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Instagram data API pricing compared (2026)
Seven providers, normalised to dollars per thousand results, with what each charges before your first call and what happens when a call returns nothing.
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Comparisons, pricing arithmetic, and notes on things that were harder than they should have been. Newest first.
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The cheapest social media data APIs, ranked
Ranked by real cost per thousand results rather than headline rate — which moves several providers a long way from where their pricing page puts them.
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Why a failed scrape should cost you nothing
Per-request and per-result billing diverge exactly where your data is hardest to get. Here is the arithmetic, and how to work out which one you are on.
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TikTok data API pricing compared (2026)
What TikTok data costs across seven providers, and why TikTok specifically punishes per-request billing harder than the other platforms.
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Instagram Graph API vs third-party APIs
Meta's API is free and covers almost nothing you probably want. Here is what it does cover, what the approval actually costs, and when to use each.
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How to get Instagram comments with an API
One POST, one poll, and a page of comments with the author and counts already pulled out. Plus the three things that make comment pulls go wrong.