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Best instagram post API in 2026

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Captapi, ScrapeCreators and Scrappa are the best instagram post API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 8 providers and rank all 8 by score. For the three we score highest, we show each one's top scoring plan and each part of the plan's score. We rank 65 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.003. Litescrape charges for each page of results. We count 50 posts on each page to get the $0.003 price.

Every instagram post API provider we score, ranked

  1. Captapi, $9 monthly: Overall score 53.6, Data score 74, $1.35 per 1,000 posts
  2. ScrapeCreators, $47 pack: Overall score 50.6, Data score 88
  3. Scrappa, $10 pack: Overall score 48.8, Data score 61
  4. lobstr.io, $500 monthly: Overall score 45.1, Data score 57, $0.50 per 1,000 posts
  5. AnyAPI, top-up from $10: Overall score 40.3, Data score 44
  6. Desearch, top-up: Overall score 38.4, Data score 55
  7. Bright Data, $499 monthly: Overall score 38.3, Data score 63, $1.30 per 1,000 posts
  8. Influencers.club, $208 monthly: Overall score 35.0, Data score 40

  1. #1 Captapi: Instagram post API

    Captapi, $9 monthly

    It returns all 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author, Audience.

    Overall score
    53.6
    $ per 1,000
    $1.35
    Price score
    23
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 65
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 posts than this plan: 57
    Data score
    74
    Cost to get started score
    90
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $9
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 178 other calls
    Performance score
    11
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 20.453 s
    • Scrappa, the fastest benchmarked provider: 2.324 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 accounts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.74 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 74 out of 100.

  2. #2 ScrapeCreators: Instagram post API

    ScrapeCreators, $47 pack

    It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.

    Overall score
    50.6
    Price score
    0
    • $ per 1,000 posts: none. The provider's pages give this plan's price, but not how many posts it pays for.
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    Data score
    88
    Cost to get started score
    82
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $47
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 198 other calls
    Performance score
    21
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 11.086 s
    • Scrappa, the fastest benchmarked provider: 2.324 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 accounts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.884 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 88 out of 100.

  3. #3 Scrappa: Instagram post API

    Scrappa, $10 pack

    It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.

    Overall score
    48.8
    Price score
    0
    • $ per 1,000 posts: none. The provider's pages give this plan's price, but not how many posts it pays for.
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: $0.303
    Data score
    61
    Cost to get started score
    93
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $10
    Bundle score
    100
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 2,378 other calls
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 2.324 s
    • Scrappa, the fastest benchmarked provider: 2.324 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 accounts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.6087 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 61 out of 100.

The Data score on instagram post APIs

This score, out of 100, shows how much of an account's posts the call returns. Each call returns the first page of the account's posts. For each account, we count the posts the call returned. We also check which of the parts we score those posts hold. Then we average each account's result over all accounts. If the call returned no post for an account, that account counts as 0. Some providers may run on fewer accounts. We compare each such provider with the other providers on the same accounts. A provider can't score higher by running only on easy accounts. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer accounts than the benchmark has.

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