# cheapxapi, free, Sign-up credit, GET /twitter/user/info: X profile API

> Look up an account before working with it: follower and following counts, bio, location, website, verification and when it joined.

cheapxapi's Sign-up credit plan for the X profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. cheapxapi's docs list 9: Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
We haven't run cheapxapi through [our X profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 756 plans for X profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 or less per 1,000 profiles. [164 X profile API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt) [CarryFeed's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/carryfeed/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 60.5 out of 100.
[TwittrAPI's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-500-scale-get-user-users-by-ids/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.00016. [twit.sh's MPP plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twit-sh/pay-as-you-go-mpp-get-users/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 profiles a month: $2.00.
[Socialinsider's $199 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/socialinsider/199-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of profiles, and costs less up front than TwittrAPI's top-up from $500.
[lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt), [TwittrAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-20-standard-get-user-by-username-username/llms.txt) and [ScrapeAtlas](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapeatlas/249-pack/llms.txt) are the best X (Twitter) profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/cheapxapi/free-sign-up-credit-get-twitter-user-info
- [X (Twitter) profile API in 2026: the best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://cheapxapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.cheapxapi.com/twitter/user/info`
- API key: with the plan, on https://cheapxapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://cheapxapi.com/docs/user-info?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: cheapxapi (https://cheapxapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 82%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Likes: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 53 other cheapxapi calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Look up an account before working with it: follower and following counts, bio, location, website, verification and when it joined.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use cheapxapi, or data obtained through it, to: harass, stalk, threaten, dox or intimidate any person, single out people based on sensitive characteristics such as health, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or political views, run spam, fake engagement or coordinated manipulation campaigns, act through X accounts you are not authorized to control, try to obtain non-public data, get around our access controls or rate limits, or use someone else’s API key, disrupt, overload, probe or reverse-engineer our systems, break any law, or infringe anyone else’s rights.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $1
- Enough for: about 1,666 calls
- Expires: 60 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: userName
- Method: GET
- Path: /twitter/user/info

## About the plan

- Plan: Sign-up credit
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over who can enter a binding contract, outside the countries and regions under comprehensive sanctions its terms list

## The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, name, username, profile URL, blue verified, protected, verified type, profile picture, banner image, bio, location, followers, following, can DM, account created, likes count, has custom timelines, is translator, media count, posts count, withheld in countries, affiliation, possibly sensitive, pinned post IDs, is automated, automated by, unavailable, unavailable reason, unavailable message, bio entities, bio links, website, status, type

## cheapxapi's plans (2)

- [cheapxapi, free, Sign-up credit, GET /twitter/user/info](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/cheapxapi/free-sign-up-credit-get-twitter-user-info/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [cheapxapi, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /twitter/user/info](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/cheapxapi/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-twitter-user-info/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 82% complete, live

## cheapxapi's calls for this API (3)

- `GET /twitter/user_about`: [cheapxapi, free, Sign-up credit, GET /twitter/user_about](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/cheapxapi/free-sign-up-credit-get-twitter-user-about/llms.txt)
- `GET /twitter/user/info`: [cheapxapi, free, Sign-up credit, GET /twitter/user/info](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/cheapxapi/free-sign-up-credit-get-twitter-user-info/llms.txt)
- `GET /twitter/user/batch_info_by_ids`: [cheapxapi, free, Sign-up credit, GET /twitter/user/batch_info_by_ids](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/cheapxapi/free-sign-up-credit-get-twitter-user-batch-info-by-ids/llms.txt)

## cheapxapi's APIs (2)

- [cheapxapi X profile API pricing, 2 plans, GET /twitter/user/info](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/cheapxapi/free-sign-up-credit-get-twitter-user-info/llms.txt)
- [cheapxapi X post API pricing, 2 plans, GET /twitter/user/last_tweets](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/cheapxapi/free-sign-up-credit-get-twitter-user-last-tweets/llms.txt)
- [cheapxapi X post API pricing, 2 plans, GET /twitter/user/tweet_timeline](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/cheapxapi/free-sign-up-credit-get-twitter-user-tweet-timeline/llms.txt)

## cheapxapi: X profile API alternatives

[cheapxapi alternatives: other X profile API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/cheapxapi-alternatives.txt)

We list cheapxapi's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to cheapxapi in price per 1,000 profiles. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [cheapxapi, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /twitter/user/info](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/cheapxapi/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-twitter-user-info/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [Weir, $5 pack, 25,000 credits, GET /v1/x/users/{user}](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/weir/5-pack-25000-credits-get-v1-x-users-user/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/pullbay/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [GetXAPI, $99 monthly, Scale, GET /twitter/user/info](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/getxapi/99-monthly-scale-get-twitter-user-info/llms.txt): $0.66 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $200 monthly, Enterprise monthly, POST /twitter/v1/profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/reefapi/200-monthly-enterprise-monthly-post-twitter-v1-profile/llms.txt): $0.667 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 2026-11-10.

- https://cheapxapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://cheapxapi.com/compare?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://cheapxapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://cheapxapi.com/docs/user-info?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://cheapxapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://cheapxapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://cheapxapi.com/refunds?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://cheapxapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing