LurkAPI pricing: X profile API
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82% complete: 9 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run LurkAPI through our X profile API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 501 plans for X profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 profiles or less.TwittrAPI's top-up from $500 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00016.lobstr.io, TweetAPI and TwexAPI are the best X (Twitter) profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free credits one of LurkAPI's 4 plans
- FreeFree credits$0.00 per 1,000
- $9 packStarter$0.90 per 1,000
- $59 packGrowth$0.59 per 1,000
- $225 packScale$0.45 per 1,000
Call:
GET / LurkAPI's only call for this APIAPI: X profile API one of LurkAPI's 37 APIs
- Bluesky post API
- Bluesky profile API
- eBay product API
- eBay search API
- Facebook Ad Library API
- Facebook page API
- Facebook post API
- Google Ads Transparency API
- Search autocomplete API
- Local business reviews API
- Local business search API
- News API
- Instagram post API
- Instagram profile API
- LinkedIn company post API
- LinkedIn company data API
- LinkedIn profile API
- LinkedIn job details API
- LinkedIn job search API
- LinkedIn Ad Library API
- Snapchat profile API
- Telegram channel API
- Telegram channel post API
- Threads post API
- Threads profile API
- TikTok Ad Library API
- TikTok profile API
- TikTok video API
- TikTok Shop product API
- Truth Social post API
- Truth Social profile API
- X post API
- X profile API
- Video search API
- YouTube channel API
- YouTube channel video API
- Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ residential - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ fetch - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ render - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ render-residential - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ unblock
About this item
- A copy at most 1 hour old. You get profiles from LurkAPI's copy of X.
- 9 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 100 calls.
- One call. You send
handletoGET /. The call returns the account's profile.v1/ twitter/ profile - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
LurkAPI: X profile API alternatives
LurkAPI alternatives: every X profile API provider ranked
The table starts with LurkAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to LurkAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.
| LurkAPI, $225 pack | lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly | DataXAPI, top-up from $50 | Omkar Cloud, $48 monthly | ReefAPI, $450 quarterly, Enterprise quarterly, POST /twitter/v1/profile | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 profiles | $0.45 | $0.40 | $0.40 | $0.48 | $0.50 |
| Completeness | 82% | 82% | 55% | 82% | 82% |
| Billing | pay first | yearly | pay first | monthly | quarterly |
| Pay | $225 | $4,800 | $50 | $48 | $450 |
| Enough for | 500,000 calls | 1,000,000 results a month | 125,000 calls | 100,000 calls a month | 300,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | 1 hour | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | professionals, not consumers | developers and business users with the legal capacity their use requires | anyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted parties | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Bio
- Photo
- Links
- Contact, not in the answer
- Location
- Verified
- Followers
- Following
- Posts
- Likes
- Views, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 profiles | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 87 other calls |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | An account's bio, avatar, verification and exact follower, following, tweet and like counts. |
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| Freshness | 1 hour |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Fair use: Don't try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service. Don't share or resell your API keys. Building your own products on top of LurkAPI is fine. Don't use LurkAPI to harass people or for anything illegal. [...] LurkAPI returns publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it, including the privacy and data protection laws that apply to you. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 100 calls |
| Per second | 5 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | handle |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/twitter/profile |
| Plan | Free credits |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone |
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold
user ID, username, name, bio, location, website, profile picture, banner image, verified, verified type, account created, followers, following, posts count, media count, likes count, pinned post IDs, protected, professional type