How do I see which of an account's Instagram posts did best with AI?
Connect SocialToAI to your AI client over MCP, then ask in plain words. In this recorded run an AI client answered “Which of National Geographic's Instagram posts did best this week?” with 1 request on Instagram: 21 items read in 34.8 seconds for 12 credits ($0.04). Below are the calls it made, the answer with its sources, and the prompt and API calls to run it yourself. Recorded 2026-10-18.
The question
Which of National Geographic's Instagram posts did best this week?
Instagram shows a grid without the numbers side by side, and a big account's usual likes are large, so a good post only stands out against that usual. Reading what this run returned by hand takes about 6 minutes (1,455 words at 240 a minute).
What the AI did
It chose the tools itself: 1 request on Instagram. Each row is one tool call as the client showed it, with what it sent, how much came back and what it cost.
| Platform | Tool | Sent | Requests | Returned | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
account_watch | accounts: ["https://www.instagram.com/natgeo/"] · window: "7d" · scale: "small" | 1 | 21 posts | 12 | |
| Total | 1 | 21 items | 12 | ||
The answer
What the client answered, from what it had read. The line under each finding is a post it read, or a figure from those posts.
19 posts in the window; the account's usual is 46,077 interactions a post. What stands out:
- Posts that took off (2× the usual or more)21%“Timing is everything in wildlife photography, and this year's Wildlife Photographer of the”4 posts
- News60%3 of the 5 posts analysed3 posts
- Story20%1 of the 5 posts analysed1 post
The posts it rests on
A selection of what was read; the marked words are what a finding rests on. An item without a link says so.
- Instagram · post3dFinding 1
Timing is everything in wildlife photography, and this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition shows just how much patience and
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What it cost
1 request, 12 credits in total: $0.04 at the $10 rate. Every answer of the API states the credits it charged and the balance left, so your AI can tell you what a question cost. A call that fails costs nothing.
| Pack | Credits per dollar | This answer |
|---|---|---|
| $10 = 3,000 credits | 300 | $0.04 |
| $50 = 20,000 credits | 400 | $0.03 |
| $200 = 100,000 credits | 500 | $0.024 |
Ask it yourself
Connect SocialToAI to your AI client once (the steps for each client), then paste the question. You do not name tools or parameters: the client picks them.
Which of National Geographic's Instagram posts did best this week?The same in code: the calls this run made, as requests to the API.
curl https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/tools/account_watch \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALTOAI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "accounts": ["https://www.instagram.com/natgeo/"], "window": "7d", "scale": "small" }'What to try next
- Ask next: “Why did the top post take off?”
- Ask next: “Watch two more accounts”
- Ask what the posts that took off have in common.
- Watch a competitor's account the same way.
- Run it as one request with the ready-made tool Account watch: What a set of accounts published lately and which posts did clearly better than each account's usual.
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