# StoriesFly, free: Instagram post API

> An account's posts and reels, newest first, a page at a time: caption, media, time and the like, comment and view counts.

StoriesFly's Free plan for the Instagram post API costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. StoriesFly's docs list 4: Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We haven't run StoriesFly through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 297 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/storiesfly/free
- [Instagram post API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://storiesfly.com/developers/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://storiesfly.com/api/v1/user/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://storiesfly.com/developers/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://storiesfly.com/developers/docs/user-posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: StoriesFly (https://storiesfly.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page of 9
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 45 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: An account's posts and reels, newest first, a page at a time: caption, media, time and the like, comment and view counts.

## Data

- Freshness: 15 minutes
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You must not use the Service to: stalk, harass, threaten, intimidate or blackmail anyone, or monitor a person in a way the law does not allow, collect or share information about children, publish, sell or commercially use content or lists you got through the Service without the rights to do so, build spam, marketing or contact lists from people’s data, impersonate anyone or engage in fraud or any other illegal activity, scrape the Service, bypass its limits, resell it, or copy, modify or reverse-engineer it.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests
- Enough for: 100 pages

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of username or id. Optional: cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /user/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a Telegram account, 18 or older ("You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live")

## The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, post ID, post code, post URL, owner ID, owner username, taken at, caption, media type, pinned, thumbnail, media, image, video URL, width, height, video duration, like count, comment count, share count, reshare count, view count, save count, like and view counts disabled, next cursor, has more

## StoriesFly's plans (3)

- [StoriesFly, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/storiesfly/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 15 minutes
- [StoriesFly, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/storiesfly/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 67% complete, 15 minutes
- [StoriesFly, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/storiesfly/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete, 15 minutes

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

- `GET /user/posts`: [StoriesFly, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/storiesfly/free/llms.txt)

## StoriesFly's APIs (4)

- [StoriesFly: Instagram post API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/storiesfly/free/llms.txt)
- [StoriesFly: TikTok profile API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/storiesfly/free/llms.txt)
- [StoriesFly: TikTok video API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/storiesfly/free/llms.txt)
- [StoriesFly: Instagram profile API pricing, 3 plans, GET /user/about](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/storiesfly/free-get-user-about/llms.txt)
- [StoriesFly: Instagram profile API pricing, 3 plans, GET /user/profile](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/storiesfly/free-get-user-profile/llms.txt)

## StoriesFly: Instagram post API alternatives

- [FetchLayer, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/top-up/llms.txt): $0.166 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [DataXAPI, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/dataxapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Qovia, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/qovia/top-up/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Anysite, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/anysite/200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://storiesfly.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://storiesfly.com/developers/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://storiesfly.com/developers/docs/user-posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://storiesfly.com/developers/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://storiesfly.com/developers/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://storiesfly.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://storiesfly.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing