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LurkAPI pricing: Threads profile API

LurkAPI's sitellms.txtThreads profile API: 8 providers compared on price and dataLurkAPI: Threads profile API alternatives

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100% complete: all 5 key fields we checkSee the 5 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run LurkAPI through our Threads profile API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 146 plans for Threads profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.998 per 1,000 profiles or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.022.ReefAPI, lobstr.io and ScrapeCreators are the best Threads profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free credits one of LurkAPI's 4 plans
Call: GET /v1/threads/profile LurkAPI's only call for this API
API: Threads profile API one of LurkAPI's 37 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 hour old. You get profiles from LurkAPI's copy of Threads.
  • All 5 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 100 calls.
  • One call. You send handle to GET /v1/threads/profile. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

LurkAPI: Threads profile API alternatives

LurkAPI alternatives: every Threads profile API provider ranked

The table starts with LurkAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to LurkAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.

LurkAPI, $225 packZapi, Rp49,000 monthlylobstr.io, $4,800 yearlyOmkar Cloud, $48 monthlyReefAPI, $450 quarterly
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.45$0.109$0.40$0.48$0.50
Completeness100%40%100%100%100%
Billingpay firstmonthlyyearlymonthlyquarterly
Pay$225Rp49,000$4,800$48$450
Enough for500,000 calls25,000 calls a month1,000,000 results a month100,000 calls a month300,000 calls a month
Freshness1 hour15 minuteslivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneprofessionals, not consumersanyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted partiesanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

  1. lurkapi.com
  2. lurkapi.com/docs.md
  3. lurkapi.com/docs/linkedin/profile.md
  4. lurkapi.com/docs/threads/profile.md
  5. lurkapi.com/pricing.md
  6. lurkapi.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Bio
  • Photo
  • Links
  • Verified
  • Followers
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 87 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA public account's bio, links, follower count, and whether it's verified or private.
Data
Freshness1 hour
Keep datano limit
Use dataFair use: Don't try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service. Don't share or resell your API keys. Building your own products on top of LurkAPI is fine. Don't use LurkAPI to harass people or for anything illegal. [...] LurkAPI returns publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it, including the privacy and data protection laws that apply to you.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 calls
Rate limit
Per second5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendhandle
MethodGET
Path/v1/threads/profile
About the plan
PlanFree credits
Who can get itanyone
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, bio, followers, verified, private account, profile picture, bio links, profile URL

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