# socially, free, POST /v1/profiles/lookup: Instagram post API

> Name, bio, follower count and the latest posts with exact likes, comments and dates, from an instagram.com link or a username.

socially's Free plan for the Instagram post API costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. socially's docs list 3: Text, Media, Engagement.
We haven't run socially through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) [FetchLayer](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt) has a free plan with 30 pages of posts. FetchLayer is the best Instagram post API in our benchmark.
[ViralHunt's $199 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/viralhunt/199-monthly/llms.txt) 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](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, and costs less up front than ViralHunt's $199 monthly plan.
[FetchLayer](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt), [Influship](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-usage-based-credits-get-v1-raw-instagram-profile-username/llms.txt) and [Refetcher](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/refetcher/top-up/llms.txt) are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup
- [Instagram post API in 2026: the best of 30+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://socially.run/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.socially.run/v1/profiles/lookup`
- API key: with the plan, on https://socially.run/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://socially.run/docs/en/profiles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: socially (https://socially.run?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page of 12
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: 24 hours
- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Name, bio, follower count and the latest posts with exact likes, comments and dates, from an instagram.com link or a username.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: Keep only what you have a lawful basis to store, set a retention period for your use and honor removal requests.
- Use data: The 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 get: 200 credits a month
- Enough for: 200 pages a month
- Expires: Monthly credits reset on the 1st, UTC

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Per second: 0.17 (10 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: input. Optional: platform, posts, refresh
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/profiles/lookup

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an account

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

## socially's plans (7)

- [socially, free, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $19 pack, 2,000 credits, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/19-pack-2000-credits-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $0.792 per 1,000, 50% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $79 pack, 10,000 credits, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/79-pack-10000-credits-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $0.658 per 1,000, 50% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $349 pack, 50,000 credits, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/349-pack-50000-credits-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $0.582 per 1,000, 50% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $19 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/19-monthly-starter-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $0.528 per 1,000, 50% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $49 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/49-monthly-pro-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $0.34 per 1,000, 50% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $149 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/149-monthly-scale-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $0.248 per 1,000, 50% complete, 24 hours

## socially's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/profiles/batch`: [socially, free, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/profiles/lookup`: [socially, free, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)

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- [socially GitHub profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/github-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially GitHub profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/github-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially GitHub user repository API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/github-user-repository-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
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- [socially Instagram post API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
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- [socially LinkedIn profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
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## socially: Instagram post API alternatives

[socially alternatives: other Instagram post API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/socially-alternatives.txt)

We list socially's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to socially in price per 1,000 posts. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most a day old.

- [socially, $149 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/149-monthly-scale-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt): $0.248 per 1,000, 50% complete, 24 hours
- [HasData, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/hasdata/59-monthly/llms.txt): $0.246 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [SteadyAPI, $14.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/steadyapi/14-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 67% complete, 30 minutes
- [ScrapeGuys, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapeguys/15-monthly/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CarryFeed, $30 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/carryfeed/30-pack/llms.txt): $0.25 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 2026-11-11.

- https://api.socially.run/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socially.run?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/docs/en/limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/docs/en/profiles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/aup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/instagram?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing