API.SH pricing: Instagram post API
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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run API.SH through our Instagram post API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 240 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.167 per 1,000 posts or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.0018. Zapi charges for each page of results. We count 12 posts on each page to get the $0.0018 price.FetchLayer, Captapi and ScrapeCreators are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of API.SH's 8 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $15Pay-as-you-go
- $50 monthlyMonthly $50
- $100 monthlyMonthly $100
- $250 monthlyMonthly $250
- $500 monthlyMonthly $500
- $1,000 monthlyBusiness
- Contact usCustom deal
Call:
GET / API.SH's only call for this APIAPI: Instagram post API one of API.SH's 33 APIs
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- LinkedIn company post API
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- YouTube channel API
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- Web scraping API
GET /web/ v1/ page - Web scraping API
GET /web/ v1/ extract
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
- Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits don't roll over.
- One call. You send
usernametoGET /. You can also sendinstagram/ v1/ user/ posts cursor. The call returns the account's posts. - Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
API.SH: Instagram post API alternatives
API.SH alternatives: every Instagram post API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 posts.
| This planAPI.SH, free | FetchLayer, free | Captapi, free | ScrapeCreators, free | lobstr.io, free | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 posts | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 83% | 83% | 100% | 83% | 67% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | 1,000 pages a month | 30 pages | about 333 results, once | 100 pages, once | 100 results a month |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address | anyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher) | anyone at least 18 years old, once their email is verified | anyone legally able to enter into a binding agreement | professionals, not consumers |
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.
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
| $ per 1,000 posts | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page, size not stated |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 6,019 other calls |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Instagram user posts |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | You may not: resell or provide raw access to the Service as a competing API without our written agreement, attempt to get around credits, limits or security, interfere with the Service or other customers, reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows, or use the Service in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 1,000 credits a month |
| Enough for | 1,000 pages a month |
| Expires | unused credits don't roll over |
| Concurrent | no limit |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | username. Optional: cursor |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /instagram/v1/user/posts |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address |
The 41 fields the plan's answer can hold
username, user ID, post ID, shortcode, type, post URL, caption, created at, thumbnail, video URL, like count, comment count, play count, carousel count, alt, owner, pk, media ID, media type, product type, taken at timestamp, width, height, duration s, image, video, carousel, hashtags, mentions, view count, Instagram play count, Facebook play count, Facebook like count, has audio, comments disabled, like and view counts disabled, is paid partnership, pinned, location, tagged users, coauthors