# ShortsIntel, free: TikTok profile API

> ShortsIntel reads public TikTok data and returns it as JSON over one REST API at /v1.

ShortsIntel's Starter Grant plan for the TikTok profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. ShortsIntel's docs list 10 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Bio, Photo, Contact, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes, Views.
We haven't run ShortsIntel through [our TikTok profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-tiktok-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 435 plans for TikTok profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.15 per 1,000 profiles or less. [See how many TikTok profile API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-tiktok-profile-api.txt)
[TokAPI's $49.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tokapi/49-99-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.0038.
[KOLens's $0.99 pack (/api/kols/{username})](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/kolens/0-99-pack-trial-get-api-kols-username/llms.txt) covers any number of profiles. KOLens's $0.99 pack costs less up front than TokAPI's $49.99 monthly plan.
[TikTokAPI.io](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tiktokapi-io/199-monthly/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [TrueScrape](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/truescrape/500-pack/llms.txt) are the best TikTok profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/free
- [TikTok profile API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-tiktok-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://www.shortsintel.com/v1/creators/{platform}/{handle}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/reference/creators/get-creator?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: ShortsIntel (https://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 91%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Contact: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Likes: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Research a niche · Refresh a research's videos · Run a Creator Breakdown · Search videos by keyword · Look up a video by URL · Look up a video by id · Analyse a video · Score a video against its creator · Read a video's comments · Read a comment's replies · Page a creator's stored videos · Look up a hashtag's trend · Page a hashtag's videos · Look up a sound's trend · Page a sound's videos · Sample a keyword search · Search ad libraries · Look up a Meta Ad by id · Get a TikTok Ad · Look up an advertiser profile · Start tracking a target · Run a tracker cycle now · Set or clear a tracker's focus · Preview a focus on a tracker

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: ShortsIntel reads public TikTok data and returns it as JSON over one REST API at /v1.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Derived works are permitted. You may analyse, transform, combine and build on the API output, and you may distribute and commercialise the results [...] Reselling the raw data is not permitted. You may not: resell, sublicense, redistribute or otherwise make available the raw records or bulk API output as a data product, feed, export or dataset, whether for a fee or free of charge, republish raw records in bulk, or mirror, replicate or reconstruct the ShortsIntel corpus or any substantial part of it, including by systematic enumeration of the API, use the API or its output to build, train or operate a substitute for the Service, or a competing short-form video data service, use the output to identify, target, profile, score or make decisions about individual people, including creators and commenters, or to enable anyone else to do so, remove, obscure or misrepresent the provenance of data obtained through the Service where you are permitted to display it. Upstream restrictions pass through. [...] Where those providers or platforms impose restrictions on the use, retention or redistribution of that data, those restrictions apply to you as well

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: about 166 calls, once
- Expires: 90 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: platform "tiktok", handle. Optional: include, videos_from, cursor, wait, max_credits, estimate
- Method: GET
- Path: /creators/{platform}/{handle}

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter Grant
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up

## The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, user ID, username, name, profile picture, followers, bio, verified, videos count, likes count, following, bio link, account created, country, business account, category, views count, contact emails, contact email source, median views, average engagement rate, posting cadence, p90 views, baseline confidence, baseline sample size

## ShortsIntel's plans (5)

- [ShortsIntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, 24 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/10-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, 24 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/20-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, 24 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/50-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, 24 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/100-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, 24 hours

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

- `GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}`: [ShortsIntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel's APIs (11)

- [ShortsIntel: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel: TikTok profile API alternatives

- [CreatorCrawl, $29 pack](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/creatorcrawl/29-pack/llms.txt): $5.80 per 1,000, 91% complete, live
- [KeyAPI, $59 monthly, Basic, GET /v1/tiktok/influencer/detail](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/keyapi/59-monthly-basic-get-v1-tiktok-influencer-detail/llms.txt): $5.90 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-post-v1-batch/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Anysite, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/anysite/200-monthly/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 73% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/authentication-and-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/pricing-and-estimates?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/openapi.v1.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/tiktok-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-profile-api-pricing