# viral.app, $299 monthly, Ultra Plan, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}: Instagram profile API

> Fetches an account by its handle, with or without a leading @.

viral.app's Ultra Plan lets you call the Instagram profile API. viral.app's docs list 7 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Bio, Photo, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
We haven't run viral.app through [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan costs $299 a month. We rank 591 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.90 per 1,000 profiles or less.
[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.
[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/viral-app/299-monthly-ultra-plan-get-live-platform-accounts-username-username
- [Instagram profile API: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://viral.app/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `GET https://viral.app/api/v1/live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://viral.app/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://viral.app/api/v1/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing#tag/live-data/GET/live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}
- Sold by: viral.app (https://viral.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 64%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓

## Price

- Per: call
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $299

## Charges

- Also pays for: 206 other calls · from the same budget: Get Video · Get Account by Account ID · List Account Videos · List Video Comments · Search Users · Search Videos · Search Hashtags · Refresh tracked accounts data · Get video download link · Refresh individually tracked videos data · Create workflow · Apply workflow to past videos

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetches an account by its handle, with or without a leading @.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The Customer receives a simple (non-exclusive), perpetual right to use the analyses, reports, and payout proposals generated by the service for its own business purposes. [...] No automated bulk queries, no systematic extraction (scraping) of the service or of the data available through it, and no provision of the service or its results to third parties beyond the agreed scope of use [...] The Customer complies with the documented usage limits (for example, rate and volume limits) and may not circumvent them. In particular, bulk retrieval or export of data beyond the agreed scope of use, passing on or reselling access to third parties, and using the interfaces to build a competing offering are not permitted. [...] it is not permitted to use the service, its content, or the data and results obtained through it to develop, replicate, or operate a competing offering or to train AI models for such an offering

## Plan

- Pay: $299

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: platform "instagram", username. Optional: region
- Method: GET
- Path: /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}

## About the plan

- Plan: Ultra Plan
- Who can get it: entrepreneurs, legal entities or special funds under public law, consumers are excluded

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, account ID, username, name, profile picture, verified, private account, followers, following, posts count, bio, region

## viral.app's plans (5)

- [viral.app, $299 monthly, Ultra Plan, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viral-app/299-monthly-ultra-plan-get-live-platform-accounts-username-username/llms.txt): 64% complete, live
- [viral.app, $499 monthly, Scale Plan, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viral-app/499-monthly-scale-plan-get-live-platform-accounts-username-username/llms.txt): 64% complete, live
- [viral.app, $2,868 yearly, Ultra Plan (yearly), GET /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viral-app/2868-yearly-ultra-plan-yearly-get-live-platform-accounts-username-username/llms.txt): 64% complete, live
- [viral.app, $4,788 yearly, Scale Plan (yearly), GET /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viral-app/4788-yearly-scale-plan-yearly-get-live-platform-accounts-username-username/llms.txt): 64% complete, live
- [viral.app, contact us, Enterprise, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viral-app/contact-us-enterprise-get-live-platform-accounts-username-username/llms.txt): 64% complete, live

## viral.app's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /live/{platform}/accounts/{platformAccountId}`: [viral.app, $299 monthly, Ultra Plan, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/{platformAccountId}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viral-app/299-monthly-ultra-plan-get-live-platform-accounts-platformaccountid/llms.txt)
- `GET /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}`: [viral.app, $299 monthly, Ultra Plan, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viral-app/299-monthly-ultra-plan-get-live-platform-accounts-username-username/llms.txt)

## viral.app's APIs (9)

- [viral.app: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/viral-app/299-monthly/llms.txt)
- [viral.app: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/viral-app/299-monthly/llms.txt)
- [viral.app: Snapchat profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/snapchat-profile-apis/viral-app/299-monthly/llms.txt)
- [viral.app: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/viral-app/299-monthly/llms.txt)
- [viral.app: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/viral-app/299-monthly/llms.txt)
- [viral.app: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/{platformAccountId}](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/viral-app/299-monthly-ultra-plan-get-live-platform-accounts-platformaccountid/llms.txt)
- [viral.app: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/viral-app/299-monthly-ultra-plan-get-live-platform-accounts-username-username/llms.txt)
- [viral.app: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viral-app/299-monthly-ultra-plan-get-live-platform-accounts-username-username/llms.txt)
- [viral.app: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/{platformAccountId}](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/viral-app/299-monthly-ultra-plan-get-live-platform-accounts-platformaccountid/llms.txt)
- [viral.app: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/viral-app/299-monthly-ultra-plan-get-live-platform-accounts-username-username/llms.txt)
- [viral.app: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/{platformAccountId}](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/viral-app/299-monthly-ultra-plan-get-live-platform-accounts-platformaccountid/llms.txt)
- [viral.app: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans, GET /live/{platform}/accounts/username/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/viral-app/299-monthly-ultra-plan-get-live-platform-accounts-username-username/llms.txt)

## viral.app: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [Virlo, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/virlo/499-monthly/llms.txt): 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 2026-11-07.

- https://viral.app/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing#pricing
- https://viral.app/api/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://viral.app/docs/brands/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://viral.app/docs/brands/billing-and-plan-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://viral.app/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://viral.app/ugc-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing