TwitterAPIs pricing and alternatives: X profile API, GET /twitter/user/info_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 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00083.

Plan: Free credits one of TwitterAPIs's 2 plans

Call: GET /twitter/user/info_by_id one of TwitterAPIs's 4 calls for this API

API: X profile API one of TwitterAPIs's 2 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
9 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
Nothing to pay. You get $0.50 of credit, enough for about 312 calls. Calls stop once your credit runs out. Credit never expires.
One call. You send user_id to GET /twitter/user/info_by_id. The call returns the account's profile.
Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

TwitterAPIs: X profile API alternatives

The table starts with TwitterAPIs's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to TwitterAPIs's.

	TwitterAPIs, top-up from $10, Pay-as-you-go, GET /twitter/user/info_by_id	Anysite, $300 monthly	lobstr.io, $192 yearly	Social Fetch, $29 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/twitter/profiles/{handle}	FetchLayer, $25 monthly, Starter, POST /twitter/about-profile
$ per 1,000 profiles	$1.60	$1.579	$1.60	$1.611	$1.667
Completeness	82%	82%	82%	82%	73%
Billing	pay first	monthly	yearly	monthly	monthly
Pay	$10	$300	$192	$29	$25
Enough for	6,250 calls	190,000 calls a month	10,000 results a month	18,000 calls a month	15,000 calls a month
Freshness	unknown	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone	anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction	professionals, not consumers	anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it	anyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)

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.

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
Per	call
Billing	free

Charges
Start fee	$0.00
Also pays for	from the same budget: 96 other calls

Overage
Units cap	hard

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Resolve a numeric user ID into the full user object. Use this when you already have the stable ID (handles can change, IDs do not).

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	You agree not to: (a) use the Service to spam, harass, or abuse others on Twitter/X, (b) scrape or collect data in violation of Twitter/X's terms, (c) resell API access to third parties without permission, (d) attempt to reverse-engineer, overload, or disrupt the Service, (e) use the Service for any unlawful purpose.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	$0.50
Enough for	about 312 calls
Expires	never

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	user_id
Method	GET
Path	/twitter/user/info_by_id

About the plan
Plan	Free credits
Who can get it	anyone

The 38 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, verified, blue verified, verified type, followers, following, posts count, likes count, media count, bio, location, website, account created, profile picture, banner image, listed count, can DM, parody, creator subscriptions, has custom timelines, is translator, possibly sensitive, default profile, default profile image, professional type, bio entities, affiliation, pinned post IDs, protected, type, is automated, automated by, unavailable, unavailable message, unavailable reason, withheld in countries