# StableSocial, pay as you go: Instagram post API

> Returns a paginated feed of a user's public Instagram posts, including reels, photos, videos, and carousels.

StableSocial's Instagram post API on its Pay per request with x402 or MPP plan. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We rank 67 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.003. Litescrape charges for each page of results. We count 50 posts on each page to get the $0.003 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/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go
- [Best Instagram post API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://stablesocial.dev
- Request: `POST https://stablesocial.dev/api/sc/instagram/user/posts`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://stablesocial.dev/llms.txt
- Sold by: StableSocial (https://stablesocial.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

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

## Price

- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $60.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns a paginated feed of a user's public Instagram posts, including reels, photos, videos, and carousels.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Merit Systems' terms, 8. Acceptable Use: You may not use the Services to: violate any law, regulation, court order, sanction, or third-party right, harass, threaten, stalk, defame, exploit, or harm any person or entity, send spam, phishing, robocalls, deceptive outreach, or malware, scrape, enrich, surveil, profile, or use personal data in a manner that is unlawful, discriminatory, abusive, or without any required consent or lawful basis, impersonate another person or entity or misrepresent affiliation, authority, or origin, generate, host, upload, send, distribute, or facilitate illegal, infringing, fraudulent, or harmful content, use the Services or any output, data, enrichment, score, ranking, recommendation, or other result as a consumer report, investigative consumer report, or for determining a person's eligibility for employment, hiring, contracting, compensation, credit, lending, underwriting, housing, insurance, education, government benefits, licenses, immigration status, or any other purpose regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act or analogous law, evade payment requirements, fees, rate limits, moderation systems, anti-abuse controls, or access restrictions, probe, attack, reverse engineer, interfere with, or degrade the Services or supporting infrastructure, except to the extent prohibited by applicable law, use the Services for emergency services, weapons, unlawful surveillance, or other prohibited high-risk use cases. Merit's terms, 7: Merit does not represent that any such result is accurate, lawful to use for your purpose, free of third-party rights, or usable for republication, resale, model training, commercialization, operational use, or other downstream use without additional restrictions. You are solely responsible for verifying legality, consent, accuracy, and downstream rights before using any result. Scrape Creators' terms, 6. Acceptable use, which back it: You agree not to use the Service for: Illegal activities, Harassment or stalking, Surveillance of individuals without lawful basis, Spamming or unsolicited outreach, Political manipulation or disinformation, Violating privacy or data protection laws, Infringing intellectual property rights, Any activity that harms others

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle. Optional: next_max_id
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/sc/instagram/user/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per request with x402 or MPP
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over who can form a binding contract with Merit, not in a jurisdiction where use is prohibited, paying by x402 or MPP from a wallet

## The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits remaining, credits consumed, post ID, post code, post URL, post type, created at, text, like count, comment count, view count, Instagram view count, image, video, video duration, has audio, music, paid partnership, author name, author username, author ID, author verified, next cursor, has more, count on page

## StableSocial's plans (1)

- [StableSocial, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): 83% complete, live

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

- `POST /api/sc/instagram/user/posts`: [StableSocial, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## StableSocial's APIs (14)

- [StableSocial: Instagram post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: company headcount API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: TikTok profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: TikTok video API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: X post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: X profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: YouTube channel API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: YouTube channel video API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: Instagram profile API pricing, 1 plan, POST /api/sc/instagram/basic-profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-x402-or-mpp-post-api-sc-instagram-basic-profile/llms.txt)
- [StableSocial: Instagram profile API pricing, 1 plan, POST /api/sc/instagram/profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-x402-or-mpp-post-api-sc-instagram-profile/llms.txt)

## StableSocial: Instagram post API alternatives

- [Social Fetch, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/social-fetch/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): 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 2026-10-29.

- https://docs.scrapecreators.com/caching
- https://docs.scrapecreators.com/introduction
- https://docs.scrapecreators.com/v2/instagram/user/posts/
- https://merit.systems/terms
- https://scrapecreators.com/terms
- https://stablesocial.dev
- https://stablesocial.dev/llms.txt
- https://stablesocial.dev/openapi.json