# API Direct, free tier, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts: Instagram post API

> Get 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.

API Direct's Instagram post API on its Free tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We rank 125 plans by price. [EveryInfra's $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/everyinfra/500-pack-monthly-top-up-discount-10-off-from-500/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt), [Captapi](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/9-monthly/llms.txt) and [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt) are the best Instagram post API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-direct/free-tier-get-v1-instagram-user-posts
- [Best Instagram post API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://apidirect.io/docs/pricing
- Request: `GET https://apidirect.io/v1/instagram/user/posts`, Instagram User Posts
- API key: with the plan, on https://apidirect.io/docs/pricing
- Its API docs: https://apidirect.io/docs/instagram-user-posts
- Sold by: API Direct (https://apidirect.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page of 12
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Extra fields: sentiment emotions, dominant emotion, emotional intensity, sentiment polarity: +$0.00
- Also pays for: 142 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 pitch: Get 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 50 requests a month
- Enough for: 50 pages a month
- Expires: reset on the 1st of each month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1.39
- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of url or username. Optional: pages, get_sentiment
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/instagram/user/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: at 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

## API Direct's plans (2)

- [API Direct, free tier, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-direct/free-tier-get-v1-instagram-user-posts/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts, Instagram User Posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-v1-instagram-user-posts-instagram-user-posts/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 83% complete, live

## API Direct's calls for this API (4)

- `POST /v1/batch`, Batch Requests: [API Direct, free tier, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/instagram/user/posts`, Instagram User Posts: [API Direct, free tier, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-direct/free-tier-get-v1-instagram-user-posts/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/batch`, Batch Requests, full: [API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, POST /v1/batch, Batch Requests, full](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-post-v1-batch-batch-requests-full/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/instagram/user/posts`, Instagram User Posts, full: [API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts, Instagram User Posts, full](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-v1-instagram-user-posts-instagram-user-posts-full/llms.txt)

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## 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.

- https://apidirect.io/docs/batch
- https://apidirect.io/docs/instagram-user-posts
- https://apidirect.io/docs/pricing
- https://apidirect.io/docs/rate-limits
- https://apidirect.io/dpa
- https://apidirect.io/endpoints
- https://apidirect.io/endpoints/linkedin-person
- https://apidirect.io/openapi.json
- https://apidirect.io/terms