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ReefAPI pricing and alternatives: Instagram profile API

ReefAPI's sitellms.txtBest Instagram profile API in 2026

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64% complete: 7 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 233 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.15.Scrappa, ScrapeCreators and lobstr.io are the best Instagram profile API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ReefAPI's 11 plans
Call: POST /instagram/v1/profile ReefAPI's only call for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of ReefAPI's 25 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 7 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You call POST /instagram/v1/profile. Every input is optional: username, user_id.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ReefAPI: Instagram profile API alternatives

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

ReefAPI, $1,200 yearlylobstr.io, $4,800 yearlyFetchLayer, $500 monthlyHikerAPI, top-up from $599, Ultra, GET /v1/user/by/urlHasData, $2,490 yearly
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.333$0.40$0.50$0.60$0.692
Completeness64%73%73%82%64%
Billingyearlyyearlymonthlypay firstyearly
Pay$1,200$4,800$500$599$2,490
Enough for300,000 calls a month1,000,000 results a month1,000,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for300,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneprofessionals, not consumersanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyoneanyone

Every Instagram profile API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. reefapi.com
  2. reefapi.com/_next/static/chunks/app/pricing/page-560e08c02e869119.js
  3. reefapi.com/docs
  4. reefapi.com/docs/instagram
  5. reefapi.com/docs/instagram.md
  6. reefapi.com/pricing
  7. reefapi.com/refunds
  8. reefapi.com/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, not in the answer
  • 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 forfrom the same budget: 584 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchpublic profile facts and first-page recent posts
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou are solely responsible for how you use the data you retrieve and for ensuring your use complies with all applicable laws, third-party terms, and the rights of others (including data-protection, intellectual-property, and anti-spam laws) in your jurisdiction and your users'. You will not use the Service to break the law, infringe rights, send spam, or build a competing bulk-redistribution product. [...] Don't attempt to circumvent authentication, rate limits, or credit metering, don't probe, scan, or stress the Service except your own account within posted limits. [...] Where a source requires attribution, we surface it in the response meta, honor it.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: username, user_id
MethodPOST
Path/instagram/v1/profile
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, bio, followers, following, verified, private account, account type, business account, professional account, category, profile picture, website, user ID, recent posts, posts count

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