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What should a 100,000 follower account charge?

$1,950 to $3,900

for one feed post on Instagram

The work is worth $1,950 to $3,900 for a feed post. This is also the size where brands start coming to you instead of the other way round.

What you’ll actually be offered

The number above is what the work is worth.

At six figures you become what I’d call a lead influencer. Brands find you. They see the work, the consistency, the niche, the nuance, and they reach out.

Below this, creators are the ones searching for brands. At 100,000 you have enough visibility that the search runs the other way, and that changes every conversation you have about money.

The budgets change with it. Offers in the thousands become normal, three, four, five and upwards, depending on the brand, the category, your engagement and the quality of the work. Not the follower count on its own.

The threshold some brands actually write down

A number of brands have a policy that they don’t pay a creator until 100,000 followers. Cross it and the same brand that ignored you at 40k will email you. Nothing about your work changed. Their rule did.

The tables

The same maths the calculator runs, at 100,000 followers.

Every figure here is computed, not looked up in a band. Change any one input on the calculator and it moves.

What each format is worth at 100,000 on Instagram
FormatRange
Feed post$1,950 to $3,900
Reel / short video$2,650 to $5,300
Carousel$2,350 to $4,700
Story set (3 frames)$785 to $1,550
UGC, no posting$75 to $350
Usage on top of the posting fee
What they wantRange
Organic only$1,950 to $3,900
Paid ads · 1 month$2,700 to $5,400
Paid ads · 3 months$3,450 to $6,850
Paid ads · 6 to 12 months$4,900 to $9,800
Perpetual$5,900 to $11,750
What the category does to it
CategoryRange
Fast fashion$785 to $1,550
Fashion, mid and premium$1,950 to $3,900
Beauty$2,150 to $4,300
Tech & electronics$2,450 to $4,900
Travel & hospitality$2,050 to $4,100
Food & drink$1,750 to $3,550
Finance & apps$2,250 to $4,500

Instagram is the baseline everything else is priced against.

If it’s gifted

Gifted isn’t automatically a no. It’s a no when they want usage rights with it, or three pieces of content, or exclusivity. One post for a product you’d have bought anyway is a fair trade. Everything past that is unpaid work.

Usage, and why it is separate

Usage is the brand’s right to run your post as an advert. It’s a second thing you’re selling, quoted on top of the fee and never folded into it. It’s also the thing most often handed over for nothing.

Ask what they’re spending to run it as an ad. If a brand is putting budget behind your post, they’ve already decided your content is worth spending more money on. That’s a fact sitting in the open, in the brief, and almost nobody asks about it.

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Your number, not this one.

This page prices a 100,000 follower account. Change the format, the category, the usage or your engagement and the answer moves. The calculator does that in one screen.