RedditAPI is a pay-per-call Reddit API for reading and writing Reddit data: reads cost $0.002 per call, votes $0.005, writes like comments and profile updates $0.012, and DMs $0.025. There are no subscriptions, no monthly minimums, and no app-review process to clear first. Credits never expire, the smallest top-up is $10, and every new account starts with $0.50 in free credits, no card required.
API
Monitoring
Four transparent tiers across 59 endpoints. Reads $0.002, votes $0.005, writes $0.012, DMs $0.025. Credits never expire. $10 lasts up to 5,000 reads.
Buy credits
Top up once. Credits never expire and there is no subscription.
Pay with
25,000 reads at $0.002
Pay with crypto for +2% credits, 25,500 reads
Card or crypto. New accounts start with $0.50 in free credits.
No card. Test every endpoint end-to-end before you spend a cent.
Top up once, drain it across years of usage. No monthly burn.
$2 per 1,000 reads. Forecast monthly spend in seconds.
Monitoring
Flat monthly price for the number of monitors you run, whether each one watches a subreddit or a keyword across all of Reddit. No per-match charges and no API credits used, so the bill never moves with how much you match. Each monitor sends up to 10,000 alerts a day on Starter, 100,000 on Scale.
Free on every account, no card: 1 keyword watched across all of Reddit, new posts, about every 60 seconds, delivered to your webhook, Slack or Discord, up to 10,000 alerts a day.
Naming a subreddit, comment matches, 30 second checks and more than one watch are on the plans below.
Every plan includes
Starter
For solo founders
$19/mo
The usual starting point
Growth
For serious tracking
$49/mo
The sweet spot for most
Pro
For teams
$99/mo
Room to grow
Scale
For platforms
$199/mo
Maximum coverage
Detection times are typical, not guaranteed. Reddit has no push stream, so alerts are poll-based. Comment monitoring is available on Growth and above. A comment monitor has to name at least one subreddit; all-of-Reddit watches cover posts.
The daily alert count is per monitor and resets at midnight UTC. A monitor that reaches it stops sending for the rest of that day. Nothing is lost: further matches are still recorded and shown in the monitor's health view, so you can see exactly what was held back. For scale, the busiest monitor we have ever run peaked at 2,091 alerts in a day.
Price comparison
The tools people switch from, priced beside us. Every competitor figure was read from that vendor's own live pricing page on 2026-08-13, monthly-billed on every row so the rows are like for like. Two of them are cheaper than us on at least one axis, and those rows say so.
Redditapis
$19/mo
Starter, our entry plan. Growth $49, Pro $99, Scale $199.
F5Bot
$0/mo
Five tiers: Free, Silver $9.99, Gold $49.99, Platinum $214.99, Diamond from $500.
Syften
$29.95/mo
Entry, then Standard at $49.95 and PRO at $119.95.
Octolens
$199/mo
Pro billed monthly. Scale is $599 billed monthly.
RedditAlert
$19/mo
Personal. Free tier, then Professional $49 and Small Team $129.
Prices read from f5bot.com/tiers, syften.com/pricing, octolens.com/pricing and redditalert.com/pricing on 2026-08-13, monthly-billed on every row. F5Bot's figures come from its tier matrix rather than its homepage cards, because the cards omit the free tier's keyword limit and list API access as a general feature when the matrix puts it on Platinum. Octolens leads with its annual-billed rates of $159 and $499; its monthly rates are $199 and $599. Syften meters a results-per-day cap inside its Communities pool, which Reddit shares with Hacker News, GitHub and podcasts, and its webhooks are PRO only. F5Bot watches all of Reddit by default and meters keywords, so an extra sitewide term costs nothing there. KWatch.io is cheaper still at $19 a month, and says on its own pricing page that it does not monitor comments. We charge by the watch and never by the keyword, so a keyword count moves the other columns and not ours.
The Reddit API costs $0.002 per call on Redditapis, billed flat per request with no subscription and no minimum spend: reads $0.002, votes $0.005, writes $0.012, and DMs $0.025, plus $0.50 in free credits at signup and no app-approval review. Reddit's own Data API is free only up to 100 queries per minute for non-commercial use; commercial access is sold by negotiated agreement at a reported $0.24 per 1,000 calls, with a roughly 2 to 4 week approval. Third-party scrapers typically run $3 to $5 per 1,000 reads and read-only.
Is the Reddit API free? Reddit offers a capped free tier for low-volume, non-commercial use. Redditapis is pay-per-call, and every new account starts with $0.50 in free credits (no card), which covers up to 250 reads before you spend anything.
