herascrape vs RocketAPI
RocketAPI sells monthly request quotas in euros, so calls you don’t use are money lost; herascrape is pure pay-as-you-go at a flat $0.40 per 1,000 with no quota to forecast or commit to.
RocketAPI sits in the “dedicated instagram data apis” tier. Managed, real-time Instagram data delivered as structured endpoints — the same shape as herascrape. This is where we compete head-to-head; the difference is a flat, transparent price and success-only billing.
| herascrape | RocketAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Instagram-only | Instagram + Threads |
| Instagram data | Deep — 37 structured endpoints: profiles, followers, following, likers, comments, stories, highlights, tagged, reels, hashtags, locations | Instagram + Threads; endpoint count not published |
| Data format | Structured JSON | Structured JSON |
| API type | REST | REST |
| Delivery | Synchronous | Synchronous |
| Response time (p90) | 1,720 ms | Not measured |
| Rate limit | 50 req/s (raisable) | Not published |
| Price / 1,000 | $0.40 flat | ~$0.54–1.06 |
| Pricing model | Flat per request at any balance; only successful (2xx) calls billed | EUR monthly quota subscription (unused quota wasted) |
| Billing | Only successful (2xx) | Successful only |
| MCP server | Yes | No |
| Client SDKs | Python, JavaScript | Python, PHP |
| Free tier | $1 free (~2,500 calls) | 100 calls |
Figures normalized to US$ 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.