# FetchLayer, free: Instagram profile API

> One 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.

FetchLayer's Instagram profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 8 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
We rank 215 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.15.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrappa/10-pack-starter-get-api-v2-instagram-user/llms.txt), [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapecreators/497-pack/llms.txt) and [lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt) are the best instagram profile API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free
- [Best instagram profile API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.fetchlayer.dev/instagram/user-profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/instagram/endpoints/user-profile
- Sold by: FetchLayer (https://fetchlayer.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 73%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 223 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: One 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Its 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 get: 30 credits
- Enough for: 30 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of username or userId. Optional: include, timeoutMs
- Method: POST
- Path: /instagram/user-profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## FetchLayer's plans (10)

- [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/top-up/llms.txt): $1.99 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/25-monthly/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/50-monthly/llms.txt): $1.429 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/100-monthly/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/250-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $900 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/900-monthly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $1,400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/1400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 73% complete, live

## FetchLayer's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /instagram/user-profile`: [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)

## FetchLayer's APIs (11)

- [FetchLayer: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, POST /bing/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-bing-search/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, POST /duckduckgo/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-duckduckgo-search/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Instagram post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Instagram profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Reddit post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Reddit profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: TikTok profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: TikTok video API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: YouTube channel API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST /twitter/user-profile-details](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-user-profile-details/llms.txt)

## FetchLayer: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lobstr-io/4800-yearly/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [HikerAPI, top-up from $599, Ultra, GET /v1/user/by/url](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hikerapi/top-up-from-599-ultra-get-v1-user-by-url/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [HasData, $2,490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/2490-yearly/llms.txt): $0.692 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [ScrapeCreators, $497 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapecreators/497-pack/llms.txt): $0.994 per 1,000, 73% complete, live

## 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.

- https://fetchlayer.dev/
- https://fetchlayer.dev/acceptable-use
- https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/instagram/endpoints/user-profile
- https://fetchlayer.dev/llms.txt
- https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- https://fetchlayer.dev/terms