# socially, free, POST /v1/profiles/lookup: Instagram profile API

> Name, bio, follower count and the latest posts with exact likes, comments and dates, from an instagram.com link or a username.

socially's Free plan for the Instagram profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. socially's docs list 7: Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
We haven't run socially through [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) [lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.022. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 profiles a month: about $2.72.
[Socialinsider's $199 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialinsider/199-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of profiles, and costs more up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.
[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 [EveryInfra](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/everyinfra/10-pack/llms.txt) are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup
- [Instagram profile API in 2026: the best of 50+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://socially.run/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.socially.run/v1/profiles/lookup`
- API key: with the plan, on https://socially.run/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://socially.run/docs/en/profiles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: socially (https://socially.run?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: 24 hours
- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Name, bio, follower count and the latest posts with exact likes, comments and dates, from an instagram.com link or a username.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: Keep only what you have a lawful basis to store, set a retention period for your use and honor removal requests.
- Use data: The 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 get: 200 credits a month
- Enough for: 200 calls a month
- Expires: Monthly credits reset on the 1st, UTC

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Per second: 0.17 (10 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: input. Optional: platform, posts, refresh
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/profiles/lookup

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## socially's plans (7)

- [socially, free, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $19 pack, 2,000 credits, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/19-pack-2000-credits-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $9.50 per 1,000, 64% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $79 pack, 10,000 credits, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/79-pack-10000-credits-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $7.90 per 1,000, 64% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $349 pack, 50,000 credits, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/349-pack-50000-credits-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $6.98 per 1,000, 64% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $19 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/19-monthly-starter-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $6.333 per 1,000, 64% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $49 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/49-monthly-pro-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $4.083 per 1,000, 64% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $149 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/149-monthly-scale-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $2.98 per 1,000, 64% complete, 24 hours

## socially's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/profiles/batch`: [socially, free, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/profiles/lookup`: [socially, free, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)

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- [socially GitHub profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/github-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially GitHub profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/github-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially GitHub user repository API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/github-user-repository-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially GitHub user repository API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/github-user-repository-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially Instagram post API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially Instagram post API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
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## socially: Instagram profile API alternatives

[socially alternatives: other Instagram profile API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/socially-alternatives.txt)

We list socially's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to socially in price per 1,000 profiles. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most a day old.

- [socially, $149 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/149-monthly-scale-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $2.98 per 1,000, 64% complete, 24 hours
- [upAPI, $99 monthly, Pro, POST /instagram-get-user-by-id.post](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/upapi/99-monthly-pro-post-instagram-get-user-by-id-post/llms.txt): $2.97 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [CreatorCrawl, $299 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/creatorcrawl/299-pack/llms.txt): $2.99 per 1,000, 91% complete, live
- [Scrapio, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapio/299-monthly/llms.txt): $2.99 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [SteadyAPI, $14.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/steadyapi/14-99-monthly/llms.txt): $2.998 per 1,000, 64% complete, 30 minutes

## 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.

- https://api.socially.run/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://socially.run?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/docs/en/limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/docs/en/profiles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/aup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/instagram?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing