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socially Instagram post API pricing: POST /v1/profiles/lookup

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run socially through our Instagram post API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 350 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.178 or less per 1,000 posts. 124 Instagram post API plans on our price sheet are free. FetchLayer has a free plan with 30 pages of posts. FetchLayer is the best Instagram post API in our benchmark.ViralHunt's $199 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 posts, with no charge per call. You get as many posts as ViralHunt's rate limit allows. Influship's Usage-based credits plan costs the least for 10,000 posts a month: $0.36.ShortsIntel's $10 pack (/creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos) covers any number of posts, and costs less up front than ViralHunt's $199 monthly plan.FetchLayer, Influship and Refetcher are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest socially plan for that many posts. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of socially's 7 plans
Call: POST /v1/profiles/lookup one of socially's 2 calls for this API
API: Instagram post API one of socially's 19 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 24 hours old. You get posts from socially's copy of Instagram.
  • 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Text, Media, Engagement.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits a month, enough for 200 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Monthly credits reset on the 1st, UTC.
  • One call. You send input to POST /v1/profiles/lookup. You can also send platform, posts and refresh. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Who can get it: anyone with an account. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

socially: Instagram post API alternatives

socially alternatives: other Instagram post API providers by price

The table starts with socially's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 posts closest to socially's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

socially, $149 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/profiles/lookupHasData, $59 monthlySteadyAPI, $14.99 monthlyScrapeGuys, $15 monthlyCarryFeed, $30 pack
$ per 1,000 posts$0.248$0.246$0.25$0.25$0.25
Completeness50%83%67%67%33%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthlypay first
Pay$149$59$14.99$15$30
Enough for50,000 pages a month20,000 pages a month5,000 pages a month5,000 pages a month10,000 pages
Freshness24 hourslive30 minuteslive5 minutes
Who can get itanyone with an accountanyoneanyoneanyone aged 18 or over with the legal capacity to contract, the Instagram scopes are added to a key on requestanyone with a Google account who is at least 13 and able to form a binding agreement where they live ("Sign in or create an account. Continue with Google", "You must be at least 13 and able to form a binding agreement where you 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 2026-11-11.

  1. api.socially.run/openapi.json
  2. socially.run
  3. socially.run/docs/en/limits
  4. socially.run/docs/en/profiles
  5. socially.run/en/aup
  6. socially.run/en/instagram
  7. socially.run/en/linkedin
  8. socially.run/en/pricing
  9. socially.run/en/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 of 12
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat free24 hours
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Batch · Post lookup · Website read · Open Graph card · Username search: fast · Username search: full · Trending topics · YouTube search · News search · Instagram search · TikTok search · Instagram hashtag search · GitHub search
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchName, bio, follower count and the latest posts with exact likes, comments and dates, from an instagram.com link or a username.
Data
Freshness24 hours
Keep dataKeep only what you have a lawful basis to store, set a retention period for your use and honor removal requests.
Use dataThe results are yours to use within the acceptable use policy. What you may not do: Target a private individual for harm: stalking, harassment, intimidation, doxxing, blackmail, or locating somebody who does not want to be found. Profile people on protected characteristics, or make a decision with legal or similarly significant effects (employment, credit, housing, insurance, policing) based only on our results. Re-identify or contact somebody who opted out, or route around a suppression. Resell raw results as a people-search or background-check product, or scrape our API to build one. Run email lookups on lists you did not obtain lawfully, on bought lists, or to build a marketing audience without a lawful basis. Work around rate limits, quotas, suppressions, or the three-way outcome, by presenting a lookup we could not check as a fact. Use the results to attack accounts: credential stuffing, account takeover, phishing. Anything unlawful where you are, or where the person is.
Plan
Pay$0
You get200 credits a month
Enough for200 pages a month
ExpiresMonthly credits reset on the 1st, UTC
Rate limit
Per day50
Per second0.17 (10 a minute)
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendinput. Optional: platform, posts, refresh
MethodPOST
Path/v1/profiles/lookup
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with an account
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

caption, date, likes, comments, views, post URL, thumbnail, hashtags, media type

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