Instagram Account Age Checker — Country, Date Joined

Instagram account age checker: see when an Instagram account was created and the country it is based in, straight from Instagram's own "About this account" panel. Paste handles, profile links or account ids and get one row per account: country, the month and year it joined, its age in months, verified and private flags, and how many times it changed its username. $4.50 per 1,000 accounts; an account with no record is never charged.

Built for growth agencies, brand-safety teams and influencer vetting: check where a creator's account is based in before a deal, spot a brand-new account posing as an old one, or flag a handle that has been renamed. No login, no cookies, no proxy to set up. Nothing is charged for starting a run, and an account that does not exist, or whose panel names nothing, carries no result fee.

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• Actor id: steadyfetch/instagram-account-age-checker
• Input: { "usernames": ["nike", "@aesop", "1771059415"] } — usernames is the one field you have to set: handles, @handles, profile links or numeric account ids.
• Cap the bill: set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run (a run option, not Actor input), e.g. 0.50 for 100 accounts — the run stops when it reaches it.
• Price: $0.005 per account on the Apify free plan, $0.0045 from Gold. Full table below.
• How often it changes: almost never — where an account is based and the month it joined stay put, so check each account once and re-run only new ones.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc.

What you get

One row per account:

Column	What it holds
username · userId · profileUrl	who the account is
country	the country Instagram's panel says the account is based in — null when the panel names none
dateJoined	the month and year the account joined, exactly as Instagram words it ("November 2011")
dateJoinedMonth	the same month as YYYY-MM ("2011-11"), ready to sort and filter
accountAgeMonths	whole months from the join month to the month of the run
isVerified · isPrivate	the verified badge, and whether the account is private (null when you named it by id)
formerUsernamesCount	how many times the account changed its username, as a number (0 = never)
charged · chargedEvents · status · statusReason	what the row was charged, and why it says what it says

Every column is always present, and nothing is guessed: an empty field is null, never an empty string or an invented value.

What a row looks like

{
  "username": "nike",
  "userId": "13460080",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/nike/",
  "country": "United States",
  "dateJoined": "November 2011",
  "dateJoinedMonth": "2011-11",
  "accountAgeMonths": 179,
  "isVerified": true,
  "isPrivate": false,
  "formerUsernamesCount": 0,
  "charged": true,
  "chargedEvents": { "account": 1 },
  "status": "delivered"
}

Price

You pay per account delivered, and nothing else:

Event	When it is charged	Apify free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold and up
account	each account whose "About this account" panel named a country or a join date	$0.005	$0.0048	$0.0046	$0.0045

Per 1,000 accounts that is $5.00 on the Apify free plan, $4.80 on Bronze, $4.60 on Silver and $4.50 per 1,000 from Gold. No start fee, ever. The same account named twice in one run — say by handle and by id — is read once and charged once.

What the country means

country is the country Instagram itself shows under "Account based in" on the account's "About this account" panel. Instagram decides it; the account holder does not type it, and it can differ from where a person happens to be today. Instagram leaves it out for some accounts — often private ones — and then country is null while the join date is still delivered (and charged, because it is an answer). If you need the country on every row, filter on country != null.

Dates are month and year

Instagram publishes the join date as a month and a year, never a day. dateJoined keeps Instagram's own words, dateJoinedMonth is the same month as YYYY-MM, and accountAgeMonths counts whole months up to the month the run happened. Nothing here invents a day of the month.

Honest rows: what "not charged" actually means

Every account you name gets exactly one row. An account that was not delivered leaves an uncharged row whose status says which of these happened:

• nothing_found — Instagram has no account at that handle or id, or its "About this account" panel names no country and no join date. The row says which. A definitive answer: a re-run answers the same.
• not_public — the account is private and its panel names nothing.
• your_limit_reached / out_of_time — your result limit, your maximum cost per run or the run clock stopped it first.
• plan_limit_reached — the Apify free plan's daily allowance for this actor (below); the row says when it resets.
• limit_reached — this run reached its limit before it could look the account up; a new run with the accounts on those rows collects them.
• try_again — the read did not go through. Temporary, says nothing about the account, and a re-run is the fix.
• not_accepted / not_supported — a value this actor cannot use (a post link, a number too short to be an id), or an answer it does not read yet. The row says what to paste instead.

