# StoriesFly, free, GET /user/about: Instagram profile API

> What Instagram's About this account panel shows for a profile: the country it is based in, the month it joined and the usernames it had before.

StoriesFly's Free plan for the Instagram profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. StoriesFly's docs list 1: Location.
We haven't run StoriesFly through [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 635 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.96 or less per 1,000 profiles. [See the best free Instagram profile API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
[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.
[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 [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/storiesfly/free-get-user-about
- [Instagram profile API: the best of 50+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://storiesfly.com/developers/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://storiesfly.com/api/v1/user/about`
- API key: with the plan, on https://storiesfly.com/developers/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://storiesfly.com/developers/docs/user-about?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: StoriesFly (https://storiesfly.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 9%
- Location: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 45 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: What Instagram's About this account panel shows for a profile: the country it is based in, the month it joined and the usernames it had before.

## Data

- Freshness: 30 days
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You must not use the Service to: stalk, harass, threaten, intimidate or blackmail anyone, or monitor a person in a way the law does not allow, collect or share information about children, publish, sell or commercially use content or lists you got through the Service without the rights to do so, build spam, marketing or contact lists from people’s data, impersonate anyone or engage in fraud or any other illegal activity, scrape the Service, bypass its limits, resell it, or copy, modify or reverse-engineer it.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests
- Enough for: 100 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of username or id
- Method: GET
- Path: /user/about

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a Telegram account, 18 or older ("You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live")

## The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, account based in, joined month, former usernames

## StoriesFly's plans (3)

- [StoriesFly, free, GET /user/about](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/storiesfly/free-get-user-about/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, 30 days
- [StoriesFly, top-up from $10, Start, GET /user/about](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/storiesfly/top-up-from-10-start-get-user-about/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 9% complete, 30 days
- [StoriesFly, contact us, Enterprise, GET /user/about](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/storiesfly/contact-us-enterprise-get-user-about/llms.txt): 9% complete, 30 days

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

- `GET /user/about`: [StoriesFly, free, GET /user/about](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/storiesfly/free-get-user-about/llms.txt)
- `GET /user/profile`: [StoriesFly, free, GET /user/profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/storiesfly/free-get-user-profile/llms.txt)

## StoriesFly's APIs (4)

- [StoriesFly: Instagram post API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/storiesfly/free/llms.txt)
- [StoriesFly: TikTok profile API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/storiesfly/free/llms.txt)
- [StoriesFly: TikTok video API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/storiesfly/free/llms.txt)
- [StoriesFly: Instagram profile API pricing, 3 plans, GET /user/about](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/storiesfly/free-get-user-about/llms.txt)

## StoriesFly: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [ReefAPI, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/reefapi/15-monthly/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [Socify, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socify/top-up/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [ScrapeField, $749 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapefield/749-pack/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 73% complete, 12 hours
- [ScrapingDaddy, $15 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/instagram/profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingdaddy/15-monthly-starter-get-v1-instagram-profile/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 73% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://storiesfly.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://storiesfly.com/developers/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://storiesfly.com/developers/docs/user-about?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://storiesfly.com/developers/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://storiesfly.com/developers/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://storiesfly.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://storiesfly.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing