# ShortsIntel, free: Instagram profile API

> ShortsIntel returns public Instagram data as JSON from /v1: Reels, posts and carousels, Creator profiles with a baseline, Hashtags, Keyword search and comments.

ShortsIntel's Starter Grant plan for the Instagram profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. ShortsIntel's docs list all 11 fields on our checklist: Bio, Photo, Links, Contact, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes, Views.
We haven't run ShortsIntel through [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 591 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.90 per 1,000 profiles or less. [See how many Instagram profile API plans are free.](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.
[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/shortsintel/free
- [Instagram profile API: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://www.shortsintel.com/v1/creators/{platform}/{handle}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/reference/creators/get-creator?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: ShortsIntel (https://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Contact: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Likes: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Research a niche · Refresh a research's videos · Run a Creator Breakdown · Search videos by keyword · Look up a video by URL · Look up a video by id · Analyse a video · Score a video against its creator · Read a video's comments · Read a comment's replies · Page a creator's stored videos · Look up a hashtag's trend · Page a hashtag's videos · Look up a sound's trend · Page a sound's videos · Sample a keyword search · Search ad libraries · Look up a Meta Ad by id · Get a TikTok Ad · Look up an advertiser profile · Start tracking a target · Run a tracker cycle now · Set or clear a tracker's focus · Preview a focus on a tracker

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: ShortsIntel returns public Instagram data as JSON from /v1: Reels, posts and carousels, Creator profiles with a baseline, Hashtags, Keyword search and comments.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Derived works are permitted. You may analyse, transform, combine and build on the API output, and you may distribute and commercialise the results [...] Reselling the raw data is not permitted. You may not: resell, sublicense, redistribute or otherwise make available the raw records or bulk API output as a data product, feed, export or dataset, whether for a fee or free of charge, republish raw records in bulk, or mirror, replicate or reconstruct the ShortsIntel corpus or any substantial part of it, including by systematic enumeration of the API, use the API or its output to build, train or operate a substitute for the Service, or a competing short-form video data service, use the output to identify, target, profile, score or make decisions about individual people, including creators and commenters, or to enable anyone else to do so, remove, obscure or misrepresent the provenance of data obtained through the Service where you are permitted to display it. Upstream restrictions pass through. [...] Where those providers or platforms impose restrictions on the use, retention or redistribution of that data, those restrictions apply to you as well

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: about 166 calls, once
- Expires: 90 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: platform "instagram", handle. Optional: include, videos_from, cursor, wait, max_credits, estimate
- Method: GET
- Path: /creators/{platform}/{handle}

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter Grant
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up

## The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, user ID, username, name, profile picture, followers, bio, verified, posts count, likes count, following, bio links, account created, country, business account, business category, views count, contact email, median views, average engagement rate, content per week, p90 views, baseline confidence, baseline sample size

## ShortsIntel's plans (5)

- [ShortsIntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/10-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/20-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/50-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/100-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours

## ShortsIntel's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}`: [ShortsIntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel's APIs (11)

- [ShortsIntel: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [PenguinRadar, $499 yearly, Pro, POST /queries](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/penguinradar/499-yearly-pro-post-queries/llms.txt): $5.941 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-post-v1-batch/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [QuanticData, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/quanticdata/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [ProLevelMax, top-up, Pay per use, POST /v1/run, Instagram profile info](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/prolevelmax/top-up-pay-per-use-post-v1-run-instagram-profile-info/llms.txt): $6.00 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://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/authentication-and-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/pricing-and-estimates?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/instagram-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/openapi.v1.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing