# LurkAPI, free: Instagram profile API

> A public profile's biography, links and follower counts.

LurkAPI's Instagram profile API on its 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.
We haven't run LurkAPI 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/lurkapi/free
- [Instagram profile API: 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/instagram/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://lurkapi.com/docs/instagram/profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: LurkAPI (https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 87 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A public profile's biography, links and follower counts.

## Data

- 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.

## Plan

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

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of username or url
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/instagram/profile

## About the plan

- 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

## LurkAPI's plans (4)

- [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, 10 minutes
- [LurkAPI, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lurkapi/9-pack/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 64% complete, 10 minutes
- [LurkAPI, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lurkapi/59-pack/llms.txt): $0.59 per 1,000, 64% complete, 10 minutes
- [LurkAPI, $225 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lurkapi/225-pack/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 64% complete, 10 minutes

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

- `GET /v1/instagram/profile`: [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt)

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## LurkAPI: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lobstr-io/4800-yearly/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Omkar Cloud, $48 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/omkar-cloud/48-monthly/llms.txt): $0.48 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [GetSocialAPI, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/getsocialapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.499 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $450 quarterly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 64% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs/instagram/profile.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs/linkedin/profile.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing