# Instadata, free: Instagram profile API

> Give it an Instagram handle, get the account's follower count, following count, post count, bio, verification badge and avatar URL back as JSON.

Instadata's Instagram profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 6 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
We haven't run Instadata through [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 466 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.809 per 1,000 profiles or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.022.
[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 [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt) are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/free
- [Instagram profile API: 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://instadata.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.instadata.dev/v1/instagram/channel-stats`
- API key: with the plan, on https://instadata.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://instadata.dev/endpoints/channel-stats/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: Instadata (https://instadata.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Profile Details · Profile About · Similar Accounts · Profile Search · Post Stats · Profile Posts · Tagged Posts · Keyword Search · Mentions · Profile Reels · Reels Search · Media Download · Reel Transcript · Reel Summary · Comments · Profile Comments · Hashtag Posts · Hashtag Reels · Hashtag Stats · Hashtag Analytics · Hashtag Search · Location Search · Location Details · Location Posts · Ads Search · Ads by Page · Brand Collaborations

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Give it an Instagram handle, get the account's follower count, following count, post count, bio, verification badge and avatar URL back as JSON.

## Data

- Freshness: 12 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the API to: access private, login-gated or paywalled content, or attempt to, harass, stalk, dox or surveil individuals, or build profiles of specific private individuals, send spam or unsolicited outreach at scale, violate applicable law, including data-protection law that applies to your use of the data, resell raw API access wholesale under your own brand without written permission (building products on the API is what it is for), probe, overload or interfere with the service, or evade rate limits and metering.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 25 credits
- Enough for: 25 calls
- Expires: never while the account is open

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle. Optional: fresh, fields
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/instagram/channel-stats

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, bio, followers, following, posts count, verified, profile picture, profile URL, private account, platform, request ID

## Instadata's plans (15)

- [Instadata, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $4.50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/4-50-pack/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/5-pack/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $22.50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/22-50-pack/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/25-pack/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $45 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/45-pack/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/50-pack/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $112.50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/112-50-pack/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $125 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/125-pack/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $225 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/225-pack/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/250-pack/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $450 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/450-pack/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/500-pack/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/5-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours
- [Instadata, $54 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/54-yearly/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 55% complete, 12 hours

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

- `GET /v1/instagram/channel-stats`: [Instadata, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/free/llms.txt)

## Instadata's APIs (3)

- [Instadata: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 15 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/free/llms.txt)
- [Instadata: Instagram profile API pricing, 15 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/free/llms.txt)
- [Instadata: Instagram post API pricing, 15 plans, GET /v1/instagram/channel-posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/free-get-v1-instagram-channel-posts/llms.txt)
- [Instadata: Instagram post API pricing, 15 plans, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/free-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt)

## Instadata: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [SocialKit, $39 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialkit/39-monthly/llms.txt): $4.333 per 1,000, 55% complete, 5 minutes
- [Captapi, $9 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/instagram/basic-profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/captapi/9-monthly-starter-get-v1-instagram-basic-profile/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, $225 monthly, Scale, GET /v2/instagram/profiles/{profile}, Get Instagram profile, full](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/social-fetch/225-monthly-scale-get-v2-instagram-profiles-profile-get-instagram-profile-full/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScraperSocial, top-up from $4.50](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 45% complete, 12 hours

## 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://instadata.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/docs/caching-and-freshness?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/docs/pagination-and-jobs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/endpoints/channel-stats/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing