# ScrapingBot.io, free: Instagram profile API

> A public profile: bio, follower and following counts, verification, links and profile picture.

ScrapingBot.io's Free plan for the Instagram profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. ScrapingBot.io's docs list 9 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Bio, Photo, Links, Contact, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
We haven't run ScrapingBot.io through [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 595 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.88 per 1,000 profiles or less. [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/scrapingbot-io/free
- [Instagram profile API: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapingbot.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://scrapingbot.io/api/v1/instagram`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapingbot.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapingbot.io/docs/instagram?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing#instagram-user
- Sold by: ScrapingBot.io (https://scrapingbot.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 82%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Contact: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 50 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A public profile: bio, follower and following counts, verification, links and profile picture.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: ScrapingBot returns publicly available data. You are responsible for what you collect and how you use it, [...] You agree not to use the service to: Access content behind a login, a paywall or other access controls, or any non-public or private data. Track, monitor, profile or harass individuals, build dossiers on people, or make decisions about people’s eligibility for jobs, credit, housing or insurance. Collect sensitive personal data (such as health, religion, political opinions, sexuality or biometrics) or children’s data. Send spam, or collect contact details for unsolicited messages. Break the law, infringe others’ rights, or collect data you have no right to use. Overload or disrupt any website, or our service, or try to get around our limits, billing or security. Resell or give away raw access to the API itself (for example, a public proxy for our endpoints). Building your own product on top of the data is fine.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 20 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: endpoint "/user/by_username", one of params.username or params.url
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/instagram

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 16 or older, and old enough to enter a contract where they live

## The 38 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, Facebook ID, username, name, bio, bio links, website, profile picture, profile picture HD, followers, following, posts count, verified, private account, business account, professional account, category, pronouns, account type, memorialized, unpublished, embeds disabled, account badges, city name, ZIP code, street address, total clips count, latest reel media, live broadcast ID, COPPA enforced, friendship status, category shown, text post app badge label, show text post app badge, account transparency details shown, bio with entities, success, credits used

## ScrapingBot.io's plans (6)

- [ScrapingBot.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingbot-io/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 82% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $49.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingbot-io/49-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.909 per 1,000, 82% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $99.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingbot-io/99-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.455 per 1,000, 82% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $249.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingbot-io/249-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.379 per 1,000, 82% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $599.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingbot-io/599-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 82% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $999.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingbot-io/999-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.323 per 1,000, 82% complete

## ScrapingBot.io's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/v1/instagram`: [ScrapingBot.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingbot-io/free/llms.txt)

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## ScrapingBot.io: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [Context.dev, $9,500 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/context-dev/9500-yearly/llms.txt): $0.317 per 1,000, 82% complete, 3 days
- [Parseium, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/parseium/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.327 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $14,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapebadger/14990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 82% complete
- [ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/reefapi/1200-yearly/llms.txt): $0.333 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://scrapingbot.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/docs/instagram?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/instagram?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing