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Desearch pricing and alternatives: Instagram post API

Desearch's sitellms.txt
100% complete: all 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe rank 49 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.003. Litescrape charges for each page of results. We count 50 posts on each page to get the $0.003 price.
Plan: $5 in API credits for a new account one of Desearch's 7 plans
Call: GET /desearch/instagram/profile/{username}/posts Desearch's only call for this API
API: Instagram post API one of Desearch's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author, Audience.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit.
  • One call. You send username to GET /desearch/instagram/profile/{username}/posts. You can also send count and cursor. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Who can get it: new accounts that attach a card in Console. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Desearch: Instagram post API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 posts.

This planDesearch, freeScrapeCreators, freeHasData, freeEnsembleData, freeHikerAPI, free, GET /g2/user/medias
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%83%83%67%50%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published100 pages, once100 pages a month50 results a day100 pages
Freshnessunknownlivelivelivelive
Who can get itnew accounts that attach a card in Consoleanyone legally able to enter into a binding agreementanyoneanyoneanyone

Instagram post API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. api.desearch.ai/openapi.json
  2. desearch.ai
  3. desearch.ai/credit-plans
  4. desearch.ai/docs/api-reference/get-desearch-instagram-profile-username-posts
  5. desearch.ai/docs/guide/apis/which-endpoint
  6. desearch.ai/docs/guide/introduction/pricing-and-billing
  7. desearch.ai/docs/guide/introduction/rate-limit
  8. desearch.ai/pricing
  9. desearch.ai/terms

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
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: AI Search · Web Search · Extract · X Search · X Profile Search · YouTube Creator Search · LinkedIn Profile Search · TikTok Creator Search
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRetrieve normalized public posts for an Instagram username.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYour use of our APIs is subject to rate limits and usage quotas as specified in your plan. You agree not to circumvent these limits or use our APIs in ways that could harm our infrastructure or other users. [...] You agree not to use our Services for: Any unlawful purpose or to violate any laws, Harassment, abuse, or harm to others, Distributing malware or other harmful code, Attempting to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Reselling our Services without authorization
Plan
Pay$0
You get$5
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendusername. Optional: count, cursor
MethodGET
Path/desearch/instagram/profile/{username}/posts
About the plan
Plan$5 in API credits for a new account
Who can get itnew accounts that attach a card in Console
The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post code, post URL, text, created at, post type, media URL, thumbnail, author ID, author username, author name, author bio, author profile picture, author verified, author private account, author followers, author following, author posts count, author website, author category, like count, comment count, view count, play count, hashtags, mentions, children, next cursor

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