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SteadyAPI pricing: Instagram post API

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run SteadyAPI through our Instagram post API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 296 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.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan 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 costs the least for 10,000 posts a month: $0.36.ShortsIntel's $10 pack (/creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos) covers any number of posts. ShortsIntel's $10 pack costs less up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.FetchLayer, Refetcher and ReefAPI are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest SteadyAPI plan for that many posts. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of SteadyAPI's 9 plans
Call: GET /v1/instagram/posts SteadyAPI's only call for this API
API: Instagram post API one of SteadyAPI's 22 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 30 minutes old. You get posts from SteadyAPI's copy of Instagram.
  • 4 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests a month, enough for 250 pages. Calls stop once your requests run out. Unused requests do not carry over.
  • One call. You send username to GET /v1/instagram/posts. You can also send pagination_token. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SteadyAPI: Instagram post API alternatives

SteadyAPI alternatives: other Instagram post API providers by price

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

SteadyAPI, $299.99 monthlyReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /instagram/v1/posts, postsLiveDune, $225 monthlySerpent API, top-up from $500, Scale, GET /api/social/instagram/profile, Instagram Profile with recent postsScrape Everything, $449 pack, Scale, POST /v1/instagram/photos
$ per 1,000 posts$0.02$0.02$0.022$0.023$0.03
Completeness67%83%67%67%83%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlypay firstpay first
Pay$299.99$50$225$500$449
Enough for1,250,000 pages a month50,000 pages a month100,000 pagesabout 1,785,714 pages250,000 pages
Freshness30 minuteslive1 hourlivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone 18 or over who can enter a binding contract

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

  1. docs.steadyapi.com
  2. docs.steadyapi.com/collection.json
  3. docs.steadyapi.com/instagram-social/
  4. steadyapi.com
  5. steadyapi.com/pages/faq
  6. steadyapi.com/pages/instagram-social-api
  7. steadyapi.com/pages/pricing
  8. steadyapi.com/pages/terms-and-conditions

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Text, not in the answer
  • Media
  • Engagement
  • Analytics
  • Author
  • Audience, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perpage of 12
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 156 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns one page of a user's feed posts, including photos, videos, and carousels. Each post has the media ID, shortcode, media and product type, timestamp, caption, like and comment counts, media and thumbnail URLs, owner, and permalink.
Data
Freshness30 minutes
Keep datano limit
Use dataTerms and Conditions, 2.1. License: Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to use the Service. [...] On plans that do not include Commercial Use, you may use the Service only for personal, non-commercial purposes. 2.2. Restrictions: You may not: Use the Service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service. Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or its related systems or networks. [...] 5. Intellectual Property: [...] You agree not to copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Service without our express written consent.
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 requests a month
Enough for250 pages a month
Expiresdo not carry over
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendusername. Optional: pagination_token
MethodGET
Path/v1/instagram/posts
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, shortcode, media type, product type, taken at, caption, like count, comment count, view count, reshare count, media URL, thumbnail, width, height, has audio, paid partnership, author ID, author username, author verified, author profile picture, post URL, next cursor, count on page

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