The new API price is not ridiculous. There's been misinformation about the pricing.
Here's the standard API prices of three websites:
(Price for 50 million API calls)
Imgur - $3,333
Reddit - $12,000
Twitter - $42,000
Here's the standard API prices of three websites:
(Price for 50 million API calls)
Imgur - $3,333
Reddit - $12,000
Twitter - $42,000
The gist is this: if I am the average user, not on Reddit Premium and using the native app with ads, the available numbers indicate Reddit earns $X on me. Their API pricing is at least $2X per user. So either they are seeing API users as cash cows, or they want to price them out.
And like I indicated, there’s a loting things Reddit could’ve done that would’ve led to less drama:
- Longer transition period - Outright banning third party apps - Include ads in the API - Make API access part of Reddit Premium
To me it seems that every step of the way, Reddit made the most confusing and most rage inducing choice available to them. That’s either incompetence or malice.
The Apollo developer claimed that it would cost him on average $2.50 per user per month, to use the API.
That is pretty nuts for a free app, how many people would pay for that?