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TweetAPI pricing and alternatives: X profile API, GET /tw-v2/user/by-id

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82% complete: 9 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 237 plans by price. TweetAPI's $417 monthly plan (/tw-v2/user/by-ids) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00083.
Plan: Free one of TweetAPI's 10 plans
Call: GET /tw-v2/user/by-id one of TweetAPI's 5 calls for this API
API: X profile API one of TweetAPI's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from X when you call.
  • 9 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 50 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send userId to GET /tw-v2/user/by-id. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and able to enter a binding contract. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

TweetAPI: X profile API alternatives

The table starts with TweetAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to TweetAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

TweetAPI, $757 monthly, Tera, GET /tw-v2/user/by-idTwexAPI, $50 monthly, Basic, GET /twitter/{screen_name}/aboutScrapeBadger, top-up from $10, PAYG, GET /v1/twitter/users/batch_by_usernamesTwitterAPI.io, $99 monthly, Builder, GET /twitter/user/infoXFluxAPI, $99 monthly
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.151$0.10$0.15$0.158$0.165
Completeness82%27%82%82%27%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthlymonthly
Pay$757$50$10$99$99
Enough for5,000,000 calls a month500,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for627,000 calls a month600,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 and able to enter a binding contractanyoneanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into binding contractsanyone

X (Twitter) profile API pricing: plans compared

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.

  1. tweetapi.com/
  2. tweetapi.com/aup
  3. tweetapi.com/docs/getting-started/overview
  4. tweetapi.com/docs/user/by-user-id
  5. tweetapi.com/llms-full.txt
  6. tweetapi.com/llms.txt
  7. tweetapi.com/openapi-v2.json
  8. tweetapi.com/pricing
  9. tweetapi.com/pricing.json
  10. tweetapi.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Bio
  • Photo
  • Links
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts
  • Likes
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Start fee$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 91 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRetrieve comprehensive user profile information using a Twitter user ID. Returns detailed user data including statistics, verification status, and profile metadata.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataWhat'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 get100 credits
Enough for50 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second2
Concurrent6
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senduserId
MethodGET
Path/tw-v2/user/by-id
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 and able to enter a binding contract
The 41 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, bio, location, website, pinned post IDs, profile picture, banner image, profile image shape, verified, blue verified, verified type, verified since, identity verified, protected, possibly sensitive, profile interstitial type, withheld in countries, professional type, professional categories, business account, business affiliates count, creator subscriptions, hidden subscriptions, highlighted posts, can highlight posts, graduated access, profile translatable, has custom timelines, is translator, affiliation, default profile, default profile image, followers, following, posts count, listed count, media count, likes count, account created

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