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Scrape.ly pricing: Instagram profile API

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55% complete: 6 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run Scrape.ly 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.
Type a number to see the cheapest Scrape.ly plan for that many profiles. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Scrape.ly's 5 plans
Call: POST /v2/actors/echofield~instagram-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items Scrape.ly's only call for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of Scrape.ly's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 6 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit a month, enough for about 2,183 results. Calls stop once your credit runs out.
  • One call. You send directUrls to POST /v2/actors/echofield~instagram-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items. You set resultsType to "details". The call returns a profile for each account you send.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 with full legal capacity. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scrape.ly: Instagram profile API alternatives

Scrape.ly alternatives: other Instagram profile API providers by price

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

Scrape.ly, $999 monthlyTrueScrape, $25 packUpscrape, $499 packAves API, $125 packSignalQub, $448 pack
$ per 1,000 profiles$1.27$1.25$1.25$1.25$1.28
Completeness55%45%55%55%64%
Billingmonthlypay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$999$25$499$125$448
Enough forabout 786,614 results a month20,000 calls400,000 calls100,000 calls350,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 with full legal capacityanyoneanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering the termsanyoneanyone

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. scrape.ly/
  2. scrape.ly/api/instagram-api.md
  3. scrape.ly/api/linkedin-profile-api.md
  4. scrape.ly/docs/api-overview.md
  5. scrape.ly/legal/acceptable-use.md
  6. scrape.ly/legal/terms.md
  7. scrape.ly/pricing
  8. scrape.ly/store/echofield/instagram-scraper.md

Product details

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

  • Bio
  • Photo
  • Links, not in the answer
  • 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
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 587 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchScrape public Instagram profiles, posts, reels, comments, hashtags, and places: captions, likes, comments, media URLs, and owner details, without logging in.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou decide what you collect and for what purpose, and you are solely responsible for Your Content, for having all rights, permissions and legal bases, and for complying with the law and with the terms of the sites your runs access. [...] Some Actors find or collect information about people, if you use them you are the controller of the results and must meet your duties to the people concerned. You must not use them to decide a person's eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing or benefits, to stalk, harass or expose anyone, or for any other unlawful purpose. [...] If you run Actors that find information about people, you must have a lawful purpose for each run and must not use the results to decide eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or benefits (or for any other purpose that makes them a consumer report under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act or similar law), to stalk, harass, intimidate, dox or locate anyone against their will, for illegal surveillance, to discriminate, or for unsolicited marketing. [...] You must not use the Services to: 1. break any law, or infringe anyone's rights, including copyright, database, trademark and trade-secret rights, 2. create, store or distribute child sexual abuse material, terrorist content or other illegal content, 3. commit or support fraud, phishing, scams, identity theft or money laundering, 4. send spam or unsolicited bulk messages, or create fake accounts, engagement, reviews or traffic, 5. run malware, ransomware, spyware, backdoors or keyloggers, or any code designed to damage or gain unauthorised access to a system, 6. carry out denial-of-service attacks, or scan or test systems you are not authorised to test, 7. mine cryptocurrency, or use our resources for purposes unrelated to the Actors you run, 8. engage in a practice prohibited by Article 5 of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), such as manipulative or exploitative techniques, social scoring, or building facial-recognition databases by untargeted scraping of facial images, 9. breach sanctions or export control law, 10. probe, scan, attack or overload our infrastructure, escape the run environment, or access other users' data, runs or accounts, 11. avoid or manipulate billing, usage limits, spending caps or rate limits, including by misusing an Actor's charging mechanism, 12. hold more than one free account per person or organisation, or use fake identities or other methods to obtain free or promotional credit, 13. resell, sublicense or provide access to the Services as a service to third parties, except by running Actors to deliver your own products and services, or with our written consent, 14. manipulate Store rankings, ratings, reviews, usage statistics or bookmarks, or post false reviews or issues, 15. impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation, or 16. help or encourage anyone else to do any of these things.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$5 a month
Enough forabout 2,183 results a month
Rate limit
Per second16.67
Concurrent5
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senddirectUrls, resultsType "details". Optional: search, searchType, searchLimit, resultsLimit, onlyPostsNewerThan, skipPinnedPosts, commentsPostsLimit, isNewestComments, includeNestedComments, addProfileStatistics, addParentData, proxyConfiguration
MethodPOST
Path/v2/actors/echofield~instagram-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 with full legal capacity
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, bio, followers, following, posts count, verified, private account, profile picture, profile URL

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