# Best Instagram scraper APIs in 2026: prices compared

Compare nine APIs for public Instagram data. See how each API bills, its published prices, and what to test before paying.

Checked November 2026. Public pricing pages. No affiliate links.

We make Openhandle. It is one of the APIs on this page. Check the numbers yourself. We read every other price on the vendor’s own site on November 3, 2026. This is not a full list of the market.

Meta’s API works with accounts that connect to your app. A third-party API can read other public accounts. See [Instagram API pricing](/compare/instagram-api-pricing) for the official limits.

## Price comparison

| API | Price | How you pay | Lowest paid start | Free to start |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Openhandle | $2.50 per 1,000 requests, $2 above 100,000 a month | Balance, per request | $10 balance | 100 requests |
| ScrapeCreators | $1.88 per 1,000 credits, $0.99 on the biggest pack | Credit packs | $47 for 25,000 credits | 100 credits |
| Apify | Set per scraper. See the note below | Monthly plan plus usage | $19 a month | $5 of usage a month |
| Bright Data | $1.50 per 1,000 records, $1.30 on the $499 plan | Per record | Pay as you go | 5,000 records a month |
| EnsembleData | About $2.22 per 1,000 units, about $0.93 on the biggest plan | Monthly plan, daily units | $100 a month for 1,500 units a day | 50 units a day |
| TikHub | $1 to $10 per 1,000 requests, set per endpoint | Balance, per request | $5 balance | $0.05 credit |
| SociaVault | $4.83 per 1,000 credits, $2 on the biggest pack | Credit packs | $29 for 6,000 credits | 50 credits |
| SocialCrawl | £6 per 1,000 credits, £1.99 on the biggest pack | Credit packs, in pounds | £15 for 2,500 credits | 100 credits |
| Data365 | €0.60 per 1,000 credits on the Basic plan | Monthly plan, in euros | €300 a month for one network | 14-day trial |

Apify’s own Instagram scraper costs $2.30 per 1,000 results on the Starter plan. It costs $1.50 on the Business plan. Each result is billed, so a list of 100 posts counts as 100.

## Instagram costs

- **Replies.** Instagram replies cost 15 credits on ScrapeCreators. Most other calls cost 1 credit.
- **Profiles.** A profile with its info costs 9 credits on Data365. On the Basic plan, 1,000 profiles cost €5.40.
- **Lists.** With per-result billing, each returned item adds to the cost. Work out the price of one full list before you start.

## What to test before you pay

Use each API’s free credit. Run the same calls on every API.

1. **A private account.** Check for a clear error that you can tell apart from an empty account.
2. **A deleted account.** Check the status code. Check whether the answer costs anything.
3. **A reel.** Compare the play count and like count with the Instagram app.
4. **A long comment thread.** Page to the end and count what you get.
5. **A hashtag.** Check top posts and recent posts. See how far back the results go.
6. **A media link.** Open an image link a week later. Check that it still works.

## Failed requests

| API | What the public pages say about failed requests |
|---|---|
| Openhandle | Failed requests are free |
| ScrapeCreators | We found no rule for all endpoints |
| Apify | We found no rule on the pages we read |
| Bright Data | Failed deliveries are free. Failures caused by wrong input are billed |
| EnsembleData | Internal errors are free. A search with no results can still cost a unit |
| TikHub | Only HTTP 200 responses are billed. One endpoint doc says a 200 response with empty data is billed |
| SociaVault | Failed requests are not charged |
| SocialCrawl | Credits come back after upstream errors and 5xx errors |
| Data365 | We found no rule on the pages we read |

## Verdicts

- **Openhandle.** Openhandle provides many kinds of Instagram data at one price per request. It has 43 Instagram endpoints, including [followers](/apis/instagram/followers), [comments](/apis/instagram/comments), and [hashtags](/apis/instagram/hashtags). We make Openhandle, so test it against the other APIs.
- **ScrapeCreators.** ScrapeCreators sells credits up front for many simple calls.
- **Apify.** Apify charges for each result and publishes its own Instagram scraper.
- **Bright Data.** Bright Data provides large batches of records.
- **Data365.** Data365 has monthly plans that cover Instagram. Its monthly price starts at €300.

## How we checked

We used each vendor’s own price page: [ScrapeCreators](https://scrapecreators.com), [Apify](https://apify.com/pricing), [Bright Data](https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-scraper), [EnsembleData](https://ensembledata.com/pricing), [TikHub](https://tikhub.io/pricing), [SociaVault](https://sociavault.com/pricing), [SocialCrawl](https://www.socialcrawl.dev/pricing), and [Data365](https://data365.co/pricing). We calculated the per-1,000 prices from the published packs. For EnsembleData, we assume a 30-day month with every unit used. Vendors change prices. Tell us if a number is out of date, and we will fix it.