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API Direct pricing and alternatives: X profile API, GET /v1/twitter/user

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73% complete: 8 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 321 plans by price. TweetAPI's $417 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00083.TwexAPI, TweetAPI and lobstr.io are the best X (Twitter) profile API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free tier one of API Direct's 2 plans
Call: GET /v1/twitter/user one of API Direct's 2 calls for this API
API: X profile API one of API Direct's 30 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from X when you call the API.
  • 8 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 requests a month. Requests are reset on the 1st of each month.
  • One call. You send username to GET /v1/twitter/user. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: at least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

API Direct: X profile API alternatives

The table starts with API Direct's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to API Direct's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, GET /v1/twitter/userPiloterr, $49 monthlyCaptapi, $275 packKeyAPI, $59 monthlySocialKit, $49 pack
$ per 1,000 profiles$6.00$5.444$5.50$5.90$6.533
Completeness73%64%91%64%73%
Billingpay as you gomonthlypay firstmonthlypay first
Payat a threshold$49$275$59$49
Enough foras many as you pay for9,000 calls a month50,000 calls10,000 calls a month7,500 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itat least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Termsprofessional use only: the service is offered for professional use, to a person 18 or over and able to contract who orders it for a trade, business, craft, or professionanyone at least 18 years oldanyoneanyone

Every X (Twitter) profile API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. apidirect.io/docs/batch
  2. apidirect.io/docs/pricing
  3. apidirect.io/docs/rate-limits
  4. apidirect.io/docs/twitter-user
  5. apidirect.io/dpa
  6. apidirect.io/endpoints
  7. apidirect.io/endpoints/linkedin-person
  8. apidirect.io/openapi.json
  9. apidirect.io/terms

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
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts
  • Likes
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays for142 other calls: 50 requests a month each, 20 for Places Search, Place Reviews and Place Photos
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet detailed profile information for a Twitter/X user by username. Returns account details, follower/following counts, bio, verification status, and account metadata.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable laws, regulations, or third-party rights, Infringe upon intellectual property rights of others, Engage in any activity that could damage, disable, or impair the Service, Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Service, Use the Service for any illegal, harmful, or fraudulent purposes, Circumvent or attempt to circumvent any rate limits, usage limits, or security measures, Use automated means to create accounts or generate API keys, Harass, abuse, or harm individuals using data obtained through the Service, Scrape our Service [...] You acknowledge that: [...] You are responsible for complying with the terms of service of the underlying platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, etc.) when using data obtained through our Service [...] You agree that: You have a lawful basis for requesting, receiving, and using the data you obtain through the Service [...] You will comply with applicable data protection law, including providing any notices and honouring any rights owed to individuals by you as controller [...] You will not use the Service to identify or target individuals on the basis of special categories of personal data
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 requests a month
Enough for50 calls a month
Expiresreset on the 1st of each month
Rate limit
Per second1.39
Concurrent10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendusername
MethodGET
Path/v1/twitter/user
About the plan
PlanFree tier
Who can get itat least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, bio, profile URL, followers, following, posts count, likes count, listed count, media count, verified, protected, profile picture, banner image, account created, pinned post IDs, account based in, username changes

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