Instagram hashtag posts, billed only for the rows you actually get

What "delivered" means, exactly

A post is billable only once it has been written to your dataset. Everything that does not reach it is free, and the run still tells you it happened:

• A run that returns nothing costs nothing.
• Duplicate posts are dropped and not charged — deduplicated across the whole run, not just within a page.
• Posts outside the date window you asked for are not charged.
• Posts past your result limit are not charged. The limit is exact, whatever a feed page happens to contain.
• A post the actor could not read is not charged.
• A run that cannot reach Instagram at all charges nothing, and fails rather than reporting success.

Apify meters and bills this, and the platform usage the run consumes — compute and storage — is included in that price. There is no separate platform charge added to your bill.

A date filter that stops the run

onlyPostsNewerThan takes a date, a datetime, or a relative window like 7 days. It is not a post-filter over everything the actor already fetched — the run stops when the feed reaches that date, so a week of a hashtag costs a week of rows.

Every run says why it stopped

The status message names one of these, so you can act on it without reading the log:

• the result limit was reached
• the date cutoff was reached — everything newer has been delivered
• Instagram has no more posts for the hashtag
• the page budget was reached — raise maxPages to go further
• Instagram refused the session — supply a fresh cookie