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EnsembleData pricing and alternatives: Instagram profile API, GET /instagram/user/basic-info

EnsembleData's sitellms.txtBest instagram profile API in 2026

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27% complete: 3 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 215 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 Trial one of EnsembleData's 7 plans
Call: GET /instagram/user/basic-info one of EnsembleData's 3 calls for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of EnsembleData's 8 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call.
  • 3 of the 11 key fields we check. Photo, Followers, Following.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a day, enough for about 12 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at 00:00 UTC each day, when the daily units are reset.
  • One call. You send user_id to GET /instagram/user/basic-info. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

EnsembleData: Instagram profile API alternatives

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

EnsembleData, $1,400 monthly, Platinum, GET /instagram/user/basic-infoAnysite, $49 monthlySocialCrawl, £49 pack, Growth, POST /v1/prism/profilesSociaVault, $79 packSocial Fetch, $2,430 yearly, Scale, GET /v2/instagram/profiles/{profile}, Get Instagram profile, full
$ per 1,000 profiles$3.733$3.267$3.267$3.95$4.05
Completeness27%73%73%73%82%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstpay firstyearly
Pay$1,400$49£49$79$2,430
Enough for12,500 calls a day15,000 calls a month20,000 results20,000 calls50,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it

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 2026-10-29.

  1. ensembledata.com/apis/docs
  2. ensembledata.com/apis/openapi.json
  3. ensembledata.com/pricing
  4. ensembledata.com/terms-and-conditions

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Bio, not in the answer
  • Photo
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location, not in the answer
  • Verified, not in the answer
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts, not in the answer
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 57 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFetch basic user information from their user ID.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataClients may only use the APIs and Data for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms and Conditions [...] Clients may not use the APIs or Data for any illegal or unethical purposes, including but not limited to, spamming, hacking, or phishing [...] Clients may not use the APIs or Data to create a product or service that competes directly with EnsembleData’s services [...] Clients may not use the APIs or Data in a manner that would cause harm to EnsembleData, its employees, agents, or any third party
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits a day
Enough forabout 12 calls a day
Expiresat 00:00 UTC each day, when the daily units are reset
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senduser_id
MethodGET
Path/instagram/user/basic-info
About the plan
PlanFree Trial
Who can get itanyone
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, profile picture, username, followers, following

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