# ViralRecast, free: Instagram profile API

> Perfil de um criador com médias e os posts que mais furaram a bolha em relação à própria média.

ViralRecast's Free plan for the Instagram profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. ViralRecast's docs list 1: Followers.
We haven't run ViralRecast through [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 730 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.999 or less per 1,000 profiles. [182 Instagram profile API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt) [lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt) has a free plan with 100 results a month. lobstr.io is the best Instagram profile API in our benchmark.
[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.
[Socialinsider's $199 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialinsider/199-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of profiles, and costs more up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.
[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 [EveryInfra](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/everyinfra/10-pack/llms.txt) are the best Instagram profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viralrecast/free
- [Instagram profile API in 2026: the best of 50+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://viralrecast.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://viralrecast.com/mcp`
- API key: with the plan, on https://viralrecast.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://viralrecast.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: ViralRecast (https://viralrecast.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 9%
- Followers: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: read_post · read_posts · weekly_digest · similar_content · search_viral_content · search_mentions · trending_now · find_similar_posts · search_ads · advertiser_ads · read_ad · download_video · transcribe_video · create_clips · analyze_post

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Perfil de um criador com médias e os posts que mais furaram a bolha em relação à própria média.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: usa conteúdo de terceiros apenas como referência de estudo e análise, sem repostar como se fosse seu, respeita os termos de uso das plataformas de origem (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook e outras) [...] É proibido: violar direitos autorais, de imagem ou de marca, coletar dados pessoais para spam, assédio, perseguição ou revenda de dados, tentar acessar conteúdo privado ou que exija login de terceiros, contornar limites de uso, revender o acesso ou automatizar chamadas de forma abusiva.

## Plan

- Pay: R$0
- You get: 150 credits
- Enough for: about 18 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: jsonrpc "2.0", id, method "tools/call", params.name "analyze_creator", params.arguments.platform "instagram", params.arguments.handle, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: params.arguments.limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /mcp

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a Google account

## The only field the plan's answer can hold

followers

## ViralRecast's plans (6)

- [ViralRecast, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viralrecast/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete
- [ViralRecast, R$19.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viralrecast/r-19-90-pack/llms.txt): $31.321 per 1,000, 9% complete
- [ViralRecast, R$24.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viralrecast/r-24-90-monthly/llms.txt): $26.127 per 1,000, 9% complete
- [ViralRecast, R$47 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viralrecast/r-47-monthly/llms.txt): $21.136 per 1,000, 9% complete
- [ViralRecast, R$67 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viralrecast/r-67-monthly/llms.txt): $21.090 per 1,000, 9% complete
- [ViralRecast, R$147 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viralrecast/r-147-monthly/llms.txt): $19.280 per 1,000, 9% complete

## ViralRecast's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /mcp`: [ViralRecast, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viralrecast/free/llms.txt)

## ViralRecast's APIs (9)

- [ViralRecast Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/viralrecast/free/llms.txt)
- [ViralRecast Google Ads Transparency API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-ad-apis/viralrecast/free/llms.txt)
- [ViralRecast Instagram profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viralrecast/free/llms.txt)
- [ViralRecast LinkedIn Ad Library API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-ad-apis/viralrecast/free/llms.txt)
- [ViralRecast TikTok Ad Library API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/viralrecast/free/llms.txt)
- [ViralRecast TikTok profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/viralrecast/free/llms.txt)
- [ViralRecast X profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/viralrecast/free/llms.txt)
- [ViralRecast YouTube channel API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/viralrecast/free/llms.txt)
- [ViralRecast LinkedIn post details API pricing, 6 plans, POST /mcp, read_post](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/viralrecast/free-post-mcp-read-post/llms.txt)
- [ViralRecast LinkedIn post details API pricing, 6 plans, POST /mcp, read_posts](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/viralrecast/free-post-mcp-read-posts/llms.txt)

## ViralRecast: Instagram profile API alternatives

[ViralRecast alternatives: other Instagram profile API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/viralrecast-alternatives.txt)

We list ViralRecast's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to ViralRecast in price per 1,000 profiles.

- [ViralRecast, R$147 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/viralrecast/r-147-monthly/llms.txt): $19.280 per 1,000, 9% complete
- [AnyCap, $30 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/anycap/30-pack/llms.txt): $19.048 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Manifold, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/manifold/29-monthly/llms.txt): $19.333 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Monocrawl, $99 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/instagram/profile/full](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/monocrawl/99-monthly-pro-get-v1-instagram-profile-full/llms.txt): $19.80 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Janney AI, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/janney-ai/299-monthly/llms.txt): $19.933 per 1,000, 82% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://viralrecast.com/black-friday?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://viralrecast.com/comprar/creditos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://viralrecast.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://viralrecast.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://viralrecast.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing