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Best instagram profile API in 2026

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Scrappa, ScrapeCreators and lobstr.io are the best instagram profile API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 6 providers and rank all 6 by score. For the three we score highest, we show each one's top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 profiles cost. We rank 215 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.15.

Every instagram profile API provider we score, ranked

  1. Scrappa, $10 pack, Starter: Overall score 75.4, Data score 56, $0.303 per 1,000 profiles
  2. ScrapeCreators, $497 pack: Overall score 74.5, Data score 86, $0.994 per 1,000 profiles
  3. lobstr.io, $500 monthly: Overall score 71.3, Data score 72, $0.50 per 1,000 profiles
  4. AnyAPI, top-up from $10, Manual top-up: Overall score 64.9, Data score 31, $1.00 per 1,000 profiles
  5. Desearch, top-up: Overall score 44.9, Data score 36
  6. Captapi, $9 monthly, Starter: Overall score 44.7, Data score 34, $4.50 per 1,000 profiles

  1. #1 Scrappa: Instagram profile API

    Scrappa, $10 pack, Starter

    It returns 7 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.

    Overall score
    75.4
    $ per 1,000
    $0.303
    Price score
    83
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: $0.303
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 215
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 profiles than this plan: 11
    Data score
    56
    Cost to get started score
    93
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $10
    Bundle score
    100
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 2,378 other calls
    Performance score
    80
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.314 s
    • AnyAPI, Instagram Basic Profile, the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.056 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 accounts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.5585 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 56 out of 100.

  2. #2 ScrapeCreators: Instagram profile API

    ScrapeCreators, $497 pack

    It returns 8 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Contact, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.

    Overall score
    74.5
    $ per 1,000
    $0.994
    Price score
    74
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 215
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 profiles than this plan: 32
    Data score
    86
    Cost to get started score
    65
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $497
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 198 other calls
    Performance score
    13
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 8.23 s
    • AnyAPI, Instagram Basic Profile, the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.056 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 accounts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.8607 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 86 out of 100.

  3. #3 lobstr.io: Instagram profile API

    lobstr.io, $500 monthly

    It returns 8 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Contact, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.

    Overall score
    71.3
    $ per 1,000
    $0.50
    Price score
    82
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 215
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 profiles than this plan: 14
    Data score
    72
    Cost to get started score
    62
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $500
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 81 other calls
    Performance score
    9
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 11.645 s
    • AnyAPI, Instagram Basic Profile, the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.056 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 accounts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.7179 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 72 out of 100.

The Data score on instagram profile APIs

This score, out of 100, shows how much of an account's profile a provider's call returns. We ask for each account's profile by the account's handle. Some calls take only the numeric user ID, so we use the ID there. We read each account's Instagram page, without signing in, within hours of the call. For each account, we count the parts the answer held. We count them out of the parts the page shows or any provider's answer holds. Then we average the results over all accounts. Each account counts the same. An account the call didn't find counts as 0. We compare a provider that ran on fewer accounts with the other providers on those same accounts. A provider can't score higher by running only on easy accounts. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer accounts than the benchmark has.

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