LurkAPI pricing: Instagram post API
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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run LurkAPI 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 credits one of LurkAPI's 4 plans
- FreeFree credits$0.00 per 1,000
- $9 packStarter$0.075 per 1,000
- $59 packGrowth$0.049 per 1,000
- $225 packScale$0.037 per 1,000
Call:
GET / LurkAPI's only call for this APIAPI: Instagram post API one of LurkAPI's 37 APIs
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GET /v1/ web/ residential - Web scraping API
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About this item
- A copy at most 3 minutes old. You get posts from LurkAPI's copy of Instagram.
- 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 100 pages.
- One call. You call
GET /. Every input is optional:v2/ instagram/ user/ posts username,url,first,after. - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
LurkAPI: Instagram post API alternatives
LurkAPI alternatives: every Instagram post API provider ranked
The table starts with LurkAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 posts closest to LurkAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.
| LurkAPI, $225 pack | Serpent API, top-up from $10, Default, GET /api/social/instagram/profile, Instagram Profile with recent posts | Scrape Everything, $449 pack, Scale, POST /v1/instagram/reels | ScrapingIsNotACrime, $79 pack, Pro, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline | Omkar Cloud, $48 monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 posts | $0.037 | $0.033 | $0.036 | $0.04 | $0.04 |
| Completeness | 67% | 67% | 83% | 50% | 100% |
| Billing | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | $225 | $10 | $449 | $79 | $48 |
| Enough for | 500,000 pages | 25,000 pages | 250,000 pages | 40,000 pages | 100,000 pages a month |
| Freshness | 3 minutes | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone | anyone 18 or over who can enter a binding contract | anyone | anyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted parties |
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.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Text, not in the answer
- Media
- Engagement
- Analytics
- Author
- Audience, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 posts | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 12 |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 87 other calls |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | A page of public posts with captions, media and engagement counts. |
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| Freshness | 3 minutes |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Fair use: Don't try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service. Don't share or resell your API keys. Building your own products on top of LurkAPI is fine. Don't use LurkAPI to harass people or for anything illegal. [...] LurkAPI returns publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it, including the privacy and data protection laws that apply to you. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 100 pages |
| Per second | 5 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | nothing required. Optional: username, url, first, after |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /v2/instagram/user/posts |
| Plan | Free credits |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone |
The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold
post ID, media type, media URL, image, video, tagged users, shortcode, post URL, product type, caption, taken at, like count, comment count, play count, view count, accessibility caption, author username, author ID, author name, author profile picture, author verified, coauthors, paid partnership, location, carousel, next cursor, has more