Reddit API pricing. Read, write, all of it.

Redditapis uses pay-per-call pricing across four tiers: $0.0015 for GET reads, $0.005 for votes, $0.012 for writes like comments and profile updates, and $0.025 for DMs. No subscription required for API calls, no monthly minimum (top-ups start at $10), no platform-tier caps. New accounts get $0.50 in free credits at signup.

The official Reddit Data API is sold by negotiated agreement at a reported $0.24 per 1,000 calls, after an app review. Redditapis starts at $1.50 per 1,000 reads with no contract and no app-review queue, so you skip the negotiation and start the same day. It also covers write and DM endpoints that Reddit's official tier does not expose.

Partly. Reddit's own free tier is capped at about 100 queries per minute and gates commercial use behind app approval. Redditapis gives every new account $0.50 in free credits at signup, no credit card. At $0.0015 per read that covers up to 333 calls, enough to test every endpoint before you spend anything.

Only if you choose one. Pay-as-you-go API calls need no subscription: top up credits when you want, the smallest pack is $10, and credits never expire. Monthly read plans are optional and cover reads only; votes, writes and DMs always bill per call from your credits, with no minimum monthly spend. Hosted monitoring plans are billed monthly or annually and renew until you cancel.

Write endpoints cost more to serve than reads because a write has to land on Reddit and be confirmed, which takes more work per call. Votes are $0.005, comments and profile writes are $0.012, and DMs are $0.025. Reads stay at $0.0015 because that's where most high-volume data workloads sit.

Yes. Every account gets 1,000 free reads every calendar month, and every new account also gets $0.50 in free credits at signup with no credit card and no trial clock. At $0.0015 per read the credits cover up to 333 more calls. Monthly read plans are optional; without one, the same per-call pricing applies once the free reads and credits run out.

Either, for the API. Pay per call from a credit balance ($10 minimum top-up), where each request draws down the per-call rate for that endpoint and credits never expire, or subscribe to a monthly read plan that covers a set number of reads. Votes, writes and DMs always bill per call. Hosted monitoring plans are billed monthly or annually and renew until you cancel.

No. Reddit's official Data API gates commercial and higher-volume use behind an app-review and approval process. Redditapis needs no Reddit app registration, no OAuth client approval, and no use-case review. You sign up, grab an API key, and call read, write, and DM endpoints the same day.

Redditapis puts no extra rate cap on top of your plan's reads: how much you pull is set by your plan or your credit balance, and how fast by a per-key pace, a burst of about 20 calls, then a steady pace of about 10 reads a second. A call over the pace gets a short wait instead of an error; only a call that would wait more than 10 seconds gets a 429 with a Retry-After header, and that 429 is not billed. Every read carries X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset headers, so a client can pace itself before it ever waits, and all keys share a fair queue in which the lightest caller goes first. The other limits are these. Deep comment search runs at most two searches at once per account; a further search waits briefly for a free slot, and if none frees up it gets a 429 with a Retry-After header and is not billed. The account, feedback and monitoring management endpoints carry their own per-minute limits. Reddit's own Data API is the opposite: free access is limited to 100 queries per minute per OAuth client, averaged over a 10-minute window, and commercial use needs a separate agreement with Reddit. For a backfill of standard reads, plan for the per-key pace, fund it with your balance, and you pay only for the calls you make.

User endpoints are read-priced like every other GET, at $0.0015 per call, or $1.50 per 1,000. That covers the profile itself plus a user's submitted posts, comments, and the other Users-category routes in the price list above. There is no separate profile tier and no per-seat charge, so enriching 50,000 accounts is 50,000 reads, billed at the same flat rate as any other read.

For most read workloads, flat per-call pricing is the cheapest path: Redditapis reads are $0.0015 each, or $1.50 per 1,000 calls, with no monthly minimum (top-ups start at $10) and no annual contract. Run your own numbers on the cost calculator, or see how it stacks up on the alternatives page before you commit.

Every billed endpoint is listed with its per-call rate in the full price list on this page, grouped by category, so you can look up a single route before you build against it. Reads are $0.0015, votes $0.005, writes such as comments and profile edits $0.012, and DMs $0.025, with two reads priced above the read rate: post visibility at $0.004 and deep comment search at $0.02, both shown in the list. To turn those rates into a monthly figure for your own volume, use the Reddit API cost calculator.

Third-party Reddit data providers mostly sell one of a few billing shapes: per-call pricing, volume-tiered credits, or a monthly plan plus usage. Of the two third-party options in the comparison table above, one bills $0.001 to $0.01 per request depending on the endpoint, with daily volume discounts, and the other is a pay-per-result scraper on a marketplace plan, at $0.10 per 1,000 results plus platform usage. Redditapis is per-call across reads, votes, writes and DMs, and its credits never expire.

Not for a first call. Reddit closed new Data API requests on 31 October 2026 and says unregistered apps start losing access on 12 January 2027. Redditapis needs no Reddit API key or app approval, so neither date stands between you and a first call. Reddit has not said how its March 2027 close treats every route to public content, so we promise nothing past that date. How Redditapis accesses Reddit data covers what we are and are not, the October 31 explainer and the Reddit Data API access guide carry the dates, and the Developer Platform guide covers moving an app.