# HProxy, top-up from $3: Instagram profile API

> Pull a complete public Instagram profile from a handle: bio, follower, following and post counts, verification and links.

HProxy's Instagram profile API on its Web Scrapers plan. It costs $1.49 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 6 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
Half 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](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/hproxy/top-up-from-3
- [Best Instagram profile API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://hproxy.com/pricing/scraper-api
- Request: `GET https://hproxy.com/api/v1/scrape/instagram/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://hproxy.com/pricing/scraper-api
- Its API docs: https://hproxy.com/docs/scrapers/instagram
- Sold by: HProxy (https://hproxy.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 55%
- Bio: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $1.49
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Repeat free: 30 days
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 115 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $1.49

## In their words

- Their pitch: Pull a complete public Instagram profile from a handle: bio, follower, following and post counts, verification and links.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: HProxy 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 for: about 2,013 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 20
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle. Optional: trim, cache_max_age
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/scrape/instagram/profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Web Scrapers
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## HProxy's plans (1)

- [HProxy, top-up from $3](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hproxy/top-up-from-3/llms.txt): $1.49 per 1,000, 55% complete, live

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

- `GET /api/v1/scrape/instagram/profile`: [HProxy, top-up from $3](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/hproxy/top-up-from-3/llms.txt)

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## HProxy: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [SocialAPIs, $179 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialapis/179-monthly/llms.txt): $1.492 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/reefapi/15-monthly/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [Bright Data, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/bright-data/top-up/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, $225 monthly, Scale, GET /v2/instagram/profiles/{profile}, Get Instagram profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/social-fetch/225-monthly-scale-get-v2-instagram-profiles-profile-get-instagram-profile/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 82% 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 2026-10-31.

- https://hproxy.com/docs/rate-limits
- https://hproxy.com/docs/scrapers
- https://hproxy.com/docs/scrapers/catalog
- https://hproxy.com/docs/scrapers/instagram
- https://hproxy.com/docs/scrapers/linkedin
- https://hproxy.com/llms/scraper-api.txt
- https://hproxy.com/pricing
- https://hproxy.com/pricing/scraper-api
- https://hproxy.com/scrapers/instagram
- https://hproxy.com/scrapers/linkedin
- https://hproxy.com/terms