# ScrapeIO, free: Instagram post API

> A profile's posts of every type (reels, photos, carousels), newest first, with real play counts.

ScrapeIO's Free plan for the Instagram post API costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. ScrapeIO's docs list 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Engagement, Analytics.
We haven't run ScrapeIO through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 285 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.178 per 1,000 posts or less. [See how many Instagram post API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) 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.
[ShortsIntel's $10 pack (/creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos)](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/10-pack-top-up-10-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt) covers any number of posts. ShortsIntel's $10 pack costs less up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.
[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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapeio/free
- [Instagram post API: the 10 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapeio.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://scrapeio.com/v2/instagram/user/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapeio.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapeio.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapeIO (https://scrapeio.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 193 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A profile's posts of every type (reels, photos, carousels), newest first, with real play counts.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Follow the laws that apply to you, including privacy and data protection laws, when you collect, store or use data from the API. [...] Do not use the API to harass, stalk, spam or discriminate against anyone, or to build profiles of people for those purposes. [...] Do not try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service, or resell raw access to your keys.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 pages, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle. Optional: cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /v2/instagram/user/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone, free credits once per person

## The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

play count, like count, comment count, created at, post URL

## ScrapeIO's plans (3)

- [ScrapeIO, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [ScrapeIO, $47 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapeio/47-pack/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [ScrapeIO, $497 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapeio/497-pack/llms.txt): 33% complete

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

- `GET /v2/instagram/user/posts`: [ScrapeIO, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)

## ScrapeIO's APIs (22)

- [ScrapeIO: Bluesky post API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-post-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: Bluesky profile API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: Facebook page API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: Facebook post API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: Instagram post API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: Instagram profile API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: Pinterest board pin API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/pinterest-board-pin-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: Pinterest pin API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/pinterest-pin-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: Snapchat profile API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/snapchat-profile-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: Telegram channel API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: Telegram channel post API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-post-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: TikTok profile API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: TikTok video API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: X post API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: X profile API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: YouTube channel API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeIO: YouTube channel video API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapeio/free/llms.txt)

## ScrapeIO: Instagram post API alternatives

- [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Captapi, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeCreators, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapecreators/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Openhandle, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://scrapeio.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeio.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeio.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeio.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeio.com/platforms/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeio.com/platforms/linkedin.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeio.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeio.com/skill.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeio.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing