# Twitch, free: Twitch profile API

> The Twitch API provides the tools and data used to develop Twitch integrations. The data models and systems are designed to provide relevant data in an easy, consistent, and reliable way.

Twitch's Twitch 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, Status.
Twitch limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
Half of the 104 plans we rank by price cost $2.43 per 1,000 profiles or less. This plan has the lowest price per 1,000 profiles of the 104 plans.
[ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/reefapi/200-monthly/llms.txt), [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/scrapecreators/497-pack/llms.txt) and [SociaVault](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/sociavault/399-pack/llms.txt) are the best Twitch profile API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/twitch/free
- [Best Twitch profile API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-twitch-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitch-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitch-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitch-profile-api-pricing#get-users
- Sold by: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitch-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Twitch API provides the tools and data used to develop Twitch integrations. The data models and systems are designed to provide relevant data in an easy, consistent, and reliable way.

## Data

- Keep data: 24 hours
- Use data: Developer Agreement, Schedule 1 C: "Do not store copies of Twitch Content or Program Materials, unless you: (a) obtain prior written authorization from Twitch (through these terms or otherwise), (b) control the rights associated with such content, or (c) cache such information for only a twenty-four hour time period without further sharing it with third parties. Re-syndication and re-distribution of Program Materials or data as available from a Twitch API is prohibited." Schedule 1 B: "The following activities are prohibited, absent a separate agreement with Twitch: Using data collected from the Twitch APIs to target end users with marketing material or commercial offers available off the Twitch Services. Creating demographic clusters for the purpose of contacting or targeting Twitch's end users on or off the Twitch Services. Transferring profile content or end user data to any advertising network, data broker, or other advertising or monetization-related service. [...] Selling, licensing, or otherwise distributing any metadata or social content, or authorizing access to any metadata or social content, directly or indirectly (e.g., through multiple tiers of distribution), to anybody [...]. Serving as a marketplace for third-party services or products using the Twitch APIs. Twitch will consider authorizing you to use the Twitch APIs to engage in the following activities only after entering into a separate agreement and running through an approval process: Marketing - services used by marketers, promoters, or their customers for marketing campaigns, campaign analysis, or anything similar. Research - educational and non-commercial projects that examine trends over specific time periods." Section II B 2 i: "Use and reproduce the Program Materials solely to develop, test, promote, measure, support, and operate Your Services."

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 100

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: login or id
- Method: GET
- Path: /helix/users

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at the legal age of majority where they live and able to form a legally binding contract, with a registered app (the Developer Agreement's "Developer Representation and Warranties")

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

user ID, username, name, user type, Twitch partner, Twitch affiliate, bio, profile picture, offline image, account created

## Twitch's plans (1)

- [Twitch, free](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/twitch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 80% complete

## Twitch's calls (1)

- `GET /helix/users`: [Twitch, free](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/twitch/free/llms.txt)

## Twitch's APIs (1)

- [Twitch: Twitch profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/twitch/free/llms.txt)

## Twitch: Twitch profile API alternatives

- [ReefAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/reefapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeCreators, free](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/scrapecreators/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SociaVault, free](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/sociavault/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ZenRows, free (agent storefront)](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/zenrows/free-agent-storefront/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 60% 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 2026-11-02.

- https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitch-profile-api-pricing
- https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/guide/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitch-profile-api-pricing
- https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitch-profile-api-pricing
- https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitch-profile-api-pricing#get-users
- https://legal.twitch.com/legal/developer-agreement/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitch-profile-api-pricing