# SocialAPIs, free: Instagram profile API

> Get user profile information by username including bio, followers, posts count, and related profiles.

SocialAPIs'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 rank 262 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.15.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrappa/10-pack-starter-get-api-v2-instagram-user/llms.txt), [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapecreators/497-pack/llms.txt) and [lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Instagram profile API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialapis/free
- [Best Instagram profile API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://socialapis.io/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.socialapis.io/instagram/profile/details`
- API key: with the plan, on https://socialapis.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://socialapis.io/api-sources/instagram-profile-details
- Sold by: SocialAPIs (https://socialapis.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## 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: 49 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get user profile information by username including bio, followers, posts count, and related profiles.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 200 credits a month
- Enough for: 200 calls a month
- Expires: at the end of the month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.28
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.01 s

## The call

- You send: username. Optional: link
- Method: GET
- Path: /instagram/profile/details

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## SocialAPIs's plans (5)

- [SocialAPIs, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [SocialAPIs, $4.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialapis/4-99-monthly/llms.txt): $3.327 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [SocialAPIs, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialapis/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.633 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [SocialAPIs, $179 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialapis/179-monthly/llms.txt): $1.492 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [SocialAPIs, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialapis/contact-us/llms.txt): 73% complete, live

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

- `GET /instagram/profile/details`: [SocialAPIs, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)

## SocialAPIs's APIs (7)

- [SocialAPIs: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook Marketplace listing API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-marketplace-listing-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook Marketplace search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-marketplace-search-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans, Facebook Page Details](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/socialapis/free-get-facebook-pages-details-facebook-page-details/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans, Facebook Page Details, full](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/socialapis/free-get-facebook-pages-details-facebook-page-details-full/llms.txt)

## SocialAPIs: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [FetchLayer, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/50-monthly/llms.txt): $1.429 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/reefapi/15-monthly/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [Bright Data, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/bright-data/top-up/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, $225 monthly, Scale, GET /v2/instagram/profiles/{profile}, Get Instagram profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/social-fetch/225-monthly-scale-get-v2-instagram-profiles-profile-get-instagram-profile/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 82% 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 2026-10-30.

- https://socialapis.io/api-sources/instagram-profile-details
- https://socialapis.io/api-sources/usage-limits
- https://socialapis.io/llms-endpoints.txt
- https://socialapis.io/llms.txt
- https://socialapis.io/openapi.json
- https://socialapis.io/pricing
- https://socialapis.io/terms