This page compares Redditapis, a Reddit API, with Redlisten, an API for public Reddit posts and comments. Figures for Redditapis come from its own page at redditapis.com, read on 7 Nov 2026. Prices change; check the vendor before you buy.
The numbers to check
- Price per 1,000 requests: Redditapis: about $1.50 per 1,000 reads pay as you go, $0.63 to $0.25 on monthly plans. Redlisten Pro is $29 for 50,000 requests, about $0.58 per 1,000.
- Price per 1,000 results: Redditapis: at its own median of about 9 posts per search, about $0.17 per 1,000 posts pay as you go and about $0.03 on its largest monthly plan. Redlisten: about $0.03 on Pro and $0.02 on Team, because each request returns up to 250 or 1,000 results.
- Results per call: Redditapis: up to 100 items a call (25 by default); its own measured medians are about 9 items per post search. Redlisten: up to 250 per request on Pro and 1,000 on Team, so about $0.03 per 1,000 results on Pro.
- How new posts arrive: Redditapis: Monitors are a separate product that polls about every 60 seconds, with webhooks, Slack and Discord. Redlisten collects posts and comments as they are posted and keyword streams push each match to you. A polled Reddit listing stops near 1,000 items and an RSS fetch returns at most 100, so whatever scrolls past between polls is missed.
Redditapis and Redlisten side by side
| Redditapis | Redlisten | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Pay as you go at $0.0015 per read, or monthly read plans from $19 for 30,000 reads to $499 for 2 million | Free $0, Pro $29, Team $99, Business $299 a month |
| Cost per 1,000 | about $1.50 per 1,000 reads pay as you go, $0.63 to $0.25 on monthly plans | $0.58 per 1,000 requests on Pro; about $0.03 per 1,000 results |
| Results per call | up to 100 items a call (25 by default); its own measured medians are about 9 items per post search | Up to 250 per request on Pro, 1,000 on Team |
| Free tier | $0.50 of credit plus 1,000 reads a month | 250 requests and 10,000 results a month, no card |
| New posts and comments | Monitors are a separate product that polls about every 60 seconds, with webhooks, Slack and Discord | Collected as they are posted; live feeds and keyword streams |
| History | not stated on its pricing page | 30 days of posts and comments searchable on paid plans, 7 on Free |
| Comments | Yes, with deep comment search billed at $0.020 a call | Yes, included at no extra cost |
| Write actions | Reads, plus votes, posts, comments and direct messages sent through the customer's own Reddit account | Reads data, no posting, by design |
| Integrations | An MCP server | MCP, Zapier, Make, Apify, RapidAPI, RSS paths, webhooks, Slack, Discord |
When Redditapis is the better pick
You need to post, vote or send direct messages from your own Reddit account, and you accept the account risk that comes with automating it. That is a fair reason to choose it, and Redlisten does not try to cover every network or every workflow.
Where Redlisten is stronger
A read returns up to 100 items, and Redditapis reports medians of about 9 for a post search. A Redlisten request returns up to 250 results on Pro and 1,000 on Team, so a pull of the same size takes fewer calls. Keyword streams backfill 30 days and deliver to Slack, Discord, webhooks or email on the same plan, with no separate monitoring subscription.
History is the other number. The last 30 days stay searchable, with mention counts per day, so you can answer "what was said about this last week" without having watched at the time. And a keyword stream backfills those 30 days the moment you create it, then delivers each new match to Slack, Discord, a webhook or an email digest.
Questions to ask any Reddit data vendor
Whoever you choose, ask four things. How many results does one paid call return, and are empty results billed? How far back can you search, and does that include comments? Are new posts pushed to you, or do you poll and diff? And what happens to your bill on a busy day, when a keyword you track suddenly gets ten times the usual mentions?
What a switch looks like
Redlisten answers Reddit style paths such as /r/{sub}/new.json, /comments/{id}.json and /search.json at api.redlisten.com, so code that already reads Reddit's JSON layout ports by changing the base URL and adding a key. Feed readers use the same paths with .rss. For new work, /v1/posts and /v1/comments give a cursor feed of everything collected, and /v1/streams creates a keyword watch. The docs list every endpoint and the fields each returns.
A free key is created at signup with 250 requests and 10,000 results a month and no card. Pro is $29 a month for 50,000 requests and 1 million results, Team $99 for 250,000 requests and 5 million results, Business $299 for 1 million requests and 10 million results. Every plan is listed on the pricing page, dated 6 Nov 2026.
Want to see the data before signing up? Every keyword has a free preview at redlisten.com/reddit/<keyword> with 30 days of mention counts and sample threads, and every community has one at redlisten.com/r/<name>. Redlisten is not affiliated with Reddit, Inc., and is not affiliated with Redditapis.