# API.SH, free: Instagram post API

> Instagram user posts

API.SH's Instagram post API on its Free 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 haven't run API.SH through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) 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](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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-sh/free
- [Instagram post API: the 10 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.api.sh/instagram/v1/user/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://api.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.sh/docs/instagram-user-posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: API.SH (https://api.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 6,019 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Instagram user posts

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- 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.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 pages a month
- Expires: unused credits don't roll over

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username. Optional: cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /instagram/v1/user/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- 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

## API.SH's plans (8)

- [API.SH, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-sh/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [API.SH, top-up from $15](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-sh/top-up-from-15/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [API.SH, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-sh/50-monthly/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [API.SH, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-sh/100-monthly/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [API.SH, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-sh/250-monthly/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [API.SH, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-sh/500-monthly/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [API.SH, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-sh/1000-monthly/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [API.SH, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-sh/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete

## API.SH's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /instagram/v1/user/posts`: [API.SH, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-sh/free/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 2026-11-05.

- https://api.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://api.sh/docs/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://api.sh/docs/instagram-user-posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://api.sh/legal/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://api.sh/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://api.sh/openapi/instagram.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://api.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing