# TikAPI, free: TikTok profile API

> Get profile information and statistics from a username.

TikAPI's TikTok profile API on its "Starter free trial, 5 days" plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 7 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
We rank 157 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.15.
[Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt) and [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/scrapecreators/497-pack/llms.txt) are the best TikTok profile API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/free
- [Best TikTok profile API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-tiktok-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://tikapi.io/#pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.tikapi.io/public/check`
- API key: with the plan, on https://tikapi.io/#pricing
- Its API docs: https://tikapi.io/documentation/#tag/Public/operation/public.check
- Sold by: TikAPI (https://tikapi.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 64%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Likes: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 49 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get profile information and statistics from a username.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may not: - use our service to create fake audience, such as "auto-follow", "auto-like" bots or any derivatives - any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other prohibited form of solicitation - authenticate fake accounts or without the owner consent [...] we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, without territorial restriction (i.e. worldwide license) and revocable license to use our Products. Should you breach these Terms in any way or had you breached them in the past, we may reject or disable your license provision and use of the services.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 300 requests a day
- Enough for: 300 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 300
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: username, country
- Method: GET
- Path: /public/check

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter free trial, 5 days
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 38 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, message, response code, request ID, server time, share title, share description, username, name, user ID, secondary user ID, profile picture, profile picture sizes, large profile picture, bio, verified, private account, TikTok Shop seller, commerce user, virtual ad account, embed banned, story status, under 18, open favorites, can expand playlist, profile embed permission, following visibility, comment setting, duet setting, stitch setting, download setting, profile tabs, followers, following, likes count, videos count, friends count, digg count

## TikAPI's plans (11)

- [TikAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [TikAPI, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/29-monthly/llms.txt): $3.222 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [TikAPI, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/79-monthly/llms.txt): $1.317 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [TikAPI, $189 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/189-monthly/llms.txt): $0.63 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [TikAPI, $80 quarterly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/80-quarterly/llms.txt): $2.93 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [TikAPI, $230 quarterly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/230-quarterly/llms.txt): $1.264 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [TikAPI, $560 quarterly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/560-quarterly/llms.txt): $0.615 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [TikAPI, $290 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/290-yearly/llms.txt): $2.648 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [TikAPI, $790 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/790-yearly/llms.txt): $1.082 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [TikAPI, $1,890 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/1890-yearly/llms.txt): $0.518 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [TikAPI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/contact-us/llms.txt): 64% complete, live

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

- `GET /public/check`: [TikAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/free/llms.txt)

## TikAPI's APIs (2)

- [TikAPI: TikTok profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/tikapi/free/llms.txt)
- [TikAPI: TikTok video API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/tikapi/free/llms.txt)

## TikAPI: TikTok profile API alternatives

- [lobstr.io, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/lobstr-io/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [HasData, $2,490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/hasdata/2490-yearly/llms.txt): $0.692 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [EnsembleData, $1,400 monthly, Platinum, GET /tt/user/info-from-secuid](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/ensembledata/1400-monthly-platinum-get-tt-user-info-from-secuid/llms.txt): $0.933 per 1,000, 82% 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 2026-10-30.

- https://helpdesk.tikapi.io/portal/en/kb/articles/when-does-api-rate-limit-reset
- https://tikapi.io/#pricing
- https://tikapi.io/documentation/
- https://www.tikapi.io/
- https://www.tikapi.io/terms