Every endpoint, every price
| Method | Endpoint | Per call | Per 1K | Per 10K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Posts & Comments9 | ||||
| GET | /api/reddit/post/:id/visibility | $0.004 | $4.00 | $40 |
| GET | /api/reddit/post/:id | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/comments | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/sub/:name/comments | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/by_id/:fullnames | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/comment/:id | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/post/:id/comments | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/comments/:postId | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| POST | /api/reddit/comments/verify | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
Listings & Search11 | ||||
| GET | /api/reddit/posts | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/feed | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/search | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/sub/:name/top | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/sub/:name/about | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/sub/:name/rules | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/sub/:name/moderators | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/sub/:name/wiki/:page | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/subreddits/popular | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/subreddits/new | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/subreddits/default | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
Users8 | ||||
| GET | /api/reddit/user/:name | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/user/:name/comments | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/user/:name/submitted | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/user/:name/upvoted | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/user/:name/saved | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/user/:name/hidden | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/user/:name/gilded | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/user/:name/achievements | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
Search by Type5 | ||||
| GET | /api/reddit/search/communities | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/search/comments | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/search/media | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/search/users | $0.002 | $2.00 | $20 |
| GET | /api/reddit/search/comments/deep | $0.020 | $20.00 | $200 |
Auth1 | ||||
| POST | /api/reddit/login | $0.012 | $12.00 | $120 |
Write Actions4 | ||||
| POST | /api/reddit/submit | $0.012 | $12.00 | $120 |
| POST | /api/reddit/comment | $0.012 | $12.00 | $120 |
| POST | /api/reddit/v2/comment | $0.012 | $12.00 | $120 |
| POST | /api/reddit/vote | $0.005 | $5.00 | $50 |
DMs3 | ||||
| POST | /api/reddit/dm | $0.025 | $25.00 | $250 |
| POST | /api/reddit/dm/threads | $0.025 | $25.00 | $250 |
| POST | /api/reddit/dm/messages | $0.025 | $25.00 | $250 |
Profile3 | ||||
| POST | /api/reddit/profile/description | $0.012 | $12.00 | $120 |
| POST | /api/reddit/profile/display-name | $0.012 | $12.00 | $120 |
| POST | /api/reddit/profile/avatar | $0.012 | $12.00 | $120 |
By the numbers
Every Redditapis figure resolves to our published per-call rates (held equal to the billing cost table); every external figure is a primary US source.
Redditapis bills reads at $0.002 per call, votes at $0.005, writes at $0.012, and DMs at $0.025, one flat rate for every account with no minimum spend. (Redditapis pricing, 2026)
Every new account starts with $0.50 in free credits and no card on file, enough for roughly 250 reads before any charge. (Redditapis, 2026)
Redditapis exposes 59 endpoints across reads, votes, writes, and DMs, with no developer-app review to clear before the first call. (Redditapis API, 2026)
Reddit's own commercial Data API is priced at $0.24 per 1,000 API calls, the rate that ended third-party apps like Apollo in 2023. (The Verge, 2023)
Reddit's free Data API tier is capped at 100 queries per minute per OAuth client, and 10 queries per minute without OAuth. (Reddit Data API Wiki, 2026)
Reddit signed a reported $60 million-a-year deal to license its data for AI training, a sign of how valuable structured Reddit data has become. (Reuters, 2024)
What drives the cost
Reddit API cost comes down to two billing models. The official Reddit Data API is subscription-style: the free tier is rate-limited and gated to non-commercial use, and anything past that runs through a commercial agreement priced at a reported $0.24 per 1,000 calls, after an app-review and approval step. Redditapis is pay-per-call: you pay only for the requests you make, with no monthly fee, no minimum spend, and no approval to clear.
The per-call rate tracks how expensive each request is to serve. Reads are $0.002 because they hit cached, high-volume data. Writes cost more ($0.005 votes, $0.012 comments and profile edits, $0.025 DMs) because they need authenticated sessions, captcha solving, and residential proxies. Credits never expire, so a $10 top-up can stretch across years of low-volume usage. At $0.002 a read with no minimum, this is also the cheapest Reddit API for high-volume reads.
Is the Reddit API free? Reddit's own API has a free tier, but it is capped at roughly 100 queries per minute and is not licensed for commercial workloads without approval. Redditapis is not a flat-free service; it is pay-per-call with $0.50 in free credits at signup so you can test every endpoint before paying. To put real numbers against your own volume, run the Reddit API cost calculator, or see how the per-call math compares against other providers on the Reddit API alternatives page. For what teams actually build on it, see the common Reddit API use cases.
Same workload, different bills.
| Provider | Per call | Per 1K calls | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
RedditapisBest | $0.002 to $0.025 | $2 to $25 | Reads $0.002 · votes $0.005 · writes $0.012 · DMs $0.025 |
Reddit Official (Commercial) | $0.00024 | $0.24, by agreement | Per Reddit 2023 pricing · App review · Tier caps |
Tikhub.io | Volume tiered | ≈ $5 | Read-only · Credits expire |
Apify Reddit Scraper | $45/mo + usage | ≈ $4.00 | Read-only · Monthly plan + usage billing |
Side-by-side feature, code-example, and cost-at-scale comparisons against every Reddit API alternative.
Redditapis uses pay-per-call pricing across four tiers: $0.002 for GET reads, $0.005 for votes, $0.012 for writes like comments and profile updates, and $0.025 for DMs. No subscriptions, no minimum spend, 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 $2 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 $0.002 per read that covers up to 250 calls, enough to test every endpoint before you spend anything.
No. Redditapis is pure pay-per-call. Top up credits when you want, the smallest pack is $10, and credits never expire, so a single top-up can last across years of low-volume usage. No monthly fees, no auto-renewal, no minimum monthly spend, and no platform-level rate-limit caps to plan around.
Write endpoints cost more to serve than reads because they need authenticated sessions, captcha solving, and residential proxies. Votes are $0.005, comments and profile writes are $0.012, and DMs are $0.025. Reads stay at $0.002 because that's where most high-volume data workloads sit.
Yes. Every new account gets $0.50 in free credits at signup with no credit card and no trial clock. At $0.002 per read that is up to 250 calls you can spend whenever you want. There is no separate paid plan to unlock; the same per-call pricing applies once the free credits run out.
Per call. There is no monthly subscription and no auto-renewal. You top up a credit balance ($10 minimum), each request draws down the per-call rate for that endpoint, and credits never expire. That makes your bill a direct function of usage rather than a fixed seat or platform fee.
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.
For most read workloads, flat per-call pricing is the cheapest path: Redditapis reads are $0.002 each, or $2 per 1,000 calls, with no minimum spend 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.
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