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ReefAPI pricing: Instagram post API, POST /instagram/v1/posts, posts, full

ReefAPI's sitellms.txtInstagram post API: 10 providers compared on price and dataReefAPI: Instagram post API alternatives

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run ReefAPI through our Instagram post API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 183 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.163 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, ScrapeCreators and Captapi are the best Instagram post API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ReefAPI's 11 plans
Call: POST /instagram/v1/posts, posts, full one of ReefAPI's 2 calls for this API
API: Instagram post API one of ReefAPI's 46 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 about 19 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You call POST /instagram/v1/posts with details set to "true". You can send username, user_id, limit, max_id and rich. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ReefAPI: Instagram post API alternatives

ReefAPI alternatives: every Instagram post API provider ranked

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 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /instagram/v1/posts, posts, fullPullbay, $9 monthlyKonbiniAPI, $20 packSerpent API, top-up from $10, Default, GET /api/social/instagram/profile, Instagram Profile with recent posts, fulllobstr.io, $4,800 yearly
$ per 1,000 posts$0.34$0.30$0.333$0.333$0.40
Completeness83%33%100%67%67%
Billingyearlymonthlypay firstpay firstyearly
Pay$1,200$9$20$10$4,800
Enough forabout 5,882 pages a month30,000 results a month5,000 pages2,500 pages1,000,000 results a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone at least 18 years oldanyoneprofessionals, not consumers

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
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 3,535 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 forabout 19 pages
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senddetails "true". Optional: username, user_id, limit, max_id, rich
MethodPOST
Path/instagram/v1/posts
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 22 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, created at, comment count, tagged users, coauthors, location

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