# Osint, free: Instagram profile API

> To view an Instagram profile without an account, enter the username or profile link: you get the name, bio and profile picture, whether it’s verified or private, exact follower and following counts, the post count and the numeric user ID - without logging in, and without the owner being notified.

Osint's Free account plan for the Instagram profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Osint's docs list 6: Bio, Photo, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
We haven't run Osint 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/osint/free
- [Instagram profile API: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://osint.foundation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://osint.foundation/api/v1/instagram-username/{username}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://osint.foundation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://osint.foundation/instagram-viewer?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: Osint (https://osint.foundation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 55%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: To view an Instagram profile without an account, enter the username or profile link: you get the name, bio and profile picture, whether it’s verified or private, exact follower and following counts, the post count and the numeric user ID - without logging in, and without the owner being notified.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Use the service only for lawful purposes, such as security research, fraud prevention, due diligence, journalism, investigations and checking your own exposure [...] You must not use the service, or anything it returns, to: stalk, harass, threaten, dox or intimidate anyone, [...] make decisions about a person’s employment, housing, credit or insurance, or discriminate against anyone, commit or facilitate fraud, identity theft or any other crime, resell or republish raw results as a competing dataset or service without our written permission, get around rate limits, credit metering or account restrictions, scrape the website instead of using the API, or repeatedly send input the service cannot process, attack, probe or overload the service or its infrastructure.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 3 credits a day
- Enough for: 3 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/instagram-username/{username}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free account
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over who can enter a binding contract, with an email-verified account

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

found, user ID, username, name, bio, profile picture, verified, private account, followers, following, posts count, has active story

## Osint's plans (7)

- [Osint, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Osint, $4.20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/osint/4-20-pack/llms.txt): $84.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Osint, $29.99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/osint/29-99-pack/llms.txt): $29.99 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Osint, $99.99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/osint/99-99-pack/llms.txt): $9.999 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Osint, $699 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/osint/699-pack/llms.txt): $1.398 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Osint, $1,999 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/osint/1999-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Osint, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/osint/contact-us/llms.txt): 55% complete, live

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

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

## Osint's APIs (13)

- [Osint: Facebook page API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: GitHub profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/github-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: Instagram profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: business verification API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: domain WHOIS API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: IP company lookup API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: local business search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: phone validation API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: reverse email lookup API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: Snapchat profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/snapchat-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: Telegram channel API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: TikTok profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)

## Osint: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [Parseium, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/parseium/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.141 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Serpent API, top-up from $500, Scale, GET /api/social/instagram/profile, Instagram Profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-social-instagram-profile-instagram-profile/llms.txt): $0.28 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/reefapi/1200-yearly/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [herascrape, $1,000 pack, Deposit $1,000 (+10% bonus), GET /users/{user_id}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/herascrape/1000-pack-deposit-1000-10-bonus-get-users-user-id/llms.txt): $0.364 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 2026-11-08.

- https://osint.foundation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://osint.foundation/instagram-viewer?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://osint.foundation/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://osint.foundation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://osint.foundation/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing