Viral Outliers pricing: Instagram post API
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83% complete: 5 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.40per 1,000 postsWe haven't run Viral Outliers through our Instagram post API benchmark yet.Half of the 285 plans we rank by price cost $0.178 per 1,000 posts or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 posts than 39% of the 285 plans.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.ShortsIntel's $10 pack (/
Plan: Starter: 1,500 credits one of Viral Outliers's 9 plans
- $15 packStarter: 1,500 credits$0.40 per 1,000
- $39 packGrowth: 4,200 credits$0.371 per 1,000
- $99 packScale: 12,000 credits$0.33 per 1,000
- $17 monthlyBasic Plan$2.72 per 1,000
- $37 monthlyPro Plan$1.973 per 1,000
- $149 monthlyAgency Plan$1.987 per 1,000
- $170 yearlyBasic Plan$2.267 per 1,000
- $370 yearlyPro Plan$1.644 per 1,000
- $1,490 yearlyAgency Plan$1.656 per 1,000
Call:
POST / Viral Outliers's only call for this APIAPI: Instagram post API one of Viral Outliers's 7 APIs
- Instagram post API
- TikTok video API
- Video search API
- YouTube channel video API
- Instagram profile API
GET /api/ v1/ profiles/ {profileId} - Instagram profile API
POST /api/ v1/ search/ profiles - TikTok profile API
GET /api/ v1/ profiles/ {profileId} - TikTok profile API
POST /api/ v1/ search/ profiles - YouTube channel API
GET /api/ v1/ profiles/ {profileId} - YouTube channel API
POST /api/ v1/ search/ profiles
About this item
- Stored. You get posts from Viral Outliers's copy of Instagram. Viral Outliers doesn't say how old the copy is.
- 5 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
- A pack you buy once. You pay $15 for 1,500 credits, enough for 37,500 results. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 24 months.
- One call. You call
POST /. Every input is optional.api/ v1/ search/ content - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Viral Outliers: Instagram post API alternatives
Viral Outliers alternatives: other Instagram post API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 posts. Each plan in the table gives stored data.
| This planViral Outliers, $15 pack | influData, free | instapi.co, top-up from $1 | Fanpage Karma, $3,750 monthly | Influship, pay as you go, Usage-based credits, GET /v1/posts | |
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| $ per 1,000 posts | $0.40 | $0.00 | $0.333 | $0.375 | $0.50 |
| Completeness | 83% | 83% | 33% | 50% | 67% |
| Billing | pay first | free | pay first | monthly | pay as you go |
| Pay | $15 | $0 | $1 | $3,750 | at a threshold |
| Enough for | 37,500 results | 250 results | 100 pages | 10,000 pages a month | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | stored | stored | stored | stored | stored |
| Who can get it | anyone: pay once at checkout and the key is shown after payment, with no signup form | anyone with a work email, one trial per inbox | anyone | Professional plan subscribers ("The Data API is available starting from the Fanpage Karma Professional plan"), "Contact our Service Team to activate the Enterprise Data API" | anyone at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in their jurisdiction |
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.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Text
- Media
- Engagement
- Analytics
- Author
- Audience, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 posts | $0.40 |
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| Per | result |
| Billing | pay first |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Search Social Media Profiles · Get Post Details · Get Profile Stats · Transcribe a Post · Analyze a Post Visually · Crawl a New Profile · Compare Profiles Head-to-Head · What's Trending in a Niche · Resolve a Post URL · Download Post Media · Get Post Comments · Remix a Post to Your Niche · Find Related Social Media Profiles |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $10.00 |
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| Their pitch | Search a continuously-crawled database of TikTok, Instagram and YouTube posts ranked by outlier score, a measure of how far a post overperforms the account's own baseline, not just how big its raw view count is. |
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| Freshness | stored |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | When using the API or connectors you must not: Resell, sublicense, or redistribute raw data access obtained through the API without our prior written agreement, Use the API or connectors to violate the Terms of Service of any Third-Party Platform or any applicable law, or Attempt to bypass, circumvent, or interfere with rate limits, credit accounting, or any other technical restriction we put in place. |
| Pay | $15 |
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| You get | 1,500 credits |
| Enough for | 37,500 results |
| Expires | 24 months |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | nothing required. Optional: query, platforms, handle, watchlistId, categoryId, contentTypes, minOutlierScore, maxOutlierScore, minViews, maxViews, minFollowers, maxFollowers, minEngagementRate, maxEngagementRate, timeFrame, sortBy, page, pageSize |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /api/v1/search/content |
| Plan | Starter: 1,500 credits |
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| Who can get it | anyone: pay once at checkout and the key is shown after payment, with no signup form |
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold
result ID, platform, title, view count, like count, comment count, engagement rate, post type, thumbnail, username, outlier multiplier