No disclosed single-account price is on record for Instagram, so no price curve is drawn.
Public asking prices only · Normalized to USD from the published currency using stored reference rates · Single-account and bulk unit pricing kept separate · Median, P25 and P75 only — prices are never inferred · Asking price may not reflect a realized transaction.
Demand drivers
Why these accounts are bought
3 documented
Engagement and follower farming
An investigation documented large-scale production of engagement and follower accounts aimed primarily at this platform.
Every entry restates the abuse or fraud objective described in one named public source — press reporting, court filings, law-enforcement announcements, platform disclosures, security-vendor research or academic studies — and links straight to it. Nothing is inferred from other platforms, and no method, tooling or access route is described. Objectives documented in evidence are not a measure of how often they succeed.
Transparent scoring
Market Pressure Components
v0.1
Observed premiums
Commonly valued attributes
Account ageVerificationReputation / social graphPurchase historyGeographySubscription tierPayment history
Attributes describe themes in evidence, not product recommendations.
Sanitized record
Evidence
3 shown
Court Record
Instagram Lawsuit Takes Aim at Account Selling, Reinstatement Services
“Meta filed a US civil action alleging that an individual had sold Instagram usernames and offered unauthorised account reinstatement services since 2022, in breach of platform terms. Meta described it as its first US legal action of this kind against account-selling services.”
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts
“The platform stated that hundreds of hijacked accounts, primarily on Instagram, were reclaimed from members of a username-trading forum, describing an escrow-based resale ecosystem focused on short, high-value Instagram usernames.”
“An investigation described a large-scale operation manufacturing engagement and follower accounts aimed primarily at Instagram, with production concentrated in South and Southeast Asia. Revenue and volume figures were the operator's own unverified claims.”