# Stophy, free: Instagram post API

> An Instagram profile page, like instagram.com/natgeo. Its reels tab, like instagram.com/natgeo/reels, or options view reels on the profile page, returns the reels.

Stophy's Free plan for the Instagram post API costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. Stophy's docs list 5 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We haven't run Stophy through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 285 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.178 per 1,000 posts or less. [See how many Instagram post API plans are free.](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.
[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), [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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/stophy/free
- [Instagram post API: the 10 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://stophy.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.stophy.dev/v1/scrape`
- API key: with the plan, on https://stophy.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.stophy.dev/sources/social?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing#instagram-profile
- Sold by: Stophy (https://stophy.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 110 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: An Instagram profile page, like instagram.com/natgeo. Its reels tab, like instagram.com/natgeo/reels, or options view reels on the profile page, returns the reels.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use Stophy to violate any law or regulation, infringe the rights of any third party, transmit malicious code, abuse or overload our infrastructure, or use the service in any way that creates legal liability for Stophy or other users. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use of Stophy and its outputs complies with applicable laws and any applicable third-party terms in your jurisdiction.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 credits
- Enough for: 5,000 pages, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url, formats[].type "json", formats[].parser "instagram-profile", formats[].options.view "reels". Optional: formats[].options.cursor, maxAge, timeout, location, proxy, storeInCache
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up, no card

## The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post URL, post code, post type, title, text, created at, like count, comment count, share count, view count, media, thumbnail, hashtags, mentions, is pinned, tagged users, coauthors, paid partnership, sponsors, author ID, author name, author username, author URL, author picture, author verified, next cursor, credits used

## Stophy's plans (6)

- [Stophy, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/stophy/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Stophy, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/stophy/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Stophy, top-up from $100](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/stophy/top-up-from-100/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Stophy, top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/stophy/top-up-from-500/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Stophy, top-up from $2,000](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/stophy/top-up-from-2000/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Stophy, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/stophy/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete

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

- `POST /v1/scrape`: [Stophy, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/stophy/free/llms.txt)

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## Stophy: Instagram post API alternatives

- [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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 2026-11-07.

- https://api.stophy.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://api.stophy.dev/v1/parsers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.stophy.dev/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
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- https://docs.stophy.dev/guides/parsers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.stophy.dev/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
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