# Refetcher, free: X profile API

> Followers, following, post count and bio for any public account

Refetcher's X profile API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 8 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
We rank 328 plans by price. [TweetAPI's $417 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/417-monthly-giga-get-tw-v2-user-by-ids/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00083.
[TwexAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twexapi/20-pack-mini-post-twitter-users/llms.txt), [TweetAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/417-monthly-giga-get-tw-v2-user-by-username/llms.txt) and [lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt) are the best X (Twitter) profile API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/refetcher/free
- [Best X (Twitter) profile API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.refetcher.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.refetcher.com/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.refetcher.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.refetcher.com/docs
- Sold by: Refetcher (https://www.refetcher.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

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

## 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

## Refetcher's plans (4)

- [Refetcher, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Refetcher, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/refetcher/top-up/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Refetcher, top-up from $200](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/refetcher/top-up-from-200/llms.txt): $0.857 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Refetcher, top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/refetcher/top-up-from-500/llms.txt): $0.818 per 1,000, 73% complete, live

## Refetcher's calls for this API (1)

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

## Refetcher's APIs (11)

- [Refetcher: Facebook page API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: Facebook post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: Instagram post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: Instagram profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: TikTok profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: TikTok video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: X post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: X profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: YouTube channel API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: YouTube channel video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: people enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people-detail](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/refetcher/contact-us-access-on-request-post-people-detail/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: people enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people-search](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/refetcher/contact-us-access-on-request-post-people-search/llms.txt)

## Refetcher: X profile API alternatives

- [lobstr.io, $960 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/lobstr-io/960-yearly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [Omkar Cloud, $16 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/omkar-cloud/16-monthly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $400 monthly, Dedicated platform, POST /twitter/user-profile-details](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/400-monthly-dedicated-platform-post-twitter-user-profile-details/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [GetXAPI, $49 monthly, Growth, GET /twitter/user/info_by_id](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/getxapi/49-monthly-growth-get-twitter-user-info-by-id/llms.txt): $0.817 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 2026-10-31.

- https://www.refetcher.com
- https://www.refetcher.com/docs
- https://www.refetcher.com/llms.txt
- https://www.refetcher.com/pricing
- https://www.refetcher.com/terms
- https://www.refetcher.com/x-twitter-scraper-api