six tools that pull emails from Instagram: what 1,000 emails really cost, how each one finds them, and which ones need your Instagram login. including the cases where ours isn't the best pick.
"cost for 1,000 emails" assumes the 20–40% email hit rate the Data Runner README documents, applied to every per-profile tool so the numbers are comparable. tools that don't publish a hit rate may do better or worse.
| tool | pricing model | ≈ cost for 1,000 emails | how it finds emails | login needed | free option |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Runner Instagram Email Scraper (Apify) | $0.015/result, only profiles with an email are charged — plus Apify's profile-scraper dependencies, ~$0.003 per profile examined | $22.50–$30 ($15 in leads + $7.50–$15 dependencies) | keyword search or username list; reads the bio, then visits the profile's linked website | no | Apify's $5 monthly free credit |
| seemuapps/instagram-contact-scraper (Apify) | $0.0065 per profile, whether or not a contact is found | $16.25–$32.50 | username list only (max 50 per run); reads the contact button and bio, follows link-in-bio pages | no | Apify's $5 monthly free credit |
| devil_port369-owner/instagram-email-phone-scraper-pay-per-result (Apify) | per profile: $0.05 on Apify's Free plan, $0.0045 on Bronze, down to $0.003 on Gold+; plus a $0.02–$0.04 start fee per run | $11.25–$22.50 on Bronze · $125–$250 on Free | username list only; returns the bio's website link but doesn't visit it; optional email verification billed separately | no | Apify free credit, at the $0.05 Free-plan rate |
| bhansalisoft/instagram-email-scraper (Apify) | from 2026-09-29: $0.007–$0.01 per email found, by Apify plan (until then a $10/month rental) | $7–$10 | keyword search through Google; emails found in Instagram post snippets. output is email + post title, snippet and link — no username or follower data | no | Apify's $5 monthly free credit |
| IGLeads | subscription: $59/mo for 10k emails, $149/mo for 50k, $299/mo unlimited (annual: $49 / $79 / $239 per month) | ≈ $5.90 if you use the full $59 quota | not stated on the pricing page | not stated on the pricing page | none listed |
| PhantomBuster — Instagram Profile Scraper | plans by execution time: Start $56/mo billed annually ($672/yr) with 20h/month; Grow $128/mo; Scale $352/mo | not directly comparable — billed by execution time, not per email | scrapes profiles you give it; returns the email only if it's public on the profile | yes — uses your Instagram session cookie | trial: 2h execution time, exports limited to 10 rows |
Apify price tiers follow your Apify subscription plan; the Data Runner Actor has one price on every plan. start fees of $0.00005 per GB of memory (shared by most Apify Actors) are left out — they're a fraction of a cent per run.
you start from a niche or keyword rather than a username list, and your targets are businesses or creators with a website. the website visit finds emails the bio never shows, and you're only charged for profiles that produced an email.
you already have the usernames and they're business accounts: it reads the Instagram contact button, which ours doesn't, and its per-profile price is lower if most of your list has contacts.
you only need email addresses for a topic, as cheaply as possible per email, and don't need to know which profile or how many followers each one belongs to.
you'll pull tens of thousands of emails every month. at full quota a subscription beats pay-per-result on price — if you use it; unused quota is still paid for.
you already run LinkedIn or multi-step outreach workflows there and want Instagram in the same place — and you're comfortable running it through your own logged-in account.
your niche is personal or entertainment accounts. few of those publish an email anywhere, so every tool's yield drops and per-profile pricing gets expensive.
Per email, bhansalisoft's Instagram Email Scraper on Apify: from 2026-09-29 it charges $0.007–$0.01 per email found, depending on your Apify plan. But it finds emails in Google-indexed Instagram post snippets, so you get an email and a post link, not a profile record with username and followers. If you use a subscription's full quota, IGLeads works out at about $5.90 per 1,000 emails on its $59/month plan.
Not with the Data Runner scraper or the other Apify Actors compared here — they read public profile data without your account. PhantomBuster's Instagram Profile Scraper uses your Instagram session cookie, so it acts as your logged-in account.
Because it visits the website linked in each profile to find emails the bio doesn't show, and it only charges for profiles where an email was found ($0.015/result). You also pay Apify's own profile-scraping dependencies — about $0.003 per profile examined — so 1,000 emails at the documented 20–40% hit rate come to roughly $22.50–$30.
seemuapps/instagram-contact-scraper says it reads the profile's contact button as well as the bio and link-in-bio pages. The Data Runner scraper reads the bio and the linked website; it does not read the contact button, so business accounts that only publish an email there are a case where seemuapps can find more.
They were checked on 2026-09-28 from each vendor's pricing page or the Apify API — sources are listed at the bottom of the page. Prices change; check the vendor before you buy.
prices and features checked on 2026-09-28 from each vendor's own page or the Apify API. if something changed, tell us and we'll fix it.
$0.015/result, charged only when an email is found. new Apify accounts get $5 free.