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Desearch pricing and alternatives: Instagram profile API

Desearch's sitellms.txt
64% complete: 7 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 196 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.15.
Plan: $5 in API credits for a new account one of Desearch's 7 plans
Call: GET /desearch/instagram/profile/{username} Desearch's only call for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of Desearch's 7 APIs

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 $5 of credit.
  • One call. You send username to GET /desearch/instagram/profile/{username}. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: new accounts that attach a card in Console. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Desearch: Instagram profile API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 profiles.

This planDesearch, freeSocialListeningAPI, freeHikerAPI, free, GET /v1/user/by/urlEnsembleData, free trial, GET /instagram/user/detailed-infoHasData, freeLitescrape, free, 5 free calls
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness64%91%82%73%64%9%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published100 calls100 calls5 calls a day100 calls a month5 calls, once
Freshnessunknownunknownliveliveliveunknown
Who can get itnew accounts that attach a card in Consoleanyone at least 13 years old and legally able to enter into the termsanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone

Instagram profile API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. api.desearch.ai/openapi.json
  2. desearch.ai
  3. desearch.ai/credit-plans
  4. desearch.ai/docs/api-reference/get-desearch-instagram-profile-username
  5. desearch.ai/docs/guide/apis/which-endpoint
  6. desearch.ai/docs/guide/introduction/pricing-and-billing
  7. desearch.ai/docs/guide/introduction/rate-limit
  8. desearch.ai/pricing
  9. desearch.ai/terms

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
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: AI Search · Web Search · Extract · X Search · X Profile Search · YouTube Creator Search · LinkedIn Profile Search · TikTok Creator Search
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRetrieve normalized public Instagram profile metadata by username.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYour use of our APIs is subject to rate limits and usage quotas as specified in your plan. You agree not to circumvent these limits or use our APIs in ways that could harm our infrastructure or other users. [...] You agree not to use our Services for: Any unlawful purpose or to violate any laws, Harassment, abuse, or harm to others, Distributing malware or other harmful code, Attempting to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Reselling our Services without authorization
Plan
Pay$0
You get$5
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendusername
MethodGET
Path/desearch/instagram/profile/{username}
About the plan
Plan$5 in API credits for a new account
Who can get itnew accounts that attach a card in Console
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, bio, profile picture, verified, private account, followers, following, posts count, website, category, cost in dollars, usage count, service, currency

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