# TweetAPI, free, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account: X profile API

> Retrieve detailed account information for a user including location, verification details, username history, affiliate relationships, and account creation source.

TweetAPI's X profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 3 of the 11 key fields we check: Photo, Location, Verified.
We rank 239 plans by price. [TweetAPI's $417 monthly plan (/tw-v2/user/by-ids)](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.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-about-account
- Get it: https://tweetapi.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.tweetapi.com/tw-v2/user/about-account`
- API key: with the plan, on https://tweetapi.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://tweetapi.com/docs/user/about-account
- Sold by: TweetAPI (https://tweetapi.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 27%
- Photo: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 91 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve detailed account information for a user including location, verification details, username history, affiliate relationships, and account creation source.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: What's not allowed: Using the Service or its data in breach of any law, including data protection, privacy, intellectual property and export laws. Processing personal data without a valid legal basis. Using the data in ways that break X's terms or policies. Harassing, stalking, threatening or doxxing anyone. Tracking, profiling or building files on specific people without a lawful basis, including for surveillance. Spam (unsolicited bulk posts, DMs or mentions), phishing, scams or impersonation. Discriminating against people based on protected characteristics. Getting around rate limits, quotas or billing. Creating several accounts to get extra free requests. Sending X sessions or auth tokens for accounts you don't own or aren't authorised to use, or using someone else's API key. Attacking, probing or overloading our systems, or uploading malicious code. Reselling or sharing your API key, or offering an API built on ours, without our written consent. Building your own app or product that uses the data is fine, reselling raw API access is not. Use by or for anyone under EU, UN, US or other applicable sanctions. Money laundering, fraud, terrorist financing or other financial crime. [...] You decide what you request and what you do with the results.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 50 calls, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Concurrent: 6
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username
- Method: GET
- Path: /tw-v2/user/about-account

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and able to enter a binding contract

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, account created, verified, blue verified, protected, profile picture, profile image shape, account based in, location accurate, learn more URL, account source, username changes, username last changed

## TweetAPI's plans (10)

- [TweetAPI, free, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-about-account/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [TweetAPI, $5 pack, Pay as you go, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/5-pack-pay-as-you-go-get-tw-v2-user-about-account/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [TweetAPI, $10 pack, Pay as you go, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/10-pack-pay-as-you-go-get-tw-v2-user-about-account/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [TweetAPI, $20 pack, Pay as you go, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/20-pack-pay-as-you-go-get-tw-v2-user-about-account/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [TweetAPI, $50 pack, Pay as you go, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/50-pack-pay-as-you-go-get-tw-v2-user-about-account/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [TweetAPI, $17 monthly, Pro, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/17-monthly-pro-get-tw-v2-user-about-account/llms.txt): $0.34 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [TweetAPI, $57 monthly, Ultra, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/57-monthly-ultra-get-tw-v2-user-about-account/llms.txt): $0.228 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [TweetAPI, $197 monthly, Mega, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/197-monthly-mega-get-tw-v2-user-about-account/llms.txt): $0.197 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [TweetAPI, $417 monthly, Giga, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/417-monthly-giga-get-tw-v2-user-about-account/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [TweetAPI, $757 monthly, Tera, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/757-monthly-tera-get-tw-v2-user-about-account/llms.txt): $0.151 per 1,000, 27% complete, live

## TweetAPI's calls for this API (5)

- `GET /tw-v2/user/about-account`: [TweetAPI, free, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-about-account/llms.txt)
- `GET /tw-v2/user/by-id`: [TweetAPI, free, GET /tw-v2/user/by-id](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-by-id/llms.txt)
- `GET /tw-v2/user/by-ids`: [TweetAPI, free, GET /tw-v2/user/by-ids](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-by-ids/llms.txt)
- `GET /tw-v2/user/by-username`: [TweetAPI, free, GET /tw-v2/user/by-username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-by-username/llms.txt)
- `GET /tw-v2/user/by-usernames`: [TweetAPI, free, GET /tw-v2/user/by-usernames](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-by-usernames/llms.txt)

## TweetAPI's APIs (2)

- [TweetAPI: X profile API pricing, 10 plans, GET /tw-v2/user/about-account](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-about-account/llms.txt)
- [TweetAPI: X post API pricing, 10 plans, GET /tw-v2/user/photos](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-photos/llms.txt)
- [TweetAPI: X post API pricing, 10 plans, GET /tw-v2/user/tweets](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-tweets/llms.txt)
- [TweetAPI: X post API pricing, 10 plans, GET /tw-v2/user/tweets-and-replies](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-tweets-and-replies/llms.txt)
- [TweetAPI: X post API pricing, 10 plans, GET /tw-v2/user/videos](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/tweetapi/free-get-tw-v2-user-videos/llms.txt)

## TweetAPI: X profile API alternatives

- [TwexAPI, $50 monthly, Basic, GET /twitter/{screen_name}/about](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twexapi/50-monthly-basic-get-twitter-screen-name-about/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, top-up from $10, PAYG, GET /v1/twitter/users/batch_by_usernames](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/top-up-from-10-payg-get-v1-twitter-users-batch-by-usernames/llms.txt): $0.15 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [TwitterAPI.io, $99 monthly, Builder, GET /twitter/user/info](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twitterapi-io/99-monthly-builder-get-twitter-user-info/llms.txt): $0.158 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [XFluxAPI, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/xfluxapi/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.165 per 1,000, 27% 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 2026-10-29.

- https://tweetapi.com/
- https://tweetapi.com/aup
- https://tweetapi.com/docs/getting-started/overview
- https://tweetapi.com/docs/user/about-account
- https://tweetapi.com/llms-full.txt
- https://tweetapi.com/llms.txt
- https://tweetapi.com/openapi-v2.json
- https://tweetapi.com/pricing
- https://tweetapi.com/pricing.json
- https://tweetapi.com/terms