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EnsembleData pricing and alternatives: Instagram post API

EnsembleData's sitellms.txt
67% complete: 4 of the 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: Free Trial one of EnsembleData's 7 plans
Call: GET /instagram/user/posts EnsembleData's only call for this API
API: Instagram post API one of EnsembleData's 8 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the posts from Instagram when you call.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a day, enough for 50 results. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at 00:00 UTC each day, when the daily units are reset.
  • One call. You send user_id and depth to GET /instagram/user/posts. You can also send oldest_timestamp, chunk_size, start_cursor, alternative_method and fetch_play_count. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

EnsembleData: Instagram post API alternatives

The table starts with EnsembleData's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 posts closest to EnsembleData's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

EnsembleData, $1,400 monthlyAnysite, $49 monthlylobstr.io, $100 monthlySocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, GET /v1/instagram/profile/posts/fullCaptapi, $9 monthly
$ per 1,000 posts$0.933$0.272$1.00$1.107$1.35
Completeness67%67%67%83%100%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$1,400$49$100£299$9
Enough for50,000 results a day15,000 pages a month100,000 results a month30,000 pagesabout 6,666 results a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionprofessionals, not consumersanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 years old

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. ensembledata.com/apis/docs
  2. ensembledata.com/apis/openapi.json
  3. ensembledata.com/instagram-posts-api
  4. ensembledata.com/pricing
  5. ensembledata.com/terms-and-conditions

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, not in the answer
  • Author
  • Audience, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 57 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAccess Instagram post feeds from any public account including captions, media URLs, and engagement metrics for content research and strategy.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataClients may only use the APIs and Data for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms and Conditions [...] Clients may not use the APIs or Data for any illegal or unethical purposes, including but not limited to, spamming, hacking, or phishing [...] Clients may not use the APIs or Data to create a product or service that competes directly with EnsembleData’s services [...] Clients may not use the APIs or Data in a manner that would cause harm to EnsembleData, its employees, agents, or any third party
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits a day
Enough for50 results a day
Expiresat 00:00 UTC each day, when the daily units are reset
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senduser_id, depth. Optional: oldest_timestamp, chunk_size, start_cursor, alternative_method, fetch_play_count
MethodGET
Path/instagram/user/posts
About the plan
PlanFree Trial
Who can get itanyone
The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

post type, post ID, post code, dimensions, image, thumbnail, is video, alt text, tagged users, text, comment count, comments disabled, created at, like count, author ID, author username, location, coauthors, is pinned, children, sponsors, paid partnership, is affiliate, count on page, next cursor

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