This page compares ScraperAPI, a web scraper API, with Redlisten, an API for public Reddit posts and comments. Figures for ScraperAPI come from its own page at www.scraperapi.com, read on 7 Nov 2026. Prices change; check the vendor before you buy.
The numbers to check
- Price per 1,000 requests: ScraperAPI: about $0.49 per 1,000 credits on the entry plan; the credit cost of a Reddit page is not published. Redlisten Pro is $29 for 50,000 requests, about $0.58 per 1,000.
- Results per call: ScraperAPI: one page per request. 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: ScraperAPI: no live feed; you fetch a page each time you ask. 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.
ScraperAPI and Redlisten side by side
| ScraperAPI | Redlisten | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Hobby at $49 a month for 100,000 credits, Advanced at $1,975 for 21.5 million, Enterprise custom | Free $0, Pro $29, Team $99, Business $299 a month |
| Cost per 1,000 | about $0.49 per 1,000 credits on the entry plan; the credit cost of a Reddit page is not published | $0.58 per 1,000 requests on Pro; about $0.03 per 1,000 results |
| Results per call | one page per request | Up to 250 per request on Pro, 1,000 on Team |
| Free tier | a 7 day trial with 5,000 credits | 250 requests and 10,000 results a month, no card |
| New posts and comments | No | Collected as they are posted; live feeds and keyword streams |
| History | Not stated | 30 days of posts and comments searchable on paid plans, 7 on Free |
| Comments | Not verified | Yes, included at no extra cost |
| Write actions | Reads data, no posting | Reads data, no posting, by design |
| Integrations | Not stated | MCP, Zapier, Make, Apify, RapidAPI, RSS paths, webhooks, Slack, Discord |
When ScraperAPI is the better pick
You need proxy rotation and rendering for many sites and will write your own Reddit parser. That is a fair reason to choose it, and Redlisten does not try to cover every network or every workflow.
Where Redlisten is stronger
ScraperAPI fetches pages; you still parse, dedupe and schedule. Redlisten is a Reddit data API: structured posts and comments, search, mention counts and streams, priced per request with no credit multipliers.
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 ScraperAPI.