# PenguinRadar, free, POST /queries: Instagram profile API

> Query fresh public data when you need it, with an explicit budget.

PenguinRadar's Free plan for the Instagram profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. PenguinRadar's docs list 4 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Photo, Verified, Followers, Following.
We haven't run PenguinRadar through [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) 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.](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.
[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/penguinradar/free-post-queries
- [Instagram profile API: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://penguinradar.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://penguinradar.com/open-api/v1/queries`
- API key: with the plan, on https://penguinradar.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://penguinradar.com/docs/reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing#query-fresh-public-account-data-within-a-budget
- Sold by: PenguinRadar, formerly Instoryview (https://penguinradar.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 36%
- Photo: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Query fresh public data when you need it, with an explicit budget.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: PenguinRadar 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 get: 10 credits a day
- Enough for: 10 calls a day
- Expires: 24 hours

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username, type "profile", maxCredits, Idempotency-Key header
- Method: POST
- Path: /queries

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## PenguinRadar's plans (4)

- [PenguinRadar, free, POST /queries](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/penguinradar/free-post-queries/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [PenguinRadar, $99 yearly, Lite, POST /queries](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/penguinradar/99-yearly-lite-post-queries/llms.txt): $8.25 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [PenguinRadar, $199 yearly, Starter, POST /queries](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/penguinradar/199-yearly-starter-post-queries/llms.txt): $6.633 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [PenguinRadar, $499 yearly, Pro, POST /queries](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/penguinradar/499-yearly-pro-post-queries/llms.txt): $5.941 per 1,000, 36% complete, live

## PenguinRadar's calls (2)

- `POST /queries`: [PenguinRadar, free, POST /queries](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/penguinradar/free-post-queries/llms.txt)
- `GET /accounts/{username}`: [PenguinRadar, free, GET /accounts/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/penguinradar/free-get-accounts-username/llms.txt)

## PenguinRadar's APIs (1)

- [PenguinRadar (formerly Instoryview): Instagram profile API pricing, 4 plans, POST /queries](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/penguinradar/free-post-queries/llms.txt)

## PenguinRadar: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [KeyAPI, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/keyapi/59-monthly/llms.txt): $5.90 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-post-v1-batch/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [QuanticData, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/quanticdata/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [ProLevelMax, top-up, Pay per use, POST /v1/run, Instagram profile info](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/prolevelmax/top-up-pay-per-use-post-v1-run-instagram-profile-info/llms.txt): $6.00 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 2026-11-07.

- https://penguinradar.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://penguinradar.com/docs/accounts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://penguinradar.com/docs/authentication?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://penguinradar.com/docs/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://penguinradar.com/docs/reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://penguinradar.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://penguinradar.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing