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StableSocial pricing and alternatives: Instagram profile API, POST /api/sc/instagram/basic-profile

StableSocial's sitellms.txtBest Instagram profile API in 2026

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73% complete: 8 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$60.00per 1,000 profilesHalf of the 217 plans we rank by price cost $1.50 per 1,000 profiles or less. This plan is the most expensive of the 217 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: Pay per request with x402 or MPP StableSocial's only plan
Call: POST /api/sc/instagram/basic-profile one of StableSocial's 2 calls for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of StableSocial's 14 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call.
  • 8 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Contact, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
  • One call. You send userId to POST /api/sc/instagram/basic-profile. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

StableSocial: Instagram profile API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 profiles. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planStableSocial, pay as you go, Pay per request with x402 or MPP, POST /api/sc/instagram/basic-profileEnsembleData, $100 monthly, Wood, GET /instagram/user/detailed-infoInfluencers.club, $208 monthlySocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/instagram/profile/fullSocial Fetch, $14 pack, Starter, GET /v2/instagram/profiles/{profile}, Get Instagram profile, full
$ per 1,000 profiles$60.00$22.222$24.96$40.005$42.00
Completeness73%73%64%73%82%
Billingpay as you gomonthlymonthlypay firstpay first
Payper call$100$208£15$14
Enough foras many as you pay for150 calls a dayabout 8,333 calls a month500 callsabout 333 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or over who can form a binding contract with Merit, not in a jurisdiction where use is prohibited, paying by x402 or MPP from a walletanyoneanyoneanyone 18 or overanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it

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 2026-10-29.

  1. docs.scrapecreators.com/caching
  2. docs.scrapecreators.com/introduction
  3. docs.scrapecreators.com/v1/instagram/basic-profile/
  4. merit.systems/terms
  5. scrapecreators.com/terms
  6. stablesocial.dev
  7. stablesocial.dev/llms.txt
  8. stablesocial.dev/openapi.json

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
  • Location, not in the answer
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$60.00
Percall
Billingpay as you go
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
In their words
Their pitchFetches a lightweight Instagram profile summary by user ID, returning username, full name, biography, profile picture URL, verification status, follower count, following count, media count, and account privacy and type.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataMerit Systems' terms, 8. Acceptable Use: You may not use the Services to: violate any law, regulation, court order, sanction, or third-party right, harass, threaten, stalk, defame, exploit, or harm any person or entity, send spam, phishing, robocalls, deceptive outreach, or malware, scrape, enrich, surveil, profile, or use personal data in a manner that is unlawful, discriminatory, abusive, or without any required consent or lawful basis, impersonate another person or entity or misrepresent affiliation, authority, or origin, generate, host, upload, send, distribute, or facilitate illegal, infringing, fraudulent, or harmful content, use the Services or any output, data, enrichment, score, ranking, recommendation, or other result as a consumer report, investigative consumer report, or for determining a person's eligibility for employment, hiring, contracting, compensation, credit, lending, underwriting, housing, insurance, education, government benefits, licenses, immigration status, or any other purpose regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act or analogous law, evade payment requirements, fees, rate limits, moderation systems, anti-abuse controls, or access restrictions, probe, attack, reverse engineer, interfere with, or degrade the Services or supporting infrastructure, except to the extent prohibited by applicable law, use the Services for emergency services, weapons, unlawful surveillance, or other prohibited high-risk use cases. Merit's terms, 7: Merit does not represent that any such result is accurate, lawful to use for your purpose, free of third-party rights, or usable for republication, resale, model training, commercialization, operational use, or other downstream use without additional restrictions. You are solely responsible for verifying legality, consent, accuracy, and downstream rights before using any result. Scrape Creators' terms, 6. Acceptable use, which back it: You agree not to use the Service for: Illegal activities, Harassment or stalking, Surveillance of individuals without lawful basis, Spamming or unsolicited outreach, Political manipulation or disinformation, Violating privacy or data protection laws, Infringing intellectual property rights, Any activity that harms others
Plan
Payper call
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senduserId
MethodPOST
Path/api/sc/instagram/basic-profile
About the plan
PlanPay per request with x402 or MPP
Who can get itanyone 18 or over who can form a binding contract with Merit, not in a jurisdiction where use is prohibited, paying by x402 or MPP from a wallet
The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits remaining, credits consumed, user ID, Facebook ID, username, name, bio, bio links, website, profile picture, followers, following, posts count, total clips count, verified, private account, account type, business account, professional account, category, business address, pronouns

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