Datacircle

Instagram API (Meta) pricing: Instagram post API

Instagram API's siteThis page as plain textInstagram post API: the 10 best providers comparedInstagram API (Meta): Instagram post API alternatives

Is Instagram API (Meta) yours? Write to us about this page. We invite selected tool providers to our WhatsApp group.

83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run Instagram API (Meta) through our Instagram post API benchmark yet.Half of the 271 plans we rank by price cost $0.178 per 1,000 posts or less. This plan has the lowest price per 1,000 posts of the 271 plans.FetchLayer, Captapi and ScrapeCreators are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Instagram API (Meta) plan for that many posts. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free Instagram API's only plan
Call: GET /{IG_USER_ID} Instagram API's only call
API: Instagram post API one of Instagram API's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send IG_USER_ID to GET /{IG_USER_ID}. You set fields to "business_discovery.username(<USERNAME>){media}". You can also send limit, before and after. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Instagram API (Meta): Instagram post API alternatives

Instagram API (Meta) alternatives: other Instagram post API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 posts.

This planInstagram API (Meta), freeFetchLayer, freeCaptapi, freeScrapeCreators, freelobstr.io, freeInstaGapi, free
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness83%83%100%83%67%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published30 pagesabout 333 results, once100 pages, once100 results a month30 pages a month
Freshnessunknownliveliveliveliveunknown
Who can get itan Instagram professional account (business or creator) connected to a Facebook Page, whose app user can perform admin-equivalent tasks on that Page, with a Facebook User access token holding the instagram_basic, instagram_manage_insights and pages_read_engagement permissions (and ads_management or ads_read when the Page role was granted via the Business Manager), an app that serves Instagram professional accounts it doesn't own or manage needs Advanced Access, which requires App Review and Business Verification, it reads other Instagram business and creator accounts alone, and returns no data about age-gated accounts, calls count against the Platform Rate Limits: 200 times the app's number of users a rolling hour on an app token, a user token's count not revealedanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyone at least 18 years old, once their email is verifiedanyone legally able to enter into a binding agreementprofessionals, not consumersanyone

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.

  1. developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview/rate-limiting/
  2. developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/results
  3. developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-platform/instagram-api-with-facebook-login
  4. developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-platform/instagram-api-with-facebook-login/business-discovery
  5. developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-platform/overview
  6. developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/instagram-graph-api/reference/ig-user/business_discovery
  7. developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/reference/instagram-media
  8. developers.facebook.com/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, size not stated
Billingfree
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSince you can make nested requests by specifying an edge via the `fields` parameter, you can request the targeted professional account’s `media` edge to get all of its published media objects.
Data
Keep dataPlatform Terms 3.d: "Delete all Platform Data as soon as reasonably possible in the following cases: a. When retaining the Platform Data is no longer necessary for a legitimate business purpose that is consistent with these Terms and all other applicable terms and policies, [...] c. When we request you delete the Platform Data for the protection of Users [...]" and "Update or delete Platform Data promptly after receiving a request from us or the User to do so".
Use dataInstagram Platform overview: "Note that a permission only allows access to data created by the app user who granted the permission. There are a few endpoints that allow apps to access data not created by the app user, but the accessible data is limited and public." Platform Terms 2.a: "we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable (except to Service Providers as described below), non-transferable, non-assignable license to use, access, and integrate with Platform, but only to the extent permitted in these Terms and all other applicable terms and policies. You will not sell, transfer, or sublicense Platform to anyone." Platform Terms 3.a: "You will not perform, or facilitate or support others in performing, any of the following prohibited practices (collectively, “Prohibited Practices”): i. Processing Platform Data to discriminate or encourage discrimination in a manner that disadvantages people based on personal attributes [...] ii. Processing Platform Data to make eligibility determinations about people, including for housing, employment, insurance, education opportunities, credit, government benefits, or immigration status. [...] iii. Processing Platform Data to perform, facilitate, or provide tools for surveillance. [...] iv. Selling, licensing, or purchasing Platform Data. v. Processing Platform Data without valid User consent in order to build or augment user profiles for any purpose. vi. Attempting to decode, circumvent, re-identify, de-anonymize, unscramble, unencrypt, reverse hash, or reverse-engineer Platform Data that is provided to you. vii. Changing your App's core functionality or data Processing so that Users would view it as an unfamiliar or different App, or materially changing the scope of Processing of previously collected Platform Data, unless in each case you first re-submit your App and receive our approval through App Review. viii. Processing Platform Data for purposes other than the applicable permitted purposes set forth in Meta's Developer Docs." Platform Terms 3.c: "You may only share Platform Data in compliance with these Terms [...] and only in the following circumstances".
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendIG_USER_ID, fields "business_discovery.username(<USERNAME>){media}". Optional: limit, before, after
MethodGET
Path/{IG_USER_ID}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itan Instagram professional account (business or creator) connected to a Facebook Page, whose app user can perform admin-equivalent tasks on that Page, with a Facebook User access token holding the instagram_basic, instagram_manage_insights and pages_read_engagement permissions (and ads_management or ads_read when the Page role was granted via the Business Manager), an app that serves Instagram professional accounts it doesn't own or manage needs Advanced Access, which requires App Review and Business Verification, it reads other Instagram business and creator accounts alone, and returns no data about age-gated accounts, calls count against the Platform Rate Limits: 200 times the app's number of users a rolling hour on an app token, a user token's count not revealed
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post code, post URL, text, created at, media type, product type, media URL, thumbnail, alt text, author username, like count, comment count, view count, reshare count, next cursor, previous cursor

Best GTM APIs