# CreatorCrawl, free: Instagram post API

> Paginated post timeline for any public handle. Captions, like counts, comment counts, media URLs, and timestamps.

CreatorCrawl'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 rank 134 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/creatorcrawl/free
- [Best Instagram post API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://creatorcrawl.com/#pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.creatorcrawl.com/instagram/user/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://creatorcrawl.com/#pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.creatorcrawl.com/docs#tag/instagram/GET/instagram/user/posts
- Sold by: CreatorCrawl (https://creatorcrawl.com)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## 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: 90 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Paginated post timeline for any public handle. Captions, like counts, comment counts, media URLs, and timestamps.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 50 credits
- Enough for: 50 pages, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle. Optional: next_max_id
- Method: GET
- Path: /instagram/user/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## CreatorCrawl's plans (4)

- [CreatorCrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/creatorcrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [CreatorCrawl, $29 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/creatorcrawl/29-pack/llms.txt): 83% complete, live
- [CreatorCrawl, $99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/creatorcrawl/99-pack/llms.txt): 83% complete, live
- [CreatorCrawl, $299 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/creatorcrawl/299-pack/llms.txt): 83% complete, live

## CreatorCrawl's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /instagram/user/posts`: [CreatorCrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/creatorcrawl/free/llms.txt)

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- [CreatorCrawl: Facebook post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/creatorcrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [CreatorCrawl: Instagram post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/creatorcrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [CreatorCrawl: Instagram profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/creatorcrawl/free/llms.txt)
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- [CreatorCrawl: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/creatorcrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [CreatorCrawl: TikTok profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/creatorcrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [CreatorCrawl: TikTok video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/creatorcrawl/free/llms.txt)
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- [CreatorCrawl: YouTube channel video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/creatorcrawl/free/llms.txt)

## CreatorCrawl: Instagram post API alternatives

- [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Captapi, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeCreators, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapecreators/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [SociaVault, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/sociavault/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live

## 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.

- https://api.creatorcrawl.com/docs
- https://api.creatorcrawl.com/openapi.json
- https://creatorcrawl.com
- https://creatorcrawl.com/alternatives/rapidapi
- https://creatorcrawl.com/endpoints/ig-get-user-posts
- https://creatorcrawl.com/legal/terms-of-service
- https://creatorcrawl.com/llms.txt
- https://creatorcrawl.com/platforms/instagram
- https://creatorcrawl.com/platforms/linkedin
- https://creatorcrawl.com/scrapers/linkedin-api-pricing
- https://creatorcrawl.com/scrapers/linkedin-scraper
- https://creatorcrawl.com/use-cases/scrape-instagram-profiles