Instagram API
free to call, four to eight weeks to reach
the canonical free-but-gated api — generous once you are in, and the app review plus business verification gauntlet is the biggest single barrier in this whole ranking.
there are two current apis: one where the user authenticates with instagram directly and no facebook page is involved, and one requiring the account linked to a page. both need an instagram business or creator account — personal accounts have no api access at all.
the basic display api was shut down at the end of 2024, which permanently killed personal-account access and a whole generation of feed-embed widgets. anything you read referencing it is dead information.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- social media api providers
- pricing
- free
- website
- developers.facebook.com
the canonical free-but-gated api — generous once you are in, and the app review plus business verification gauntlet is the biggest single barrier in this whole ranking.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.