# LurkAPI, free: Threads profile API

> A public account's bio, links, follower count, and whether it's verified or private.

LurkAPI's Threads profile API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns all 5 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers.
We haven't run LurkAPI through [our Threads profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-threads-profile-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.022.
[ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt), [lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt) and [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/scrapecreators/497-pack/llms.txt) are the best Threads profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/lurkapi/free
- [Threads profile API: 8 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-threads-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/threads/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://lurkapi.com/docs/threads/profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: LurkAPI (https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 87 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A public account's bio, links, follower count, and whether it's verified or private.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 hour
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Fair 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 get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/threads/profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

## LurkAPI's plans (4)

- [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 hour
- [LurkAPI, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/lurkapi/9-pack/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 hour
- [LurkAPI, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/lurkapi/59-pack/llms.txt): $0.59 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 hour
- [LurkAPI, $225 pack](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/lurkapi/225-pack/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 hour

## LurkAPI's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/threads/profile`: [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt)

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## LurkAPI: Threads profile API alternatives

- [Zapi, Rp49,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.109 per 1,000, 40% complete, 15 minutes
- [lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/lobstr-io/4800-yearly/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Omkar Cloud, $48 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/omkar-cloud/48-monthly/llms.txt): $0.48 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $450 quarterly](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## 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.

- https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
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- https://lurkapi.com/docs/threads/profile.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
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- https://lurkapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing