# SiteCheck, pay as you go: Instagram post API

> The 12 most recent grid posts of a public Instagram account: shortcode, URL, type (image/carousel/video), full caption, post time, likes, comments, video duration, location and image URL, plus followers. Only the newest 12 (no paging, no comment text, no video view counts). Private accounts return an empty list. Unknown users 404, a failed fetch 503 (not charged). Takes about 26 s, allow a 45 s timeout.

SiteCheck's x402 pay per call plan for the Instagram post API costs $0.417 per 1,000 posts. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. SiteCheck's docs list 3: Text, Media, Engagement.
We haven't run SiteCheck through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) yet.
We rank 297 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.178 or less per 1,000 posts. This plan costs less per 1,000 posts than 37% of the 297 plans.
[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), [Refetcher](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/refetcher/top-up/llms.txt) and [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/15-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/sitecheck/pay-as-you-go
- [Instagram post API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/api/social/instagram-posts`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing#/paths/~1api~1social~1instagram-posts
- Sold by: SiteCheck (https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.417
- Per: page of 12
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: The 12 most recent grid posts of a public Instagram account: shortcode, URL, type (image/carousel/video), full caption, post time, likes, comments, video duration, location and image URL, plus followers. Only the newest 12 (no paging, no comment text, no video view counts). Private accounts return an empty list. Unknown users 404, a failed fetch 503 (not charged). Takes about 26 s, allow a 45 s timeout.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Business use only: SiteCheck is offered to businesses, developers and professionals for use in their trade, business or profession. It is not offered to consumers. [...] SiteCheck is not a consumer reporting agency. You must not use results as a factor in decisions about a person's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or similar purposes under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act or comparable laws. Content in results that belongs to a source remains that source's. You are responsible for making sure that your use, storage and redistribution of results complies with the law (including copyright, database rights and data protection law) and with the terms of the original source. [...] Do not use SiteCheck for anything unlawful, to harass, track, stalk or discriminate against any person, to build profiles of individuals without a lawful basis, or to infringe anyone's rights. Do not attack, overload, scan for weaknesses or try to bypass payment, rate limits or other controls, and do not use the service to attack or overload third-party sources. Do not use SiteCheck if you are, or act for, a person subject to sanctions, or from a country or region where the service or the payment would be prohibited.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/social/instagram-posts

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 acting for business purposes (not a consumer), not a person subject to sanctions or from a region where the service or the payment would be prohibited, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC (x402)

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

post code, post URL, post type, text, created at, like count, comment count, video duration, location, image

## SiteCheck's plans (1)

- [SiteCheck, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/sitecheck/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.417 per 1,000, 50% complete

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

- `GET /api/social/instagram-posts`: [SiteCheck, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/sitecheck/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

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## SiteCheck: Instagram post API alternatives

- [lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lobstr-io/4800-yearly/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [FastSocial, $5 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fastsocial/5-monthly-starter-get-v1-posts/llms.txt): $0.417 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [SocialToAI, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialtoai/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.417 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CarryFeed, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/carryfeed/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $0.417 per 1,000, 33% complete, 5 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 2026-11-09.

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- https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
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