PullPush is a free, volunteer-run Pushshift clone. It rate-limits under load and takes itself offline for reindexing. Redditapis is the replacement that stays up: REST historical and live search of posts, comments, and users, billed per call.
Written by Emma, developer relations at Redditapis. We bill historical and live search at a flat $0.002 per read (source: our published pricing), with none of the throttling or maintenance blackouts the free mirror hits under load.
What is the best PullPush alternative in 2026?
The best PullPush alternative in 2026 is a maintained REST Reddit data API like Redditapis. PullPush is a free, volunteer-run Pushshift clone: it rate-limits under load, takes itself offline for reindexing, and carries no SLA or commercial license. Redditapis is actively run: it covers both historical and live search of posts, comments, and users over plain HTTPS, needs no Reddit developer-app approval, and bills a flat rate per call from $0.002 a read.
Why teams move off it
PullPush stepped in when Reddit cut off Pushshift, and it is a genuinely useful archive for a spot query. The trouble starts the moment a job has to run on a schedule, because everything that makes it free also makes it something you cannot plan around.
PullPush runs on community resources, so it takes itself offline for reindexing and hardware work, sometimes for weeks. Its own status notices have announced the API being unavailable until a future month while a full reindex runs. When it is down, there is no paid tier to fall back to.
A soft cap around 15 requests a minute and a hard cap around 30, with an hourly ceiling near 1,000. Fine for a spot query, but a backfill or any steady job hits the wall fast and starts returning timeouts and partial pages.
It is a volunteer project, not a vendor. There is no uptime commitment, no support queue, and no one to escalate to when a job that ran yesterday returns gaps today. You cannot plan a production dependency around it.
PullPush inherited the Pushshift archive after Reddit cut Pushshift off for violating its Data API terms. It is an anti-censorship archive, not a commercially licensed source, so building a paid product on it is a risk you carry yourself.
One maintained REST API that does the PullPush job and the live job, without the throttling wall or the approval gate.
Query past posts and comments by subreddit, author, keyword, and time window over a plain REST endpoint, the job people use PullPush for. Reddit caps any single feed at roughly 1,000 items, so this reaches back through what Reddit still serves rather than a full 2005 archive.
Search current posts, comments, communities, and users as they happen. One API covers both the historical job and the live job, which PullPush does not do.
No Reddit developer-app review, no OAuth dance, no 2-to-4-week wait. Sign up, get a bearer token, make your first call in minutes.
Pay per request from $0.002 a read. No annual contract, no monthly minimum, and no throttling wall in the middle of a backfill.
| Source | Coverage window | Rate limit / access | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| PullPush.io | 2005 to 2023 (inherited archive) plus ongoing collection | 15 req/min soft cap, 30 req/min hard cap, ≈1,000 req/hour ceiling; offline during reindex windows | Free, volunteer-run |
| Arctic Shift | December 2005 to the current month, monthly releases | ≈120,000 requests/hour sustained ceiling | Free, torrent + API |
| Academic dumps / torrents | Monthly snapshots, static | Bulk download only, no live query | Free |
| Official Reddit Data API | Live only, no historical backfill | 100 RPM base, scales to 1,000 RPM by payment tier | $0.24 per 1K calls, by negotiated agreement (commercial) |
| Redditapis | Historical and live search, one REST API | No platform-level rate caps, no maintenance blackouts | From $0.002 per call, no contract |
PullPush and Arctic Shift figures per their own published rate-limit and coverage docs; official Reddit Data API pricing per Reddit's 2023 commercial API pricing announcement. Community-run figures and availability can change without notice; validate current numbers and status before relying on them for production.
The honest version
If you are running a one-off query for research, poking at a handful of threads, or you have no budget and can absorb a timeout, PullPush is a good free tool and you should use it. Where it stops being the right call is anything that has to be there tomorrow: a scheduled backfill, a product feature that reads Reddit data on a user's behalf, or a paid offering built on top of it. The moment an outage or a throttle becomes your problem to explain to someone else, a maintained API with a bill attached is the cheaper choice.
How it works
If you were hitting a PullPush endpoint, the migration is a URL and a bearer token. Search historical comments by subreddit and keyword over plain HTTPS:
curl "https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/search/comments?subreddit=python&q=async&limit=100" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"The response is JSON over HTTPS, so it drops into any language. Endpoint paths and parameters live in the API docs. Run the numbers for your volume with the cost calculator, or see the full per-endpoint rates on the pricing page.
Weighing every Pushshift successor, not just PullPush? The maintained-vs-free breakdown of PullPush, Arctic Shift and the archive dumps lives on the Pushshift alternative page, and the full field of scrapers and APIs is on the alternatives page.
Compare the Pushshift successorsPullPush goes into maintenance on its own schedule because it runs on community hardware, and it has posted notices taking the API offline for weeks at a time for reindexing. Check pullpush.io for its current status. If your work cannot wait on a volunteer maintenance window, a maintained API is the safer dependency.
A maintained REST Reddit data API like Redditapis. Unlike PullPush it is actively run with flat per-call pricing, no throttling wall, and no maintenance blackouts, needs no Reddit app approval, and covers both historical and live search of posts, comments, and users over plain HTTPS.
For a hobby query, yes. For production, an unmaintained free mirror is a risk you cannot plan around: it rate-limits under load, takes itself offline for reindexing, and carries no SLA or support. If a job that ran yesterday returns gaps today, there is no one to escalate to.
PullPush is free and volunteer-run. It is an anti-censorship archive rather than a commercially licensed source, and it inherited the Pushshift data after Reddit cut Pushshift off for violating its terms. Building a paid product on it is a licensing risk you carry yourself.
No. There is no Reddit developer-app review, no OAuth client registration, and no approval wait. You create an account, get a bearer token, and call the REST endpoints directly. That removes the 2-to-4-week gate the official Reddit Data API puts in front of new projects.
Pricing is flat and per-call, from $0.002 per read, with no annual contract and no monthly minimum. Votes, writes, and DMs are priced separately. See the per-endpoint breakdown and quick monthly totals on the pricing page to estimate your spend.
The best PullPush alternative in 2026 is Redditapis, a maintained REST API for historical and live search of Reddit posts, comments, and users. Where PullPush is a free, volunteer-run mirror that rate-limits under load and goes offline for reindexing, Redditapis stays up and bills a flat $0.002 per read with no throttling wall.
By the numbers
Every Redditapis figure resolves to our published per-call rates; 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)
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)
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