# reddapi.dev, free, POST /api/v1/search/semantic: Reddit post API

> Search Reddit posts and comments by meaning with one REST call. Send a natural-language question, get back matching discussions with subreddit, upvotes, sentiment and lead-intent labels.

reddapi.dev's Free plan for the Reddit post API costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. We check each provider's docs for 5 fields. reddapi.dev's docs list 3: Text, Engagement, Subreddit.
We haven't run reddapi.dev through [our Reddit post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-reddit-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 215 plans for Reddit post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.07 or less per 1,000 posts. [75 Reddit post API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-reddit-post-api.txt) [Arctic Shift's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/arctic-shift/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 77.0 out of 100.
[Prowlo's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/prowlo/19-monthly-paid-get-v1-records/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 posts, with no charge per call. You get as many posts as Prowlo's rate limit allows. [Apinoa's Daily volume from 1,001 requests a day plan](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/apinoa/pay-as-you-go-daily-volume-from-1001-requests-a-day/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 posts a month: $0.08.
[RedReplier's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/redreplier/19-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of posts, and costs as much up front as Prowlo's $19 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt), [Arctic Shift](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/arctic-shift/free/llms.txt) and [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt) are the best Reddit post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddapi-dev/free-post-api-v1-search-semantic
- [Reddit post API in 2026: the best of 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-reddit-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://reddapi.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://reddapi.dev/api/v1/search/semantic`
- API key: with the plan, on https://reddapi.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://reddapi.dev/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: reddapi.dev (https://reddapi.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 60%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Subreddit: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: POST /api/v1/search · Vector Search · Lead Search · Trending Topics

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Reddit posts and comments by meaning with one REST call. Send a natural-language question, get back matching discussions with subreddit, upvotes, sentiment and lead-intent labels.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to: Violate any laws or regulations, Infringe on intellectual property rights, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Interfere with or disrupt our services, Use our services for spam, phishing, or malicious activities, Scrape or harvest data beyond your plan limits, Resell or redistribute our data without permission, Use automated tools to abuse our API or services, Impersonate others or provide false information, Engage in any activity that harms our reputation or users. [...] All Reddit data provided through our platform is sourced from publicly available information via Reddit's official API. You agree to: Comply with Reddit's Terms of Service and API Terms, Not attempt to identify individual Reddit users, Use the data only for permitted purposes under your plan, Not redistribute raw Reddit data without proper authorization. [...] Paid plan subscribers can use insights for commercial purposes including market research, product development, and business strategy. Free plan users have limited commercial use rights.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 3 requests
- Enough for: 3 pages

## Rate limit

- Per day: 3
- Per second: 0.05 (3 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/search/semantic

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 13 or over with an account, no credit card required

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, query, post ID, title, text, subreddit, upvotes, comment count, created at, relevance score, sentiment, post URL, total results, execution time, AI summary

## reddapi.dev's plans (5)

- [reddapi.dev, free, POST /api/v1/search/semantic](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddapi-dev/free-post-api-v1-search-semantic/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 60% complete, stored
- [reddapi.dev, $19.90 monthly, Lite, POST /api/v1/search/semantic](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddapi-dev/19-90-monthly-lite-post-api-v1-search-semantic/llms.txt): $0.398 per 1,000, 60% complete, stored
- [reddapi.dev, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /api/v1/search/semantic](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddapi-dev/49-monthly-starter-post-api-v1-search-semantic/llms.txt): $0.098 per 1,000, 60% complete, stored
- [reddapi.dev, $99 monthly, Pro, POST /api/v1/search/semantic](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddapi-dev/99-monthly-pro-post-api-v1-search-semantic/llms.txt): $0.066 per 1,000, 60% complete, stored
- [reddapi.dev, $249 monthly, Team, POST /api/v1/search/semantic](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddapi-dev/249-monthly-team-post-api-v1-search-semantic/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 60% complete, stored

## reddapi.dev's calls (4)

- `POST /api/v1/leads`: [reddapi.dev, free, POST /api/v1/leads](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddapi-dev/free-post-api-v1-leads/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/search`: [reddapi.dev, free, POST /api/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddapi-dev/free-post-api-v1-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/search/semantic`: [reddapi.dev, free, POST /api/v1/search/semantic](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddapi-dev/free-post-api-v1-search-semantic/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/search/vector`: [reddapi.dev, free, POST /api/v1/search/vector](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddapi-dev/free-post-api-v1-search-vector/llms.txt)

## reddapi.dev's APIs (1)

- [reddapi.dev Reddit post API pricing, 5 plans, POST /api/v1/search/semantic](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddapi-dev/free-post-api-v1-search-semantic/llms.txt)

## reddapi.dev: Reddit post API alternatives

[reddapi.dev alternatives: other Reddit post API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/reddapi-dev-alternatives.txt)

We list reddapi.dev's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to reddapi.dev in price per 1,000 posts.

- [reddapi.dev, $249 monthly, Team, POST /api/v1/search/semantic](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddapi-dev/249-monthly-team-post-api-v1-search-semantic/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 60% complete, stored
- [Redlisten, $299 monthly, Business, GET /v1/posts](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/redlisten/299-monthly-business-get-v1-posts/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [Apixstar, top-up from $500, Enterprise, GET /reddit/v1/r/{community}/search](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/apixstar/top-up-from-500-enterprise-get-reddit-v1-r-community-search/llms.txt): $0.049 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ChatterAPI, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/chatterapi/149-monthly/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 100% complete, 30 minutes
- [Xpoz, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/xpoz/20-monthly/llms.txt): $0.053 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## Sources

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

- https://reddapi.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://reddapi.dev/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://reddapi.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://reddapi.dev/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://reddapi.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://reddapi.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing