Instagram profiles dataset
The creators you describe, at 5¢ a row.
An Instagram profiles dataset costs up to $0.0025 a record from Bright Data, with a $250 minimum order for 100K records, and from $0.0020 at Xpoz, with a $2,000 minimum. You buy the file, then filter it down to the accounts you can use.
SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Name the niche, the market, the language and the follower range, and every creator who fits reaches your sheet as a structured row, with the business contact they published.
A row with up to 5 facts costs 5¢, and an email 5¢ more: 1,000 creators cost $50, or $100 with an email. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card, and you see the most a run can cost before it starts.
New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.
SpecStream and Instagram profile datasets side by side
| SpecStream | Bright Data Instagram Profiles | Apify Instagram Profile Scraper | Xpoz Instagram Profiles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you send | The creators you want in plain words: the niche, the market, the language, the follower range and the facts to bring back | A pick from its Instagram datasets, narrowed with filters or a prompt in plain English | Profile URLs, Instagram usernames or profile IDs you already have | An order for a volume tier of its Instagram profiles export, or a custom dataset |
| What you get back | Structured rows, one record per creator, with facts from the creator's profiles, site, podcast and press joined. Source URL and read time on every value | Records with 26 data fields, from 661.1M+ profiles: follower and following counts, posts count, verification and privacy status, external links and more | Name, join date, number of followers, location, bio, website, related profiles, video and post count and latest posts for each profile you send | Public profiles with biography, follower counts, business status and verification, from 124M+ records |
| Price per record | 5¢ a row with up to 5 facts, 15¢ with up to 15, $1 for a deep row. A business email adds 5¢, a phone 15¢ | Up to $0.0025 a record: $250 for 100K records on a one-time purchase | $2.60 per 1,000 results on the Free plan, $2.30 on Starter | $0.0020 a record for 1M ($2,000), down to $0.0009 for 100M ($90,000) |
| Smallest purchase | $10 of credit on sign-up, no card. A top-up from $10 never expires | $250 minimum order. A free data sample before you buy | $5 of free usage every month | $2,000 minimum order. A free 100-record sample with every dataset |
| How fresh | Read on the live web when you ask, with the read time on each value | Pre-collected data, collected within the last days to months, or freshly collected at order | Read when you run the scraper on the profiles you send | A bulk export of public profiles |
| Scheduled delivery | A saved request reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢ | Custom schedules: one time, bi-annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly or daily, up to 80% off on monthly plans. Smart updates deliver only New Records or Updated Records | Schedule the scraper via API, billed per result on each run | Download, Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage |
| Where the data goes | Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n, signed webhooks, the API and the MCP server | JSON, NDJSON, JSON Lines, CSV, XLSX or Parquet, to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Snowflake, Google PubSub, SFTP, a webhook or email | Export the scraped data, or read it through the API and other tools | CSV or JSON, by download, Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage |
| The cost cap before a run | The most the run can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing | The order price, from $250, before collection starts | Charged for each result you receive | The volume tier's total, from $2,000 |
Why creator teams take SpecStream over a profiles file
Only the creators you need
A profiles dataset holds the accounts its seller collected, and you pay for every record you keep in the order. On SpecStream you write the creators you need: "Instagram creators in Germany who post about vegan cooking in German, with 10,000 to 100,000 followers". SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, the conditions every row must meet and the facts to bring back, then returns one row per creator who meets them all.
One record per creator, with the contact they published
Facts from a creator's profiles, site, podcast and press join into one record, so the row carries the handle, the follower count and the business email the creator published, each with the page it was read on and the time. An email costs 5¢ on top of the row and a phone 15¢, and only when the row carries it.
Scheduled delivery, with every change labeled
Bright Data delivers the Instagram Profiles dataset one time, bi-annually, quarterly, monthly, weekly or daily, and its smart updates send only New Records or Updated Records. A saved SpecStream request reruns hourly to yearly and labels each row changed, unchanged or no longer matching, so a creator who drops out of your follower range comes back marked as no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢) and an unchanged row 1¢. New matches land in Slack, email, Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce or a signed webhook.
Start with $10 of credit
Bright Data's Instagram datasets start at a $250 order and Xpoz's at $2,000. SpecStream starts with $10 of credit on sign-up, no card: 200 creators at 5¢. Duplicates, rows you already own and rows a page contradicts are not charged, and what a run does not use goes back to your balance.
From your agent, too
Connect the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp and your agent asks for creators in the same words, sees the price, and gets the rows with their sources once you approve. The same balance pays for the Search API at $5 per 1,000 searches and the Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages.
Other Instagram profile data sources
Bright Data Instagram Profiles Scraper API
Bright Data's Scraper API reads the profiles you send it, at $1.5 per 1K records pay as you go, with 5K records a month free. It returns the profile you named. SpecStream finds the creators who fit your conditions and joins their contact into the row.
Modash
A creator search over its own database of Instagram, TikTok and YouTube profiles. Essentials is $2,388 paid yearly, with 300 opened profiles and 150 creator emails a month. On SpecStream there are no seats and no monthly allowance: each creator row costs 5¢, and an email 5¢ more. SpecStream vs Modash.
Apify Instagram Scraper
Apify's broader Actor reads Instagram posts, reels, profiles, places, hashtags, carousels and comments from the URLs or search queries you give it. SpecStream starts from the creators you describe, not from URLs you already have.
How SpecStream scores
The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.
| SpecStream |  Parallel |  Exa |  Tavily |  Perplexity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web researchWideSearch, GPT-5.6 Luna | 60.9 | 45.5 | 53.0 | 47.9 | 47.0 |
| Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Luna | 96 | 94 | 91 | 94 | 94 |
| Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Sol | 99 | 97 | 91 | 92 | 95 |
How to get your Instagram creators from SpecStream
Write the creators you want in plain words, in place of the dataset you would order. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 creators.
Or send the request from code. This call spends nothing: the 402 reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost.
curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"request": "Instagram creators in Germany who post about vegan cooking in German, with 10,000 to 100,000 followers and their published business email", "count": 25}'Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance.
Frequently asked questions
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Does SpecStream have an API and an MCP server?
https://api.specstream.ai/mcp, and the same request runs through the REST API, the Python and TypeScript SDKs and the workspace, from one balance.Sources
SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page.
- SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
- SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 12, 2026
- Bright Data Instagram Profiles datasetbrightdata.com/products/datasets/instagram/profiles, read Nov 12, 2026
- Bright Data Instagram Profiles Scraper APIbrightdata.com/products/web-scraper/instagram/profiles, read Nov 12, 2026
- Bright Data Web Scraper API pricingbrightdata.com/pricing/web-scraper, read Nov 12, 2026
- Apify Instagram Profile Scraperapify.com/apify/instagram-profile-scraper, read Nov 12, 2026
- Apify Instagram profiles datasetapify.com/store/profile-collector/instagram-profiles-dataset, read Nov 12, 2026
- Xpoz Instagram Profilesxpoz.ai/datasets/instagram-profiles/, read Nov 12, 2026
- Modash pricingmodash.io/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026