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ReefAPI pricing and alternatives: Instagram post API

ReefAPI's sitellms.txtBest Instagram post API in 2026

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe rank 76 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.003. Litescrape charges for each page of results. We count 50 posts on each page to get the $0.003 price.FetchLayer, Captapi and ScrapeCreators are the best Instagram post API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ReefAPI's 11 plans
Call: POST /instagram/v1/posts ReefAPI's only call for this API
API: Instagram post API one of ReefAPI's 25 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the posts from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 1,000 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You call POST /instagram/v1/posts. Every input is optional: username, user_id, limit, max_id, details, rich.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ReefAPI: Instagram post API alternatives

The table starts with ReefAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 posts closest to ReefAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

ReefAPI, $1,200 yearlyFetchLayer, $900 monthlyHasData, $2,490 yearlyAnysite, $1,199 monthlyTikHub, top-up from $15,000, Advanced Enterprise $15,000+, GET /api/v1/instagram/v3/get_user_posts
$ per 1,000 posts$0.0067$0.0014$0.058$0.083$0.133
Completeness83%83%83%67%0%
Billingyearlymonthlyyearlymonthlypay first
Pay$1,200$900$2,490$1,199$15,000
Enough for300,000 pages a month54,432,000 pages a month300,000 pages a month1,200,000 pages a month2,250,000 pages
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyone 18 or over (or of legal age where they live), for lawful internal business purposes, not in a US-embargoed country or on a US restricted-party list, onboarded by TikHub on request with the company's name, address and contact

Every Instagram post API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. reefapi.com
  2. reefapi.com/_next/static/chunks/app/pricing/page-560e08c02e869119.js
  3. reefapi.com/docs
  4. reefapi.com/docs/instagram
  5. reefapi.com/docs/instagram.md
  6. reefapi.com/pricing
  7. reefapi.com/refunds
  8. reefapi.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 of 50
Billingfree
Charges
Extra fieldscreated at, comment count, tagged users, coauthors, location: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 584 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchpublic profile grid posts, newest first, with max_id pagination
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou are solely responsible for how you use the data you retrieve and for ensuring your use complies with all applicable laws, third-party terms, and the rights of others (including data-protection, intellectual-property, and anti-spam laws) in your jurisdiction and your users'. You will not use the Service to break the law, infringe rights, send spam, or build a competing bulk-redistribution product. [...] Don't attempt to circumvent authentication, rate limits, or credit metering, don't probe, scan, or stress the Service except your own account within posted limits. [...] Where a source requires attribution, we surface it in the response meta, honor it.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 pages
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: username, user_id, limit, max_id, details, rich
MethodPOST
Path/instagram/v1/posts
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post code, media type, product type, text, alt text, image, is video, carousel media count, like count, play count, is pinned, author ID, author username, likes hidden, next cursor, has more

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