Instagram scrapers compared

Each result written to the dataset

Each profile written to the dataset.

• Add-on: About account (about-account)

Each reel written to the dataset.

• Actor start (actor-start)
• Add-on: Shares count (shares-count)
• Add-on: Transcript (transcript)
• Add-on: Video download (video-download)

Each post written to the dataset.

• Post details (post-details)
• Add-on: Music data (music-data)

Each result written to the dataset.

Each comment written to the dataset

Each result written to the dataset.

• Live Search Result (live-search-result)

One Instagram reel or video transcribed: full speech-to-text, first-3-seconds hook, language, timestamped segments and the reel's metadata. The first 3 minutes of each video are included. Music-only reels are free unless you enable on-screen text extraction — then a reel with readable on-screen text delivers as a charged row. Charged only when a transcript or extracted on-screen text is delivered — expired links, text-free music-only reels and failures are never charged. A photo post or photo carousel is not a transcript: its words are read from its images under the separate 'Photo post text' event.

• Long video minute (long-video-surcharge)
• Photo post text (image-text)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Actor Start (actor-start)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Processing Fee (Filtered Items) (filtered)
• Restricted profile (restricted_profile)

Each post written to the dataset.

Each result written to the dataset by the URL.

• Actor start (actor-start)
• Search result (search-result)
• Add-on: Date filter (filter-applied)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Cost-Effective Audio-to-Text (Auto) (speech2text)

Each profile written to the dataset.

• Actor Start (actor-start)

Price per hashtag result returned

• Actor start (actor-start)
• Add-on: Top posts (top-posts)
• Add-on: Latest posts (latest-posts)

Charged for each comment extracted beyond the free 15 comments included per post.

• Instagram Post Comments Query (query-event)

One story delivered to the dataset: a single image or video, from the account's current stories or from inside a highlight.

Single result in the default dataset.

• Profile unavailable or restricted (restricted_profile)
• Filtered out (date/criteria) (filtered-out)

Price for processing a keyword query. Includes first ~40 results.

• Dataset Item (dataset-item)

Charged for each post extracted beyond the free posts included per query.

• Instagram Audio/Music Query (audio-query)
• Instagram User Profile Query (user-query)
• Instagram Location Query (location-query)
• Instagram Hashtag Query (tag-query)
• Instagram Single Post Query (single-item-query)
• Instagram Story Query (story-query)

Charged once for each reel that is successfully analyzed, at any length up to 3 minutes. $0.075 per reel on every plan, dropping to $0.06 at the highest volume tiers. Private, deleted, photo, carousel, longer-than-3-minute, expired-link and failed reels are delivered as free rows with the reason in the error column and are not charged. Results the built-in quality check flags as low quality are delivered but not charged.

Cost for each scraped username

Charged once per reel returned in the search results.

Single result in the default dataset.

• Profile unavailable or restricted (restricted_profile)
• Filtered out (filtered-out)

Charged for each Instagram profile that was successfully retrieved (from API or cache) and analyzed, regardless of whether it passed your filters.

Charged once per story item saved to the dataset when stories are expanded (includeStories enabled).

• Highlight Record (highlight-found)

Cost per comment without auth cookie

• Actor start (init)
• Cookie result (cookie-result)

Charged once per public Instagram account processed (resolves the profile and fetches its active stories and/or highlight list). Private, missing, or invalid accounts are not charged.

• Highlight tray (highlight-tray)
• Media file downloaded (media-downloaded)
• Historical story/highlight (historical-item)

Charged per post/reel item delivered to the dataset (24-field JSON with media URLs, caption, hashtags, mentions, like, comment and view counts, and more).

• Actor Start (actor-start)
• Profile Scan (profile-scan)

Fee charged for each Instagram reel or post successfully processed with AI transcription and comprehensive data extraction (30+ fields). Only charged on successful completion.

• Fast processing upgrade (FastProcessingUpgrade)
• Translated 1,000 characters (TranslationProcessed)
• Extracted comments (CommentsExtraction)

Cost for each scraped profile. Stories are free, you only pay per profile, no matter how many stories the profile has.

• Actor start (init)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Profile Unavailable or Restricted (restricted_profile)
• Filtered out (date/criteria) (filtered-out)

One Instagram post or Reel matching the complete Boolean query and configured filters, saved to the default dataset.

• Instagram search page (search-page)

Single result in the default dataset.

• scrape facebook profile (scrape-fb-profile)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Scrape facebook profile (scrape-fb-profile)
• Filtered out item (filtered-out)

One unique public Instagram user matched by keyword search, validated against filters, and saved to the dataset.

One sound: title, artist, duration, cover art, a direct audio URL, and — when reel expansion is on — Instagram's catalogue-wide count of reels using it. Covers both a catalogue track found by search and the sound read off a post you supplied, including a creator's own audio, which no keyword search can find. Posts with no sound are returned as rows but never charged. $4.00 per 1,000 sounds.

• Reel using the sound (reel)

Single result in the default dataset.

• AI audio minute (audio-minute)

Cost per item collected. Each unit covers processing, cleaning, analysis, and storage.

• Add-on: Enriched profile (enriched-profile)

Charged when searching Instagram users by keyword. Includes first 40 user profiles (2 pages) in the base price. Ideal for discovering influencers and building prospect lists.

• Profile Query (single-item-query)
• User Profile Item (dataset-item)