# FetchLayer, free: Instagram post API

> The posts a public Instagram account has published, newest first, each with its date, like, comment and play counts, caption and media.

FetchLayer'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 65 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/9-monthly/llms.txt), [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt) and [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt) are the best instagram post API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free
- [Best instagram post API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.fetchlayer.dev/instagram/user-posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/instagram/endpoints/user-posts
- Sold by: FetchLayer (https://fetchlayer.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page of 12
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 223 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The posts a public Instagram account has published, newest first, each with its date, like, comment and play counts, caption and media.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Its 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 get: 30 credits
- Enough for: 30 pages

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of username or userId. Optional: include, limit, pages, cursor, timeoutMs
- Method: POST
- Path: /instagram/user-posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## FetchLayer's plans (10)

- [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/top-up/llms.txt): $0.166 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/25-monthly/llms.txt): $0.139 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/50-monthly/llms.txt): $0.119 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/100-monthly/llms.txt): $0.111 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/250-monthly/llms.txt): $0.083 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.067 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.042 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $900 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/900-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0014 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $1,400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/1400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0011 per 1,000, 83% complete, live

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

- `POST /instagram/user-posts`: [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)

## FetchLayer's APIs (11)

- [FetchLayer: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, POST /bing/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-bing-search/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, POST /duckduckgo/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-duckduckgo-search/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Instagram post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Instagram profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Reddit post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Reddit profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: TikTok profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: TikTok video API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: YouTube channel API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST /twitter/user-profile-details](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-user-profile-details/llms.txt)

## FetchLayer: Instagram post API alternatives

- [HasData, $2,490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/hasdata/2490-yearly/llms.txt): $0.058 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Anysite, $1,199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/anysite/1199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.083 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [TikHub, top-up from $15,000, Advanced Enterprise $15,000+, GET /api/v1/instagram/v3/get_user_posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/tikhub/top-up-from-15000-advanced-enterprise-15000-get-api-v1-instagram-v3-get-user-posts/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, GET /v1/instagram/profile/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialcrawl/299-pack-pro-get-v1-instagram-profile-posts/llms.txt): $0.222 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 2026-10-29.

- https://fetchlayer.dev/
- https://fetchlayer.dev/acceptable-use
- https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/instagram/endpoints/user-posts
- https://fetchlayer.dev/llms.txt
- https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- https://fetchlayer.dev/terms