# Arctic Shift, free: Reddit post API

> Making Reddit data accessible to researchers, moderators and everyone else. Interact with the data through large dumps, an API or web interface.

Arctic Shift's Reddit post API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns 4 of the 5 key fields we check: Text, Engagement, Author, Subreddit.
Arctic Shift limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
Half of the 82 plans we rank by price cost $0.02 per 1,000 posts or less. This plan has the lowest price per 1,000 posts of the 82 plans.
[Arctic Shift](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/arctic-shift/free/llms.txt), [RedditAPI](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/redditapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [API Direct](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-v1-reddit-user-posts-reddit-user-posts/llms.txt) are the best Reddit post API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/arctic-shift/free
- [Best Reddit post API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-reddit-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://github.com/ArthurHeitmann/arctic_shift/blob/master/api/README.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/api/posts/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://github.com/ArthurHeitmann/arctic_shift/blob/master/api/README.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing#search
- Sold by: Arctic Shift (https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-03

## In the answer

- Completeness: 80%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Subreddit: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 81.2
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 78
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 0

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Making Reddit data accessible to researchers, moderators and everyone else. Interact with the data through large dumps, an API or web interface.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.15 s

## The call

- You send: author. Optional: subreddit, author_flair_text, after, before, limit, sort, md2html, fields, crosspost_parent_id, over_18, spoiler, title, selftext, link_flair_text, query, url, url_exact
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/posts/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, title, author username, author ID, author flair, created at, distinguished, subreddit, subreddit ID, score, crosspost parent ID, flair, comment count, NSFW, post type, text, spoiler, link URL, text HTML

## Arctic Shift's plans (1)

- [Arctic Shift, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/arctic-shift/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 80% complete, stored

## Arctic Shift's calls (1)

- `GET /api/posts/search`: [Arctic Shift, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/arctic-shift/free/llms.txt)

## Arctic Shift's APIs (1)

- [Arctic Shift: Reddit post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/arctic-shift/free/llms.txt)

## Arctic Shift: Reddit post API alternatives

- [RedditAPI, free credits](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/redditapi/free-credits/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [API Direct, free tier, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [AnyAPI, free trial key](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Veezee, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/veezee/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-03.

- https://github.com/ArthurHeitmann/arctic_shift?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://github.com/ArthurHeitmann/arctic_shift/blob/master/api/README.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing