LurkAPI pricing: Instagram profile API
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64% complete: 7 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run LurkAPI through our Instagram profile API benchmark 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 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.022.lobstr.io, KonbiniAPI and ReefAPI are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free credits one of LurkAPI's 4 plans
- FreeFree credits$0.00 per 1,000
- $9 packStarter$0.90 per 1,000
- $59 packGrowth$0.59 per 1,000
- $225 packScale$0.45 per 1,000
Call:
GET / LurkAPI's only call for this APIAPI: Instagram profile API one of LurkAPI's 37 APIs
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GET /v1/ web/ residential - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ fetch - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ render - Web scraping API
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About this item
- A copy at most 10 minutes old. You get profiles from LurkAPI's copy of Instagram.
- 7 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 100 calls.
- One call. You send
usernameorurltoGET /. The call returns the account's profile.v1/ instagram/ profile - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
LurkAPI: Instagram profile API alternatives
LurkAPI alternatives: every Instagram profile API provider ranked
The table starts with LurkAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to LurkAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.
| LurkAPI, $225 pack | lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly | Omkar Cloud, $48 monthly | GetSocialAPI, $499 monthly | ReefAPI, $450 quarterly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 profiles | $0.45 | $0.40 | $0.48 | $0.499 | $0.50 |
| Completeness | 64% | 73% | 64% | 82% | 64% |
| Billing | pay first | yearly | monthly | monthly | quarterly |
| Pay | $225 | $4,800 | $48 | $499 | $450 |
| Enough for | 500,000 calls | 1,000,000 results a month | 100,000 calls a month | 1,000,000 calls a month | 300,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | 10 minutes | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | professionals, not consumers | anyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted parties | anyone | anyone |
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.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Bio
- Photo
- 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
| $ per 1,000 profiles | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 87 other calls |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | A public profile's biography, links and follower counts. |
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| Freshness | 10 minutes |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Fair use: Don't try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service. Don't share or resell your API keys. Building your own products on top of LurkAPI is fine. Don't use LurkAPI to harass people or for anything illegal. [...] LurkAPI returns publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it, including the privacy and data protection laws that apply to you. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 100 calls |
| Per second | 5 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | one of username or url |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/instagram/profile |
| Plan | Free credits |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone |
The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold
user ID, username, profile URL, name, bio, profile picture, profile picture HD, private account, verified, followers, following, posts count, external URL, bio links, pronouns, account type, category, reels count