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Scrappa pricing and alternatives: Instagram profile API, GET /api/instagram/user/basic

Scrappa's sitellms.txt
36% complete: 4 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 196 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.15.
Plan: Free one of Scrappa's 11 plans
Call: GET /api/instagram/user/basic one of Scrappa's 2 calls for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of Scrappa's 19 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 4 of the 11 key fields we check. Photo, Verified, Followers, Following.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests a month.
  • One call. You send user_id to GET /api/instagram/user/basic. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scrappa: Instagram profile API alternatives

The table starts with Scrappa's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to Scrappa's.

Scrappa, $1,000 pack, Ultimate, GET /api/instagram/user/basicLitescrape, top-up from $10ScrapeBadger, $36,000 yearlylobstr.io, $4,800 yearlyHikerAPI, top-up from $599, Ultra, GET /v1/user/by/url
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.20$0.15$0.30$0.40$0.60
Completeness36%9%82%73%82%
Billingpay firstpay firstyearlyyearlypay first
Pay$1,000$10$36,000$4,800$599
Enough for5,000,000 calls66,667 calls10,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 results a monthas many as you pay for
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownlivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone 18 or overprofessionals, not consumersanyone

Instagram profile API pricing: plans compared

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. scrappa.co/apis/linkedin-api
  2. scrappa.co/docs/api.json
  3. scrappa.co/docs/error-handling
  4. scrappa.co/docs/instagram-api/instagram_user_basic
  5. scrappa.co/legal/terms-of-service
  6. scrappa.co/pricing

Product details

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

  • Bio, not in the answer
  • Photo
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location, not in the answer
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts, not in the answer
  • 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: 2,378 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRetrieve the basic public Instagram profile for a numeric user ID. This lightweight lookup returns the profile identity (username, name, profile pictures, verified and private flags) and the follower and following counts.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataSubject to these Terms, we permit you to use API output lawfully obtained through your account in your own commercial or non-commercial applications, websites, and reports. This includes storing and caching output, displaying it to your users, linking to original sources, combining and comparing it with other data, and performing analytics, including AI-assisted analysis. [...] Reselling API output as a standalone dataset or data feed, or reselling access to the Service, requires our written authorization. [...] Public availability and delivery through the API do not, by themselves, establish a right to reuse content. [...] You are responsible for establishing a lawful basis for your use, obtaining any permissions required, and complying with applicable laws and third-party terms that legally apply to your use. This includes any applicable attribution, retention, deletion, redistribution, and AI or text-and-data-mining restrictions. [...] You agree not to: Use the Service for any illegal purpose or in violation of any laws, Violate or infringe upon the rights of others, Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers connected to the Service, Resell or redistribute API output outside the application uses permitted by Section 8 without our written authorization, Use the Service to scrape or collect data in violation of third-party terms of service that legally apply to your use, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Service
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 requests a month
Enough for500 calls a month
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senduser_id
MethodGET
Path/api/instagram/user/basic
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, lookup status, user ID, username, name, profile picture, profile picture HD, verified, private account, followers, following

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