SocialAPIs alternatives

By Wayne Hamadi, founder of Datacircle. Last updated: November 6, 2026

The best SocialAPIs alternatives for Instagram profile APIs: lobstr.io, KonbiniAPI and ReefAPI, by our benchmark of November 4, 2026.

Instagram profile API alternatives

SocialAPIs is #7 of the 23 providers we rank.

Rank	Provider and plan	Overall score	Accuracy score	$ per 1,000 profiles
1	lobstr.io, $500 monthly	74.9	70	$0.50
2	KonbiniAPI, $499 monthly	69.3	53	$1.109
3	ReefAPI, $450 quarterly	66.2	44	$0.50
4	Scrappa, $10 pack, Starter	65.6	25	$0.303
5	Refetcher, top-up	63.0	41	$0.90
6	ScrapeCreators, $497 pack	60.4	84	$0.994
8	RocketAPI, €299 monthly, Business	55.4	75	$0.673
9	SociaVault, $399 pack	54.8	84	$1.995
10	Omkar Cloud, $48 monthly	51.8	44	$0.48
11	Context.dev, $500 monthly	51.2	42	$0.50
12	EnsembleData, $200 monthly, Bronze	50.4	86	$13.333
13	Upscrape, $499 pack	50.4	36	$1.25
14	AnyAPI, top-up from $10, Manual top-up	47.3	30	$1.00
15	Pullbay, $9 monthly	46.0	47	$1.50
16	YepAPI, top-up, Pay as you go	43.8	61	$10.00
17	Novada, $290 monthly	42.4	37	$1.10
18	Captapi, $9 monthly, Starter	41.1	33	$4.50
19	Bright Data, top-up	39.9	46	$1.50
20	Desearch, top-up	38.2	35
21	API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request	38.1	40	$6.00
22	QuanticData, top-up from $5	37.6	29	$6.00
23	Xpoz, $20 monthly	32.4	33	$32.00

SocialAPIs is #2 of the 7 providers we rank.

Rank	Provider and plan	Overall score	Accuracy score	$ per 1,000 posts
1	Zembra, top-up from $52	48.6	78	$2.40
3	ScrapeCreators, $497 pack	43.4	35	$0.331
4	SociaVault, $399 pack	40.0	35	$0.665
5	API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request	33.4	28
6	Litescrape, top-up from $10	29.9	9
7	AnyAPI, top-up from $10	29.7	24

SocialAPIs is #1 of the 6 providers we rank.

Rank	Provider and plan	Overall score	Accuracy score	$ per 1,000 listings
2	ScrapeCreators, $497 pack	63.5	65	$0.994
3	Scrappa, $10 pack	59.1	16	$0.303
4	SociaVault, $399 pack	54.4	57	$1.995
5	Omkar Cloud, $148 monthly	51.1	45	$0.987
6	Bright Data, top-up	37.5	27	$1.50

SocialAPIs is #1 of the 3 providers we rank.

Rank	Provider and plan	Overall score	Accuracy score	$ per 1,000 searches
2	Litescrape, top-up from $10, Usage-based	61.6	64	$0.15
3	SociaVault, $399 pack	59.7	82	$1.995