upAPI pricing: Instagram profile API, POST /
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73% complete: 8 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run upAPI through our Instagram profile API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 551 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.648 per 1,000 profiles or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.022.lobstr.io, KonbiniAPI and Scrappa are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of upAPI's 4 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $29 monthly, StarterStarter$4.35 per 1,000
- $99 monthly, ProPro$2.97 per 1,000
- $499 monthly, ScaleScale$1.497 per 1,000
Call:
POST / one of upAPI's 2 calls for this APIPOST /Free$0.00 per 1,000instagram-get-user-by-id.post POST /Free$0.00 per 1,000instagram-get-user-profile.post
API: Instagram profile API one of upAPI's 20 APIs
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- Instagram profile API
About this item
- Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call the API.
- 8 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Contact, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
- Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for about 66 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. The quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month.
- One call. You send
userIdtoPOST /. You can also sendinstagram-get-user-by-id.post proxyUrl. The call returns the account's profile. - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
upAPI: Instagram profile API alternatives
upAPI alternatives: other Instagram profile API providers by price
The table starts with upAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to upAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| upAPI, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /instagram-get-user-by-id.post | ReefAPI, $15 monthly | Pullbay, $9 monthly | Bright Data, top-up | ScrapingDaddy, $15 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/instagram/profile | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 profiles | $1.497 | $1.50 | $1.50 | $1.50 | $1.50 |
| Completeness | 73% | 64% | 73% | 73% | 73% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | monthly | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | $499 | $15 | $9 | any amount | $15 |
| Enough for | about 333,333 calls a month | 10,000 calls a month | 6,000 calls a month | as many as you pay for | 10,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone | anyone | anyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanon | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.
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
| $ per 1,000 profiles | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Repeat free | 5 minutes |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: 112 other calls |
| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Resolve an Instagram profile from a numeric user id, no login. Anonymous returns identity (username, profile picture) — see detailLevel. |
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| Freshness | live |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | "You agree not to use the Services to: break the law, infringe anyone's rights, or help someone else do so, transmit malware, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services or any upstream provider without authorization, exceed, evade, or interfere with rate limits, plan quotas, or other technical or usage restrictions, including by sharing or rotating keys to do so, resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services or your API access except as we expressly allow, place an unreasonable load on, disrupt, or degrade our infrastructure or that of any upstream provider, violate the terms, policies, or rate limits of any upstream API you reach through the gateway, send data you have no lawful right to send, or route sensitive data through an endpoint not intended for it, or misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person or organization." "[...] your use of it is also subject to that provider's own terms and policies, which we do not control." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 1,000 credits a month |
| Enough for | about 66 calls a month |
| Expires | the quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month |
| Per second | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | userId. Optional: proxyUrl |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /instagram-get-user-by-id.post |
| Plan | Free |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone |
The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold
success, user ID, name, username, bio, fetched at, private account, business account, verified, posts count, category, external URL, followers, following, profile picture, bio links, public email, business email, business phone, professional account, fbid