# RedditAPI, free credits, GET /api/reddit/user/{name}: Reddit profile API

> Fetch a Reddit user's full profile by username: karma sub-buckets, creation date, employee/gold/verified flags, icon, banner, bio and profile-sub data.

RedditAPI's Reddit profile API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns all 6 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Verified, Status, Followers, Karma.
We rank 46 plans by price. [RedditAPI's $499 monthly plan (/api/reddit/users/batch)](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.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/free-credits-get-api-reddit-user-name
- Get it: https://www.redditapis.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/user/{name}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.redditapis.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.redditapis.com/docs/users/user
- Sold by: RedditAPI (https://www.redditapis.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Karma: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 51 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch a Reddit user's full profile by username: karma sub-buckets, creation date, employee/gold/verified flags, icon, banner, bio and profile-sub data.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Prohibited activities: What you cannot do with the Service. Illustrative, not exhaustive. [...] 3.10 Privacy harm: Collect or distribute personally identifiable information of others without lawful basis. Build datasets of Reddit users for purposes prohibited by Reddit's policies or by applicable privacy law. 3.11 Violation of Reddit's rules: Any conduct that would violate Reddit's User Agreement or Content Policy if performed directly on Reddit, is also prohibited when performed through the Service.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $0.50
- Enough for: about 333 calls, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## The call

- You send: name
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/reddit/user/{name}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: at least 16 years old (or the age of digital consent in their jurisdiction, whichever is higher), with legal capacity to enter a binding contract, not located in or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive UAE, US, EU or UK sanctions, not previously suspended or terminated by RedditAPI, and eligible to use Reddit under Reddit's own terms

## The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, prefixed username, profile URL, profile picture, snoovatar image, banner image, bio, post karma, comment karma, awardee karma, awarder karma, total karma, account created, Reddit employee, Reddit Premium, moderator, verified, verified email, accepts followers, followers, NSFW, profile subreddit

## RedditAPI's plans (9)

- [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
- [RedditAPI, free, GET /api/reddit/user/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/free-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [RedditAPI, top-up from $10, Pay-as-you-go, GET /api/reddit/user/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [RedditAPI, $19 monthly, 30,000 reads, GET /api/reddit/user/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/19-monthly-30000-reads-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt): $0.633 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [RedditAPI, $49 monthly, 100,000 reads, GET /api/reddit/user/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/49-monthly-100000-reads-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt): $0.49 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [RedditAPI, $99 monthly, 250,000 reads, GET /api/reddit/user/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/99-monthly-250000-reads-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt): $0.396 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [RedditAPI, $249 monthly, 750,000 reads, GET /api/reddit/user/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/249-monthly-750000-reads-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt): $0.332 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [RedditAPI, $499 monthly, 2,000,000 reads, GET /api/reddit/user/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/499-monthly-2000000-reads-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [RedditAPI, contact us, Custom, GET /api/reddit/user/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/contact-us-custom-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt): 100% complete

## RedditAPI's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /api/reddit/users/batch`: [RedditAPI, free credits, GET /api/reddit/users/batch](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/free-credits-get-api-reddit-users-batch/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/reddit/user/{name}`: [RedditAPI, free credits, GET /api/reddit/user/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/free-credits-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt)

## RedditAPI's APIs (2)

- [RedditAPI: Reddit post API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/redditapi/free-credits/llms.txt)
- [RedditAPI: Reddit profile API pricing, 9 plans, GET /api/reddit/user/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/free-credits-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt)

## RedditAPI: Reddit profile API alternatives

- [FetchLayer, $900 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/fetchlayer/900-monthly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $2,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/scrapebadger/2990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.249 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [AnyAPI, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/anyapi/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TikHub, top-up from $15,000](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/tikhub/top-up-from-15000/llms.txt): $0.833 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 2026-10-29.

- https://docs.redditapis.com/docs/users/user
- https://docs.redditapis.com/openapi.json
- https://www.redditapis.com
- https://www.redditapis.com/acceptable-use-policy
- https://www.redditapis.com/answers/reddit-api-rate-limits
- https://www.redditapis.com/pricing
- https://www.redditapis.com/terms-of-service