# Hirescrape, pay as you go: Instagram profile API

> Instagram profiles, posts, reels, comments — 8 modes.

Hirescrape's Pay by the call plan for the Instagram profile API costs $2.25 per 1,000 profiles. Hirescrape's docs list 4 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Bio, Verified, Followers, Posts.
We haven't run Hirescrape through [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 595 plans we rank by price cost $1.88 per 1,000 profiles or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 profiles than 41% of the 595 plans.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.022. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 profiles a month: about $2.72.
[lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt), [KonbiniAPI](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/konbiniapi/499-monthly/llms.txt) and [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hirescrape/pay-as-you-go
- [Instagram profile API: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://hirescrape.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://hirescrape.com/api/tools/instagram`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://hirescrape.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: Hirescrape (https://hirescrape.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 36%
- Bio: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $2.25
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Instagram profiles, posts, reels, comments — 8 modes.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: mode "profile", url. Optional: handle, userId, user_id, trim, region, download_media
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/tools/instagram

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay by the call
- Who can get it: anyone with a USDC wallet on Base or Tempo

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, bio, followers, posts count, verified, profile URL

## Hirescrape's plans (1)

- [Hirescrape, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hirescrape/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $2.25 per 1,000, 36% complete

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

- `POST /api/tools/instagram`: [Hirescrape, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hirescrape/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Hirescrape's APIs (5)

- [Hirescrape: Instagram profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hirescrape/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Hirescrape: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/hirescrape/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Hirescrape: TikTok profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/hirescrape/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Hirescrape: TikTok Shop product API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-shop-product-apis/hirescrape/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Hirescrape: TikTok Shop search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-shop-search-apis/hirescrape/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Hirescrape: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [Monocrawl, $299 monthly, Growth, GET /v1/instagram/basic-profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/monocrawl/299-monthly-growth-get-v1-instagram-basic-profile/llms.txt): $2.215 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [TikHub, $55 monthly, RPS Level 10, GET /api/v1/instagram/v2/fetch_user_info](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/tikhub/55-monthly-rps-level-10-get-api-v1-instagram-v2-fetch-user-info/llms.txt): $2.22 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Piloterr, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/piloterr/249-monthly/llms.txt): $2.264 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Crawlora, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/crawlora/29-monthly/llms.txt): $2.32 per 1,000, 82% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://hirescrape.com/api/tools/instagram?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://hirescrape.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://hirescrape.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://hirescrape.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://hirescrape.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing