# Manifold, free: Instagram profile API

> One Instagram account: followers, posts and whether it is a business account.

Manifold's Free plan for the Instagram profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Manifold's docs list 6: Bio, Links, Contact, Verified, Followers, Following.
We haven't run Manifold through [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 633 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.96 or less per 1,000 profiles. [See the best free Instagram profile API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.022. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 profiles a month: about $2.72.
[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 [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/manifold/free
- [Instagram profile API: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.manifoldmcp.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://mcp.manifoldmcp.com/mcp`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.manifoldmcp.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/instagram?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing#instagram_get_profile
- Sold by: Manifold (https://www.manifoldmcp.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: 24 hours
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 111 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: One Instagram account: followers, posts and whether it is a business account.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: [7.3] You may use the results the Service returns for your internal business purposes, including in reports and materials you produce for your own clients, subject to Section 5. [...] [5.1] You must use the Service lawfully, and only in ways that a reasonable person would consider fair to us, to our data providers and to the people whose data the Service returns. In particular, you must not: (a) use the Service to send unsolicited messages, or to build or enrich lists of people for unsolicited marketing, in breach of the UK GDPR, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, the CAN-SPAM Act, or any other law that applies to you or to the people you contact, (b) resell, sublicense, redistribute or publicly release the data the Service returns as a dataset or database, or use the Service to build a product whose purpose is to make that data available to others, (c) use the data to discriminate unlawfully, to stalk, harass or intimidate anyone, or for any purpose that is harmful, deceptive or unlawful, (d) use the Service to determine a person's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or any similar benefit, or for any purpose regulated by consumer reporting or credit reference laws, (g) reverse engineer, decompile or copy the Service, or use it to build a competing service, (i) use the Service in breach of the terms of a platform, website or data provider, where those terms apply to you.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 250 credits a month
- Enough for: 250 calls a month
- Expires: at the monthly reset, not rolled over

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: jsonrpc "2.0", id, method "tools/call", params.name "instagram_get_profile", params.arguments.handle
- Method: POST
- Path: /mcp

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone using it for business, aged 18 or over, no card needed

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, bio, verified, followers, following, website, links, email, phone, similar accounts

## Manifold's plans (7)

- [Manifold, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/manifold/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Manifold, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/manifold/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $25.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Manifold, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/manifold/29-monthly/llms.txt): $19.333 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Manifold, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/manifold/49-monthly/llms.txt): $16.333 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Manifold, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/manifold/79-monthly/llms.txt): $15.80 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Manifold, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/manifold/249-monthly/llms.txt): $12.45 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Manifold, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/manifold/contact-us/llms.txt): 55% complete, 24 hours

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

- `POST /mcp`: [Manifold, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/manifold/free/llms.txt)

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## Manifold: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [EnsembleData, $400 monthly, Silver, GET /instagram/user/detailed-info](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/ensembledata/400-monthly-silver-get-instagram-user-detailed-info/llms.txt): $12.121 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Janney AI, $2,388 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/janney-ai/2388-yearly/llms.txt): $13.267 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, GET /v1/instagram/profile/full](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialcrawl/299-pack-pro-get-v1-instagram-profile-full/llms.txt): $13.291 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, pay as you go, x402, GET /v2/instagram/profiles/{profile}, Get Instagram profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/social-fetch/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v2-instagram-profiles-profile-get-instagram-profile/llms.txt): $14.00 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 2026-11-08.

- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/authentication.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/credits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/plans.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/instagram.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/mcp/linkedin.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/terms.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing