# Influship, free, Starter credits, GET /v1/posts: Instagram post API

> Retrieve Instagram posts for a creator or profile with engagement metrics and media data. Only Instagram posts are returned.

Influship's Instagram post API on its Starter credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. Influship's docs list 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics.
We haven't run Influship through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 271 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.178 per 1,000 posts or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 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.
[FetchLayer](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt), [Captapi](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/9-monthly/llms.txt) and [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt) are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-posts
- [Instagram post API: the 10 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.influship.com/concepts/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.influship.com/v1/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.influship.com/concepts/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.influship.com/api-reference/posts/get-posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: Influship (https://influship.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: AI-Powered Creator Search · Autocomplete Search · Ingest a Creator On Demand · Get Creator by ID · Find Similar Creators · Score Campaign Fit · Lookup Creator Emails · Get Profile by Platform and Username · Batch Lookup Profiles · Get Live Instagram Profile · Get Live Instagram Post · Get Live Instagram Posts · Get Instagram Post Transcript · Get Instagram Post Transcripts · Get Live YouTube Channel · Get YouTube Video Details · Get YouTube Video Transcript · Get YouTube Channel Transcripts · Search YouTube · Get YouTube Search Suggestions · Get TikTok Videos in a Batch · Get TikTok Transcripts in a Batch · Get Live TikTok Profile · List Live TikTok Profile Videos · Get Live TikTok Video · List Live TikTok Video Comments · List Live TikTok Comment Replies · Get TikTok Video Captions · Get TikTok Sound Details · Search TikTok Users · Search TikTok Videos · Get TikTok Hashtag Videos · Get TikTok Music Videos · Get TikTok Video Transcript

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve Instagram posts for a creator or profile with engagement metrics and media data. Only Instagram posts are returned.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to: Use the Service to harass, stalk, threaten, or send unsolicited bulk messages to creators or anyone else. Scrape, crawl, or programmatically extract data from the Platform beyond what the Platform’s interface and any documented API expressly allow. Resell, sublicense, or redistribute Creator Data obtained through the Service as a standalone dataset or data product. Circumvent rate limits, access controls, or authentication mechanisms. Use the Service for any purpose that violates applicable law, including anti-spam, data protection, and intellectual property laws. Reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code of any part of the Service, except where applicable law prohibits this restriction. Create multiple accounts to abuse trials, circumvent usage limits, or evade a suspension.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits
- Enough for: 10,000 results
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of creator_id or username. Optional: platform, limit, sort, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter credits
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in their jurisdiction

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, platform, post URL, created at, post type, caption, media URL, thumbnail, video duration, carousel, like count, comment count, view count, share count, engagement rate, hashtags, mentions, location, has more, next cursor

## Influship's plans (5)

- [Influship, free, Starter credits, GET /v1/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-posts/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored
- [Influship, pay as you go, MPP, GET /v1/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-mpp-get-v1-posts/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored
- [Influship, pay as you go, Usage-based credits, GET /v1/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-usage-based-credits-get-v1-posts/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored
- [Influship, pay as you go, x402, GET /v1/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-posts/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored
- [Influship, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v1/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/contact-us-enterprise-get-v1-posts/llms.txt): 67% complete, stored

## Influship's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v1/raw/instagram/profile/{username}`: [Influship, free, Starter credits, GET /v1/raw/instagram/profile/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-raw-instagram-profile-username/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/posts`: [Influship, free, Starter credits, GET /v1/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-posts/llms.txt)

## Influship's APIs (6)

- [Influship: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)
- [Influship: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)
- [Influship: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)
- [Influship: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/raw/instagram/profile/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-raw-instagram-profile-username/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/profiles/{platform}/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-profiles-platform-username/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-posts/llms.txt)

## Influship: Instagram post API alternatives

- [instapi.co, top-up from $1](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instapi-co/top-up-from-1/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [lobstr.io, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SocialKit, $30 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialkit/30-pack/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Fanpage Karma, $2,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fanpage-karma/2500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://docs.influship.com/api-reference/posts/get-posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.influship.com/concepts/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.influship.com/concepts/quotas-and-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.influship.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.influship.com/openapi/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://influship.com/developers/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://www.influship.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing