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Reddit API pricing in 2026: what 10k, 100k and 1M calls cost

Reddit prints no API price. 2023 press reports put it at $0.24 per 1,000 calls. Monthly cost at 10k, 100k and 1M calls on two routes.

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Short answer

  • Reddit's help pages print no per-call price. The $0.24 per 1,000 calls everyone quotes comes from 2023 press reports of a charge that took effect July 1, 2023. Free access is 100 queries per minute per OAuth client id (checked 2026-10-08).
  • Reddit requires approval before any Data API access, and explicit written approval plus a contract for commercial use.
  • ToolzerHub returns public Reddit data as JSON: 1 credit per call, up to 200 posts per call, $0.99 to $1.90 per 1,000 calls. 100 free credits a month.
  • Disclosure: we make ToolzerHub. It is not Reddit's API, and Reddit has not endorsed it.
On this page

You want to know what a Reddit data job costs before you build it: a few subreddits polled every hour, comments pulled for analysis, posts fed into a pipeline. Reddit publishes its free rate limit. It does not publish a price list.

What the official API costs

Reddit's Data API wiki sets the free limit at "100 queries per minute (QPM) per OAuth client id", averaged over a 10-minute window. "Clients must authenticate with a registered OAuth token." At the cap, 100 QPM is 144,000 calls a day.

Commercial use is a separate track. Reddit's help center says: "You cannot use any Reddit developer tools and services for commercial purposes without first getting our permission." It counts "any use of our services by a business or on behalf of a business" as commercial. For that, "you'll need our permission, and we'll require a contract." The Responsible Builder Policy, updated 2026-10-05, adds that you must "request access and get explicit approval before accessing any Reddit data through our API".

None of these pages prints a per-call price. Reddit says only that "select developers who require broader access to Reddit data may be charged fees to lift those limits." The number everyone quotes comes from 2023 press coverage, not from a current Reddit page. TechTarget reported on 2023-07-11: "The change -- which took effect July 1 -- charges developers 24 cents per 1,000 API requests." The Register gave the same $0.24 per 1,000 calls on 2023-06-12. We could not open a Reddit-owned page that states it. Treat it as a reported 2023 rate, not a quote you will get today.

What ToolzerHub costs for the same job

ToolzerHub returns public Reddit data as JSON. You need one API key.

bash
curl "https://api.toolzerhub.com/v1/reddit/subreddit-posts?subreddit=technology&sort=new&count=200" \
  -H "x-api-key: $TOOLZERHUB_API_KEY"

We have no dated capture of this response to show, so the fields below come from the Reddit reference:

  • posts holds up to count posts (default 25, max 200), de-duplicated by id. Each has title, author, created_at, score, upvote_ratio and comment_count.
  • The API walks Reddit's pages of about 24 posts for you, and pages_fetched says how many it took. You pay for one call either way.
  • Loop on end_of_feed. Pass next_cursor back as after for the next batch.

The cost:

  • Every /v1/reddit call costs 1 credit. A call that fails costs nothing.
  • Plans start at $29 a month for 20,000 credits ($1.45 per 1,000) and go down to $0.99 per 1,000 on Business; one-time packs start at $19 for 10,000 credits and never expire. So 1,000 calls cost $0.99 to $1.90.
  • 200 posts is a cap, not a promise. If every call returns the full 200, 1,000 posts take 5 calls: $0.0050 to $0.0095. A call that returns fewer still costs 1 credit, so treat those figures as the floor.
  • We have not measured a 200-post call. In our 2026-08-17 research, 8 of Reddit's pages for r/technology held 180 to 183 distinct posts. A small or slow subreddit can end the feed sooner.
  • Every account gets 100 free credits a month: 100 calls, up to 200 posts each.

Price for 10,000 / 100,000 / 1,000,000 calls a month

Calls a month Reddit, $0.24 per 1,000 (2023 press reports) ToolzerHub, 10k pack ($1.90 per 1,000) ToolzerHub, Business plan ($0.99 per 1,000)
10,000 $2.40 $19 $9.90
100,000 $24 $190 $99
1,000,000 $240 $1,900 $990

The Business column is the plan rate per 1,000 credits, not the bill for a month with that few calls: Business is $495 for 500,000 credits. At 1,000,000 calls a month, there are custom plans for 1M+ credits, invoiced. Packs are one-time purchases and never expire. Per call, the reported Reddit rate is about 4 to 8 times cheaper than ours ($0.99 / $0.24 = 4.1; $1.90 / $0.24 = 7.9).

Per post, the gap depends on how many items each call returns. We could not read Reddit's own page on how many items one official call returns, so the table compares calls. Ours returns up to 200 posts per call. A job that needs 100,000 posts a month is at least 500 calls: from $0.50 (Business rate) to $0.95 (10k pack rate) if every call returns 200.

When the official API is cheaper

  • Personal and non-commercial scripts: If Reddit approves you for free access, it costs $0 up to 100 QPM. Reddit asks non-commercial users to sign up first.
  • Approved commercial use at volume: If Reddit grants access at the reported $0.24 per 1,000 calls, it costs about a quarter to an eighth of our per-call price.
  • Posting, voting, messages, moderation, or acting for a logged-in user: Only the official API does this. ToolzerHub returns public data and writes nothing.
  • Private, deleted or gated content: We do not return it.
  • Academic research: Reddit says "the only official and authorized avenue for performing research using Reddit data" is its Reddit for Researchers program.

Next step

See the Reddit API page for the endpoint list, or get a free API key and run the request above. If your scripts are non-commercial and fit under 100 QPM, Reddit's free access is the better pick. X moved to per-read billing in 2026; see whether the Twitter API is still free.

Not affiliated with Reddit, Inc. ToolzerHub is not part of Reddit's Data API program, and Reddit has not endorsed or approved it. Reddit's Responsible Builder Policy sets its own rules for Reddit data; read it before you build.

Details

  • /v1/reddit has 9 endpoints at 1 credit each: subreddit-posts, popular-posts, search, user-posts, user-comments, post-comments, subreddit-info, post-details, user-profile.
  • search takes type: posts, communities, comments, people or media. people returns one short page.
  • Credits are charged per call, never per post. A higher count is slower, not more expensive.
  • To read public Reddit data with no API at all, see the free Reddit scraper in Python and what it can't return.

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