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CreatorCrawl pricing and alternatives: Instagram profile API

CreatorCrawl's sitellms.txtBest Instagram profile API in 2026: pricing comparedCreatorCrawl: Instagram profile API alternatives

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91% complete: 10 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 336 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.15.Scrappa, ScrapeCreators and lobstr.io are the best Instagram profile API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of CreatorCrawl's 4 plans
Call: GET /instagram/profile CreatorCrawl's only call for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of CreatorCrawl's 18 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 10 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes, Views.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits once, enough for 50 calls. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send handle to GET /instagram/profile. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 16 years old. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

CreatorCrawl: Instagram profile API alternatives

The table starts with CreatorCrawl's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to CreatorCrawl's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

CreatorCrawl, $299 packHasData, $59 monthlyScrapio, $299 monthlyCaptapi, $72 yearly, Starter, GET /v1/instagram/basic-profileProLevelMax, top-up, Pay per use, POST /v1/run, Instagram user info by username
$ per 1,000 profiles$2.99$2.95$2.99$3.00$3.00
Completeness91%64%64%82%55%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlyyearlypay first
Pay$299$59$299$72any amount
Enough for100,000 calls20,000 calls a month100,000 calls a month2,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 16 years oldanyoneanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contractanyone at least 18 years oldanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)

Every Instagram profile API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

  1. api.creatorcrawl.com/docs
  2. api.creatorcrawl.com/openapi.json
  3. creatorcrawl.com
  4. creatorcrawl.com/alternatives/rapidapi
  5. creatorcrawl.com/endpoints/ig-get-profile
  6. creatorcrawl.com/legal/terms-of-service
  7. creatorcrawl.com/llms.txt
  8. creatorcrawl.com/platforms/instagram
  9. creatorcrawl.com/platforms/linkedin
  10. creatorcrawl.com/scrapers/linkedin-api-pricing
  11. creatorcrawl.com/scrapers/linkedin-scraper
  12. creatorcrawl.com/use-cases/scrape-instagram-profiles

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
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 90 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchPublic Instagram profile by handle: user info, follower stats, bio, verification status, business category, and post count.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use CreatorCrawl to: Build applications that display or analyze publicly available TikTok data, Conduct market research and competitive analysis, Power AI agents and automation workflows, Academic and journalistic research [...] You may not use CreatorCrawl to: Violate any applicable law or regulation, Scrape data for the purpose of harassing, stalking, or targeting individuals, Resell raw API access as your own service, Attempt to circumvent rate limits, credit systems, or access controls, Overload the service with requests intended to degrade performance, Access non-public or private TikTok data [...] You are responsible for how you use the data retrieved through our API, If you store TikTok data, you must comply with applicable data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits
Enough for50 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendhandle
MethodGET
Path/instagram/profile
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 16 years old
The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, bio, profile URL, profile picture, verified, verified type, followers, following, posts count, likes count, views count, website, private account, business account, category, language, region, location, account created, recent posts, platform, next cursor, has more, total results, fetched at

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