Refetcher pricing and alternatives: X profile API

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73% complete: 8 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields

$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 321 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 trial one of Refetcher's 4 plans

Call: POST / Refetcher's only call for this API

POST /Free$0.00 per 1,000

API: X profile API one of Refetcher's 11 APIs

About this item

Live. You get the profile from X when you call the API.
8 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
Nothing to pay. You get $2.70 of credit, enough for 3,000 calls. Calls stop once your credit runs out.
One call. You call POST /. You send one of username, profileUrl, usernames or profileUrls. You set platform to "x". The call returns a profile for each account you send.
Who can get it: anyone, or acting for an organization they have the authority to bind. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Refetcher: X profile API alternatives

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

	Refetcher, top-up from $500	lobstr.io, $960 yearly	Omkar Cloud, $16 monthly	FetchLayer, $400 monthly, Dedicated platform, POST /twitter/user-profile-details	GetXAPI, $49 monthly, Growth, GET /twitter/user/info_by_id
$ per 1,000 profiles	$0.818	$0.80	$0.80	$0.80	$0.817
Completeness	73%	82%	82%	73%	82%
Billing	pay first	yearly	monthly	monthly	monthly
Pay	$500	$960	$16	$400	$49
Enough for	about 611,111 calls	100,000 results a month	20,000 calls a month	500,000 calls a month	60,000 calls a month
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone, or acting for an organization they have the authority to bind	professionals, not consumers	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 at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)	anyone

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 2026-10-31.

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, not in the answer
Verified
Followers
Following
Posts
Likes
Views, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 profiles	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Instagram Post/Reel · Instagram Profile · Instagram Comments · TikTok Video/Carousel · TikTok Profile · TikTok Comments & Replies · Facebook Post/Reel · Facebook Profile · X Post · YouTube Video · YouTube Channel · YouTube Comments & Replies

Overage
Units cap	hard

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Followers, following, post count and bio for any public account

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	no limit
Use data	Subject to your full compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and query the Refetch(er) scraper API solely to retrieve public, unmodified post metrics for your applications. [...] Third-Party Compliance: You acknowledge that web scraping may violate the terms of service of third-party platforms. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use of this API complies with the laws and terms of the platforms you target. [...] You agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to: Use the API to scrape, access, or extract non-public, private, or restricted social media contents (such as posts from private accounts or direct messages). [...] Query the Service in any manner that executes denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, attempts to overload our dispatcher system, or otherwise degrades Service performance for other customers. [...] Bypass, disable, or circumvent any security-related features, authentication hashes, or usage boundaries enforced on your API keys or control panel dashboard. [...] Use the Service to build a competing real-time social media scraping API product or database mirror. [...] Incorporate the Service into any applications that facilitate harassment, spam, copyright infringement, or illegal surveillance. [...] Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to discover the source code, object code, or underlying structure, ideas, or algorithms of the Service or its scraping dispatchers.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	$2.70
Enough for	3,000 calls

Rate limit
Concurrent	no limit
Batch	10

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	one of username, profileUrl, usernames or profileUrls, platform "x"
Method	POST
Path	/

About the plan
Plan	Free trial
Who can get it	anyone, or acting for an organization they have the authority to bind

The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, platform, profile URL, fetched at, request ID, user ID, username, name, bio, followers, following, posts count, media count, likes count, private account, verified, website, profile picture, pinned post ID