# Datastreamer, $1,025 monthly: Instagram post API

> Datastreamer handles provider selection and data retrieval automatically. You define what you want, the platform determines how to get it.

Datastreamer's "Data Streams, 5,000 DVUs" plan for the Instagram post API costs $2.05 per 1,000 posts. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Datastreamer's docs list 4: Text, Media, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run Datastreamer through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) yet.
We rank 308 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.178 or less per 1,000 posts. This plan costs less per 1,000 posts than 17% of the 308 plans.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan 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. [Influship's Usage-based credits plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-usage-based-credits-get-v1-raw-instagram-profile-username/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 posts a month: $0.36.
[ShortsIntel's $10 pack (/creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos)](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/10-pack-top-up-10-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt) covers any number of posts. ShortsIntel's $10 pack costs less up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.
[FetchLayer](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt), [Influship](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-usage-based-credits-get-v1-raw-instagram-profile-username/llms.txt) and [Refetcher](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/refetcher/top-up/llms.txt) are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly
- [Instagram post API in 2026: the best of 30+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://datastreamer.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.platform.datastreamer.io/api/pipelines/{pipelineId}/components/{stepId}/jobs`
- API key: with the plan, on https://datastreamer.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.datastreamer.io/reference/datastreamerjobsapijobscreate-job?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: Datastreamer (https://datastreamer.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $2.05
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $1,025

## Charges

- Also pays for: Search API · Count API · from the same budget: Twitter/X · Threads · Facebook · YouTube · Reddit · TikTok · LinkedIn · Auto Profiles

## Overage

- $ per 1,000 posts: $2.05
- Units cap: soft

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $205.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Datastreamer handles provider selection and data retrieval automatically. You define what you want, the platform determines how to get it.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Customer may only use Datastreamer Service as set forth herein. Customer also agree that the following actions shall constitute a material breach of our Agreement: Modifying, framing, rendering (or re-rendering), mirroring, truncating, injecting, filtering, reverse engineering, or changing our Services without Datastreamer's written consent, Violating the terms of any applicable DSLTs, [...] Accessing or using Datastreamer Services for purposes directly competitive with Datastreamer or a Data Partner, Disguising the origin of information transmitted to, from, or through our Services, [...] Using Datastreamer Services for any purpose in violation of any applicable law, [...]

## Plan

- Pay: $1,025
- You get: 5,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 5,000 pages a month

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: pipelineId, stepId, data_source "instagram_auto", job_type, query.platform "instagram", query.query_type, query.query. Optional: job_name, query.prioritization, max_documents, query.max_excess_documents, schedule, ready, label, tags
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/pipelines/{pipelineId}/components/{stepId}/jobs

## About the plan

- Plan: Data Streams, 5,000 DVUs
- Who can get it: an organization on a Standard account, a new Portal account starts on the read-only Standby tier, where Data Streams cannot be deployed or run

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post URL, text, media, created at, language, like count, comment count, author username, author name

## Datastreamer's plans (1)

- [Datastreamer, $1,025 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt): $2.05 per 1,000, 67% complete

## Datastreamer's calls (1)

- `POST /api/pipelines/{pipelineId}/components/{stepId}/jobs`: [Datastreamer, $1,025 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)

## Datastreamer's APIs (10)

- [Datastreamer: Facebook post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: Instagram post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: Reddit post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: Threads post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/threads-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: TikTok video API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: X post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Datastreamer: YouTube channel video API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/datastreamer/1025-monthly/llms.txt)

## Datastreamer: Instagram post API alternatives

- [Viral Outliers, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/viral-outliers/149-monthly/llms.txt): $1.987 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [Mindcase, $19.99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/mindcase/19-99-pack/llms.txt): $1.999 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lobstr-io/20-monthly/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CoreClaw, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/coreclaw/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $2.10 per 1,000, 100% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://datastreamer.io/master-terms-of-services-and-policies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://datastreamer.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/docs/auto-source-selection-faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/docs/committed-usage-discounts-commits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/docs/data-volume-units?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/docs/getting-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/docs/instagram-auto?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/docs/platform-pricing-overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.datastreamer.io/reference/datastreamerjobsapijobscreate-job?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing