upAPI pricing: Instagram post API
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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe haven't run upAPI through our Instagram post API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 271 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.178 per 1,000 posts or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 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.FetchLayer, Captapi and ScrapeCreators are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of upAPI's 4 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $29 monthlyStarter$0.132 per 1,000
- $99 monthlyPro$0.09 per 1,000
- $499 monthlyScale$0.045 per 1,000
Call:
POST / upAPI's only call for this APIAPI: Instagram post API one of upAPI's 20 APIs
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POST /instagram-get-user-by-id.post - Instagram profile API
POST /instagram-get-user-profile.post
About this item
- Live. You get the posts from Instagram when you call the API.
- 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Media, Engagement, Author.
- Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for about 66 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. The quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month.
- One call. You send
userIdtoPOST /. You can also sendinstagram-get-user-posts.post count,maxId,proxyUrlandsessionCookies. The call returns the account's posts. - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
upAPI: Instagram post API alternatives
upAPI alternatives: other Instagram post API providers by price
The table starts with upAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 posts closest to upAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| upAPI, $499 monthly | FetchLayer, $500 monthly | herascrape, top-up from $5, Prepaid balance, from $5, GET /users/{user_id}/posts | Scrape Everything, $119 pack, Growth, POST /v1/instagram/reels | ScrapingIsNotACrime, $25 pack, Growth, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 posts | $0.045 | $0.042 | $0.044 | $0.048 | $0.05 |
| Completeness | 50% | 83% | 67% | 83% | 50% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | pay first | pay first | pay first |
| Pay | $499 | $500 | $5 | $119 | $25 |
| Enough for | about 333,333 pages a month | 1,000,000 pages a month | as many as you pay for | 50,000 pages | 10,000 pages |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher) | anyone aged 18 or over and able to contract | anyone 18 or over who can enter a binding contract | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.
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, not in the answer
- Author
- Audience, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 posts | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 33 |
| Billing | free |
| Repeat free | 10 minutes |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 112 other calls |
| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Get a user's recent posts with engagement metrics. Rate-limited — use proxy rotation for bulk. No auth needed. |
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| Freshness | live |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | "You agree not to use the Services to: break the law, infringe anyone's rights, or help someone else do so, transmit malware, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services or any upstream provider without authorization, exceed, evade, or interfere with rate limits, plan quotas, or other technical or usage restrictions, including by sharing or rotating keys to do so, resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services or your API access except as we expressly allow, place an unreasonable load on, disrupt, or degrade our infrastructure or that of any upstream provider, violate the terms, policies, or rate limits of any upstream API you reach through the gateway, send data you have no lawful right to send, or route sensitive data through an endpoint not intended for it, or misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person or organization." "[...] your use of it is also subject to that provider's own terms and policies, which we do not control." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 1,000 credits a month |
| Enough for | about 66 pages a month |
| Expires | the quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month |
| Per second | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | userId. Optional: count, maxId, proxyUrl, sessionCookies |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /instagram-get-user-posts.post |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold
post ID, caption, post URL, taken at, like count, media type, shortcode, comment count, user ID, success, fetched at, next cursor, has more