# ReefAPI, free: Reddit profile API

> User profile or content. kind=about returns karma and the profile (display name, bio, banner, NSFW flag), submitted/comments list items (with deep paging), and each comment carries the title and link of the post it was left on.

ReefAPI's Reddit profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Status, Karma.
We rank 55 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.
[RedditAPI](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/499-monthly-2000000-reads-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt), [API Direct](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-v1-reddit-user/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/reefapi/free
- [Best Reddit profile API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-reddit-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://reefapi.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.reefapi.com/reddit/v1/user`
- API key: with the plan, on https://reefapi.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://reefapi.com/docs/reddit#ep-user
- Sold by: ReefAPI (https://reefapi.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Karma: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 584 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: User profile or content. kind=about returns karma and the profile (display name, bio, banner, NSFW flag), submitted/comments list items (with deep paging), and each comment carries the title and link of the post it was left on.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You are solely responsible for how you use the data you retrieve and for ensuring your use complies with all applicable laws, third-party terms, and the rights of others (including data-protection, intellectual-property, and anti-spam laws) in your jurisdiction and your users'. You will not use the Service to break the law, infringe rights, send spam, or build a competing bulk-redistribution product. [...] Don't attempt to circumvent authentication, rate limits, or credit metering, don't probe, scan, or stress the Service except your own account within posted limits. [...] Where a source requires attribution, we surface it in the response meta, honor it.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## The call

- You send: username. Optional: kind, source
- Method: POST
- Path: /reddit/v1/user

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, user ID, post karma, comment karma, total karma, account created, profile picture, name, bio, banner image, NSFW

## ReefAPI's plans (11)

- [ReefAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/15-monthly/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/50-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, $33.75 quarterly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/33-75-quarterly/llms.txt): $1.125 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, $112.50 quarterly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/112-50-quarterly/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, $450 quarterly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, $90 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/90-yearly/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, $300 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/300-yearly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/1200-yearly/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete

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

- `POST /reddit/v1/user`: [ReefAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/reefapi/free/llms.txt)

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## ReefAPI: Reddit profile API alternatives

- [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
- [ScrapeBadger, $490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/scrapebadger/490-yearly/llms.txt): $0.34 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [FetchLayer, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [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

## 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://reefapi.com
- https://reefapi.com/_next/static/chunks/app/pricing/page-560e08c02e869119.js
- https://reefapi.com/docs
- https://reefapi.com/docs/reddit
- https://reefapi.com/docs/reddit.md
- https://reefapi.com/pricing
- https://reefapi.com/refunds
- https://reefapi.com/terms