# Threads API (Meta), free: Threads profile API

> Use the GET /profile_lookup?username=... endpoint to look up a public profile and retrieve their basic profile information.

Threads API (Meta)'s Threads profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 4 of the 5 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Verified, Followers.
We haven't run Threads API (Meta) through [our Threads profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-threads-profile-api.txt) 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](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/threads-api-meta/free
- [Threads profile API: 8 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-threads-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://graph.threads.com/v1.0/profile_lookup`
- API key: with the plan, on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/threads/threads-profiles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing#retrieve-a-threads-user-s-public-profile-information
- Sold by: Threads API (Meta) (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 80%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

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

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Use the GET /profile_lookup?username=... endpoint to look up a public profile and retrieve their basic profile information.

## Data

- 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".
- 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".

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1.0/profile_lookup

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- 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

## Threads API (Meta)'s plans (1)

- [Threads API (Meta), free](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/threads-api-meta/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 80% complete

## Threads API (Meta)'s calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1.0/profile_lookup`: [Threads API (Meta), free](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/threads-api-meta/free/llms.txt)

## Threads API (Meta)'s APIs (2)

- [Threads API (Meta): Threads post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/threads-post-apis/threads-api-meta/free/llms.txt)
- [Threads API (Meta): Threads profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/threads-api-meta/free/llms.txt)

## Threads API (Meta): Threads profile API alternatives

- [ReefAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/reefapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeCreators, free](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/scrapecreators/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SociaVault, free](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/sociavault/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [AnyAPI, free trial key](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 80% complete

## 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.

- https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
- https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads/get-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
- https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads/overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
- https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads/threads-profiles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
- https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/threads/reference/user.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing
- https://developers.facebook.com/terms/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=threads-profile-api-pricing