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PenguinRadar pricing: Instagram profile API, POST /queries

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36% complete: 4 of the 11 fields on our checklistSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run PenguinRadar through our Instagram profile API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 591 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.90 per 1,000 profiles or less. See how many Instagram profile API plans are free.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.022.lobstr.io, KonbiniAPI and Litescrape are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest PenguinRadar plan for that many profiles. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of PenguinRadar's 4 plans
Call: POST /queries one of PenguinRadar's 2 calls
API: Instagram profile API PenguinRadar's only API

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 4 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Photo, Verified, Followers, Following.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10 credits a day, enough for 10 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 24 hours.
  • One call. You call POST /queries. You send username, maxCredits and the Idempotency-Key header. You set type to "profile". The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

PenguinRadar: Instagram profile API alternatives

PenguinRadar alternatives: other Instagram profile API providers by price

The table starts with PenguinRadar's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to PenguinRadar's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

PenguinRadar, $499 yearly, Pro, POST /queriesKeyAPI, $59 monthlyAPI Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, POST /v1/batchQuanticData, top-up from $5ProLevelMax, top-up, Pay per use, POST /v1/run, Instagram profile info
$ per 1,000 profiles$5.941$5.90$6.00$6.00$6.00
Completeness36%73%82%64%64%
Billingyearlymonthlypay as you gopay firstpay first
Pay$499$59at a threshold$5any amount
Enough for7,000 calls a month10,000 calls a monthas many as you pay forabout 833 resultsas many as you pay for
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over (or the age of majority where they live) who signs in with an email link or Googleanyoneat least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Termsanyone, for an organisation, someone authorised to bind itanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. penguinradar.com/developers
  2. penguinradar.com/docs/accounts
  3. penguinradar.com/docs/authentication
  4. penguinradar.com/docs/openapi.json
  5. penguinradar.com/docs/reference
  6. penguinradar.com/pricing
  7. penguinradar.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Bio, not in the answer
  • Photo
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location, not in the answer
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts, not in the answer
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: List my tracked accounts · Read existing account profile and totals · Read an available follower snapshot · Read an available following snapshot · Read detected tracking changes
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchQuery fresh public data when you need it, with an explicit budget.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataPenguinRadar is for looking at public information — for research, following creators and brands, or understanding your own audience. You agree not to: use it to stalk, harass, threaten, intimidate or expose anyone, or to monitor a person in a way that breaks the law or their rights, try to see private accounts or other information that is not public, or get around a block, a privacy setting or an owner’s removal request, scrape, bulk-copy, resell or republish data or content from PenguinRadar, or access it with bots or scripts other than through features we provide, get around credit charges, limits or suspensions — for example with several accounts — or interfere with the service or its security, use it for anything unlawful or that infringes the rights of others. [...] The profiles, photos, videos and other content shown on PenguinRadar belong to their owners. We display them so you can view them, we give you no rights in them, and republishing them may need the owner’s permission.
Plan
Pay$0
You get10 credits a day
Enough for10 calls a day
Expires24 hours
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendusername, type "profile", maxCredits, Idempotency-Key header
MethodPOST
Path/queries
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over (or the age of majority where they live) who signs in with an email link or Google
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, profile picture, private account, verified, followers, following, request ID, credits used, serving source, fetched at, has more, next cursor

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