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StoriesFly pricing: Instagram profile API, GET /user/profile

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55% complete: 6 of the 11 fields on our checklistSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run StoriesFly through our Instagram profile API benchmark 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.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.lobstr.io, KonbiniAPI and Litescrape are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest StoriesFly plan for that many profiles. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of StoriesFly's 3 plans
Call: GET /user/profile one of StoriesFly's 2 calls for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of StoriesFly's 4 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 45 minutes old. You get profiles from StoriesFly's copy of Instagram.
  • 6 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Bio, Photo, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send username or id to GET /user/profile. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

StoriesFly: Instagram profile API alternatives

StoriesFly alternatives: other Instagram profile API providers by price

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

StoriesFly, top-up from $10, Start, GET /user/profileReefAPI, $15 monthlySocify, top-upScrapingDaddy, $15 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/instagram/profilePullbay, $9 monthly
$ per 1,000 profiles$1.50$1.50$1.50$1.50$1.50
Completeness55%64%64%73%73%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstmonthlymonthly
Pay$10$15any amount$15$9
Enough for6,666 calls10,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for10,000 calls a month6,000 calls a month
Freshness45 minuteslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with a Telegram account, 18 or older ("You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live")anyoneanyone who signs upanyoneanyone

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.

  1. storiesfly.com
  2. storiesfly.com/developers/docs
  3. storiesfly.com/developers/docs/user-profile
  4. storiesfly.com/developers/pricing
  5. storiesfly.com/developers/pricing.md
  6. storiesfly.com/legal/terms
  7. storiesfly.com/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, not in the answer
  • 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
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 45 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe public profile of an Instagram account: name, bio, link, follower, following and post counts, and the verified and private flags.
Data
Freshness45 minutes
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou 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 get100 requests
Enough for100 calls
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of username or id
MethodGET
Path/user/profile
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a Telegram account, 18 or older ("You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live")
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

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