# Reddit API pricing and who can get access. > Reddit's Data API needs approval before any access, is free only for eligible non-commercial use at 100 queries a minute, and needs a contract for firms. Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/guides/reddit-api-pricing ยท Updated 2026-10-21 It depends on who you are. Reddit's Data API is free only for eligible non-commercial use, at 100 queries per minute per OAuth client. Since its Responsible Builder Policy, every new app must request access and get approval first, and any commercial use needs a separate written agreement with Reddit at rates Reddit sets. - Approval: Required first - Free limit: 100 queries / minute - Commercial use: Separate agreement - Price list: Not published ## Official API or this one Reddit's side is from Reddit Help and Reddit's Data API Terms, seen 21 October 2026. | | Reddit Data API | API for Agents | |---|---|---| | Post, comment, moderate as a user | Yes | No | | Search posts across Reddit | Yes, after approval | $0.0045 per record | | Subreddit posts and comments | Yes, after approval | Yes | | Business use | Needs a written agreement | Pay per record | | Who can get access | Request access and wait for approval | Anyone. An agent signs itself up in one call and starts on a $0.10 trial | | Price model | Free for eligible non-commercial use; contract rates otherwise | Pay as you go, from $0.0045 per record | | Setup | Approval, OAuth app, User-Agent | One API key. No Reddit account or app review | ## What Reddit's pages say - You must request access and get explicit approval before accessing any Reddit data through the API. - Free access is limited to 100 queries per minute per OAuth client id, averaged over ten minutes. Traffic without OAuth is blocked. - Commercial use, research beyond the rate limits, or anything not expressly allowed needs a separate agreement with Reddit. Reddit counts any use by or for a business as commercial. - Academic research goes through the Reddit for Researchers program. ## When Reddit's API is the right tool If you build a bot, a moderation tool or an app that posts and comments for users, Reddit's API is the only way, and the approval step is part of the job. Researchers should look at Reddit for Researchers. If you need to read public threads about a product or a market without building an app, a data API is another route. Reddit's own rules about how its data may be used still apply to your use, so read the Data API Terms and the Responsible Builder Policy. ## What you can get here - **[Reddit Search API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/reddit/search-api).** Posts by keyword across every subreddit, with score, comments and upvote ratio. - **[Reddit Subreddit API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/reddit/subreddit-api).** A subreddit's posts, sorted hot, newest, top or rising. - **[Reddit Comments API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/reddit/comments-api).** Top comments on posts by permalink, with author, text, score and depth. - **[Reddit User Posts API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/reddit/user-posts-api).** A user's recent submissions with subreddit, score and comments. > **Not affiliated** API for Agents is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Reddit. It returns public data only: nothing behind a login. ## Operation pages - [Reddit Search API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/reddit/search-api) - [Reddit Subreddit API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/reddit/subreddit-api) - [Reddit Comments API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/reddit/comments-api) - [Reddit User Posts API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/reddit/user-posts-api) ## Questions ### How much does the Reddit API cost? Reddit publishes no public price list. Its Data API Terms say commercial access needs a separate agreement, at rates Reddit decides. Eligible non-commercial use is free within the rate limit. ### What is the Reddit API rate limit? 100 queries per minute per OAuth client id for free access, averaged over a ten-minute window, per the Reddit Data API Wiki as of October 2026. ### Can I use Reddit data to train an AI model? Reddit's Responsible Builder Policy says you must not use its data to train machine learning or AI models without express written approval. Check the current terms for your case. ### What does Reddit data cost here? Priced per record, from $0.0045 per record. Quote any call first with estimateOnly, which is free. ## Sources 1. [Reddit Help: Responsible Builder Policy](https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/42728983564564-Responsible-Builder-Policy), seen 21 October 2026 2. [Reddit Help: Reddit Data API Wiki](https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16160319875092-Reddit-Data-API-Wiki), seen 21 October 2026 3. [Reddit: Data API Terms](https://redditinc.com/policies/data-api-terms), seen 21 October 2026 4. [Reddit Help: Accessing Reddit data](https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/14945211791892-Developer-Platform-Accessing-Reddit-Data), seen 21 October 2026 ## Why API for Agents - One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape. - A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost. - Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5. - $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later. - Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field. - Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote. - Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names. - Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON. ## Start The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type. Open it at https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run (sign in first). Agents register at https://apiforagents.dev/auth.md (one POST, $0.10 free). People: https://apiforagents.dev/docs#start. Prices: https://apiforagents.dev/pricing.md