Best Reddit data APIs, 2026Every main way to get Reddit data.Reddit’s Data API, its research programme and the main data APIs, compared on what they return, how they charge and how you connect.
An editorial comparison of what each vendor publishes, checked 25 Sept 2026. Monocrawl is ours and listed first. How we compared
What are you building?
Public posts, comments and subreddits in a product or pipelineA data API. They differ most in what they search and how they charge.
Mentions, questions and leads in posts and commentsAn option that searches comments as well as posts, so replies are covered too.
An AI agent that reads RedditAn option with an MCP server, so the agent can call it directly.
An app or moderation tool that acts on RedditReddit’s Data API, which lets approved developers read and change Reddit data, for example in moderation tools.
Academic research with Reddit dataReddit for Researchers, free for approved university projects, with five years of history queried in BigQuery.
11options compared
7with an MCP server
8free to start
34sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Three routes
Reddit’s Data API needs Reddit’s approval, and a contract for commercial use. Its research programme is for university researchers. Data APIs read public Reddit data with an API key.
Reddit Data API
Reddit for Researchers
Monocrawl and the vendors below
What they return
What each option lists on its own pages, and how you connect.
| Reddit data | Connect | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | Posts | Comments | Subreddits | Users | Post search | Comment search | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | Our API | ||||||||
| Reddit Data APIOfficial, Reddit | – | – | 12345 | ||||||
| Reddit for ResearchersOfficial, researchers | – | – | – | – | 6 | ||||
| ApifyReddit Scraper Lite actor | 789 | ||||||||
| Bright DataReddit Scraper API | – | 101112 | |||||||
| Data365Social data API | – | – | 131415 | ||||||
| DecodoWeb scraping API | – | – | 16171819 | ||||||
| EnsembleDataSocial data API | – | – | 202122 | ||||||
| FetchLayerSocial data API | 23242526 | ||||||||
| SociaVaultSocial data API | – | 2728293031 | |||||||
| XpozAgent data tool | – | 323334 | |||||||
Pricing
A request, a result, a record and a unit are not the same size, and allowances reset on different schedules. Price your own workload with each vendor.
One key and one response format across 70+ platforms, with monitors for alerts.
Monthly plans
No published price for commercial use, which needs Reddit’s permission and a contract.
Reddit may charge developers who need broader access, at rates it sets.
Worth knowingEvery use needs Reddit’s approval first, including free, non-commercial use.
Free if approved, 100 queries a minute
Free for approved, non-commercial academic projects.
Access lasts up to a year per project.
Worth knowingFive years of history, six months behind and updated monthly, queried with SQL in BigQuery.
Free for approved researchers
$4 per 1,000 results on the free plan
From $3.40 on higher plans, plus $0.02 per GB of memory to start a run. Starter plan $19 a month.
Worth knowingA community-maintained actor. Results land in a dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel.
$5 of usage a month
$1.50 per 1,000 records, pay as you go
$499 a month includes 384,000 records.
Worth knowingScrapes Reddit live for each request, with delivery by API, webhook or to cloud storage.
5,000 records a month
€300 a month for one network
500,000 credits included.
Worth knowingAdds an archive search within a subreddit, by keyword, title and date, through tasks you start, check and then fetch.
14-day trial, on request
$1 per 1,000 requests on premium proxies, which its Reddit templates use
Prices exclude VAT. Its $19 monthly plan includes 19,000 of these requests.
Worth knowingReddit post, subreddit and user pages are ready-made templates in its web scraping API, each called by URL.
Free plan with 1,000 premium requests
$100 a month for 1,500 units a day
Resets daily at 00:00 UTC. A page of subreddit posts costs 2 units, a page of post comments 3.
Worth knowingReddit shares one daily unit allowance with seven other platforms.
50 units a day
$1.99 per 1,000 requests, pay as you go
Credits never expire. $25 a month buys 15,000 requests.
Worth knowingReddit was its first product, and every call costs one credit however many results come back.
30 requests
$29 for 6,000 credits, one time
Each Reddit call costs 1 credit. Credits never expire.
Worth knowingAlso returns the transcript of a Reddit video post, at 1 credit like its other Reddit calls.
50 credits
$20 a month for 7,500 credits
A Reddit query costs 2 credits, however many rows it returns.
Worth knowingConnects through MCP, SDKs or a CLI, and tracks keywords and subreddits for you.
500 credits, once
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded response for r/programming. No Reddit login and no Reddit app.
GET /v1/reddit/subreddit/detailscurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/reddit/subreddit/details?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fprogramming%2F" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"r/programming
reddit.com/r/programming
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Post search1 creditComment search1 creditPost1 creditComments on a post5 creditsSubreddit posts2 creditsSubreddit details1 creditUser profile1 creditVideo transcript5 credits2.1sMedian response in our benchmark. 22 September 2026 catalogue benchmark. Median of recorded endpoint timings across 636 operations with a successful HTTP response. Includes network time; individual requests vary.
Questions
Reddit offers free access for approved, non-commercial use, at up to 100 queries a minute per OAuth client. Commercial use needs Reddit’s permission and a contract, and Reddit publishes no commercial rates. For public data, most data APIs let you start free: Monocrawl gives 1,000 credits every month, Apify $5 of usage a month, Bright Data 5,000 records a month, Decodo 1,000 premium requests, EnsembleData 50 units a day, FetchLayer 30 requests, SociaVault 50 credits and Xpoz 500 credits.
Not with Monocrawl: you send your Monocrawl API key and get public Reddit data back, with no Reddit login and no Reddit app. Reddit’s own Data API needs Reddit’s approval before any access, a registered OAuth token and, for commercial use, a contract.
Monocrawl, Apify’s Reddit Scraper Lite and FetchLayer list comment search across Reddit. SociaVault searches comments within one subreddit, and Xpoz searches the records already in its database. Reddit’s own search endpoint returns posts, subreddits and users.
Monocrawl, Apify, Bright Data, Decodo, FetchLayer, SociaVault and Xpoz publish their own MCP servers, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly.
Reddit runs Reddit for Researchers, free for approved, non-commercial projects by sponsored university researchers. It offers five years of history on a six-month delay, queried in BigQuery. For current public posts and comments, a data API returns them as they are today.
Units differ: a request, a result, a record, a query and a unit are not the same size, and allowances reset on different schedules. Price your own workload, such as a number of searches or comment threads a month, with each vendor.
Method
What’s includedReddit’s two official routes, plus widely used Reddit data APIs that come up across Reddit API searches and comparison lists, return structured Reddit data and publish their pricing or offer a trial.
What we comparedWhat each vendor publishes about its Reddit data, pricing, free allowance and access, read on its own pages. “Best” here means worth comparing, not a ranking from tests: we have not run their APIs.
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