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HProxy pricing and alternatives: Instagram profile API

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55% complete: 6 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$1.49per 1,000 profilesHalf of the 299 plans we rank by price cost $1.58 per 1,000 profiles or less. This plan is cheaper than 51% of the 299 plans.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: Web Scrapers HProxy's only plan
Call: GET /api/v1/scrape/instagram/profile HProxy's only call for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of HProxy's 32 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 6 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • A balance you top up. You pay $3 or more. You spend the whole balance on calls. $3 is enough for about 2,013 calls. The balance never expires.
  • One call. You send handle to GET /api/v1/scrape/instagram/profile. You can also send trim and cache_max_age. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

HProxy: Instagram profile API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 profiles. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planHProxy, top-up from $3SocialAPIs, $179 monthlyReefAPI, $15 monthlyBright Data, top-upSocial Fetch, $225 monthly, Scale, GET /v2/instagram/profiles/{profile}, Get Instagram profile
$ per 1,000 profiles$1.49$1.492$1.50$1.50$1.50
Completeness55%73%64%73%82%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$3$179$15any amount$225
Enough forabout 2,013 calls120,000 calls a month10,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for150,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into a binding contract under German lawanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter into the termsanyoneanyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanonanyone, 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 2026-10-31.

  1. hproxy.com/docs/rate-limits
  2. hproxy.com/docs/scrapers
  3. hproxy.com/docs/scrapers/catalog
  4. hproxy.com/docs/scrapers/instagram
  5. hproxy.com/docs/scrapers/linkedin
  6. hproxy.com/llms/scraper-api.txt
  7. hproxy.com/pricing
  8. hproxy.com/pricing/scraper-api
  9. hproxy.com/scrapers/instagram
  10. hproxy.com/scrapers/linkedin
  11. hproxy.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Bio
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Links
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location, not in the answer
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$1.49
Percall
Billingpay first
Charges
Repeat free30 days
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 115 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$1.49
In their words
Their pitchPull a complete public Instagram profile from a handle: bio, follower, following and post counts, verification and links.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataHProxy is intended for legitimate business purposes: web scraping, ad verification, SEO research, brand protection, market intelligence, price monitoring, and headless browser automation. As a rule of thumb, if you could do it lawfully from your own connection without breaching a destination's terms, you may do it through HProxy. You may not use HProxy, and may not permit anyone using your account to use it, for any of the following. Engaging in any of these results in immediate suspension or termination without refund: Unauthorised access to systems you do not own or are not permitted to test (hacking, exploiting vulnerabilities, credential stuffing, brute forcing), Distributing malware, spyware, ransomware, or any malicious code, Fraud of any kind, including carding, payment fraud, identity theft, and mass fake-account creation, Child sexual abuse material (CSAM), child exploitation, or non-consensual intimate imagery, Routing traffic to, from, or on behalf of individuals or entities subject to OFAC, EU, UN, or other applicable sanctions, Unsolicited bulk or commercial messaging (spam) sent without the recipient's prior consent, Denial-of-service activity of any layer (DoS, DDoS, application-layer flooding), Automated bidding or activity designed to manipulate prices on auction, ticketing, or trading platforms. [...] You are solely responsible for complying with the terms of service, robots.txt directives, rate limits, and applicable laws of every website, API, or endpoint you interact with.
Plan
Pay$3
You get$3
Enough forabout 2,013 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second20
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendhandle. Optional: trim, cache_max_age
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/scrape/instagram/profile
About the plan
PlanWeb Scrapers
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into a binding contract under German law
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

bio, followers, following, posts count, verified, bio links

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