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SocQ pricing and alternatives: Instagram post API

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$1.70per 1,000 postsHalf of the 134 plans we rank by price cost $0.151 per 1,000 posts or less. This plan is cheaper than 5% of the 134 plans.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: Starter one of SocQ's 2 plans
Call: POST /v1/instagram/posts SocQ's only call for this API
API: Instagram post API one of SocQ's 33 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
  • A balance you top up. You pay $5 or more. You spend the whole balance on calls.
  • One call. You send usernames to POST /v1/instagram/posts. You can also send callback_url and results_limit. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

SocQ: Instagram post API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 posts.

This planSocQ, top-up from $5Bright Data, top-uplobstr.io, $192 yearlyCaptapi, $275 packZembra, top-up from $612
$ per 1,000 posts$1.70$1.50$1.60$1.65$1.80
Completeness83%100%67%100%17%
Billingpay firstpay firstyearlypay firstpay first
Pay$5any amount$192$275$612
Enough foras many as you pay foras many as you pay for10,000 results a monthabout 166,666 resultsas many as you pay for
Freshnessunknownlivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanonprofessionals, not consumersanyone at least 18 years oldanyone aged 18 or over

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 2026-11-01.

  1. docs.socq.ai/api-manual/agent-api/agent-api.json
  2. docs.socq.ai/api-manual/linkedin/profiles
  3. docs.socq.ai/capability-catalog.json
  4. socq.ai/apis/instagram/posts
  5. socq.ai/apis/linkedin/profiles
  6. socq.ai/pricing
  7. socq.ai/privacy
  8. socq.ai/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
  • Author
  • Audience, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$1.70
Perresult
Billingpay first
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 170 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchCollect public Instagram posts for one or more usernames, returning normalized captions, author details, media, hashtags, mentions, timestamps, and visible engagement.
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$5
Expiresnever
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendusernames. Optional: callback_url, results_limit
MethodPOST
Path/v1/instagram/posts
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone
The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post code, post URL, created at, text, author ID, author username, author name, author URL, author profile picture, author verified, author private account, like count, comment count, share count, view count, image, video, thumbnail, video duration, hashtags, mentions, scraped at

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