# SteadyAPI, free: Instagram post API

> Returns 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.

SteadyAPI's Free plan for the Instagram post API costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. SteadyAPI's docs list 4: Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We haven't run SteadyAPI through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) 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.](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), [Refetcher](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/refetcher/top-up/llms.txt) and [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/15-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/steadyapi/free
- [Instagram post API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://steadyapi.com/pages/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.steadyapi.com/v1/instagram/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://steadyapi.com/pages/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.steadyapi.com/instagram-social/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing#instagram-social-GETapi-v1-instagram-posts
- Sold by: SteadyAPI (https://steadyapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- 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: 156 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns 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

- Freshness: 30 minutes
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Terms 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 get: 500 requests a month
- Enough for: 250 pages a month
- Expires: do not carry over

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username. Optional: pagination_token
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/instagram/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## SteadyAPI's plans (9)

- [SteadyAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/steadyapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 30 minutes
- [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
- [SteadyAPI, $39.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/steadyapi/39-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 67% complete, 30 minutes
- [SteadyAPI, $89.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/steadyapi/89-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.06 per 1,000, 67% complete, 30 minutes
- [SteadyAPI, $299.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/steadyapi/299-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 67% complete, 30 minutes
- [SteadyAPI, $143.52 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/steadyapi/143-52-yearly/llms.txt): $0.199 per 1,000, 67% complete, 30 minutes
- [SteadyAPI, $389.99 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/steadyapi/389-99-yearly/llms.txt): $0.108 per 1,000, 67% complete, 30 minutes
- [SteadyAPI, $869.99 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/steadyapi/869-99-yearly/llms.txt): $0.048 per 1,000, 67% complete, 30 minutes
- [SteadyAPI, $3,849.99 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/steadyapi/3849-99-yearly/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 67% complete, 30 minutes

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

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

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- [ReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /instagram/v1/posts, posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/50-monthly/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
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## 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.

- https://docs.steadyapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.steadyapi.com/collection.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.steadyapi.com/instagram-social/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://steadyapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://steadyapi.com/pages/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://steadyapi.com/pages/instagram-social-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://steadyapi.com/pages/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://steadyapi.com/pages/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing