# Instadata, free, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels: Instagram post API

> Give this endpoint an Instagram handle and it returns that account's recent reels as an array of JSON objects, newest first.

Instadata'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 haven't run Instadata through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 240 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](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) 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](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/instadata/free-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels
- [Instagram post API: the 10 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://instadata.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.instadata.dev/v1/instagram/channel-reels`
- API key: with the plan, on https://instadata.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://instadata.dev/endpoints/channel-reels/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: Instadata (https://instadata.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Profile · Profile Details · Profile About · Similar Accounts · Profile Search · Post Stats · Profile Posts · Tagged Posts · Keyword Search · Mentions · 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Give this endpoint an Instagram handle and it returns that account's recent reels as an array of JSON objects, newest first.

## Data

- Freshness: 3 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 25 credits
- Enough for: 25 results
- Expires: never while the account is open

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle. Optional: limit, cursor, fresh, fields
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/instagram/channel-reels

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## Instadata's plans (15)

- [Instadata, free, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/free-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $4.50 pack, Top-up 1,000 credits (Annual), GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/4-50-pack-top-up-1000-credits-annual-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $5 pack, Top-up 1,000 credits, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/5-pack-top-up-1000-credits-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $22.50 pack, Top-up 5,000 credits (Annual), GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/22-50-pack-top-up-5000-credits-annual-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $25 pack, Top-up 5,000 credits, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/25-pack-top-up-5000-credits-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $45 pack, Top-up 10,000 credits (Annual), GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/45-pack-top-up-10000-credits-annual-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $50 pack, Top-up 10,000 credits, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/50-pack-top-up-10000-credits-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $112.50 pack, Top-up 25,000 credits (Annual), GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/112-50-pack-top-up-25000-credits-annual-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $125 pack, Top-up 25,000 credits, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/125-pack-top-up-25000-credits-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $225 pack, Top-up 50,000 credits (Annual), GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/225-pack-top-up-50000-credits-annual-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $250 pack, Top-up 50,000 credits, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/250-pack-top-up-50000-credits-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $450 pack, Top-up 100,000 credits (Annual), GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/450-pack-top-up-100000-credits-annual-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $500 pack, Top-up 100,000 credits, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/500-pack-top-up-100000-credits-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $5 monthly, Monthly, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/5-monthly-monthly-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [Instadata, $54 yearly, Annual, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/54-yearly-annual-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours

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

- `GET /v1/instagram/channel-posts`: [Instadata, free, GET /v1/instagram/channel-posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/free-get-v1-instagram-channel-posts/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels`: [Instadata, free, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/free-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt)

## Instadata's APIs (3)

- [Instadata: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 15 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/instadata/free/llms.txt)
- [Instadata: Instagram profile API pricing, 15 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/instadata/free/llms.txt)
- [Instadata: Instagram post API pricing, 15 plans, GET /v1/instagram/channel-reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/instadata/free-get-v1-instagram-channel-reels/llms.txt)

## Instadata: Instagram post API alternatives

- [SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/instagram/profile/posts/full](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialcrawl/15-pack-starter-get-v1-instagram-profile-posts-full/llms.txt): $3.334 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Zembra, top-up from $1](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/zembra/top-up-from-1/llms.txt): $3.60 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ScraperSocial, top-up from $4.50](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 17% complete, 3 hours
- [ProLevelMax, $10,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/prolevelmax/10000-pack/llms.txt): $4.957 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 2026-11-05.

- https://instadata.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/docs/caching-and-freshness?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/docs/pagination-and-jobs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/endpoints/channel-reels/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://instadata.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing