# KonbiniAPI, free: Instagram profile API

> Returns profile information for an Instagram user including bio, follower counts, profile picture, and account metadata. Look up any public Instagram account by username, or pass ?userId= to look up by numeric user ID instead.

KonbiniAPI's Instagram profile API on its 100 free credits 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.
In [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt), KonbiniAPI's best plan scores 69.5 out of 100.
This plan is free. We rank 406 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.653 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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/konbiniapi/free
- [Instagram profile API: 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://konbiniapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.konbiniapi.com/v1/instagram/users/{username}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://konbiniapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.konbiniapi.com/reference/api/instagram/get-user-profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: KonbiniAPI (https://konbiniapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 93 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns profile information for an Instagram user including bio, follower counts, profile picture, and account metadata. Look up any public Instagram account by username, or pass ?userId= to look up by numeric user ID instead.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to these Terms, KonbiniAPI grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the API for your internal business purposes or personal projects. [...] You agree not to use the Service to: Engage in or facilitate any illegal activity under applicable law. Harass, stalk, monitor, or surveil individuals without their knowledge or consent. Generate fake engagement, create inauthentic interactions, or manipulate platform metrics. Violate the privacy of individuals, including by compiling personal data profiles for purposes that the data subjects would not reasonably expect. Build a product or service that replicates or directly competes with KonbiniAPI's core offering (a social media data API). Attempt to access non-public data, circumvent security measures, or exceed the scope of authorized access. Resell or redistribute raw API responses without meaningful transformation or value addition. Use automated means to create accounts, generate API keys, or circumvent credit limits.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.51 s

## The call

- You send: username. Optional: userId
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/instagram/users/{username}

## About the plan

- Plan: 100 free credits
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile URL, user ID, name, username, bio, bio links, private account, verified, business account, professional account, category, pronouns, has videos, has channel, followers, following, posts count, reels count, highlights count, profile picture

## KonbiniAPI's plans (7)

- [KonbiniAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [KonbiniAPI, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/konbiniapi/20-pack/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [KonbiniAPI, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/konbiniapi/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.96 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [KonbiniAPI, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/konbiniapi/99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [KonbiniAPI, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/konbiniapi/199-monthly/llms.txt): $1.244 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [KonbiniAPI, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/konbiniapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $1.109 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [KonbiniAPI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/konbiniapi/contact-us/llms.txt): 64% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/instagram/users/{username}`: [KonbiniAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)

## KonbiniAPI's APIs (18)

- [KonbiniAPI: Instagram post API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: Instagram profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: LinkedIn person article API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-article-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: Reddit post API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: Reddit profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: TikTok profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: TikTok video API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: X post API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: X profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: search autocomplete API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: video search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: YouTube channel API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)
- [KonbiniAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/konbiniapi/free/llms.txt)

## KonbiniAPI: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [ReefAPI, $33.75 quarterly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/reefapi/33-75-quarterly/llms.txt): $1.125 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [Scrape Everything, $119 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrape-everything/119-pack/llms.txt): $1.19 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
- [Pullbay, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/pullbay/199-monthly/llms.txt): $1.20 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 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.konbiniapi.com/getting-started/credits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.konbiniapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.konbiniapi.com/reference/api/instagram/get-user-profile.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://konbiniapi.com/apis/instagram/user-profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://konbiniapi.com/apis/linkedin/user-profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://konbiniapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://konbiniapi.com/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://konbiniapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing