# Instadata, free: Facebook Ad Library API

> Every ad one advertiser is running or has run, from its Facebook Page URL or Meta Ad Library page URL.

Instadata's Facebook Ad Library API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 ads. It returns all 7 key fields we check: Ad status, Run dates, Platforms, Text, Media, Call to action, Advertiser.
We haven't run Instadata through [our Facebook Ad Library API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 118 plans for Facebook Ad Library APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.494 per 1,000 ads or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 ads: $0.00074. Zapi charges for each page of results. We count 30 ads on each page to get the $0.00074 price.
[Metapi](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/metapi/299-monthly-scale-post-v1-tasks-from-url/llms.txt), [Adyntel](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adyntel/top-up-from-0-55/llms.txt) and [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt) are the best Facebook Ad Library API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/free
- [Facebook Ad Library API: 7 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt)
- Get it: https://instadata.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.instadata.dev/v1/instagram/ads-by-page`
- API key: with the plan, on https://instadata.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://instadata.dev/endpoints/ads-by-page/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Sold by: Instadata (https://instadata.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Ad status: ✓
- Run dates: ✓
- Platforms: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Call to action: ✓
- Advertiser: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 ads: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Profile · Profile Details · Profile About · Similar Accounts · Profile Search · Post Stats · Profile Posts · Tagged Posts · Keyword Search · Mentions · Profile Reels · Reels Search · Media Download · Reel Transcript · Reel Summary · Comments · Profile Comments · Hashtag Posts · Hashtag Reels · Hashtag Stats · Hashtag Analytics · Hashtag Search · Location Search · Location Details · Location Posts · Ads Search · Brand Collaborations

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Every ad one advertiser is running or has run, from its Facebook Page URL or Meta Ad Library page URL.

## Data

- Freshness: 3 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the API to: access private, login-gated or paywalled content, or attempt to, harass, stalk, dox or surveil individuals, or build profiles of specific private individuals, send spam or unsolicited outreach at scale, violate applicable law, including data-protection law that applies to your use of the data, resell raw API access wholesale under your own brand without written permission (building products on the API is what it is for), probe, overload or interfere with the service, or evade rate limits and metering.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 25 credits
- Enough for: about 8 results
- Expires: never while the account is open

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: limit, cursor, fresh, fields
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/instagram/ads-by-page

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

ad archive ID, ad library URL, ad text, ad title, call to action type, link URL, is active, start date, end date, publisher platforms, page ID, page name, page categories, page like count, images, videos, reach estimate, spend, next cursor, request ID

## Instadata's plans (15)

- [Instadata, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $4.50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/4-50-pack/llms.txt): $13.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/5-pack/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $22.50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/22-50-pack/llms.txt): $13.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/25-pack/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $45 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/45-pack/llms.txt): $13.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/50-pack/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $112.50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/112-50-pack/llms.txt): $13.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $125 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/125-pack/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $225 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/225-pack/llms.txt): $13.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/250-pack/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $450 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/450-pack/llms.txt): $13.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/500-pack/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/5-monthly/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $54 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/54-yearly/llms.txt): $13.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 hours

## Instadata's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/instagram/ads-by-page`: [Instadata, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/free/llms.txt)

## Instadata's APIs (3)

- [Instadata: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 15 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/free/llms.txt)
- [Instadata: Instagram profile API pricing, 15 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/free/llms.txt)
- [Instadata: Instagram post API pricing, 15 plans, GET /v1/instagram/channel-posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/free-get-v1-instagram-channel-posts/llms.txt)
- [Instadata: Instagram post API pricing, 15 plans, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/free-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt)

## Instadata: Facebook Ad Library API alternatives

- [1Lookup, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/1lookup/99-monthly/llms.txt): $4.95 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Anysite, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /api/facebook/advertisers/ads](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/anysite/49-monthly-starter-post-api-facebook-advertisers-ads/llms.txt): $6.533 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/facebook/adlibrary/company/ads, List Facebook Ad Library company ads, full](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialcrawl/15-pack-starter-get-v1-facebook-adlibrary-company-ads-list-facebook-ad-library-company-ads-full/llms.txt): $9.335 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [TrendTrack, $1,332 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/trendtrack/1332-yearly/llms.txt): $16.65 per 1,000, 57% complete, 24 hours

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://instadata.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/docs/caching-and-freshness?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/docs/pagination-and-jobs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/endpoints/ads-by-page/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing