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Serpent API pricing and alternatives: Instagram profile API

Serpent API's sitellms.txtBest Instagram profile API in 2026: pricing comparedSerpent API: Instagram profile API alternatives

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82% complete: 9 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 299 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 calls one of Serpent API's 6 plans
Call: GET /api/social/instagram/profile, Instagram Profile one of Serpent API's 2 calls for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of Serpent API's 25 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 9 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Contact, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 10 calls in all. Unused calls expire after 12 months of account inactivity.
  • One call. You send username to GET /api/social/instagram/profile. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: one account per person or organisation, for evaluation. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Serpent API: Instagram profile API alternatives

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

Serpent API, top-up from $500, Scale, GET /api/social/instagram/profile, Instagram ProfileReefAPI, $1,200 yearlyOmkar Cloud, $148 monthlylobstr.io, $4,800 yearlyFetchLayer, $500 monthly
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.28$0.333$0.37$0.40$0.50
Completeness82%64%64%73%73%
Billingpay firstyearlymonthlyyearlymonthly
Pay$500$1,200$148$4,800$500
Enough forabout 1,785,714 calls300,000 calls a month400,000 calls a month1,000,000 results a month1,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted partiesprofessionals, not consumersanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)

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 2026-10-31.

  1. apiserpent.com/docs
  2. apiserpent.com/docs#instagram-profile
  3. apiserpent.com/faq
  4. apiserpent.com/instagram-api
  5. apiserpent.com/linkedin-api
  6. apiserpent.com/pricing
  7. apiserpent.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
  • Location
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Quick Search · Deep Search · News · Images · Videos · AI Ranking Combined · AI Ranking Single Engine · LinkedIn Company · LinkedIn Posts · LinkedIn Job Search · LinkedIn Job Details · LinkedIn Profile · LinkedIn Full Profile · LinkedIn Profile Search · Google Maps Quick Place Search · Google Maps Deep Place Search · Google Maps Place Details · Google Maps Reviews · YouTube Search · YouTube Video Details · YouTube Channel Details · YouTube Playlist Videos · Amazon Search · Amazon Product · Amazon Bestsellers · TikTok Profile · TikTok Video · TikTok Hashtag · TikTok Search · TikTok Music · X Post · X Profile · Reddit Subreddit Listing · Reddit Comments · Reddit Search · Reddit User · Reddit Community · eBay Search listings · eBay Item details · eBay Seller profile · eBay Seller listings · eBay Product reviews · eBay Seller feedback
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRead Instagram profiles and recent posts as structured JSON with bio, follower and engagement data.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit, "You agree NOT to use the Service to: [...] Scrape, copy, or store data in violation of third-party terms"
Use dataYou may use the API for lawful purposes in accordance with these Terms and applicable laws. [...] You agree NOT to use the Service to: Violate any applicable laws or regulations, Infringe on intellectual property rights of others, Distribute malware, spam, or harmful content, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers, Resell or redistribute the Service without authorization, Use automated means to abuse or overload the Service, Deliberately obtain discounted volume pricing for a completed workload and then seek a refund of the qualifying payment to retain that discount without paying the applicable Default rate. Refund requests alone, or ordinary API usage, are not abuse, any request is reviewed individually under our Cancellation & Refund Policy and applicable law, Open or operate more than one account in order to claim free searches, introductory pricing, or any promotional benefit more than once, Scrape, copy, or store data in violation of third-party terms, Submit sensitive personal data in query strings, including health, financial account, government identification, biometric, or similar special-category information [...] Free searches are for evaluation purposes only. [...] You retain ownership of any content you create using data obtained through the Service, subject to third-party rights.
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for10 calls, once
Expiresafter 12 months of account inactivity
Rate limit
Per day10,000
Per second0.028
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendusername. Optional: include_contact, include_business, include_reels_info, include_profile_detail, include_posts, include_post_details
MethodGET
Path/api/social/instagram/profile
About the plan
PlanFree calls
Who can get itone account per person or organisation, for evaluation
The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, username, profile URL, name, bio, website, profile picture, followers, following, posts count, verified, business account, private account, account type, public email, business phone, WhatsApp number, business contact method, city name, professional account, business category, has opt eligible shop, reels count, clip count, highlights count, has active story, has guides, has channel, pronouns, joined recently, like and view counts disabled, bio entities, bio links, profile picture HD

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