SocQ pricing and alternatives: Instagram profile API

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64% complete: 7 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields

$3.00per 1,000 profilesHalf of the 336 plans we rank by price cost $1.579 per 1,000 profiles or less. This plan is cheaper than 34% of the 336 plans.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: Starter one of SocQ's 2 plans

Call: POST /v1/instagram/profiles SocQ's only call for this API

POST /v1/instagram/profilesTop-up from $5$3.00 per 1,000

API: Instagram profile API one of SocQ's 33 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
7 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
A balance you top up. You pay $5 or more. You spend the whole balance on calls.
One call. You send usernames to POST /v1/instagram/profiles. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

SocQ: Instagram profile API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 profiles.

	This planSocQ, top-up from $5	CreatorCrawl, $299 pack	Captapi, $72 yearly, Starter, GET /v1/instagram/basic-profile	ProLevelMax, top-up, Pay per use, POST /v1/run, Instagram user info by username	UnifAPI, top-up, Pay-as-you-go
$ per 1,000 profiles	$3.00	$2.99	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00
Completeness	64%	91%	82%	55%	45%
Billing	pay first	pay first	yearly	pay first	pay first
Pay	$5	$299	$72	any amount	any amount
Enough for	as many as you pay for	100,000 calls	2,000 calls a month	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for
Freshness	unknown	live	live	live	unknown
Who can get it	anyone	anyone at least 16 years old	anyone at least 18 years old	anyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)	anyone

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 2026-11-01.

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	$3.00
Per	result
Billing	pay first

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: 170 other calls

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Retrieve public Instagram profiles for one or more usernames, returning normalized identity, biographies, links, account flags, and visible follower, following, and post counts.

Data
Keep data	no API terms
Use data	no API terms

Plan
Pay	$5
Expires	never

Speed
Answer	by polling

The call
You send	usernames
Method	POST
Path	/v1/instagram/profiles

About the plan
Plan	Starter
Who can get it	anyone

The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, platform, profile URL, username, name, bio, bio links, website, profile picture, verified, private account, category, business account, professional account, followers, following, posts count