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SocialAPIs pricing and alternatives: Instagram profile API

SocialAPIs's sitellms.txtBest Instagram profile API in 2026: pricing compared

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73% complete: 8 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 262 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 one of SocialAPIs's 5 plans
Call: GET /instagram/profile/details SocialAPIs's only call for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of SocialAPIs's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 8 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Contact, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits a month, enough for 200 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of the month.
  • One call. You send username to GET /instagram/profile/details. You can also send link. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter into the terms. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SocialAPIs: Instagram profile API alternatives

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

SocialAPIs, $179 monthlyFetchLayer, $50 monthlyReefAPI, $15 monthlyBright Data, top-upSocial Fetch, $225 monthly, Scale, GET /v2/instagram/profiles/{profile}, Get Instagram profile
$ per 1,000 profiles$1.492$1.429$1.50$1.50$1.50
Completeness73%73%64%73%82%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$179$50$15any amount$225
Enough for120,000 calls a month35,000 calls a month10,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for150,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter into the termsanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyoneanyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanonanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it

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 2026-10-30.

  1. socialapis.io/api-sources/instagram-profile-details
  2. socialapis.io/api-sources/usage-limits
  3. socialapis.io/llms-endpoints.txt
  4. socialapis.io/llms.txt
  5. socialapis.io/openapi.json
  6. socialapis.io/pricing
  7. socialapis.io/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, not in the answer
  • 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: 49 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet user profile information by username including bio, followers, posts count, and related profiles.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use the API to: Access publicly available Facebook and Instagram data, Build applications and integrations for legitimate business purposes, Research and analyze public pages, posts, ads and trends, Monitor public content about your own brand, products or market. [...] You may NOT use the API to: Attempt to access private or non-public information, Track, profile, or surveil individuals, or build databases of private persons, Send spam or unsolicited messages to people found through the Service, Harass, discriminate against, or harm any person, Process personal data without a lawful basis under applicable data protection law (such as the GDPR or CCPA), Engage in any illegal activity, Resell or share API access or API keys without our written permission, Circumvent rate limits or access controls, Infringe on intellectual property rights, Distribute malware or harmful code, Build a competing data API by reselling data obtained from SocialAPIs
Plan
Pay$0
You get200 credits a month
Enough for200 calls a month
Expiresat the end of the month
Rate limit
Per second0.28
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median2.01 s
The call
You sendusername. Optional: link
MethodGET
Path/instagram/profile/details
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter into the terms
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, bio, profile picture, followers, following, posts count, verified, category, business category, website, business email, business phone, related profiles

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