Scrape.ly pricing: Instagram post API
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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run Scrape.ly through our Instagram post API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 271 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.178 per 1,000 posts or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan 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, Captapi and ScrapeCreators are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Scrape.ly's 5 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $19 monthlyStarter$1.95 per 1,000
- $199 monthlyScale$1.61 per 1,000
- $999 monthlyBusiness$1.27 per 1,000
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Call:
POST / Scrape.ly's only call for this APIAPI: Instagram post API one of Scrape.ly's 11 APIs
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- Instagram post API
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- LinkedIn profile API
- LinkedIn job search API
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- Trustpilot review API
- X post API
- YouTube channel video API
About this item
- Live. You get the posts from Instagram when you call the API.
- 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Author.
- Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit a month, enough for about 2,183 results. Calls stop once your credit runs out.
- One call. You send
directUrlsorsearchtoPOST /. The call returns the posts of each account you send.v2/ actors/ echofield~ instagram-scraper/ run-sync-get-dataset-items - Who can get it: anyone at least 18 with full legal capacity. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Scrape.ly: Instagram post API alternatives
Scrape.ly alternatives: other Instagram post API providers by price
The table starts with Scrape.ly's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 posts closest to Scrape.ly's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| Scrape.ly, $999 monthly | Zembra, top-up from $2,862 | EnsembleData, $400 monthly | Bright Data, $499 monthly | Captapi, $9 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 posts | $1.27 | $1.20 | $1.212 | $1.30 | $1.35 |
| Completeness | 67% | 17% | 67% | 100% | 100% |
| Billing | monthly | pay first | monthly | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | $999 | $2,862 | $400 | $499 | $9 |
| Enough for | about 786,614 results a month | as many as you pay for | 11,000 results a day | 384,000 results a month | about 6,666 results a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 with full legal capacity | anyone aged 18 or over | anyone | anyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanon | anyone at least 18 years old |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.
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, not in the answer
- Author
- Audience, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 posts | $0.00 |
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| Per | result |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 587 other calls |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Scrape public Instagram profiles, posts, reels, comments, hashtags, and places: captions, likes, comments, media URLs, and owner details, without logging in. |
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| Freshness | live |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | You decide what you collect and for what purpose, and you are solely responsible for Your Content, for having all rights, permissions and legal bases, and for complying with the law and with the terms of the sites your runs access. [...] Some Actors find or collect information about people, if you use them you are the controller of the results and must meet your duties to the people concerned. You must not use them to decide a person's eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing or benefits, to stalk, harass or expose anyone, or for any other unlawful purpose. [...] If you run Actors that find information about people, you must have a lawful purpose for each run and must not use the results to decide eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or benefits (or for any other purpose that makes them a consumer report under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act or similar law), to stalk, harass, intimidate, dox or locate anyone against their will, for illegal surveillance, to discriminate, or for unsolicited marketing. [...] You must not use the Services to: 1. break any law, or infringe anyone's rights, including copyright, database, trademark and trade-secret rights, 2. create, store or distribute child sexual abuse material, terrorist content or other illegal content, 3. commit or support fraud, phishing, scams, identity theft or money laundering, 4. send spam or unsolicited bulk messages, or create fake accounts, engagement, reviews or traffic, 5. run malware, ransomware, spyware, backdoors or keyloggers, or any code designed to damage or gain unauthorised access to a system, 6. carry out denial-of-service attacks, or scan or test systems you are not authorised to test, 7. mine cryptocurrency, or use our resources for purposes unrelated to the Actors you run, 8. engage in a practice prohibited by Article 5 of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), such as manipulative or exploitative techniques, social scoring, or building facial-recognition databases by untargeted scraping of facial images, 9. breach sanctions or export control law, 10. probe, scan, attack or overload our infrastructure, escape the run environment, or access other users' data, runs or accounts, 11. avoid or manipulate billing, usage limits, spending caps or rate limits, including by misusing an Actor's charging mechanism, 12. hold more than one free account per person or organisation, or use fake identities or other methods to obtain free or promotional credit, 13. resell, sublicense or provide access to the Services as a service to third parties, except by running Actors to deliver your own products and services, or with our written consent, 14. manipulate Store rankings, ratings, reviews, usage statistics or bookmarks, or post false reviews or issues, 15. impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation, or 16. help or encourage anyone else to do any of these things. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | $5 a month |
| Enough for | about 2,183 results a month |
| Per second | 16.67 |
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| Concurrent | 5 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | one of directUrls or search. Optional: resultsType, resultsLimit, onlyPostsNewerThan, skipPinnedPosts, searchType, searchLimit, commentsPostsLimit, isNewestComments, includeNestedComments, addProfileStatistics, addParentData, proxyConfiguration |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v2/actors/echofield~instagram-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 with full legal capacity |
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold
post ID, post code, post URL, post type, text, author username, like count, comment count, created at, product type, image