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ShortsIntel pricing: Instagram post API, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos

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100% complete: all 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run ShortsIntel through our Instagram post API benchmark 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.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) 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.ShortsIntel's $10 pack (/creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos) covers any number of posts. ShortsIntel's $10 pack costs less up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.FetchLayer, Captapi and ScrapeCreators are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest ShortsIntel plan for that many posts. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Starter Grant one of ShortsIntel's 5 plans
Call: GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos one of ShortsIntel's 2 calls for this API
API: Instagram post API one of ShortsIntel's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get posts from ShortsIntel's copy of Instagram. ShortsIntel doesn't say how old the copy is.
  • All 6 fields on our checklist. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author, Audience.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits. You spend the credits on ShortsIntel's other calls. This call is free for up to 2,592,000 pages a month. Extra fields on this call cost credits. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 90 days.
  • One call. You send handle to GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos. You set platform to "instagram". You can also send limit, cursor, intelligence, wait, max_credits and estimate. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone who signs up. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ShortsIntel: Instagram post API alternatives

ShortsIntel alternatives: other Instagram post API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 posts. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

This planShortsIntel, free, Starter Grant, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videosinfluData, freeInfluship, free, Starter credits, GET /v1/postsinstapi.co, freeViral Outliers, $99 pack
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.33
Completeness100%83%67%33%83%
Billingfreefreefreefreepay first
Pay$0$0$0$0$99
Enough for2,592,000 pages a month250 results10,000 results10 pages300,000 results
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyone who signs upanyone with a work email, one trial per inboxanyone at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyoneanyone with a free account

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.

  1. shortsintel.com
  2. shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/authentication-and-limits
  3. shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/pricing-and-estimates
  4. shortsintel.com/instagram-api
  5. shortsintel.com/openapi.v1.json
  6. shortsintel.com/pricing
  7. shortsintel.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
  • Audience
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Charges
Extra fieldsmentioned brands: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Research a niche · Refresh a research's videos · Run a Creator Breakdown · Search videos by keyword · Look up a video by URL · Look up a video by id · Analyse a video · Score a video against its creator · Read a video's comments · Read a comment's replies · Look up a creator and baseline · Look up a hashtag's trend · Page a hashtag's videos · Look up a sound's trend · Page a sound's videos · Sample a keyword search · Search ad libraries · Look up a Meta Ad by id · Get a TikTok Ad · Look up an advertiser profile · Start tracking a target · Run a tracker cycle now · Set or clear a tracker's focus · Preview a focus on a tracker
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchShortsIntel returns public Instagram data as JSON from /v1: Reels, posts and carousels, Creator profiles with a baseline, Hashtags, Keyword search and comments.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataDerived works are permitted. You may analyse, transform, combine and build on the API output, and you may distribute and commercialise the results [...] Reselling the raw data is not permitted. You may not: resell, sublicense, redistribute or otherwise make available the raw records or bulk API output as a data product, feed, export or dataset, whether for a fee or free of charge, republish raw records in bulk, or mirror, replicate or reconstruct the ShortsIntel corpus or any substantial part of it, including by systematic enumeration of the API, use the API or its output to build, train or operate a substitute for the Service, or a competing short-form video data service, use the output to identify, target, profile, score or make decisions about individual people, including creators and commenters, or to enable anyone else to do so, remove, obscure or misrepresent the provenance of data obtained through the Service where you are permitted to display it. Upstream restrictions pass through. [...] Where those providers or platforms impose restrictions on the use, retention or redistribution of that data, those restrictions apply to you as well
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for2,592,000 pages a month
Expires90 days
Rate limit
Per second1
Concurrent10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendplatform "instagram", handle. Optional: limit, cursor, intelligence, wait, max_credits, estimate
MethodGET
Path/creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos
About the plan
PlanStarter Grant
Who can get itanyone who signs up
The 35 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, post ID, post URL, text, created at, video duration, thumbnail, hashtags, sound title, sound author, author ID, author username, author name, author followers, author profile picture, author verified, language, title, is ad, paid partnership, mentions, coauthors, location ID, location name, AI generated, view count, like count, comment count, share count, save count, outlier multiplier, labels, next cursor, view percentile, views per hour

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