TwittrAPI pricing: X profile API, GET /user/by/username/{username}

TwittrAPI's site llms.txt X (Twitter) profile API: 18 providers compared TwittrAPI: X profile API alternatives

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82% complete: 9 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields

$0.10per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run TwittrAPI through our X profile API benchmark yet.Half of the 501 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 profiles or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 profiles than 82% of the 501 plans.TwittrAPI's top-up from $500 (/user/users/by/ids) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00016.lobstr.io, TweetAPI and TwexAPI are the best X (Twitter) profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Standard one of TwittrAPI's 4 plans

Call: GET /user/by/username/{username} one of TwittrAPI's 2 calls for this API

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

About this item

Live. You get the profile from X when you call the API.
9 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
A balance you top up. You pay $20 or more. You spend the whole balance on calls.
One call. You send username to GET /user/by/username/{username}. The call returns the account's profile.
Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

TwittrAPI: X profile API alternatives

TwittrAPI alternatives: every X profile API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 profiles. Each plan in the table gives live data.

	This planTwittrAPI, top-up from $20, Standard, GET /user/by/username/{username}	ScrapeBadger, $1,499 monthly, Volume, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username	TwexAPI, $20 pack, Mini, GET /twitter/{screen_name}/about	xdataapi, $50 pack, Builder, GET /v1/users/{handle}	Serpent API, top-up from $10
$ per 1,000 profiles	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10
Completeness	82%	82%	27%	82%	55%
Billing	pay first	monthly	pay first	pay first	pay first
Pay	$20	$1,499	$20	$50	$10
Enough for	as many as you pay for	15,000,000 calls a month	200,000 calls	500,000 calls	100,000 calls
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone aged 18 or over	anyone 18 or over	anyone	anyone with a permanent email address	anyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

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	$0.10
Per	call
Billing	pay first

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: 113 other calls

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.10

In their words
Their pitch	Profile of one account by handle, including its numeric user ID.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	no limit
Use data	You must not use the Service to: violate any applicable local, national or international law or regulation, including data protection law (GDPR), intellectual property law, privacy law or export control law, infringe the intellectual property, privacy or other rights of any person or entity, process personal data without a valid legal basis under the GDPR, use data in a manner that violates the terms of service, developer policies or privacy policies of X Corp. [...] harass, stalk, threaten, doxx or otherwise target individuals with harmful intent, collect or compile personal data for surveillance, profiling or targeting of individuals without their knowledge or consent, build databases or datasets of personal information about individuals without a lawful basis, engage in or facilitate spam, phishing or social engineering, discriminate against individuals on the basis of protected characteristics. [...] operate bots, scrapers or scripts that violate X Corp. rate limits or terms in a way that could jeopardise the Provider's access credentials, circumvent, disable or interfere with any security, authentication or rate-limiting mechanism of the Service or the X platform, attempt to gain unauthorised access to other accounts or API keys, introduce malware, viruses or other malicious code into the Service infrastructure. [...] resell, sublicense or otherwise transfer access to your API key or the Service to third parties without the Provider's prior written consent, offer a competing API or resale service based on your access to this Service. [...] use the Service in connection with any activity that is illegal under any law applicable to you or to the Provider, engage in transactions with persons or entities sanctioned by the EU, the UN, US OFAC or any other applicable sanctions regime, facilitate money laundering, terrorist financing or other financial crimes. [...] We do not license any rights to the underlying X/Twitter data

Plan
Pay	$20
Expires	never

Rate limit
Per second	30
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	username
Method	GET
Path	/user/by/username/{username}

About the plan
Plan	Standard
Who can get it	anyone aged 18 or over

The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, bio, location, website, account created, profile picture, banner image, verified, verified type, protected, followers, following, posts count, likes count, media count, listed count, pinned post IDs, is automated