# ScrapingDaddy, free, GET /v1/instagram/profile: Instagram profile API

> Get a public Instagram profile by username or user ID: bio, follower and post counts, profile picture and account flags.

ScrapingDaddy's Instagram profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 8 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Contact, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
We haven't run ScrapingDaddy through [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 466 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.809 per 1,000 profiles or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least 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 [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt) are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingdaddy/free-get-v1-instagram-profile
- [Instagram profile API: 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapingdaddy.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapingdaddy.com/v1/instagram/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapingdaddy.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.scrapingdaddy.com/api-reference/instagram/profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapingDaddy (https://scrapingdaddy.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 73%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Contact: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 182 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get a public Instagram profile by username or user ID: bio, follower and post counts, profile picture and account flags.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: For as long as your paid subscription remains active, ScrapingDaddy grants you a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, revocable license to access, retrieve, store, analyze, and distribute, whether commercially or otherwise, the publicly available data delivered via ScrapingDaddy's API [...] you may not manipulate or supplement data in any way that misrepresents what was actually returned by our API, or that could reasonably cause harm to any third party. [...] you agree not to use any data obtained through ScrapingDaddy to (a) expose, publish, or exploit private or personally sensitive information, or (b) engage in any activity that violates applicable law, causes harm to individuals, or damages public interest.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month
- Expires: unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle, no rollover

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of username or userId
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/instagram/profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, bio, bio links, website, followers, following, posts count, profile picture, verified, private account, business account, professional account, business email, business phone, business category, business address, pronouns, highlights count, has reels

## ScrapingDaddy's plans (6)

- [ScrapingDaddy, free, GET /v1/instagram/profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingdaddy/free-get-v1-instagram-profile/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $15 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/instagram/profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingdaddy/15-monthly-starter-get-v1-instagram-profile/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $49 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/instagram/profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingdaddy/49-monthly-pro-get-v1-instagram-profile/llms.txt): $0.98 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $90 monthly, Ultra, GET /v1/instagram/profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingdaddy/90-monthly-ultra-get-v1-instagram-profile/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $400 monthly, Mega, GET /v1/instagram/profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingdaddy/400-monthly-mega-get-v1-instagram-profile/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, contact us, Custom, GET /v1/instagram/profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingdaddy/contact-us-custom-get-v1-instagram-profile/llms.txt): 73% complete, live

## ScrapingDaddy's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v1/instagram/profile`: [ScrapingDaddy, free, GET /v1/instagram/profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingdaddy/free-get-v1-instagram-profile/llms.txt)
- `GET /v2/instagram/profile`: [ScrapingDaddy, free, GET /v2/instagram/profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingdaddy/free-get-v2-instagram-profile/llms.txt)

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- [lobstr.io, $960 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lobstr-io/960-yearly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
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## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://docs.scrapingdaddy.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.scrapingdaddy.com/api-reference/instagram/profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
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