# ScrapingBot.io, free: Instagram post API

> An account’s posts, newest first, with captions, counts and media URLs.

ScrapingBot.io's Free plan for the Instagram post API costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. ScrapingBot.io's docs list 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Text, Media, Engagement.
We haven't run ScrapingBot.io through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 289 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.178 per 1,000 posts or less. [See the best free Instagram post API plan.](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. [Influship's Usage-based credits plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-usage-based-credits-get-v1-raw-instagram-profile-username/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 posts a month: $0.36.
[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/scrapingbot-io/free
- [Instagram post API: the 10 best of 110+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapingbot.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://scrapingbot.io/api/v1/instagram`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapingbot.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapingbot.io/docs/instagram?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing#instagram-posts
- Sold by: ScrapingBot.io (https://scrapingbot.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 50 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: An account’s posts, newest first, with captions, counts and media URLs.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: ScrapingBot returns publicly available data. You are responsible for what you collect and how you use it, [...] You agree not to use the service to: Access content behind a login, a paywall or other access controls, or any non-public or private data. Track, monitor, profile or harass individuals, build dossiers on people, or make decisions about people’s eligibility for jobs, credit, housing or insurance. Collect sensitive personal data (such as health, religion, political opinions, sexuality or biometrics) or children’s data. Send spam, or collect contact details for unsolicited messages. Break the law, infringe others’ rights, or collect data you have no right to use. Overload or disrupt any website, or our service, or try to get around our limits, billing or security. Resell or give away raw access to the API itself (for example, a public proxy for our endpoints). Building your own product on top of the data is fine.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 20 pages, once

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: endpoint "/medias/by_user_id", params.user_id. Optional: params.count, params.end_cursor
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/instagram

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 16 or older, and old enough to enter a contract where they live

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post code, created at, media type, product type, is video, like count, comment count, text, image, count on page, next cursor, has more, success, credits used

## ScrapingBot.io's plans (6)

- [ScrapingBot.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingbot-io/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $49.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingbot-io/49-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.018 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $99.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingbot-io/99-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0091 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $249.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingbot-io/249-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0076 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $599.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingbot-io/599-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0067 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $999.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingbot-io/999-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0065 per 1,000, 50% complete

## ScrapingBot.io's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/v1/instagram`: [ScrapingBot.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingbot-io/free/llms.txt)

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## ScrapingBot.io: Instagram post API alternatives

- [Parseium, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/parseium/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0065 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /instagram/v1/posts, posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/1200-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0067 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Chartmetric, $350 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/chartmetric/350-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0068 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Zapi, Rp49,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0091 per 1,000, 67% complete, 10 minutes

## 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://scrapingbot.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/docs/instagram?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/guides/instagram-profile-reels-python?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/instagram?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing