# RocketAPI, free: Instagram post API

> Retrieve user media by username.

RocketAPI's Instagram post API on its 100 free API calls plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run RocketAPI through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt), [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt) and [Captapi](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/9-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Instagram post API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/rocketapi/free
- [Instagram post API: 10 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://rocketapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://v1.rocketapi.io/instagram/user/get_media_by_username`
- API key: with the plan, on https://rocketapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.rocketapi.io/api/instagram/user/get_media_by_username/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: RocketAPI (https://rocketapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page of 12
- Billing: free

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve user media by username.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: We assume that you use the Website Platform and Services legally and ethically and that you have obtained permission, if necessary, to use it on the targeted websites and/or other data sources. [...] We may immediately suspend your use of the Website, Platform, Configurations and/or Services if we are contacted by your targeted data extraction source, website, or repository and asked to cease all extraction activity. [...] The Data Controller is solely responsibility for the accuracy, quality, and legality of Personal Data and the means by which it acquires personal data.

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 100 requests
- Enough for: 100 pages, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 32
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username. Optional: count, max_id
- Method: POST
- Path: /instagram/user/get_media_by_username

## About the plan

- Plan: 100 free API calls
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post code, media type, product type, created at, text, like count, comment count, image, dimensions, carousel, carousel media count, paid partnership, likes hidden, tagged users, music, latest comments, author ID, author username, author name, author verified, author private account, author profile picture, next cursor, has more, count on page

## RocketAPI's plans (6)

- [RocketAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/rocketapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [RocketAPI, €49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/rocketapi/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.092 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [RocketAPI, €99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/rocketapi/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.093 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [RocketAPI, €299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/rocketapi/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.056 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [RocketAPI, €499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/rocketapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.047 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [RocketAPI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/rocketapi/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete

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

- `POST /instagram/user/get_media_by_username`: [RocketAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/rocketapi/free/llms.txt)

## RocketAPI's APIs (2)

- [RocketAPI: Instagram post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/rocketapi/free/llms.txt)
- [RocketAPI: Instagram profile API pricing, 6 plans, POST /instagram/user/get_info_by_username](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/rocketapi/free-100-free-api-calls-post-instagram-user-get-info-by-username/llms.txt)
- [RocketAPI: Instagram profile API pricing, 6 plans, POST /instagram/user/get_web_profile_info](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/rocketapi/free-100-free-api-calls-post-instagram-user-get-web-profile-info/llms.txt)

## RocketAPI: Instagram post API alternatives

- [ScrapeBadger, $3,600 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapebadger/3600-monthly/llms.txt): $0.045 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Scrape Everything, $119 pack, Growth, POST /v1/instagram/reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrape-everything/119-pack-growth-post-v1-instagram-reels/llms.txt): $0.048 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [SocialKit, $1,764 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialkit/1764-yearly/llms.txt): $0.049 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $25 pack, Growth, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/25-pack-growth-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 50% 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 2026-10-30.

- https://docs.rocketapi.io/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.rocketapi.io/api/instagram/user/get_media_by_username/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.rocketapi.io/legal/data-processing-agreement?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.rocketapi.io/legal/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.rocketapi.io/migration-from-rapidapi/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://rocketapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing