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Needle pricing: Instagram profile API

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73% complete: 8 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run Needle through our Instagram profile API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 551 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.648 per 1,000 profiles or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.022.lobstr.io, KonbiniAPI and Scrappa are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
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Plan: Free Trial one of Needle's 4 plans
Call: GET /api/v1/instagram/profiles/{identity} Needle's only call for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of Needle's 16 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 8 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1 linked account. This call is free. Needle limits how many calls you get but gives no number. Unused units expire after 7 days.
  • One call. You send identity and connectedAccountId to GET /api/v1/instagram/profiles/{identity}. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a LinkedIn, Instagram or email account to connect. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: with conditions.

Needle: Instagram profile API alternatives

Needle alternatives: other Instagram profile API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 profiles.

This planNeedle, freelobstr.io, freeKonbiniAPI, freeScrappa, free, GET /api/v2/instagram/userReefAPI, freeInstagram API (Meta), free
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness73%73%64%64%64%36%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published100 results a month100 calls500 calls a month1,000 callsnot published
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyone with a LinkedIn, Instagram or email account to connectprofessionals, not consumersanyone at least 18 years oldanyone 18 or overanyonean Instagram professional account (business or creator) connected to a Facebook Page, whose app user can perform admin-equivalent tasks on that Page, with a Facebook User access token holding the instagram_basic, instagram_manage_insights and pages_read_engagement permissions (and ads_management or ads_read when the Page role was granted via the Business Manager), an app that serves Instagram professional accounts it doesn't own or manage needs Advanced Access, which requires App Review and Business Verification, it reads other Instagram business and creator accounts alone, and returns no data about age-gated accounts, calls count against the Platform Rate Limits: 200 times the app's number of users a rolling hour on an app token, a user token's count not revealed

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

  1. needle.app/api/v1/openapi
  2. needle.app/docs/api-reference/get-instagram-profile
  3. needle.app/docs/api-reference/get-linkedin-profile
  4. needle.app/pricing
  5. needle.app/terms

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
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays for112 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns a profile by username, with the connected account’s relationship to it.
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use dataYou may use Needle only in compliance with these terms and all applicable laws. [...] You agree not to misuse the service, including by attempting to access it in unauthorized ways, disrupting its operation, or using it to violate the rights of others.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1 linked account
Expires7 days
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendidentity, connectedAccountId
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/instagram/profiles/{identity}
About the plan
PlanFree Trial
Who can get itanyone with a LinkedIn, Instagram or email account to connect
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, profile URL, name, bio, category, location, profile picture, profile picture HD, followers, following, posts count, bio links, private account, verified

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