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CreatorCrawl pricing and alternatives: Instagram post API

CreatorCrawl's sitellms.txtBest Instagram post API in 2026: pricing comparedCreatorCrawl: 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 134 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 one of CreatorCrawl's 4 plans
Call: GET /instagram/user/posts CreatorCrawl's only call for this API
API: Instagram post API one of CreatorCrawl's 18 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 credits once, enough for 50 pages. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send handle to GET /instagram/user/posts. You can also send next_max_id. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 16 years old. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

CreatorCrawl: Instagram post API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 posts. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planCreatorCrawl, freeFetchLayer, freeCaptapi, freeScrapeCreators, freeSociaVault, free
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness83%83%100%83%83%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for50 pages, once30 pagesabout 333 results, once100 pages, once50 pages, once
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 16 years oldanyone 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 verifiedanyone legally able to enter into a binding agreementanyone

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 2026-11-01.

  1. api.creatorcrawl.com/docs
  2. api.creatorcrawl.com/openapi.json
  3. creatorcrawl.com
  4. creatorcrawl.com/alternatives/rapidapi
  5. creatorcrawl.com/endpoints/ig-get-user-posts
  6. creatorcrawl.com/legal/terms-of-service
  7. creatorcrawl.com/llms.txt
  8. creatorcrawl.com/platforms/instagram
  9. creatorcrawl.com/platforms/linkedin
  10. creatorcrawl.com/scrapers/linkedin-api-pricing
  11. creatorcrawl.com/scrapers/linkedin-scraper
  12. creatorcrawl.com/use-cases/scrape-instagram-profiles

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, size not stated
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 90 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchPaginated post timeline for any public handle. Captions, like counts, comment counts, media URLs, and timestamps.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use CreatorCrawl to: Build applications that display or analyze publicly available TikTok data, Conduct market research and competitive analysis, Power AI agents and automation workflows, Academic and journalistic research [...] You may not use CreatorCrawl to: Violate any applicable law or regulation, Scrape data for the purpose of harassing, stalking, or targeting individuals, Resell raw API access as your own service, Attempt to circumvent rate limits, credit systems, or access controls, Overload the service with requests intended to degrade performance, Access non-public or private TikTok data [...] You are responsible for how you use the data retrieved through our API, If you store TikTok data, you must comply with applicable data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits
Enough for50 pages, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendhandle. Optional: next_max_id
MethodGET
Path/instagram/user/posts
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 16 years old
The 32 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post URL, post type, created at, text, language, media, thumbnail, view count, like count, comment count, share count, save count, author ID, author username, author name, author URL, author picture, author verified, hashtags, mentions, is pinned, is ad, paid partnership, AI generated, video duration, music, platform, next cursor, has more, total results, fetched at

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