Redditapis is built and run by a small independent developer team. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Reddit Inc. We run a third-party REST API that gives developers programmatic access to Reddit data and actions on a pay-per-call basis.
About Redditapis
We build one thing: a Reddit REST API that works on the first call. This page covers who runs it, what we operate, and the rules we hold ourselves to.
What is Redditapis and who runs it?
Redditapis is an independent, pay-per-call REST API for Reddit data, write actions, and direct messages, built and run by a small developer team. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Reddit Inc. The service publishes 28 endpoints with one bearer token and no developer-app review, prices every call up front rather than by subscription, and runs the proxy rotation and retry layer so that callers get clean JSON instead of blocked requests.
Why this exists
Reddit is one of the few places where people say what they actually think about a product, and it is one of the hardest places to read programmatically. The official Data API gates commercial use behind an application review, the free tier is capped tightly enough that a single monitoring job can exhaust it, and the unofficial paths that developers used for years have been closing one by one.
The work that follows is always the same: rotate addresses, handle the blocks, retry the failures, keep a session alive, and rebuild it every time something upstream changes. It is a lot of infrastructure to maintain for what is, from the application side, one HTTP call.
So we run that layer once and expose it as a normal REST API. You send a bearer token, you get JSON, and you pay for the calls you make. That is the entire product, and we would rather it stay that small.
What we operate
Each of these has a page behind it, so you can check the claim rather than take it.
A REST API with 28 endpoints
Listings, posts and comment trees, typed search, user lookups, write actions, direct messages, and account billing. The published OpenAPI document is the machine-readable version of the same surface.
See the endpoint mapPay-per-call pricing with no subscription
Reads are $0.002, votes $0.005, writes $0.012, and direct messages $0.025. There is no seat cost and no minimum spend, so an idle integration costs nothing.
See the rate cardThe anti-block layer
Proxy rotation, retries, and backoff run on our infrastructure. That is the part most teams do not want to own, and it is the reason the API returns clean JSON instead of a 403.
How the scraper worksGuides written by people who use it
The tutorials on this site are written against the same endpoints customers call, which is why the code samples run rather than approximate.
Read the guidesHow we work
Four rules we apply to ourselves. Each one is enforced by something published rather than by intention.
Publish the price, then bill it
One rate card, applied per call. The unit is the call rather than the row, so a read that returns 100 items costs the same as one that returns three, and a request that matches no route is not billed at all.
Say what the API does not do
The published MCP server is read-only. Deep comment search costs ten times a normal read because one call fans out into many. We would rather write that down than have you discover it on an invoice.
Draw a line on acceptable use
Write and direct-message access can be abused, so it comes with rules. The acceptable use policy and the responsible builder policy are the two documents that say where the line is.
Answer as developers, not as a ticket queue
Support runs through a Telegram channel and a mailbox that a person reads. If something is broken, the reply comes from someone who can look at the route.
Independence and trademarks
Redditapis is an independent service. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Reddit Inc. Reddit is a trademark of Reddit Inc., used here only to describe what the API connects to. Your use of data retrieved through this API remains subject to Reddit's own terms and to our acceptable use policy and responsible builder policy.
Who writes the guides
Emma is the developer advocate behind the tutorials and reference guides on this site, and the person on the other end of the support channels. Every code sample is written against the live endpoints. Read more about Emma or find her on the community page.
Frequently asked questions
No. Reddit and the Reddit logo are trademarks of Reddit Inc., and this is an independent service. We do not represent Reddit, and using this API does not grant any rights from Reddit. Where Reddit's own terms apply to what you do with the data, they still apply.
Reddit's own Data API gates commercial access behind an application review and a commercial tier, and the free tier is capped at 100 queries per minute per OAuth client. Teams that need reliable programmatic access without that process use a managed layer instead, which is what we run.
Write and direct-message endpoints are covered by an acceptable use policy and a responsible builder policy, and accounts that breach them lose access. We publish both documents rather than leaving the boundary implicit, because the write surface is the part that carries real risk for the communities involved.
Email emma@redditapis.com or join the Telegram channel linked from the community page. Both are read by the people who build the API, so a question about a specific route reaches someone who can look at that route.
Emma is the developer advocate who writes the Reddit API tutorials and reference guides published here. Every code sample is written against the live endpoints rather than adapted from another provider's documentation.
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