github
  5. reefapi.com/docs/github.md
  6. reefapi.com/pricing
  7. reefapi.com/refunds
  8. reefapi.com/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
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 3,551 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGitHub user profile
Data
Freshnesslive
Use dataYou are solely responsible for how you use the data you retrieve and for ensuring your use complies with all applicable laws, third-party terms, and the rights of others (including data-protection, intellectual-property, and anti-spam laws) in your jurisdiction and your users'. You will not use the Service to break the law, infringe rights, send spam, or build a competing bulk-redistribution product. [...] Don't attempt to circumvent authentication, rate limits, or credit metering, don't probe, scan, or stress the Service except your own account within posted limits. [...] Where a source requires attribution, we surface it in the response meta, honor it.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second10
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.73 s
The call
You sendusername. Optional: anon_tier
MethodPOST
Path/github/v1/user
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

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