# SocialScrape, free: Instagram post API

> A paged feed of public posts: photos, videos, carousels and reels, 12 a page.

SocialScrape's Free plan for the Instagram post API costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. SocialScrape's docs list 5: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We haven't run SocialScrape through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 314 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.178 or less per 1,000 posts. [See the best free Instagram post API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
[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), [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/socialscrape/free
- [Instagram post API in 2026: the best of 30+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://socialscrape.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/instagram/profile/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://socialscrape.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://socialscrape.dev/docs/api/instagram/profile-posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: SocialScrape (https://socialscrape.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 192 other SocialScrape calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A paged feed of public posts: photos, videos, carousels and reels, 12 a page.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use the output you receive for your own products, subject to section 6. [...] Do not resell raw personal data, and do not use the service to build a database of private individuals.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 pages
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of handle or id. Optional: require_play_counts, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/instagram/profile/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits consumed, credits remaining, from cache, cached at, request ID, next cursor, has more, post ID, post URL, post type, created at, text, like count, comment count, view count, media URL, thumbnail, hashtags, mentions, location, is pinned, author ID, author username, author name, author verified, author URL

## SocialScrape's plans (11)

- [SocialScrape, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [SocialScrape, $13 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/13-pack/llms.txt): $1.083 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [SocialScrape, $55 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/55-pack/llms.txt): $0.183 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [SocialScrape, $349 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/349-pack/llms.txt): $0.126 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [SocialScrape, $27 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/27-monthly/llms.txt): $0.125 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [SocialScrape, $73 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/73-monthly/llms.txt): $0.122 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [SocialScrape, $209 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/209-monthly/llms.txt): $0.116 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [SocialScrape, $290 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/290-yearly/llms.txt): $0.112 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [SocialScrape, $790 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/790-yearly/llms.txt): $0.11 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [SocialScrape, $2,250 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/2250-yearly/llms.txt): $0.104 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [SocialScrape, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete

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

- `GET /v1/instagram/profile/posts`: [SocialScrape, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)

## SocialScrape's APIs (40)

- [SocialScrape: Bluesky post API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-post-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Bluesky profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Facebook Marketplace listing API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-marketplace-listing-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Facebook Marketplace search API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-marketplace-search-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Facebook page API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Facebook post API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: GitHub profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/github-profile-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: GitHub repository API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: GitHub user repository API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/github-user-repository-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Google Ads Transparency API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-ad-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Instagram post API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Instagram profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: LinkedIn Ad Library API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-ad-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Pinterest board pin API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/pinterest-board-pin-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Pinterest pin API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/pinterest-pin-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Pinterest search API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/pinterest-search-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Snapchat profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/snapchat-profile-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Telegram channel API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Telegram channel post API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-post-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Threads post API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-post-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Threads profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: TikTok Ad Library API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: TikTok profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: TikTok video API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: TikTok Shop product API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-shop-product-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: TikTok Shop search API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-shop-search-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Truth Social post API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/truth-social-post-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Truth Social profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/truth-social-profile-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Twitch profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: Twitch video API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-video-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: X post API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: X profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: YouTube channel API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)
- [SocialScrape: YouTube channel video API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/socialscrape/free/llms.txt)

## SocialScrape: Instagram post API alternatives

- [KonbiniAPI, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/konbiniapi/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.104 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [TrueScrape, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/truescrape/25-pack/llms.txt): $0.104 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Anakin, $700 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/anakin/700-monthly/llms.txt): $0.104 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Anysite, $549 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/anysite/549-monthly/llms.txt): $0.108 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://api.socialscrape.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socialscrape.dev/docs/api/instagram/profile-posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socialscrape.dev/docs/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socialscrape.dev/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socialscrape.dev/help/packs-and-plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socialscrape.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socialscrape.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://socialscrape.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing