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ReefAPI pricing and alternatives: X profile API, POST /twitter/v1/profile

ReefAPI's sitellms.txtBest X (Twitter) profile API in 2026

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82% complete: 9 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 257 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 ReefAPI's 11 plans
Call: POST /twitter/v1/profile one of ReefAPI's 2 calls for this API
API: X profile API one of ReefAPI's 25 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from X when you call the API.
  • 9 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send username to POST /twitter/v1/profile. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ReefAPI: X profile API alternatives

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

ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /twitter/v1/profileSocial Fetch, $14 pack, Starter, GET /v1/twitter/profilesScrapeBadger, top-up from $10, PAYG, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_usernameTweetAPI, $17 monthly, Pro, GET /tw-v2/user/by-idlobstr.io, $4,800 yearly
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.333$0.28$0.30$0.34$0.40
Completeness82%82%82%82%82%
Billingyearlypay firstpay firstmonthlyyearly
Pay$1,200$14$10$17$4,800
Enough for300,000 calls a month50,000 resultsas many as you pay for50,000 calls a month1,000,000 results a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 and able to enter a binding contractprofessionals, not consumers

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 2026-10-29.

  1. reefapi.com
  2. reefapi.com/_next/static/chunks/app/pricing/page-560e08c02e869119.js
  3. reefapi.com/docs
  4. reefapi.com/docs/twitter
  5. reefapi.com/docs/twitter.md
  6. reefapi.com/pricing
  7. reefapi.com/refunds
  8. reefapi.com/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
  • 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: 584 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchUser profile by @username — name, bio, followers, following, tweet/like counts, verified, created date, location, website, avatar/banner.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou are solely responsible for how you use the data you retrieve and for ensuring your use complies with all applicable laws, third-party terms, and the rights of others (including data-protection, intellectual-property, and anti-spam laws) in your jurisdiction and your users'. You will not use the Service to break the law, infringe rights, send spam, or build a competing bulk-redistribution product. [...] Don't attempt to circumvent authentication, rate limits, or credit metering, don't probe, scan, or stress the Service except your own account within posted limits. [...] Where a source requires attribution, we surface it in the response meta, honor it.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendusername
MethodPOST
Path/twitter/v1/profile
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, name, username, bio, followers, following, posts count, likes count, media count, verified, account created, location, website, profile picture, banner image, pinned post IDs, profile URL

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