# Reddit, free: Reddit profile API

> Return information about the user, including karma and gold status.

Reddit's Reddit profile API on its "Moderators, Developers and General Non-Commercial Uses" plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Verified, Status, Karma.
You get up to 4,320,000 calls a month.
We rank 127 plans by price. [RedditAPI's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/499-monthly-2000000-reads-get-api-reddit-users-batch/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.0025.
[API Direct](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-v1-reddit-user/llms.txt), [RedditAPI](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt) and [AnyAPI](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best Reddit profile API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reddit/free
- [Best Reddit profile API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-reddit-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/14945211791892-Developer-Platform-Accessing-Reddit-Data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://oauth.reddit.com/user/{username}/about`
- API key: with the plan, on https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/14945211791892-Developer-Platform-Accessing-Reddit-Data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing#GET_user_{username}_about
- Sold by: Reddit (https://www.reddit.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Verified: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Karma: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Return information about the user, including karma and gold status.

## Data

- Keep data: Only as long as your approved use case needs it: "use or retain any User Content, Materials, or data accessed through the Data APIs beyond your approved use case, and you must immediately delete any data not required for it", "You must remove any user content in your possession that has been deleted from Reddit" and, when an account is deleted, "all related user ID info", Reddit "strongly recommend[s] routinely deleting any stored user data and content within 48 hours", on termination you "delete any cached or stored User Content and Materials" the Data APIs gave
- Use data: Data API Terms 2.4: "a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable license to copy and display the User Content using the Data API solely as necessary to develop, deploy, distribute, and run your App to your App Users. You may not modify the User Content except to format it for such display [...] Except as expressly permitted by this section, no other rights or licenses are granted or implied, including any right to use User Content for other purposes, such as for training a machine learning or AI model, without the express permission of rightsholders in the applicable User Content". 3.1: "If you are interested in using the Data APIs for commercial purposes, research in excess of rate limits, or for any use that is not expressly permitted under the Data API Terms, then you will need to enter into a separate agreement with Reddit". 3.2: "You must not, and must not allow those acting on your behalf to: use the Data APIs to encourage or promote illegal activity or violation of third party rights (including using User Content to train a machine learning or AI model without the express permission of rightsholders in the applicable User Content), reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or translate the Data APIs or otherwise derive the source code from any Data APIs or any part thereof, except to the extent that this restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law, circumvent or exceed limitations on calls and use of the Data APIs as outlined in the Developer Documentation, or otherwise use the Data APIs in a manner that would constitute excessive or abusive usage or would disrupt or unreasonably interfere with the Data APIs or the servers or networks that provide the Data APIs [...], interfere with, modify, disrupt, or disable features or functionality of the Data APIs, including any mechanism used to restrict or control functionality, or defeat, avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate or otherwise circumvent any software protection or monitoring mechanism of the Data APIs, use the Data APIs with the intent of introducing any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, malware, or any other items of a destructive nature, sell, lease, or sublicense the Data APIs or access thereto or derive revenues from the use or provision of the Data APIs, whether for direct commercial or monetary gain unless there is express written approval from Reddit, use or retain any User Content, Materials, or data accessed through the Data APIs beyond your approved use case, and you must immediately delete any data not required for it, or use the Data APIs to spam, incentivize, or harass users". 2.8: "you will not misrepresent or mask either the user agent or OAuth identity when using the Data APIs". 4.3: "You will not make any statement regarding your use of the Data APIs which suggests partnership with, sponsorship by, or endorsement by Reddit, without Reddit's prior written approval"

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 4,320,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1.67
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username
- Method: GET
- Path: /user/{username}/about

## About the plan

- Plan: Moderators, Developers and General Non-Commercial Uses
- Who can get it: Approved developers for non-commercial use ("Moderators, Developers and General Non-Commercial Uses"), a business needs Reddit's permission and a contract

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, post karma, comment karma, account created, verified email, Reddit Premium, moderator

## Reddit's plans (2)

- [Reddit, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reddit/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Reddit, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reddit/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete

## Reddit's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /user/{username}/about`: [Reddit, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reddit/free/llms.txt)

## Reddit's APIs (2)

- [Reddit: Reddit post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/reddit/free/llms.txt)
- [Reddit: Reddit profile API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reddit/free/llms.txt)

## Reddit: Reddit profile API alternatives

- [API Direct, free tier, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [RedditAPI, free credits, GET /api/reddit/user/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/free-credits-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [AnyAPI, free trial key](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ReefAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

- https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/JSON?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/OAuth2?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://redditinc.com/policies/data-api-terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/14945211791892-Developer-Platform-Accessing-Reddit-Data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16160319875092-Reddit-Data-API-Wiki?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing