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FetchLayer pricing and alternatives: X profile API, POST /twitter/about-profile

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73% complete: 8 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 237 plans by price. TweetAPI's $417 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00083.
Plan: Free one of FetchLayer's 10 plans
Call: POST /twitter/about-profile one of FetchLayer's 2 calls for this API
API: X profile API one of FetchLayer's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from X when you call.
  • 8 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 30 credits, enough for 30 calls.
  • One call. You send handle to POST /twitter/about-profile. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

FetchLayer: X profile API alternatives

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

FetchLayer, $1,400 monthly, Dedicated platform with 2 blocks, POST /twitter/about-profileTweetAPI, $50 pack, Pay as you go, GET /tw-v2/user/by-usernamesTwitterAPI.io, $20 pack, $20 recharge, GET /twitter/user/batch_info_by_idsSorsa, $74,990 yearly, Scale (yearly), GET /info-batchSocial Fetch, $2,430 yearly, Scale, GET /v1/twitter/profiles
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.013$0.005$0.01$0.013$0.027
Completeness73%82%82%82%82%
Billingmonthlypay firstpay firstyearlyyearly
Pay$1,400$50$20$74,990$2,430
Enough for108,864,000 calls a month10,000,000 results2,000,000 results500,000,000 results a month7,500,000 results a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyone at least 18 and able to enter a binding contractanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into binding contractsanyone, except from or on behalf of persons or entities located in countries or regions subject to applicable sanctions or embargoesanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it

X (Twitter) profile API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. fetchlayer.dev/
  2. fetchlayer.dev/acceptable-use
  3. fetchlayer.dev/documentation/twitter/endpoints/about-profile
  4. fetchlayer.dev/llms.txt
  5. fetchlayer.dev/pricing
  6. fetchlayer.dev/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 forfrom the same budget: 223 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRetrieve extended profile context for a Twitter account including professional category, and any linked entities.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataIts Acceptable Use Policy: "You Must Not Use FetchLayer To" violate any law, regulation, court order, or third-party right, collect or process personal data in a way that is unlawful, unfair, deceptive, or disproportionate, stalk, harass, threaten, dox, profile, or otherwise target individuals for harmful purposes, build or support unlawful surveillance, unlawful monitoring, or harmful intelligence gathering about private individuals, make or support decisions about housing, employment, credit, insurance, education, healthcare, public benefits, or similar regulated outcomes without an appropriate legal basis and all required safeguards, scrape or analyze data about minors, health, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, political opinions, or other sensitive categories without a lawful basis and appropriate protections, bypass authentication, paywalls, robots controls, rate limits, or technical access controls that are not intended for public access, republish, syndicate, mirror, or redistribute verbatim copyrighted third-party content (such as full Reddit posts or comments) to end consumers without appropriate rights, use scraped content to create a competing product that substitutes for the original source platform, use the service to distribute malware, spam, credential theft, or phishing content, attempt to reverse engineer, break, overload, or interfere with the service or its infrastructure, train machine learning or AI models on content obtained through FetchLayer without independently verifying that you have appropriate rights or a valid legal basis to do so, resell, sublicense, or operate a competing extraction service on top of FetchLayer unless we have expressly allowed it in writing. Its terms: "It is not permitted to republish, syndicate, or redistribute the original creative expression of third-party content without appropriate rights. You must not use FetchLayer to create a competing publication or mirror of the source platform's content."
Plan
Pay$0
You get30 credits
Enough for30 calls
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendhandle
MethodPOST
Path/twitter/about-profile
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)
The 29 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, name, username, bio, location, followers, following, posts count, media count, verified, profile picture, banner image, account created, likes count, listed count, fast followers count, normal followers count, creator subscriptions, pinned post IDs, affiliation, blue verified, identity verified, verification reason, account based in, location accurate, account source, username changes, username last changed, learn more URL

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