# TwittrAPI, top-up from $20, Standard, GET /user/by/username/{username}: X profile API

> Profile of one account by handle, including its numeric user ID.

TwittrAPI's X profile API on its Standard plan. It costs $0.10 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 9 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
We haven't run TwittrAPI through [our X profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt) 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)](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-500-scale-get-user-users-by-ids/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00016.
[lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt), [TweetAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/57-monthly-ultra-get-tw-v2-user-by-username/llms.txt) and [TwexAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twexapi/20-pack-mini-post-twitter-users/llms.txt) are the best X (Twitter) profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-20-standard-get-user-by-username-username
- [X (Twitter) profile API: 18 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.twittrapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.twittrapi.com/user/by/username/{username}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.twittrapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/reference/user-by-username-username?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: TwittrAPI (https://www.twittrapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 82%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Likes: ✓

## 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

## TwittrAPI's plans (4)

- [TwittrAPI, top-up from $20, Standard, GET /user/by/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-20-standard-get-user-by-username-username/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [TwittrAPI, top-up from $100, Volume, GET /user/by/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-100-volume-get-user-by-username-username/llms.txt): $0.09 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [TwittrAPI, top-up from $500, Scale, GET /user/by/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-500-scale-get-user-by-username-username/llms.txt): $0.08 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [TwittrAPI, top-up from $2,000, Bulk, GET /user/by/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-2000-bulk-get-user-by-username-username/llms.txt): $0.065 per 1,000, 82% complete, live

## TwittrAPI's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /user/by/username/{username}`: [TwittrAPI, top-up from $20, Standard, GET /user/by/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-20-standard-get-user-by-username-username/llms.txt)
- `GET /user/users/by/ids`: [TwittrAPI, top-up from $20, Standard, GET /user/users/by/ids](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-20-standard-get-user-users-by-ids/llms.txt)

## TwittrAPI's APIs (2)

- [TwittrAPI: X post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-20/llms.txt)
- [TwittrAPI: X profile API pricing, 4 plans, GET /user/by/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twittrapi/top-up-from-20-standard-get-user-by-username-username/llms.txt)

## TwittrAPI: X profile API alternatives

- [ScrapeBadger, $1,499 monthly, Volume, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/1499-monthly-volume-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [TwexAPI, $20 pack, Mini, GET /twitter/{screen_name}/about](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twexapi/20-pack-mini-get-twitter-screen-name-about/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [xdataapi, $50 pack, Builder, GET /v1/users/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/xdataapi/50-pack-builder-get-v1-users-handle/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [Serpent API, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $0.10 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 2026-11-05.

- https://www.twittrapi.com/aup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/helpful-infos/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/reference/user-by-username-username?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.twittrapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.twittrapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.twittrapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-profile-api-pricing