Devs / AIGET/api/reddit/posts
Reddit dataset for AI training & RAG
Bulk-fetch threaded discussions for fine-tuning LLMs or feeding retrieval - like Pushshift, but live. Full thread trees, scores, user metadata, structured JSON.
Built by 4 kinds of teams
14 things builders ship with the Reddit API.
AI training, MCP agents, brand monitoring, lead gen, signal mining, DMs. From $0.002 per GET call, $0.50 free credits, no developer-account dance.
Written by Emma, developer relations at Redditapis. We price every GET at $0.002 per call (source: our published pricing), so scoring a million comments for sentiment runs about $2,000 in API spend with no monthly minimum.
Featured
The six most-built Reddit API integrations.
Everything below is shipping in real production stacks today.
Devs / AIPOST/api/reddit/v2/comment
Reddit MCP server & AI agents
Give Claude or GPT real read + comment + vote + DM ability on Reddit. One bearer token, no per-user OAuth, no app review.
MarketingGET/api/reddit/search
Reddit monitoring & social listening
Catch every mention of your product, competitors, and category across r/* in real time. Subreddit-restricted or global search, sort by relevance, time, or comments.
ResearchGET/api/reddit/posts
Stock & crypto signal mining
Mine WSB, ticker subs, and r/cryptocurrency for mention counts, sentiment shifts, and momentum signals. Sort by top + timeframe to catch spikes as they happen.
MarketingPOST/api/reddit/v2/comment
Reddit bot - comment automation
Build Buffer-style schedulers for comments, votes, and DMs across multiple accounts. We handle the auth headaches - you ship the workflow.
MarketingGET/api/reddit/search
Lead generation & sales intel
Run targeted searches, walk the top posts and comment authors, and stitch user profiles together to surface intent-rich prospects from any subreddit.
Building on the AI side? Go deeper on the Reddit Search API, wrap it as a Reddit MCP server for Claude and Cursor, or read the full playbook for the Reddit API for AI agents.
Reddit dataset, sentiment, MCP server - real numbers.
What it actually costs to run these workloads on Redditapis.
AI training dataset
100K posts
$200
vs. $24K on official API
Brand monitoring
500 calls / day
$30 / mo
vs. $1,000 + on enterprise tools
Quant signal pipeline
1M comments / mo
$2,000
vs. No managed alternative
Ship one of these in an afternoon.
From $0.002 per GET call. $0.50 in free credits. No credit card, no developer account, no app review.
+ 8 more
Plus everything else teams build.
Reddit sentiment analysis
Pull comment trees by permalink, run sentiment analysis on Reddit data, score subreddit mood in real time.
GET/api/reddit/comments
Bot & spam detection
Profile karma + comment cadence to flag karma farms, voting rings, and spam patterns.
GET/api/reddit/user/:name
Community automation
Auto-reply to FAQs, welcome new subscribers via DM, route mod queues - no per-mod auth.
POST/api/reddit/dm
Trend forecasting
Detect rising memes, slang, and topics on Reddit before they break into Twitter or press.
GET/api/reddit/search
Academic research
Pull longitudinal subreddit data with cursor pagination - study communities and info diffusion at scale.
GET/api/reddit/sub/:name/top
Competitor analysis
Track how customers actually talk about competitors - pain points, switching triggers, feature gaps.
GET/api/reddit/search
Community discovery
Find the right subreddits to monitor or post in - full Communities-tab search with subscriber counts.
GET/api/reddit/search/communities
Customer support routing
Detect complaints by user history + post search, then reply from one branded account at ~6s per response.
GET/api/reddit/user/:name/comments
Reddit API FAQ.
Redditapis gives you a Reddit bot in three steps: sign up for a key, call the comment, vote, or DM endpoint over HTTPS, and let the response confirm the action. No Reddit developer app, no OAuth scope review. The same API key drives every endpoint - votes are $0.005, writes are $0.012, and DMs are $0.025 per call.
Use the Reddit API to pull comment trees for the subreddits or threads you want to score. Each GET returns structured JSON - feed it into any Python NLP stack (transformers, VADER, spaCy). At $0.002 per GET, scoring a million comments costs $2,000 in raw API spend with no monthly minimum.
What can you build with the Reddit API?
With the Reddit API you can build AI-training data pipelines, MCP agents, brand-monitoring and social-listening tools, lead generation, signal mining, and automated DM outreach. On Redditapis every GET is billed at a flat $0.002 per call with $0.50 in free credits to start and no developer-account approval, so scoring a million comments for sentiment runs about $2,000 in API spend.
By the numbers
Reddit API pricing and access, 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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Reddit API documentation
The complete 2026 reference: auth, all 28 endpoints, and code.
Get a Reddit API key
Instant bearer token, no waitlist and no enterprise contract.
Reddit Responsible Builder Policy
Why Reddit denies API applications, and the managed REST bypass.
Reddit Search API
Search posts, comments, users, and communities over one REST endpoint.
Reddit MCP server
Wrap the REST API as MCP tools for Claude, Cursor, and any MCP client.
Reddit API for AI agents
Live Reddit context for tool calls, MCP servers, and RAG pipelines.
Redditapis pricing
Endpoint-level costs and quick monthly totals - reads from $0.002 / call.
Reddit API cost calculator
Estimate monthly spend using your request volume.
Reddit API guides and tutorials
Tutorials, walkthroughs, and API deep-dives for developers.
Reddit API alternatives
Evaluate alternatives by cost model, limits, and integration fit.
Official Reddit API vs Redditapis
Access, setup, rate limits, and pricing, side by side.
Affiliate program
Earn 20% lifetime commissions - capped at $5,000/yr.
Reddit Vote API tutorial
Upvote and downvote a post programmatically via the REST API.
Reddit Data API: REST, no PRAW
REST endpoints for Reddit data with no PRAW and no OAuth dance.
Reddit scraping benchmarks
Real throughput, error rates, and cost benchmarks for Reddit scraping.
Reddit API answers
Direct answers on cost, access, rate limits, endpoints, and auth.
How much the Reddit API costs
Per-call pricing from $0.002 a read, with $0.50 in free credits.
Reddit API in Python
One requests call with a bearer token, no PRAW and no OAuth flow.
Reddit shadowban checker
Check if a Reddit account is shadowbanned in seconds, free and no login.
Pick a use case. Ship it this afternoon.
$0.50 in free credits, no card required. Same API key works across read, write, vote, and DM endpoints - pick any of the 14 above and start building.