# Tapline, free: X profile API

> By handle or numeric user id: name, bio, location, join date, follower and post counts, avatar, banner, and verification flags.

Tapline's Free plan for the X profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Tapline's docs list 8: Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
We haven't run Tapline through [our X profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 756 plans for X profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 or less per 1,000 profiles. [164 X profile API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt) [CarryFeed's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/carryfeed/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 60.5 out of 100.
[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) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.00016. [twit.sh's MPP plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twit-sh/pay-as-you-go-mpp-get-users/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 profiles a month: $2.00.
[Socialinsider's $199 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/socialinsider/199-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of profiles, and costs less up front than TwittrAPI's top-up from $500.
[lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt), [TwittrAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-20-standard-get-user-by-username-username/llms.txt) and [ScrapeAtlas](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapeatlas/249-pack/llms.txt) are the best X (Twitter) profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tapline/free
- [X (Twitter) profile API in 2026: the best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://tapline.sh/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.tapline.sh/v1/twitter/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://tapline.sh/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://tapline.sh/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: Tapline (https://tapline.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 73%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- 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: 458 other Tapline calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: By handle or numeric user id: name, bio, location, join date, follower and post counts, avatar, banner, and verification flags.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The Services provide market-data and analytics outputs for your internal business, research, and analytical purposes. [...] You agree to use the Services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You shall not, and shall not permit anyone acting on your behalf to: (a) use the Services to access, collect, or attempt to collect data that is not publicly available, including data behind authentication, login, or paywall barriers, or data you are not authorized to access, (b) use the Services in a manner that infringes, misappropriates, or violates the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or contractual or terms-of-service rights of any third party, (c) use the Services to collect, assemble, or process personal data in violation of any applicable data-protection or privacy law, (d) resell, sublicense, redistribute, or make the Services or substantial portions of the data outputs available to a third party as a standalone product, or use the Services to build a competing data product, (e) interfere with, disrupt, place an undue load on, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, our systems, or the systems of any third party, including via denial-of-service activity, the introduction of malware, or probing security vulnerabilities, (f) reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of the Services, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law, (g) use the Services for any fraudulent, deceptive, harassing, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful activity, or in any way that could damage the reputation of Tapline or our payment providers, or (h) use the Services in violation of any applicable law, regulation, sanctions regime, or governmental order.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

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

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old

## The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, bio, profile URL, website, followers, following, posts count, creator subscriptions, highlighted posts, business affiliates count, seed post count, protected, possibly sensitive, blue verified, verified, hidden subscriptions, account created, birthdate, location, verified type, profile image shape, profile picture, banner image, pinned post IDs

## Tapline's plans (7)

- [Tapline, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tapline/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Tapline, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tapline/9-pack/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Tapline, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tapline/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.49 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Tapline, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tapline/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.199 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Tapline, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tapline/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.125 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Tapline, $468 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tapline/468-yearly/llms.txt): $0.39 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Tapline, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tapline/contact-us/llms.txt): 73% complete

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

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

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## Tapline: X profile API alternatives

[Tapline alternatives: other X profile API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/tapline-alternatives.txt)

We list Tapline's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Tapline in price per 1,000 profiles.

- [Tapline, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tapline/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.125 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $220,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapingdog/220000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.124 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [XFluxAPI, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/xfluxapi/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.124 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [xdataapi, $10 pack, Starter, GET /v1/users/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/xdataapi/10-pack-starter-get-v1-users-handle/llms.txt): $0.125 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [XCROP, $4.90 monthly, Basic, POST /v2/users/batch](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/xcrop/4-90-monthly-basic-post-v2-users-batch/llms.txt): $0.126 per 1,000, 55% 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 2026-11-11.

- https://tapline.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/SKILL.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/compare/hasdata-vs-tapline?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/docs/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/openapi.all.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/openapi.twitter.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/refund-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
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