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Serpent API pricing and alternatives: 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 rank 127 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 calls one of Serpent API's 6 plans
Call: GET /api/social/instagram/profile, Instagram Profile with recent posts one of Serpent API's 2 calls for this API
API: Instagram post API one of Serpent API's 25 APIs

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, Analytics.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 10 pages in all. Unused pages expire after 12 months of account inactivity.
  • One call. You send username to GET /api/social/instagram/profile. You set include_posts to "true". You can also send include_post_details, include_contact, include_business, include_reels_info and include_profile_detail. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Who can get it: one account per person or organisation, for evaluation. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Serpent API: Instagram post API alternatives

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

Serpent API, top-up from $500, Scale, GET /api/social/instagram/profile, Instagram Profile with recent postsReefAPI, $33.75 quarterlyOmkar Cloud, $148 monthlyScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack, Scale, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timelineFetchLayer, $500 monthly
$ per 1,000 posts$0.023$0.022$0.031$0.033$0.042
Completeness67%83%100%50%83%
Billingpay firstquarterlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$500$33.75$148$199$500
Enough forabout 1,785,714 pages10,000 pages a month400,000 pages a month120,000 pages1,000,000 pages a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone 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 at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)

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. apiserpent.com/docs
  2. apiserpent.com/docs#instagram-profile
  3. apiserpent.com/faq
  4. apiserpent.com/instagram-api
  5. apiserpent.com/linkedin-api
  6. apiserpent.com/pricing
  7. apiserpent.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, not in the answer
  • Audience, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perpage of 12
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Quick Search · Deep Search · News · Images · Videos · AI Ranking Combined · AI Ranking Single Engine · LinkedIn Company · LinkedIn Posts · LinkedIn Job Search · LinkedIn Job Details · LinkedIn Profile · LinkedIn Full Profile · LinkedIn Profile Search · Google Maps Quick Place Search · Google Maps Deep Place Search · Google Maps Place Details · Google Maps Reviews · YouTube Search · YouTube Video Details · YouTube Channel Details · YouTube Playlist Videos · Amazon Search · Amazon Product · Amazon Bestsellers · TikTok Profile · TikTok Video · TikTok Hashtag · TikTok Search · TikTok Music · X Post · X Profile · Reddit Subreddit Listing · Reddit Comments · Reddit Search · Reddit User · Reddit Community · eBay Search listings · eBay Item details · eBay Seller profile · eBay Seller listings · eBay Product reviews · eBay Seller feedback
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRead Instagram profiles and recent posts as structured JSON with bio, follower and engagement data.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit, "You agree NOT to use the Service to: [...] Scrape, copy, or store data in violation of third-party terms"
Use dataYou may use the API for lawful purposes in accordance with these Terms and applicable laws. [...] You agree NOT to use the Service to: Violate any applicable laws or regulations, Infringe on intellectual property rights of others, Distribute malware, spam, or harmful content, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers, Resell or redistribute the Service without authorization, Use automated means to abuse or overload the Service, Deliberately obtain discounted volume pricing for a completed workload and then seek a refund of the qualifying payment to retain that discount without paying the applicable Default rate. Refund requests alone, or ordinary API usage, are not abuse, any request is reviewed individually under our Cancellation & Refund Policy and applicable law, Open or operate more than one account in order to claim free searches, introductory pricing, or any promotional benefit more than once, Scrape, copy, or store data in violation of third-party terms, Submit sensitive personal data in query strings, including health, financial account, government identification, biometric, or similar special-category information [...] Free searches are for evaluation purposes only. [...] You retain ownership of any content you create using data obtained through the Service, subject to third-party rights.
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for10 pages, once
Expiresafter 12 months of account inactivity
Rate limit
Per day10,000
Per second0.028
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendusername, include_posts "true". Optional: include_post_details, include_contact, include_business, include_reels_info, include_profile_detail
MethodGET
Path/api/social/instagram/profile
About the plan
PlanFree calls
Who can get itone account per person or organisation, for evaluation
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, post code, thumbnail, media type, post URL, created at, text, like count, comment count, view count, children, music, location

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