None of these is charged, and the run still finishes successfully. A time limit ends the collecting, never the delivering: accounts already in hand are always written out. The last row of every run is a receipt: delivered, asked for, what stopped the run, and the charged total. Results may fail when Instagram changes; failed items are never charged.

How often this data changes

Where an account is based and the month it joined almost never change, and the username count only ever goes up. So there is no repeat memory and no "only new" mode: every run reads each account you name fresh and charges it again, and the record rarely changes — re-run only new accounts, the ones you have not checked yet.

Use it as an API endpoint (Standby)

You can also call this actor like an API: send the accounts in one web request and get their rows back in the same response, with no run to start and no dataset to read. The address is https://steadyfetch--instagram-account-age-checker.apify.actor, also shown on the actor's Endpoints tab, where you can try it from the browser.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  "https://steadyfetch--instagram-account-age-checker.apify.actor/?usernames=nike,aesop"

Setting	What it does
usernames	Handles, @handles, profile links or numeric account ids — comma-separated, or the parameter repeated. A JSON body {"usernames": ["nike"]} works too.
resultsLimit	The most accounts to look up in this request. One request looks up at most 25 accounts (3 on the Apify free plan); send a longer list in several requests, or run the actor.

The answer is JSON: rows (one per account you named, the same fields as a dataset row), summary (the receipt), delivered, charged, and notes saying what to do about anything not delivered. You are charged exactly as a run charges, per account delivered. The endpoint keeps no memory of earlier requests. If the charge for a request cannot be completed, its accounts are not sent and nothing is charged.

Limits and good manners

Max accounts defaults to 100, so for a longer list set it to the length of the list (up to 5,000) — accounts past it are not looked up. Max accounts and Max run seconds take any number you type: a bigger ask runs at this actor's ceiling instead of being refused, and one uncharged row says what was asked for and what was used. A number of 8 digits or more is read as an account id (one lookup instead of two); paste a shorter id, or an all-numeric username, as its profile link.

On the Apify free plan this actor makes at most 60 Instagram lookups per account in any 24 hours — two per account named by handle, one per account named by id — and accounts on the free plan share one daily allowance on this actor. Past either, the run keeps everything it already delivered, ships one uncharged row saying when it resets (UTC), and charges nothing past it. That row is retryable: true and carries retryAfter (the exact reset time) and reason: "free_plan_allowance", and so do the run summary row and the OUTPUT record, so a script running a list can wait for that time instead of starting runs that are held the same way. Paid Apify plans carry no daily allowance.

A bare Start with no account looks up three well-known brand accounts as a sample, at no result fee, so you can see the output. Only what Instagram shows any visitor is returned: nothing private, nothing behind a login.

Related actors

• The full profile of accounts you already know — followers, bio, category and public contacts: Instagram Bio Scraper — https://apify.com/steadyfetch/instagram-profile-details-scraper
• Find accounts by keyword or hashtag: Instagram Account Search — https://apify.com/steadyfetch/instagram-account-search-scraper
• One account's own posts: Instagram Profile Posts Scraper — https://apify.com/steadyfetch/instagram-profile-posts

Reliability

Each account is looked up directly rather than scraped from Instagram's own web pages, which is why there is nothing to log into and nothing to configure. When a lookup cannot be answered, the run says so on an uncharged row and finishes successfully — a failed read is never billed and never dressed up as a missing account.

Support

Something off, or a column you need that is not here? Open an issue on the Issues tab — we usually reply within a couple of hours.

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