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A Reddit engineer commented that Apollo uses 3x more API requests per user compared to other Reddit clients. There’s definitely room for optimization and I find Christian’s attitude off putting that his users just naturally “use more” API calls:

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/13wshdp/api_update...

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Okay, let's say Apollo's users use 3x more (3.5x) than other users.

Is $6 million a reasonable amount instead of $20 million?

Yes. Apollo has 1.5M users according to Christian, so you’re looking at a nominal cost of $4/yr/user. Keep in mind that 3.5x is just the lower bound; until now, Reddit apps haven’t really needed to be cognizant about how often they hit the API.

Not everyone is going to pay, and that’s perfectly fine too. But the pricing is not as onerous as people are making it out to be.

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