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Upscrape pricing: Instagram profile API

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55% complete: 6 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 363 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.15.lobstr.io, Scrappa and ReefAPI are the best Instagram profile API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free credits one of Upscrape's 5 plans
Call: POST /execute Upscrape's only call for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of Upscrape's 33 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 6 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Links, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for about 66 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire 60 days after issuance.
  • One call. You send input.url to POST /execute. You set capability to "instagram.profile.get" and the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send input.fields and input.recent_posts_limit. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering the terms. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Upscrape: Instagram profile API alternatives

Upscrape alternatives: every Instagram profile API provider ranked

The table starts with Upscrape's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to Upscrape's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Upscrape, $499 packDataXAPI, $100 packScrapeCreators, $47 packScrapingIsNotACrime, $79 packFetchLayer, top-up
$ per 1,000 profiles$1.875$1.818$1.88$1.975$1.99
Completeness55%45%73%73%73%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$499$100$47$79any amount
Enough forabout 266,666 calls55,000 calls25,000 calls40,000 callsas many as you pay for
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering the termsdevelopers and business users with the legal capacity their use requiresanyone legally able to enter into a binding agreementanyoneanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-03.

  1. docs.upscrape.com/docs/api/credits-and-limits.md
  2. docs.upscrape.com/docs/api/errors
  3. docs.upscrape.com/docs/platforms/instagram/index.md
  4. docs.upscrape.com/docs/platforms/instagram/instagram.profile.get/index.md
  5. docs.upscrape.com/docs/platforms/linkedin/linkedin.profile.get
  6. docs.upscrape.com/llms.txt
  7. upscrape.com
  8. upscrape.com/pricing
  9. upscrape.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Bio
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • 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$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 500 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet a public profile from its username or URL: name, bio, links, follower and post counts, verified and business status, and its latest posts.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataSubject to these terms and law, you may store, analyze, transform, combine, and use Output in workflows, reports, applications, and services for end users. [...] Output may contain third-party material, and Upscrape does not transfer ownership or grant a license in that material. [...] You may not use, facilitate, or permit use of the Service to: violate law, a court order, contract, or third-party right, harass, stalk, threaten, discriminate against, exploit, or harm a person, conduct unlawful surveillance or process personal data without a lawful basis, send spam, deceptive communications, or malicious code, collect sensitive information without authorization, circumvent access controls, authentication, limits, or security measures, interfere with, overload, damage, probe, or gain unauthorized access to a system, reverse engineer non-public code, systems, or methods, except where law prohibits this restriction, sell, sublicense, rent, or redistribute access to the Service or credentials, resell substantial unmodified Output as a standalone dataset, data broker service, or competing API without written permission, or misrepresent the source, accuracy, ownership, or endorsement of Output.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough forabout 66 calls
Expires60 days after issuance
Rate limit
Per second20
Concurrent3
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendcapability "instagram.profile.get", input.url, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: input.fields, input.recent_posts_limit
MethodPOST
Path/execute
About the plan
PlanFree credits
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering the terms
The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, bio, followers, following, posts count, verified, website, account type, bio links, category, has reels, user ID, business account, private account, pronouns, total clips count, recent posts

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