# ScrapeWhale, free: X profile API

> X (formerly Twitter) profile: followers, following, post and media counts, bio, website, location, join date, verification type, and the "based in" country from X's About-this-account panel.

ScrapeWhale's X profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. ScrapeWhale's docs list 7 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Bio, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
We haven't run ScrapeWhale through [our X profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 568 plans for X profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 profiles or less. [See how many X profile API plans are free.](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) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00016.
[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/scrapewhale/free
- [X (Twitter) profile API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapewhale.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://scrapewhale.dev/api/v1/social/x/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapewhale.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapewhale.dev/apis/twitter-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapeWhale (https://scrapewhale.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 44 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: X (formerly Twitter) profile: followers, following, post and media counts, bio, website, location, join date, verification type, and the "based in" country from X's About-this-account panel.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 credits
- Enough for: 10 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of handle or url
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/social/x/profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up for an account, no credit card

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, followers, following, posts count, media count, bio, website, location, account created, verified type, account based in

## ScrapeWhale's plans (4)

- [ScrapeWhale, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapewhale/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, 24 hours
- [ScrapeWhale, $9.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapewhale/9-90-pack/llms.txt): $9.90 per 1,000, 64% complete, 24 hours
- [ScrapeWhale, $19.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapewhale/19-90-pack/llms.txt): $9.046 per 1,000, 64% complete, 24 hours
- [ScrapeWhale, $49.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapewhale/49-90-pack/llms.txt): $8.317 per 1,000, 64% complete, 24 hours

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

- `GET /api/v1/social/x/profile`: [ScrapeWhale, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapewhale/free/llms.txt)

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## ScrapeWhale: 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
- [Sorsa, $490 yearly, Starter (yearly), GET /info](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/sorsa/490-yearly-starter-yearly-get-info/llms.txt): $8.167 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [Automatio, $180 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/automatio/180-yearly/llms.txt): $8.333 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Scrapio, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapio/299-monthly/llms.txt): $8.97 per 1,000, 73% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://scrapewhale.dev/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/apis/linkedin-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/apis/twitter-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing