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Instadata pricing: Instagram post API, GET /v1/instagram/channel-posts

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run Instadata through our Instagram post API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 236 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.167 per 1,000 posts or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan costs the least 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, Captapi and ScrapeCreators are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Instadata's 15 plans
Call: GET /v1/instagram/channel-posts one of Instadata's 2 calls for this API
API: Instagram post API one of Instadata's 3 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 3 hours old. You get posts from Instadata's copy of Instagram.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 25 credits, enough for 25 results. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire while the account is open.
  • One call. You send handle to GET /v1/instagram/channel-posts. You can also send limit, cursor, fresh and fields. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Instadata: Instagram post API alternatives

Instadata alternatives: every Instagram post API provider ranked

The table starts with Instadata's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 posts closest to Instadata's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

Instadata, $4.50 pack, Top-up 1,000 credits (Annual), GET /v1/instagram/channel-postsSocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/instagram/profile/posts/fullZembra, top-up from $1ScraperSocial, top-up from $4.50ProLevelMax, $10,000 pack
$ per 1,000 posts$4.50$3.334$3.60$4.50$4.957
Completeness83%83%17%17%83%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$4.50£15$1$4.50$10,000
Enough for1,000 results500 pagesabout 277 results1,000 resultsabout 2,017,543 results
Freshness3 hourslivelive3 hourslive
Who can get itanyone on the Annual plananyone 18 or overanyone aged 18 or overanyone on the Annual plananyone who sends the Contact sales form (company, work email, top-up amount, use case), paid by bank transfer and invoiced

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

  1. instadata.dev/
  2. instadata.dev/docs/caching-and-freshness
  3. instadata.dev/docs/pagination-and-jobs
  4. instadata.dev/docs/rate-limits
  5. instadata.dev/endpoints/channel-posts/
  6. instadata.dev/openapi.json
  7. instadata.dev/pricing
  8. instadata.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
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Profile · Profile Details · Profile About · Similar Accounts · Profile Search · Post Stats · Tagged Posts · Keyword Search · Mentions · Profile Reels · Reels Search · Media Download · Reel Transcript · Reel Summary · Comments · Profile Comments · Hashtag Posts · Hashtag Reels · Hashtag Stats · Hashtag Analytics · Hashtag Search · Location Search · Location Details · Location Posts · Ads Search · Ads by Page · Brand Collaborations
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGive it a public Instagram handle and get that account's recent feed posts back as an array of JSON objects — caption, engagement counts, timestamp, media type and thumbnail for each one.
Data
Freshness3 hours
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to use the API to: access private, login-gated or paywalled content, or attempt to, harass, stalk, dox or surveil individuals, or build profiles of specific private individuals, send spam or unsolicited outreach at scale, violate applicable law, including data-protection law that applies to your use of the data, resell raw API access wholesale under your own brand without written permission (building products on the API is what it is for), probe, overload or interfere with the service, or evade rate limits and metering.
Plan
Pay$0
You get25 credits
Enough for25 results
Expiresnever while the account is open
Rate limit
Per second0.33
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendhandle. Optional: limit, cursor, fresh, fields
MethodGET
Path/v1/instagram/channel-posts
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

post code, post URL, post type, caption, view count, like count, comment count, video duration, created at, author username, author name, thumbnail, hashtags, next cursor, count on page, request ID

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