# SocialAPIs, free: Instagram post API

> Get posts from a user profile with pagination. Returns photos, videos, carousels with engagement metrics.

SocialAPIs's Instagram post API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement.
We rank 100 plans by price. [EveryInfra's $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/everyinfra/500-pack-monthly-top-up-discount-10-off-from-500/llms.txt) 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](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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialapis/free
- [Best Instagram post API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://socialapis.io/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.socialapis.io/instagram/profile/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://socialapis.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://socialapis.io/api-sources/instagram-profile-posts
- Sold by: SocialAPIs (https://socialapis.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 49 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get posts from a user profile with pagination. Returns photos, videos, carousels with engagement metrics.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 200 credits a month
- Enough for: 200 pages a month
- Expires: at the end of the month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.28
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of username or user_id. Optional: end_cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /instagram/profile/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## SocialAPIs's plans (5)

- [SocialAPIs, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [SocialAPIs, $4.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialapis/4-99-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete, live
- [SocialAPIs, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialapis/49-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete, live
- [SocialAPIs, $179 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialapis/179-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete, live
- [SocialAPIs, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialapis/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete, live

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

- `GET /instagram/profile/posts`: [SocialAPIs, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)

## SocialAPIs's APIs (7)

- [SocialAPIs: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook Marketplace listing API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-marketplace-listing-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook Marketplace search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-marketplace-search-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialapis/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans, Facebook Page Details](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/socialapis/free-get-facebook-pages-details-facebook-page-details/llms.txt)
- [SocialAPIs: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans, Facebook Page Details, full](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/socialapis/free-get-facebook-pages-details-facebook-page-details-full/llms.txt)

## SocialAPIs: Instagram post API alternatives

- [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Captapi, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeCreators, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapecreators/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [SociaVault, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/sociavault/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live

## 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.

- https://socialapis.io/api-sources/instagram-profile-posts
- https://socialapis.io/api-sources/usage-limits
- https://socialapis.io/llms-endpoints.txt
- https://socialapis.io/llms.txt
- https://socialapis.io/openapi.json
- https://socialapis.io/pricing
- https://socialapis.io/terms