How Reddit prices its API
Reddit sells access to its data through commercial agreements. There is no public price list, no self serve checkout and no published rate card; a company that wants access contacts Reddit and receives a quote based on its use. The agreements reported publicly have been with large companies, and the terms are not disclosed. This page does not guess at those numbers, because they are not published and vary by deal.
Alongside the commercial route, Reddit has run a free public Data API for years, with rate limits and registration rules. That route closes to unregistered apps on 12 Jan 2027 and to everyone in March 2027, per Reddit's announcement. After that the commercial agreement is the way to read Reddit through Reddit, and Devvit, Reddit's TypeScript platform, is the way to build apps that run inside Reddit.
What Redlisten costs
Redlisten is a separate service with published plans. Prices below are as listed on the pricing page on 6 Nov 2026. Each plan meters requests and results per calendar month with no daily cap; every call counts one request, and every post or comment returned counts as one result.
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 250 requests a month, 30 a minute, 50 results a page, search over 7 days, 1 keyword stream with email digests. A key is created at signup. |
| Pro | $29 | $24 a month | 50,000 requests, 120 a minute, 250 a page on the native feeds, search over 30 days, 1M results, 10 streams backfilled 30 days, webhooks, Slack, Discord, trends. |
| Team | $99 | $79 a month | 250,000 requests, 300 a minute, 1,000 a page on the native feeds, 5M results, 50 streams, keyword comparisons, top communities per keyword. |
| Business | $299 | $239 a month | 1,000,000 requests, 600 a minute, 10M results, unlimited streams, live streaming connection, daily JSONL exports, priority support. |
| Enterprise | By email | Higher volume, delivery pushed to you, larger daily exports, history back to 2013, delivery in your own schema, a dedicated contact. | |
Yearly billing is two months free. Cards are accepted through Stripe, and a plan can be changed from the dashboard at any time.
How to read the numbers
A request is one API call, whatever its page size, so a bigger page is cheaper per item. Reddit style paths page up to 100 as on Reddit; the native feeds page 250 on Pro and 1,000 on Team and Business. The feed item meter applies to /v1/posts and /v1/comments alone, which is where the volume is; 1M items on Pro is a month of a busy topic, 25M on Business is a meaningful share of the whole site.
Some worked examples. A feed reader with ten Reddit feeds polled hourly makes about 7,200 requests a month, which is Pro. A PRAW bot polling one community every minute makes about 43,000 a month, which is Pro. A monitoring tool with 30 customer streams and a dashboard makes a few thousand requests a month because streams push rather than poll, and lands on Team for the stream count. A research collector reading every comment on the site is metered on items, and the plan follows the volume.
What is not for sale
Writing to Reddit, a logged in view and private communities are not part of any plan; see the API replacement page for the full list. Older history is an Enterprise conversation rather than a plan feature. Redlisten is not affiliated with Reddit, Inc., and nothing here is a statement about Reddit's own prices.
Starting
Sign up and a free key is ready. Use it to test a feed, a bot or a search against the docs, then pick a plan when the numbers are clear. The alternatives page compares the routes, and the shutdown page has the dates that make the decision timely.