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API Direct pricing and alternatives: Instagram post API, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts, Instagram User Posts

API Direct's sitellms.txtBest Instagram post API in 2026: pricing comparedAPI Direct: Instagram post API alternatives

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe rank 118 plans by price. EveryInfra's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.0025. EveryInfra charges for each page of results. We count 200 posts on each page to get the $0.0025 price.FetchLayer, Captapi and ScrapeCreators are the best Instagram post API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free tier one of API Direct's 2 plans
Call: GET /v1/instagram/user/posts, Instagram User Posts one of API Direct's 4 calls for this API
API: Instagram post API one of API Direct's 30 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the posts from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 requests a month, enough for 50 pages. Requests are reset on the 1st of each month.
  • One call. You send url or username to GET /v1/instagram/user/posts. You can also send pages and get_sentiment. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Who can get it: at least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

API Direct: Instagram post API alternatives

The table starts with API Direct's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 posts closest to API Direct's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts, Instagram User Postslobstr.io, $500 monthlyInfluencers.club, $1,916 monthlyZembra, top-up from $17,362SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/instagram/profile/posts
$ per 1,000 posts$0.50$0.50$0.599$0.60$0.667
Completeness83%67%83%17%83%
Billingpay as you gomonthlymonthlypay firstpay first
Payat a threshold$500$1,916$17,362£15
Enough foras many as you pay for1,000,000 results a monthabout 266,666 pages a monthas many as you pay for2,500 pages
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itat least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Termsprofessionals, not consumersanyoneanyone aged 18 or overanyone 18 or over

Every Instagram post API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. apidirect.io/docs/batch
  2. apidirect.io/docs/instagram-user-posts
  3. apidirect.io/docs/pricing
  4. apidirect.io/docs/rate-limits
  5. apidirect.io/dpa
  6. apidirect.io/endpoints
  7. apidirect.io/endpoints/linkedin-person
  8. apidirect.io/openapi.json
  9. apidirect.io/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Text
  • Media
  • Engagement
  • Analytics
  • Author
  • Audience, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perpage of 12
Billingfree
Charges
Extra fieldssentiment emotions, dominant emotion, emotional intensity, sentiment polarity: +$0.00
Also pays for142 other calls: 50 requests a month each, 20 for Places Search, Place Reviews and Place Photos
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet a user’s recent posts and reels (their feed) by profile URL or username. Returns post captions, engagement metrics (likes, comments, shares, views), author metadata, hashtags, and mentions. Supports fetching multiple pages in a single API call.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable laws, regulations, or third-party rights, Infringe upon intellectual property rights of others, Engage in any activity that could damage, disable, or impair the Service, Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Service, Use the Service for any illegal, harmful, or fraudulent purposes, Circumvent or attempt to circumvent any rate limits, usage limits, or security measures, Use automated means to create accounts or generate API keys, Harass, abuse, or harm individuals using data obtained through the Service, Scrape our Service [...] You acknowledge that: [...] You are responsible for complying with the terms of service of the underlying platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, etc.) when using data obtained through our Service [...] You agree that: You have a lawful basis for requesting, receiving, and using the data you obtain through the Service [...] You will comply with applicable data protection law, including providing any notices and honouring any rights owed to individuals by you as controller [...] You will not use the Service to identify or target individuals on the basis of special categories of personal data
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 requests a month
Enough for50 pages a month
Expiresreset on the 1st of each month
Rate limit
Per second1.39
Concurrent10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of url or username. Optional: pages, get_sentiment
MethodGET
Path/v1/instagram/user/posts
About the plan
PlanFree tier
Who can get itat least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms
The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, post URL, created at, author username, platform, text, like count, comment count, share count, reshare count, view count, is video, media type, author verified, author name, hashtags, mentions, media ID, thumbnail, video, video duration, dimensions, carousel media count, paid partnership, location, tagged users, coauthors, carousel, music, is pinned, results returned

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