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Refetcher pricing and alternatives: Instagram post API

Refetcher's sitellms.txtBest Instagram post API in 2026: pricing comparedRefetcher: Instagram post API alternatives

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100% complete: all 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe rank 118 plans by price. EveryInfra's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.0025. EveryInfra charges for each page of results. We count 200 posts on each page to get the $0.0025 price.FetchLayer, Captapi and ScrapeCreators are the best Instagram post API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free trial one of Refetcher's 4 plans
Call: POST / Refetcher's only call for this API
API: Instagram post API one of Refetcher's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the posts from Instagram when you call the API.
  • All 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author, Audience.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $2.70 of credit, enough for 3,000 pages. Calls stop once your credit runs out.
  • One call. You call POST /. You send one of username, profileUrl, usernames or profileUrls. You set platform to "instagram". You can also send includeRecentPosts "true", pages and after. The call returns the posts of each account you send.
  • Who can get it: anyone, or acting for an organization they have the authority to bind. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Refetcher: Instagram post API alternatives

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

Refetcher, top-up from $500FetchLayer, $400 monthlyOmkar Cloud, $16 monthlyScrapingIsNotACrime, $5 pack, Starter, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timelineHasData, $249 monthly
$ per 1,000 posts$0.068$0.067$0.067$0.067$0.069
Completeness100%83%100%50%83%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$500$400$16$5$249
Enough forabout 611,111 pages500,000 pages a month20,000 pages a month1,500 pages300,000 pages a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone, or acting for an organization they have the authority to bindanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)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 partiesanyoneanyone

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 2026-10-31.

  1. refetcher.com
  2. refetcher.com/docs
  3. refetcher.com/instagram-scraper-api
  4. refetcher.com/llms.txt
  5. refetcher.com/pricing
  6. refetcher.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
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perpage of 12
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Instagram Post/Reel · Instagram Comments · TikTok Video/Carousel · TikTok Profile · TikTok Comments & Replies · Facebook Post/Reel · Facebook Profile · X Post · X Profile · YouTube Video · YouTube Channel · YouTube Comments & Replies
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchits latest posts with likes, comments and views — ideal for tracking creators over time
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataSubject to your full compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and query the Refetch(er) scraper API solely to retrieve public, unmodified post metrics for your applications. [...] Third-Party Compliance: You acknowledge that web scraping may violate the terms of service of third-party platforms. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use of this API complies with the laws and terms of the platforms you target. [...] You agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to: Use the API to scrape, access, or extract non-public, private, or restricted social media contents (such as posts from private accounts or direct messages). [...] Query the Service in any manner that executes denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, attempts to overload our dispatcher system, or otherwise degrades Service performance for other customers. [...] Bypass, disable, or circumvent any security-related features, authentication hashes, or usage boundaries enforced on your API keys or control panel dashboard. [...] Use the Service to build a competing real-time social media scraping API product or database mirror. [...] Incorporate the Service into any applications that facilitate harassment, spam, copyright infringement, or illegal surveillance. [...] Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to discover the source code, object code, or underlying structure, ideas, or algorithms of the Service or its scraping dispatchers.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$2.70
Enough for3,000 pages
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch10
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of username, profileUrl, usernames or profileUrls, platform "instagram". Optional: includeRecentPosts "true", pages, after
MethodPOST
Path/
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone, or acting for an organization they have the authority to bind
The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, platform, profile URL, scraped at, request ID, post ID, post code, post URL, post type, is video, play count, Instagram view count, like count, comment count, created at, text, thumbnail, dimensions, likes hidden, author ID, author username, author name, author bio, author followers, author following, author posts count, author verified, author private account, author website, author category, author profile picture, has more, next cursor, count on page

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