# ScraperSocial, free: X profile API

> Give this endpoint an X (Twitter) handle and it returns that account's public profile as JSON: follower and following counts, post count, bio, join date, location, avatar and verification flag.

ScraperSocial's X profile API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 7 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
We haven't run ScraperSocial through [our X profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-500-scale-get-user-users-by-ids/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00016.
[lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt), [TweetAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/57-monthly-ultra-get-tw-v2-user-by-username/llms.txt) and [TwexAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twexapi/20-pack-mini-post-twitter-users/llms.txt) are the best X (Twitter) profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free
- [X (Twitter) profile API: 18 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapersocial.com/v1/twitter/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapersocial.com/twitter/profile-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScraperSocial (https://scrapersocial.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 64%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 230 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Give this endpoint an X (Twitter) handle and it returns that account's public profile as JSON: follower and following counts, post count, bio, join date, location, avatar and verification flag.

## Data

- Freshness: 12 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the API to: access private, login-gated or paywalled content, or attempt to, harass, stalk, dox or surveil individuals, or build profiles of specific private individuals across platforms, send spam or unsolicited outreach at scale, violate applicable law, including data-protection law that applies to your use of the data in your jurisdiction, resell raw API access wholesale under your own brand without written permission (building products on top of the API is what it's for, that's fine and encouraged), probe, overload or interfere with the service, or evade rate limits and metering. You are responsible for how you use the data you retrieve, including compliance with the target platforms' terms as they apply to you and with intellectual-property and privacy rights in downloaded media.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 25 credits
- Enough for: about 12 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle. Optional: fresh
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/twitter/profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, username, name, followers, following, posts count, bio, verified, profile picture, account created, location

## ScraperSocial's plans (6)

- [ScraperSocial, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, 12 hours
- [ScraperSocial, top-up from $4.50](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, 12 hours
- [ScraperSocial, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, 12 hours
- [ScraperSocial, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/5-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, 12 hours
- [ScraperSocial, $54 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/54-yearly/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, 12 hours
- [ScraperSocial, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/contact-us/llms.txt): 64% complete, 12 hours

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

- `GET /v1/twitter/profile`: [ScraperSocial, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)

## ScraperSocial's APIs (17)

- [ScraperSocial: Facebook page API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Facebook post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Instagram post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Instagram profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Threads post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Threads profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: TikTok profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: TikTok video API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: X post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: X profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt)

## ScraperSocial: X profile API alternatives

- [SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, POST /v1/prism/profiles](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/socialcrawl/15-pack-starter-post-v1-prism-profiles/llms.txt): $8.001 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [Scrapio, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapio/299-monthly/llms.txt): $8.97 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [RedFox, top-up from CNY 100](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/redfox/top-up-from-cny-100/llms.txt): $8.974 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Sorsa, $49 monthly, Starter, GET /info](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/sorsa/49-monthly-starter-get-info/llms.txt): $9.80 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 2026-11-05.

- https://scrapersocial.com/api/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/api/twitter?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/linkedin/profile-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/twitter/profile-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing