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KeyAPI pricing and alternatives: X profile API

KeyAPI's sitellms.txtBest X (Twitter) profile API in 2026: pricing compared

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64% complete: 7 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 288 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 one of KeyAPI's 5 plans
Call: GET /v1/twitter/screenname KeyAPI's only call for this API
API: X profile API one of KeyAPI's 22 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from X when you call the API.
  • 7 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits once, enough for 50 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 3 days.
  • One call. You send screenname to GET /v1/twitter/screenname. You can also send rest_id. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: with conditions.

KeyAPI: X profile API alternatives

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

KeyAPI, $439 monthlySocial Fetch, $59 pack, Growth, GET /v1/twitter/profiles/{handle}EnsembleData, $400 monthlySorsa, $74,990 yearly, Scale (yearly), GET /infoSociaVault, $199 pack
$ per 1,000 profiles$2.439$2.36$2.424$2.50$2.653
Completeness64%82%82%82%73%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlyyearlypay first
Pay$439$59$400$74,990$199
Enough for180,000 calls a month25,000 calls5,500 calls a day2,500,000 calls a month75,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyoneanyone, except from or on behalf of persons or entities located in countries or regions subject to applicable sanctions or embargoesanyone

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 2026-10-30.

  1. docs.keyapi.ai/en/twitter.openapi.json
  2. docs.keyapi.ai/llms.txt
  3. keyapi.ai
  4. keyapi.ai/apis/linkedin
  5. keyapi.ai/apis/twitter
  6. keyapi.ai/privacy-policy

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, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchQuery a Twitter / X public user profile by screenname or rest_id. Useful for account profiling, user verification, and basic profile enrichment.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano API terms
Use dataYour use of data retrieved through KeyAPI remains subject to the terms and privacy policies of the respective platforms.
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits
Enough for50 calls, once
Expires3 days
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendscreenname. Optional: rest_id
MethodGET
Path/v1/twitter/screenname
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, status, user ID, username, name, bio, location, profile picture, banner image, followers, following, posts count, media count, account created, protected, blue verified, verified type, affiliation, business account, pinned post IDs

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