# Peekalink, free: X profile API

> An X_USER link type represents a user profile from X (formerly known as Twitter). Beyond the basic preview attributes (title, description, image), X_USER links provide enriched metadata about the user’s profile, social graph, and other account details.

Peekalink's Free plan for the X profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Peekalink's docs list 8: Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
We haven't run Peekalink through [our X profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 636 plans for X profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 or less per 1,000 profiles. [See the best free X profile API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt)
[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.
[lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt), [xfetch](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/xfetch/49-monthly-growth-monthly-get-v1-users-by-username-username/llms.txt) and [TweetAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/57-monthly-ultra-get-tw-v2-user-by-username/llms.txt) are the best X (Twitter) profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/peekalink/free
- [X (Twitter) profile API: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.peekalink.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.peekalink.io/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.peekalink.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.peekalink.io/api-reference/link-preview/get-a-link-preview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: Peekalink (https://peekalink.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 73%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: An X_USER link type represents a user profile from X (formerly known as Twitter). Beyond the basic preview attributes (title, description, image), X_USER links provide enriched metadata about the user’s profile, social graph, and other account details.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Permissible Use: You agree not to use the Service for unlawful purposes or in ways that violate others' rights. You will not submit or request previews of links that contain malicious content, violate intellectual property rights, or violate any local, state, national, or international law.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 36,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 36,000 calls a month
- Expires: hourly: "new requests will be temporarily blocked until the next hour begins"

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.014
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: link. Optional: accept-language, source, forceNewSnapshot, forceNewSnapshotRecursive
- Method: POST
- Path: /

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old ("You must be at least 18 years old to use Peekalink")

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, bio, verified, followers, following, posts count, website, location, account created, protected account, possibly sensitive, profile picture, banner image

## Peekalink's plans (7)

- [Peekalink, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/peekalink/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Peekalink, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/peekalink/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.136 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Peekalink, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/peekalink/149-monthly/llms.txt): $0.103 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Peekalink, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/peekalink/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.069 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Peekalink, $504 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/peekalink/504-yearly/llms.txt): $0.117 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Peekalink, $1,248 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/peekalink/1248-yearly/llms.txt): $0.072 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Peekalink, $4,188 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/peekalink/4188-yearly/llms.txt): $0.049 per 1,000, 73% complete

## Peekalink's calls (1)

- `POST /`: [Peekalink, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/peekalink/free/llms.txt)

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## Peekalink: X profile API alternatives

- [Casii, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/casii/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Social Fetch, $59 pack, Growth, GET /v1/twitter/profiles](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/social-fetch/59-pack-growth-get-v1-twitter-profiles/llms.txt): $0.047 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [Sorsa, $49 monthly, Starter, GET /info-batch](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/sorsa/49-monthly-starter-get-info-batch/llms.txt): $0.049 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [TwexAPI, $199 pack, Plus, POST /twitter/users/by_ids](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twexapi/199-pack-plus-post-twitter-users-by-ids/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $2,990 yearly, Pro, GET /v1/twitter/users/batch_by_ids](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/2990-yearly-pro-get-v1-twitter-users-batch-by-ids/llms.txt): $0.05 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 2026-11-08.

- https://api.peekalink.io/mintlify?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/api-reference/link-preview/get-a-link-preview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/in-depth/error-handling?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/supported-link-types/x-user?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://peekalink.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.peekalink.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing