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Manifold pricing: Instagram post API

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run Manifold through our Instagram post API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 296 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.178 or less per 1,000 posts. See the best free Instagram post API plan.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan 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. Influship's Usage-based credits plan costs the least for 10,000 posts a month: $0.36.ShortsIntel's $10 pack (/creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos) covers any number of posts. ShortsIntel's $10 pack costs less up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.FetchLayer, Refetcher and ReefAPI are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Manifold plan for that many posts. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Manifold's 7 plans
Call: POST /mcp Manifold's only call for this API
API: Instagram post API one of Manifold's 34 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 6 hours old. You get posts from Manifold's copy of Instagram.
  • 5 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Text, Media, Engagement, Author, Audience.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 250 credits a month, enough for 250 pages. Unused credits expire at the monthly reset, not rolled over.
  • One call. You send id and params.arguments.handle to POST /mcp. You set jsonrpc to "2.0", method to "tools/call" and params.name to "instagram_get_posts". You can also send params.arguments.cursor. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Who can get it: anyone using it for business, aged 18 or over, no card needed. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Manifold: Instagram post API alternatives

Manifold alternatives: other Instagram post API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 posts. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

This planManifold, freeFetchLayer, freeRefetcher, freeReefAPI, free, POST /instagram/v1/posts, postsScrapeField, freeKeyAPI, free
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness83%83%100%83%83%83%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for250 pages a month30 pages3,000 pages1,000 pagesabout 666 pages25 pages, once
Freshness6 hourslivelivelive3 hourslive
Who can get itanyone using it for business, aged 18 or over, no card neededanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyone, or acting for an organization they have the authority to bindanyoneanyone who verifies an emailanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

  1. manifoldmcp.com/docs/authentication.md
  2. manifoldmcp.com/docs/credits.md
  3. manifoldmcp.com/docs/limits.md
  4. manifoldmcp.com/docs/plans.md
  5. manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/instagram.md
  6. manifoldmcp.com/mcp/linkedin.md
  7. manifoldmcp.com/pricing.md
  8. manifoldmcp.com/terms.md

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, not in the answer
  • Author
  • Audience
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat free6 hours
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 111 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe posts on one Instagram account, newest first.
Data
Freshness6 hours
Keep datano limit
Use data[7.3] You may use the results the Service returns for your internal business purposes, including in reports and materials you produce for your own clients, subject to Section 5. [...] [5.1] You must use the Service lawfully, and only in ways that a reasonable person would consider fair to us, to our data providers and to the people whose data the Service returns. In particular, you must not: (a) use the Service to send unsolicited messages, or to build or enrich lists of people for unsolicited marketing, in breach of the UK GDPR, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, the CAN-SPAM Act, or any other law that applies to you or to the people you contact, (b) resell, sublicense, redistribute or publicly release the data the Service returns as a dataset or database, or use the Service to build a product whose purpose is to make that data available to others, (c) use the data to discriminate unlawfully, to stalk, harass or intimidate anyone, or for any purpose that is harmful, deceptive or unlawful, (d) use the Service to determine a person's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or any similar benefit, or for any purpose regulated by consumer reporting or credit reference laws, (g) reverse engineer, decompile or copy the Service, or use it to build a competing service, (i) use the Service in breach of the terms of a platform, website or data provider, where those terms apply to you.
Plan
Pay$0
You get250 credits a month
Enough for250 pages a month
Expiresat the monthly reset, not rolled over
Rate limit
Per second2
Concurrent5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendjsonrpc "2.0", id, method "tools/call", params.name "instagram_get_posts", params.arguments.handle. Optional: params.arguments.cursor
MethodPOST
Path/mcp
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone using it for business, aged 18 or over, no card needed
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

author username, author followers, date, text, likes, comments, shares, saves, views, media, video duration, links, transcript, top comments, collaborators, tagged accounts

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