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SocialAPIs pricing and alternatives: Instagram post API

SocialAPIs's sitellms.txtBest Instagram post API in 2026: pricing compared

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe rank 100 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 one of SocialAPIs's 5 plans
Call: GET /instagram/profile/posts SocialAPIs's only call for this API
API: Instagram post API one of SocialAPIs's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the posts from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits a month, enough for 200 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of the month.
  • One call. You send username or user_id to GET /instagram/profile/posts. You can also send end_cursor. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter into the terms. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SocialAPIs: Instagram post API alternatives

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

This planSocialAPIs, freeFetchLayer, freeCaptapi, freeScrapeCreators, freeSociaVault, free
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness50%83%100%83%83%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for200 pages a month30 pagesabout 333 results, once100 pages, once50 pages, once
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter into the termsanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyone at least 18 years old, once their email is verifiedanyone legally able to enter into a binding agreementanyone

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 2026-10-30.

  1. socialapis.io/api-sources/instagram-profile-posts
  2. socialapis.io/api-sources/usage-limits
  3. socialapis.io/llms-endpoints.txt
  4. socialapis.io/llms.txt
  5. socialapis.io/openapi.json
  6. socialapis.io/pricing
  7. socialapis.io/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, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Audience, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 49 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet posts from a user profile with pagination. Returns photos, videos, carousels with engagement metrics.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use the API to: Access publicly available Facebook and Instagram data, Build applications and integrations for legitimate business purposes, Research and analyze public pages, posts, ads and trends, Monitor public content about your own brand, products or market. [...] You may NOT use the API to: Attempt to access private or non-public information, Track, profile, or surveil individuals, or build databases of private persons, Send spam or unsolicited messages to people found through the Service, Harass, discriminate against, or harm any person, Process personal data without a lawful basis under applicable data protection law (such as the GDPR or CCPA), Engage in any illegal activity, Resell or share API access or API keys without our written permission, Circumvent rate limits or access controls, Infringe on intellectual property rights, Distribute malware or harmful code, Build a competing data API by reselling data obtained from SocialAPIs
Plan
Pay$0
You get200 credits a month
Enough for200 pages a month
Expiresat the end of the month
Rate limit
Per second0.28
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of username or user_id. Optional: end_cursor
MethodGET
Path/instagram/profile/posts
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter into the terms
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

text, like count, comment count, created at, media URL, next cursor

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