# YepAPI, free credit, POST /v1/instagram/user-about: Instagram profile API

> Get extended about information for an Instagram user including account transparency data.

YepAPI's Instagram profile API on its Free credit plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 2 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Location.
In [our Instagram profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt), YepAPI's best plan scores 43.6 out of 100.
This plan is free. We rank 406 plans for Instagram profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.653 per 1,000 profiles or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least 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 [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt) are the best Instagram profile API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/yepapi/free-credit-post-v1-instagram-user-about
- [Instagram profile API: 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.yepapi.com/getting-started/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.yepapi.com/v1/instagram/user-about`
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.yepapi.com/getting-started/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.yepapi.com/instagram-api/user-about?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: YepAPI (https://www.yepapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 18%
- Bio: ✓
- Location: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 154 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get extended about information for an Instagram user including account transparency data.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use YepAPI to: Violate any applicable law or regulation, Infringe on intellectual property rights of any third party, Transmit malicious code, spam, or abusive content, Attempt to reverse-engineer, scrape, or resell our service, Exceed reasonable usage patterns or abuse rate limits

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5
- Enough for: 500 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 3.96 s

## The call

- You send: username
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/instagram/user-about

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credit
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, bio, join date, account type, category, country, former usernames

## YepAPI's plans (2)

- [YepAPI, free credit, POST /v1/instagram/user-about](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/yepapi/free-credit-post-v1-instagram-user-about/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete
- [YepAPI, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/instagram/user-about](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/yepapi/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-instagram-user-about/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 18% complete

## YepAPI's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/instagram/user-about`: [YepAPI, free credit, POST /v1/instagram/user-about](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/yepapi/free-credit-post-v1-instagram-user-about/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/instagram/user`: [YepAPI, free credit, POST /v1/instagram/user](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/yepapi/free-credit-post-v1-instagram-user/llms.txt)

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## YepAPI: Instagram profile API alternatives

- [RedFox, top-up from CNY 100](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/redfox/top-up-from-cny-100/llms.txt): $8.974 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [EnsembleData, $1,400 monthly, Platinum, GET /instagram/user/detailed-info](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/ensembledata/1400-monthly-platinum-get-instagram-user-detailed-info/llms.txt): $9.333 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Parse, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/parse/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [Zembra, top-up from $17,362](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/zembra/top-up-from-17362/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 9% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.yepapi.com/getting-started/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.yepapi.com/instagram-api/user-about?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.yepapi.com/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.yepapi.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.yepapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.yepapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-profile-api-pricing