herascrape vs Phyllo / InsightIQ
Phyllo returns private creator insights only after each creator connects their own account; herascrape reads public Instagram data for any public profile with no consent flow.
Phyllo / InsightIQ sits in the “official & consent-based apis” tier. Meta’s own API and consent-based creator-data vendors. Sanctioned, but structurally unable to read an arbitrary public profile — they need the account’s own authorization.
| herascrape | Phyllo / InsightIQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Instagram-only | Official (consent) |
| Instagram data | Deep — 37 structured endpoints: profiles, followers, following, likers, comments, stories, highlights, tagged, reels, hashtags, locations | Consent-based creator data (opt-in only); no arbitrary public profiles |
| Data format | Structured JSON | Consent insights |
| API type | REST | Official OAuth REST |
| Delivery | Synchronous | Consent-gated |
| Response time (p90) | 1,720 ms | Not measured |
| Rate limit | 50 req/s (raisable) | Not published |
| Price / 1,000 | $0.40 flat | ~$199/mo (not per-call) |
| Pricing model | Flat per request at any balance; only successful (2xx) calls billed | Consent-OAuth subscription |
| Billing | Only successful (2xx) | Subscription |
| MCP server | Yes | No |
| Client SDKs | Python, JavaScript | Connect SDK (iOS, Android, RN, Flutter, Web) |
| Free tier | $1 free (~2,500 calls) | Demo / quote |
Figures normalized to US$ per 1,000 and verified on each vendor’s live pages on 2026-10-24; re-check before relying on a number. Trademarks belong to their owners.
Why developers pick herascrape
Followers, likers, comments, stories, highlights, tagged and reels as real structured endpoints.
A synchronous REST response in about a second — no job to trigger, poll, or collect from storage.
One rate at any balance, only successful calls billed — no tiers, quotas, or credit multipliers.
$0.0004 per request, flat. 37 real-time Instagram endpoints. Only successful calls billed.