# Socialintel, pay as you go: Instagram profile API

> Look up one public Instagram profile by username. Returns bio, follower count, business category, redacted email, and basic profile metadata.

Socialintel's Instagram profile API on its Pay per request plan. It costs $10.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 7 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Contact, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
We haven't run Socialintel through [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 466 plans we rank by price cost $1.809 per 1,000 profiles or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 profiles than 14% of the 466 plans.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least 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 [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt) are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialintel/pay-as-you-go
- [Instagram profile API: 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://socialintel.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://socialintel.dev/v1/user/{username}`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://socialintel.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: Socialintel (https://socialintel.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 64%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Contact: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $10.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Look up one public Instagram profile by username. Returns bio, follower count, business category, redacted email, and basic profile metadata.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree NOT to: Use the API to harass, stalk, or send unsolicited bulk messages to Instagram users. Resell raw API data without adding meaningful value or transformation. Attempt to circumvent rate limits or payment requirements. Use automated tools to overload the service (DDoS, brute-force, etc.). Violate Instagram's Terms of Service or any applicable law.

## Plan

- Pay: per call
- You get: 1 request
- Enough for: 1 call

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/user/{username}

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per request
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, bio, followers, following, posts count, verified, business account, category, public email, profile picture, from cache, fetched at

## Socialintel's plans (1)

- [Socialintel, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialintel/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 64% complete

## Socialintel's calls (1)

- `GET /v1/user/{username}`: [Socialintel, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialintel/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Socialintel's APIs (1)

- [Socialintel: Instagram profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialintel/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Socialintel: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [YepAPI, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/instagram/user](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/yepapi/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-instagram-user/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Virlo, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/virlo/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [instapi.co, top-up from $1](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instapi-co/top-up-from-1/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Zembra, top-up from $17,362](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/zembra/top-up-from-17362/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 9% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://socialintel.dev/api-reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://socialintel.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://socialintel.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://socialintel.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing