# ReefAPI, free: Instagram post API

> public profile grid posts, newest first, with max_id pagination

ReefAPI's Instagram post API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We rank 76 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt), [Captapi](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/9-monthly/llms.txt) and [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt) are the best Instagram post API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/free
- [Best Instagram post API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://reefapi.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.reefapi.com/instagram/v1/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://reefapi.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://reefapi.com/docs/instagram#ep-posts
- Sold by: ReefAPI (https://reefapi.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Extra fields: created at, comment count, tagged users, coauthors, location: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 584 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: public profile grid posts, newest first, with max_id pagination

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 pages
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: username, user_id, limit, max_id, details, rich
- Method: POST
- Path: /instagram/v1/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## ReefAPI's plans (11)

- [ReefAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/15-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/50-monthly/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $33.75 quarterly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/33-75-quarterly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $112.50 quarterly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/112-50-quarterly/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $450 quarterly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt): $0.01 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $90 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/90-yearly/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $300 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/300-yearly/llms.txt): $0.01 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/1200-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0067 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete, live

## ReefAPI's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /instagram/v1/posts`: [ReefAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/free/llms.txt)

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## ReefAPI: Instagram post API alternatives

- [FetchLayer, $900 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/900-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0014 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [HasData, $2,490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/hasdata/2490-yearly/llms.txt): $0.058 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Anysite, $1,199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/anysite/1199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.083 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [TikHub, top-up from $15,000, Advanced Enterprise $15,000+, GET /api/v1/instagram/v3/get_user_posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/tikhub/top-up-from-15000-advanced-enterprise-15000-get-api-v1-instagram-v3-get-user-posts/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

## 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.

- https://reefapi.com
- https://reefapi.com/_next/static/chunks/app/pricing/page-560e08c02e869119.js
- https://reefapi.com/docs
- https://reefapi.com/docs/instagram
- https://reefapi.com/docs/instagram.md
- https://reefapi.com/pricing
- https://reefapi.com/refunds
- https://reefapi.com/terms