# HasData, free: Instagram profile API

> Look up any public Instagram profile by handle. One request returns the bio, follower counts, and the latest posts as clean JSON. No tokens, no app review, no headless browsers.

HasData's Instagram profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 7 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, 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/hasdata/free
- [Best instagram profile API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://hasdata.com/prices
- Request: `GET https://api.hasdata.com/scrape/instagram/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://hasdata.com/prices
- Its API docs: https://docs.hasdata.com/apis/instagram/profile
- Sold by: HasData (https://hasdata.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 64%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 62 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Look up any public Instagram profile by handle. One request returns the bio, follower counts, and the latest posts as clean JSON. No tokens, no app review, no headless browsers.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: until the license ends: "Upon termination, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession"
- Use data: Permission is granted to use the HasData website, APIs, and data delivered through the Services. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title. Under this license you may not: Modify or copy the materials, Attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software provided by HasData, Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials, Transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server, Resell the data, or resell access to the data through your paid plan, without our written permission, Republish the data in any form without our written permission, Register duplicate accounts, Programmatically access our undocumented APIs. [...] You must not use the Services or any data obtained through the Services: (a) In any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful purpose or activity, (b) In any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Services or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the Services, (c) To attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage, or disrupt any parts of the Services, the servers on which the Services are hosted, or any server, computer, or database connected to the Services, (d) To compile, collect, or aggregate personal data in violation of any applicable data protection law, including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), or equivalent laws in any jurisdiction, (e) To make credit, insurance, employment, housing, or other eligibility determinations about any individual, or for any purpose regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or similar laws, (f) To engage in stalking, harassment, surveillance, or any activity intended to cause harm to an individual, (g) To train, develop, or improve artificial intelligence or machine learning models in violation of applicable law, including but not limited to requirements under the EU AI Act, (h) Where you supply or designate the website or source to be accessed [...] in any manner that violates the terms of service of that website or source. [...]

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: unused credits do not roll over, they expire at the end of the current billing period

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle
- Method: GET
- Path: /scrape/instagram/profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, bio, bio links, profile picture, followers, following, posts count, verified, recent posts, hashtags, mentions

## HasData's plans (14)

- [HasData, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [HasData, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/59-monthly/llms.txt): $2.95 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [HasData, $119 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/119-monthly/llms.txt): $1.19 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [HasData, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.83 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [HasData, $415 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/415-monthly/llms.txt): $0.83 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [HasData, $830 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/830-monthly/llms.txt): $0.83 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [HasData, $1,660 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/1660-monthly/llms.txt): $0.83 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [HasData, $590 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/590-yearly/llms.txt): $2.458 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [HasData, $1,190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/1190-yearly/llms.txt): $0.992 per 1,000, 64% 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
- [HasData, $4,150 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/4150-yearly/llms.txt): $0.692 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [HasData, $8,300 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/8300-yearly/llms.txt): $0.692 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [HasData, $16,600 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/16600-yearly/llms.txt): $0.692 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [HasData, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/contact-us/llms.txt): 64% complete, live

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

- `GET /scrape/instagram/profile`: [HasData, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hasdata/free/llms.txt)

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- [HikerAPI, top-up from $300, Business, GET /v1/user/by/id](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hikerapi/top-up-from-300-business-get-v1-user-by-id/llms.txt): $0.69 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $960 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lobstr-io/960-yearly/llms.txt): $0.80 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
- [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://docs.hasdata.com/api-codes
- https://docs.hasdata.com/apis/instagram/profile
- https://docs.hasdata.com/basics/pricing
- https://docs.hasdata.com/credits-and-concurrency
- https://docs.hasdata.com/introduction
- https://hasdata.com
- https://hasdata.com/apis/instagram-profile-api
- https://hasdata.com/prices
- https://hasdata.com/terms-of-use