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FetchLayer pricing and alternatives: Instagram post API

FetchLayer's sitellms.txtBest instagram post API in 2026

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe rank 65 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.Captapi, ScrapeCreators and Scrappa are the best instagram post API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of FetchLayer's 10 plans
Call: POST /instagram/user-posts FetchLayer's only call for this API
API: Instagram post API one of FetchLayer's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the posts from Instagram when you call.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 30 credits, enough for 30 pages.
  • One call. You send one of username or userId to POST /instagram/user-posts. You can also send include, limit, pages, cursor and timeoutMs. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

FetchLayer: Instagram post API alternatives

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

FetchLayer, $1,400 monthlyHasData, $2,490 yearlyAnysite, $1,199 monthlyTikHub, top-up from $15,000, Advanced Enterprise $15,000+, GET /api/v1/instagram/v3/get_user_postsSocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, GET /v1/instagram/profile/posts
$ per 1,000 posts$0.0011$0.058$0.083$0.133$0.222
Completeness83%83%67%0%83%
Billingmonthlyyearlymonthlypay firstpay first
Pay$1,400$2,490$1,199$15,000£299
Enough for108,864,000 pages a month300,000 pages a month1,200,000 pages a month2,250,000 pages150,000 pages
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyone 18 or over (or of legal age where they live), for lawful internal business purposes, not in a US-embargoed country or on a US restricted-party list, onboarded by TikHub on request with the company's name, address and contactanyone 18 or over

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 2026-10-29.

  1. fetchlayer.dev/
  2. fetchlayer.dev/acceptable-use
  3. fetchlayer.dev/documentation/instagram/endpoints/user-posts
  4. fetchlayer.dev/llms.txt
  5. fetchlayer.dev/pricing
  6. fetchlayer.dev/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, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perpage of 12
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 223 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe posts a public Instagram account has published, newest first, each with its date, like, comment and play counts, caption and media.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataIts Acceptable Use Policy: "You Must Not Use FetchLayer To" violate any law, regulation, court order, or third-party right, collect or process personal data in a way that is unlawful, unfair, deceptive, or disproportionate, stalk, harass, threaten, dox, profile, or otherwise target individuals for harmful purposes, build or support unlawful surveillance, unlawful monitoring, or harmful intelligence gathering about private individuals, make or support decisions about housing, employment, credit, insurance, education, healthcare, public benefits, or similar regulated outcomes without an appropriate legal basis and all required safeguards, scrape or analyze data about minors, health, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, political opinions, or other sensitive categories without a lawful basis and appropriate protections, bypass authentication, paywalls, robots controls, rate limits, or technical access controls that are not intended for public access, republish, syndicate, mirror, or redistribute verbatim copyrighted third-party content (such as full Reddit posts or comments) to end consumers without appropriate rights, use scraped content to create a competing product that substitutes for the original source platform, use the service to distribute malware, spam, credential theft, or phishing content, attempt to reverse engineer, break, overload, or interfere with the service or its infrastructure, train machine learning or AI models on content obtained through FetchLayer without independently verifying that you have appropriate rights or a valid legal basis to do so, resell, sublicense, or operate a competing extraction service on top of FetchLayer unless we have expressly allowed it in writing. Its terms: "It is not permitted to republish, syndicate, or redistribute the original creative expression of third-party content without appropriate rights. You must not use FetchLayer to create a competing publication or mirror of the source platform's content."
Plan
Pay$0
You get30 credits
Enough for30 pages
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of username or userId. Optional: include, limit, pages, cursor, timeoutMs
MethodPOST
Path/instagram/user-posts
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)
The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post code, post URL, media type, product type, created at, text, like count, comment count, play count, video duration, share count, reshare count, save count, dimensions, alt text, thumbnail, carousel, coauthors, tagged users, location, hashtags, mentions, has audio, music, paid partnership, next cursor, has more

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