API.SH pricing: Instagram profile API
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64% complete: 7 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run API.SH through our Instagram profile API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 493 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.611 per 1,000 profiles or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.022.lobstr.io, KonbiniAPI and Scrappa are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of API.SH's 8 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $15Pay-as-you-go$2.00 per 1,000
- $50 monthlyMonthly $50$1.00 per 1,000
- $100 monthlyMonthly $100$1.00 per 1,000
- $250 monthlyMonthly $250$1.00 per 1,000
- $500 monthlyMonthly $500$1.00 per 1,000
- $1,000 monthlyBusiness$1.00 per 1,000
- Contact usCustom deal
Call:
GET / API.SH's only call for this APIAPI: Instagram profile API one of API.SH's 33 APIs
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- Reddit post API
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- X post API
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- YouTube channel API
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- Web scraping API
GET /web/ v1/ page - Web scraping API
GET /web/ v1/ extract
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 7 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
- Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits don't roll over.
- One call. You send
usernametoGET /. The call returns the account's profile.instagram/ v1/ user - Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
API.SH: Instagram profile API alternatives
API.SH alternatives: every Instagram profile API provider ranked
The table starts with API.SH's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to API.SH's.
| API.SH, $50 monthly | lobstr.io, $100 monthly | Scrappa, pay as you go, x402, GET /api/v2/instagram/user | ReefAPI, $50 monthly | TrueScrape, $100 pack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 profiles | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Completeness | 64% | 73% | 64% | 64% | 45% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | pay as you go | monthly | pay first |
| Pay | $50 | $100 | per call | $50 | $100 |
| Enough for | 50,000 calls a month | 100,000 results a month | as many as you pay for | 50,000 calls a month | 100,000 calls |
| Freshness | unknown | live | unknown | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address | professionals, not consumers | anyone 18 or over | anyone | 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, not in the answer
- Verified
- Followers
- Following
- Posts
- Likes, not in the answer
- Views, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 profiles | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 6,019 other calls |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Instagram profile |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | You may not: resell or provide raw access to the Service as a competing API without our written agreement, attempt to get around credits, limits or security, interfere with the Service or other customers, reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows, or use the Service in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 1,000 credits a month |
| Enough for | 1,000 calls a month |
| Expires | unused credits don't roll over |
| Concurrent | no limit |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | username |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /instagram/v1/user |
| Plan | Free |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address |
The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold
user ID, username, name, bio, bio links, website, category, followers, following, posts count, verified, is private, is business, profile picture, profile URL, bio link details, is professional, account type, pronouns, fbid, has reels, highlight count