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FetchLayer pricing and alternatives: Instagram profile API

FetchLayer's sitellms.txtBest instagram profile API in 2026

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73% complete: 8 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 one of FetchLayer's 10 plans
Call: POST /instagram/user-profile FetchLayer's only call for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of FetchLayer's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call.
  • 8 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 30 credits, enough for 30 calls.
  • One call. You send one of username or userId to POST /instagram/user-profile. You can also send include and timeoutMs. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

FetchLayer: Instagram profile API alternatives

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

FetchLayer, $1,400 monthlylobstr.io, $4,800 yearlyHikerAPI, top-up from $599, Ultra, GET /v1/user/by/urlHasData, $2,490 yearlyScrapeCreators, $497 pack
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.013$0.40$0.60$0.692$0.994
Completeness73%73%82%64%73%
Billingmonthlyyearlypay firstyearlypay first
Pay$1,400$4,800$599$2,490$497
Enough for108,864,000 calls a month1,000,000 results a monthas many as you pay for300,000 calls a month500,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)professionals, not consumersanyoneanyoneanyone legally able to enter into a binding agreement

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. fetchlayer.dev/
  2. fetchlayer.dev/acceptable-use
  3. fetchlayer.dev/documentation/instagram/endpoints/user-profile
  4. fetchlayer.dev/llms.txt
  5. fetchlayer.dev/pricing
  6. fetchlayer.dev/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
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts
  • 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: 223 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOne public Instagram account’s profile: name, bio and its links, avatar, verification, exact follower, following and post counts, whether a story is up, and the title and cover of every highlight.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataIts Acceptable Use Policy: "You Must Not Use FetchLayer To" violate any law, regulation, court order, or third-party right, collect or process personal data in a way that is unlawful, unfair, deceptive, or disproportionate, stalk, harass, threaten, dox, profile, or otherwise target individuals for harmful purposes, build or support unlawful surveillance, unlawful monitoring, or harmful intelligence gathering about private individuals, make or support decisions about housing, employment, credit, insurance, education, healthcare, public benefits, or similar regulated outcomes without an appropriate legal basis and all required safeguards, scrape or analyze data about minors, health, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, political opinions, or other sensitive categories without a lawful basis and appropriate protections, bypass authentication, paywalls, robots controls, rate limits, or technical access controls that are not intended for public access, republish, syndicate, mirror, or redistribute verbatim copyrighted third-party content (such as full Reddit posts or comments) to end consumers without appropriate rights, use scraped content to create a competing product that substitutes for the original source platform, use the service to distribute malware, spam, credential theft, or phishing content, attempt to reverse engineer, break, overload, or interfere with the service or its infrastructure, train machine learning or AI models on content obtained through FetchLayer without independently verifying that you have appropriate rights or a valid legal basis to do so, resell, sublicense, or operate a competing extraction service on top of FetchLayer unless we have expressly allowed it in writing. Its terms: "It is not permitted to republish, syndicate, or redistribute the original creative expression of third-party content without appropriate rights. You must not use FetchLayer to create a competing publication or mirror of the source platform's content."
Plan
Pay$0
You get30 credits
Enough for30 calls
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of username or userId. Optional: include, timeoutMs
MethodPOST
Path/instagram/user-profile
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)
The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, profile URL, name, bio, profile picture, verified, private account, memorialized, pronouns, account badges, has reels, has active story, country, joined month, followers, following, posts count, bio links, highlights, age restricted

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