Live Instagram followers counter

Type a handle and watch its followers update. We take a fresh reading every 60 seconds and animate the change - with the exact figure Instagram publishes.

Biggest accounts we track

The largest Instagram accounts in our directory. Each card shows its seven-day change, so the movers are easy to spot.

How often does a Instagram counter update?

Every 60 seconds while the page is open. That interval is not arbitrary: it is the fastest we can read Instagram without degrading the crawler that feeds our directory. Read live from our own Instagram scraper. Exact follower count, refreshed on a slower cycle because each read costs a proxy exit.

One reading serves every viewer. A thousand people watching the same handle is still one request to Instagram per interval, which is why we can offer this at all.

Looking for rankings rather than a live number? Browse the Instagram directory.