Threads API (Meta) pricing: Threads profile API
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80% complete: 4 of the 5 key fields we checkSee the 5 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run Threads API (Meta) through our Threads profile API benchmark yet.Half of the 146 plans we rank by price cost $1.998 per 1,000 profiles or less. This plan has the lowest price per 1,000 profiles of the 146 plans.ReefAPI, lobstr.io and ScrapeCreators are the best Threads profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free Threads API (Meta)'s only plan
Call:
GET / Threads API (Meta)'s only call for this APIAPI: Threads profile API one of Threads API (Meta)'s 2 APIs
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 4 of the 5 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Verified, Followers.
- Nothing to pay.
- One call. You send
usernametoGET /. The call returns the account's profile.v1.0/ profile_ lookup - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Threads API (Meta): Threads profile API alternatives
Threads API (Meta) alternatives: every Threads profile API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 profiles.
| This planThreads API (Meta), free | ReefAPI, free | lobstr.io, free | ScrapeCreators, free | SociaVault, free | AnyAPI, free trial key | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 profiles | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 80% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | not published | 1,000 calls | 100 results a month | 100 calls, once | 50 calls, once | about 45 calls, once |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | live | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with a Meta app on the Threads use case and a Threads user access token holding the threads_basic and threads_profile_discovery permissions, with standard access only @meta, @threads, @instagram and @facebook can be looked up | anyone | professionals, not consumers | anyone legally able to enter into a binding agreement | anyone | anyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list |
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.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Bio
- Photo
- Links, not in the answer
- Verified
- Followers
| $ per 1,000 profiles | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Use the GET /profile_lookup?username=... endpoint to look up a public profile and retrieve their basic profile information. |
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| Keep data | Platform Terms 3.d: "Delete all Platform Data as soon as reasonably possible in the following cases: a. When retaining the Platform Data is no longer necessary for a legitimate business purpose that is consistent with these Terms and all other applicable terms and policies, [...] c. When we request you delete the Platform Data for the protection of Users [...]" and "Update or delete Platform Data promptly after receiving a request from us or the User to do so". |
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| Use data | Threads API overview: "You may use the Threads API to enable people to create and publish content on a person's behalf on Threads, and to display those posts within your app solely to the person who created it." Platform Terms 2.a: "You will not sell, transfer, or sublicense Platform to anyone." Platform Terms 3.a: "You will not perform, or facilitate or support others in performing, any of the following prohibited practices (collectively, “Prohibited Practices”): i. Processing Platform Data to discriminate or encourage discrimination in a manner that disadvantages people based on personal attributes [...] ii. Processing Platform Data to make eligibility determinations about people, including for housing, employment, insurance, education opportunities, credit, government benefits, or immigration status. [...] iii. Processing Platform Data to perform, facilitate, or provide tools for surveillance. [...] iv. Selling, licensing, or purchasing Platform Data. v. Processing Platform Data without valid User consent in order to build or augment user profiles for any purpose. vi. Attempting to decode, circumvent, re-identify, de-anonymize, unscramble, unencrypt, reverse hash, or reverse-engineer Platform Data that is provided to you. vii. Changing your App's core functionality or data Processing so that Users would view it as an unfamiliar or different App, or materially changing the scope of Processing of previously collected Platform Data, unless in each case you first re-submit your App and receive our approval through App Review. viii. Processing Platform Data for purposes other than the applicable permitted purposes set forth in Meta's Developer Docs." Platform Terms 3.c: "You may only share Platform Data in compliance with these Terms [...] and only in the following circumstances". |
| Pay | $0 |
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| Per day | 1,000 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | username |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1.0/profile_lookup |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone with a Meta app on the Threads use case and a Threads user access token holding the threads_basic and threads_profile_discovery permissions, with standard access only @meta, @threads, @instagram and @facebook can be looked up |
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold
username, name, profile picture, bio, followers, verified, likes in the past 7 days, quotes in the past 7 days, replies in the past 7 days, reposts in the past 7 days, views in the past 7 days