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socially Instagram profile API pricing: POST /v1/profiles/lookup

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64% complete: 7 of the 11 fields on our checklistSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run socially through our Instagram profile API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 730 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.999 or less per 1,000 profiles. 182 Instagram profile API plans on our price sheet are free. lobstr.io has a free plan with 100 results a month. lobstr.io is the best Instagram profile API in our benchmark.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.022. Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 profiles a month: about $2.72.Socialinsider's $199 monthly plan covers any number of profiles, and costs more up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.lobstr.io, KonbiniAPI and EveryInfra are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest socially plan for that many profiles. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of socially's 7 plans
Call: POST /v1/profiles/lookup one of socially's 2 calls for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of socially's 19 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 24 hours old. You get profiles from socially's copy of Instagram.
  • 7 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits a month, enough for 200 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Monthly credits reset on the 1st, UTC.
  • One call. You send input to POST /v1/profiles/lookup. You can also send platform, posts and refresh. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: anyone with an account. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

socially: Instagram profile API alternatives

socially alternatives: other Instagram profile API providers by price

The table starts with socially's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to socially's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

socially, $149 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/profiles/lookupupAPI, $99 monthly, Pro, POST /instagram-get-user-by-id.postCreatorCrawl, $299 packScrapio, $299 monthlySteadyAPI, $14.99 monthly
$ per 1,000 profiles$2.98$2.97$2.99$2.99$2.998
Completeness64%73%91%64%64%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthlymonthly
Pay$149$99$299$299$14.99
Enough for50,000 calls a monthabout 33,333 calls a month100,000 calls100,000 calls a month5,000 calls a month
Freshness24 hourslivelivelive30 minutes
Who can get itanyone with an accountanyoneanyone at least 16 years oldanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contractanyone

Sources

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

  1. api.socially.run/openapi.json
  2. socially.run
  3. socially.run/docs/en/limits
  4. socially.run/docs/en/profiles
  5. socially.run/en/aup
  6. socially.run/en/instagram
  7. socially.run/en/linkedin
  8. socially.run/en/pricing
  9. socially.run/en/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, not in the answer
  • 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
Repeat free24 hours
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Batch · Post lookup · Website read · Open Graph card · Username search: fast · Username search: full · Trending topics · YouTube search · News search · Instagram search · TikTok search · Instagram hashtag search · GitHub search
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchName, bio, follower count and the latest posts with exact likes, comments and dates, from an instagram.com link or a username.
Data
Freshness24 hours
Keep dataKeep only what you have a lawful basis to store, set a retention period for your use and honor removal requests.
Use dataThe results are yours to use within the acceptable use policy. What you may not do: Target a private individual for harm: stalking, harassment, intimidation, doxxing, blackmail, or locating somebody who does not want to be found. Profile people on protected characteristics, or make a decision with legal or similarly significant effects (employment, credit, housing, insurance, policing) based only on our results. Re-identify or contact somebody who opted out, or route around a suppression. Resell raw results as a people-search or background-check product, or scrape our API to build one. Run email lookups on lists you did not obtain lawfully, on bought lists, or to build a marketing audience without a lawful basis. Work around rate limits, quotas, suppressions, or the three-way outcome, by presenting a lookup we could not check as a fact. Use the results to attack accounts: credential stuffing, account takeover, phishing. Anything unlawful where you are, or where the person is.
Plan
Pay$0
You get200 credits a month
Enough for200 calls a month
ExpiresMonthly credits reset on the 1st, UTC
Rate limit
Per day50
Per second0.17 (10 a minute)
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendinput. Optional: platform, posts, refresh
MethodPOST
Path/v1/profiles/lookup
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with an account
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, username, bio, followers, following, posts count, profile URL, profile picture, verified, private account, user ID, bio links, pronouns, recent posts

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