# FetchLayer, free, POST /twitter/about-profile: X profile API

> Retrieve extended profile context for a Twitter account including professional category, and any linked entities.

FetchLayer's X profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 8 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
We rank 237 plans by price. [TweetAPI's $417 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/417-monthly-giga-get-tw-v2-user-by-ids/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00083.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-about-profile
- Get it: https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.fetchlayer.dev/twitter/about-profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/twitter/endpoints/about-profile
- Sold by: FetchLayer (https://fetchlayer.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 73%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- 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: 223 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve extended profile context for a Twitter account including professional category, and any linked entities.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Its 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 get: 30 credits
- Enough for: 30 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle
- Method: POST
- Path: /twitter/about-profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## FetchLayer's plans (10)

- [FetchLayer, free, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt): $1.99 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $25 monthly, Starter, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/25-monthly-starter-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $50 monthly, Builder, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/50-monthly-builder-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt): $1.429 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $100 monthly, Pro, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/100-monthly-pro-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $250 monthly, Team, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/250-monthly-team-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $400 monthly, Dedicated platform, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/400-monthly-dedicated-platform-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $500 monthly, Business, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly-business-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $900 monthly, Dedicated platform with 1 block, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/900-monthly-dedicated-platform-with-1-block-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $1,400 monthly, Dedicated platform with 2 blocks, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/1400-monthly-dedicated-platform-with-2-blocks-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 73% complete, live

## FetchLayer's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /twitter/about-profile`: [FetchLayer, free, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt)
- `POST /twitter/user-profile-details`: [FetchLayer, free, POST /twitter/user-profile-details](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-user-profile-details/llms.txt)

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- [FetchLayer: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, POST /bing/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-bing-search/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, POST /duckduckgo/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-duckduckgo-search/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Instagram post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Instagram profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Reddit post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Reddit profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: TikTok profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: TikTok video API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: YouTube channel API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt)

## FetchLayer: X profile API alternatives

- [TweetAPI, $50 pack, Pay as you go, GET /tw-v2/user/by-usernames](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/50-pack-pay-as-you-go-get-tw-v2-user-by-usernames/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [TwitterAPI.io, $20 pack, $20 recharge, GET /twitter/user/batch_info_by_ids](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twitterapi-io/20-pack-20-recharge-get-twitter-user-batch-info-by-ids/llms.txt): $0.01 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [Sorsa, $74,990 yearly, Scale (yearly), GET /info-batch](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/sorsa/74990-yearly-scale-yearly-get-info-batch/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, $2,430 yearly, Scale, GET /v1/twitter/profiles](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/social-fetch/2430-yearly-scale-get-v1-twitter-profiles/llms.txt): $0.027 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 2026-10-29.

- https://fetchlayer.dev/
- https://fetchlayer.dev/acceptable-use
- https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/twitter/endpoints/about-profile
- https://fetchlayer.dev/llms.txt
- https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- https://fetchlayer.dev/terms